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1. Folate metabolism and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a genetic pathway analysis from the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium

Author: Metayer, Catherine, Spector, Logan G, Scheurer, Michael E, Jeon, Soyoung, Scott, Rodney J, Takagi, Masatoshi, Clavel, Jacqueline, Manabe, Atsushi, Ma, Xiaomei, Hailu, Elleni M, Lupo, Philip J, Urayama, Kevin Y, Bonaventure, Audrey, Kato, Motohiro, Meirhaeghe, Aline, Chiang, Charleston WK, Morimoto, Libby M, and Wiemels, Joseph L
Subjects: Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Hematology, Cancer, Human Genome, Genetics, Childhood Leukemia, Health Disparities, Minority Health, Rare Diseases, Pediatric, Pediatric Cancer, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Humans, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Folic Acid, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Child, Case-Control Studies, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Risk Factors, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Preschool, Medical and Health Sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: BackgroundPrenatal folate supplementation has been consistently associated with a reduced risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Previous germline genetic studies examining the one carbon (folate) metabolism pathway were limited in sample size, scope, and population diversity and led to inconclusive results.MethodsWe evaluated whether ∼2,900 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) within 46 candidate genes involved in the folate metabolism pathway influence the risk of childhood ALL, using genome-wide data from nine case-control studies in the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium (n = 9,058 cases including 4,510 children of European ancestry, 3,018 Latinx, and 1,406 Asians, and 92,364 controls). Each study followed a standardized protocol for quality control and imputation of genome-wide data and summary statistics were meta-analyzed for all children combined and by major ancestry group using METAL software.ResultsNone of the selected SNPs reached statistical significance, overall and for major ancestry groups (using adjusted Bonferroni P-value of 5 × 10-6 and less-stringent P-value of 3.5 × 10-5 accounting for the number of "independent" SNPs). None of the 10 top (nonsignificant) SNPs and corresponding genes overlapped across ancestry groups.ConclusionsThis large meta-analysis of original data does not reveal associations between many common genetic variants in the folate metabolism pathway and childhood ALL in various ancestry groups.ImpactGenetic variants in the folate pathway alone do not appear to substantially influence childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk. Other mechanisms such as gene-folate interaction, DNA methylation, or maternal genetic effects may explain the observed associations with self-reported prenatal folate intake.
Published: 2024

2. A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children

Author: de Smith, Adam J, Wahlster, Lara, Jeon, Soyoung, Kachuri, Linda, Black, Susan, Langie, Jalen, Cato, Liam D, Nakatsuka, Nathan, Chan, Tsz-Fung, Xia, Guangze, Mazumder, Soumyaa, Yang, Wenjian, Gazal, Steven, Eng, Celeste, Hu, Donglei, Burchard, Esteban González, Ziv, Elad, Metayer, Catherine, Mancuso, Nicholas, Yang, Jun J, Ma, Xiaomei, Wiemels, Joseph L, Yu, Fulong, Chiang, Charleston WK, and Sankaran, Vijay G
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Hematology, Pediatric Cancer, Cancer, Childhood Leukemia, Pediatric, Rare Diseases, Pediatric Research Initiative, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Humans, Child, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Transcription Factors, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Hispanic or Latino, Ikaros Transcription Factor, B-ALL, GWAS, IKZF1, Indigenous American, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, cancer disparity, cancer predisposition, childhood leukemia, fine-mapping, hematopoiesis
Abstract: Hispanic/Latino children have the highest risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in the US compared to other racial/ethnic groups, yet the basis of this remains incompletely understood. Through genetic fine-mapping analyses, we identified a new independent childhood ALL risk signal near IKZF1 in self-reported Hispanic/Latino individuals, but not in non-Hispanic White individuals, with an effect size of ∼1.44 (95% confidence interval = 1.33-1.55) and a risk allele frequency of ∼18% in Hispanic/Latino populations and
Published: 2024

3. Evaluating genomic polygenic risk scores for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Latinos

Author: Jeon, Soyoung, Lo, Ying Chu, Morimoto, Libby M, Metayer, Catherine, Ma, Xiaomei, Wiemels, Joseph L, de Smith, Adam J, and Chiang, Charleston WK
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Hematology, Pediatric Cancer, Pediatric, Cancer, Rare Diseases, Childhood Leukemia, Human Genome, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genomics, Child, United States, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hispanic or Latino, Genetic Risk Score, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, latinos, polygenic risk scores, risk prediction
Abstract: The utility of polygenic risk score (PRS) models has not been comprehensively evaluated for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of cancer in children. Previous PRS models for ALL were based on significant loci observed in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), even though genomic PRS models have been shown to improve prediction performance for a number of complex diseases. In the United States, Latino (LAT) children have the highest risk of ALL, but the transferability of PRS models to LAT children has not been studied. In this study, we constructed and evaluated genomic PRS models based on either non-Latino White (NLW) GWAS or a multi-ancestry GWAS. We found that the best PRS models performed similarly between held-out NLW and LAT samples (PseudoR2 = 0.086 ± 0.023 in NLW vs. 0.060 ± 0.020 in LAT), and can be improved for LAT if we performed GWAS in LAT-only (PseudoR2 = 0.116 ± 0.026) or multi-ancestry samples (PseudoR2 = 0.131 ± 0.025). However, the best genomic models currently do not have better prediction accuracy than a conventional model using all known ALL-associated loci in the literature (PseudoR2 = 0.166 ± 0.025), which includes loci from GWAS populations that we could not access to train genomic PRS models. Our results suggest that larger and more inclusive GWASs may be needed for genomic PRS to be useful for ALL. Moreover, the comparable performance between populations may suggest a more oligogenic architecture for ALL, where some large effect loci may be shared between populations. Future PRS models that move away from the infinite causal loci assumption may further improve PRS for ALL.
Published: 2023

4. Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Author: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Graff, Mariaelisa, Buchanan, Victoria L, Justice, Anne E, Highland, Heather M, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhu, Wanying, Chen, Hung-Hsin, Young, Kristin L, Adhikari, Kaustubh, Palmer, Nicholette D, Below, Jennifer E, Bradfield, Jonathan, Pereira, Alexandre C, Glover, LáShauntá, Kim, Daeeun, Lilly, Adam G, Shrestha, Poojan, Thomas, Alvin G, Zhang, Xinruo, Chen, Minhui, Chiang, Charleston WK, Pulit, Sara, Horimoto, Andrea, Krieger, Jose E, Guindo-Martínez, Marta, Preuss, Michael, Schumann, Claudia, Smit, Roelof AJ, Torres-Mejía, Gabriela, Acuña-Alonzo, Victor, Bedoya, Gabriel, Bortolini, Maria-Cátira, Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel, Gallo, Carla, González-José, Rolando, Poletti, Giovanni, Rothhammer, Francisco, Hakonarson, Hakon, Igo, Robert, Adler, Sharon G, Iyengar, Sudha K, Nicholas, Susanne B, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Isasi, Carmen R, Papnicolaou, George, Stilp, Adrienne M, Qi, Qibin, Kho, Minjung, Smith, Jennifer A, Langefeld, Carl D, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Mckean-Cowdin, Roberta, Gao, Xiaoyi Raymond, Nousome, Darryl, Conti, David V, Feng, Ye, Allison, Matthew A, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Buchanan, Thomas A, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Genter, Pauline M, Goodarzi, Mark O, Hai, Yang, Hsueh, Willa, Ipp, Eli, Kandeel, Fouad R, Lam, Kelvin, Li, Xiaohui, Nadler, Jerry L, Raffel, Leslie J, Roll, Kathryn, Sandow, Kevin, Tan, Jingyi, Taylor, Kent D, Xiang, Anny H, Yao, Jie, Audirac-Chalifour, Astride, Peralta Romero, Jose de Jesus, Hartwig, Fernando, Horta, Bernando, Blangero, John, Curran, Joanne E, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Lehman, Donna E, Puppala, Sobha, Fejerman, Laura, John, Esther M, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos, Burtt, Noël P, Florez, Jose C, García-Ortíz, Humberto, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Mercader, Josep, Orozco, Lorena, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Blanco, Estela, Gahagan, Sheila, Cox, Nancy J, and Hanis, Craig
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099.].
Published: 2023

5. Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation

Author: Yu, Fulong, Cato, Liam D, Weng, Chen, Liggett, L Alexander, Jeon, Soyoung, Xu, Keren, Chiang, Charleston WK, Wiemels, Joseph L, Weissman, Jonathan S, de Smith, Adam J, and Sankaran, Vijay G
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Aetiology, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Underpinning research, Generic health relevance, Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, COVID-19, Genomics, Epigenomics
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies in combination with single-cell genomic atlases can provide insights into the mechanisms of disease-causal genetic variation. However, identification of disease-relevant or trait-relevant cell types, states and trajectories is often hampered by sparsity and noise, particularly in the analysis of single-cell epigenomic data. To overcome these challenges, we present SCAVENGE, a computational algorithm that uses network propagation to map causal variants to their relevant cellular context at single-cell resolution. We demonstrate how SCAVENGE can help identify key biological mechanisms underlying human genetic variation, applying the method to blood traits at distinct stages of human hematopoiesis, to monocyte subsets that increase the risk for severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to intermediate lymphocyte developmental states that predispose to acute leukemia. Our approach not only provides a framework for enabling variant-to-function insights at single-cell resolution but also suggests a more general strategy for maximizing the inferences that can be made using single-cell genomic data.
Published: 2022

6. Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Author: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Graff, Mariaelisa, Buchanan, Victoria L, Justice, Anne E, Highland, Heather M, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhu, Wanying, Chen, Hung-Hsin, Young, Kristin L, Adhikari, Kaustubh, Palmer, Nicholette D, Below, Jennifer E, Bradfield, Jonathan, Pereira, Alexandre C, Glover, LáShauntá, Kim, Daeeun, Lilly, Adam G, Shrestha, Poojan, Thomas, Alvin G, Zhang, Xinruo, Chen, Minhui, Chiang, Charleston WK, Pulit, Sara, Horimoto, Andrea, Krieger, Jose E, Guindo-Martínez, Marta, Preuss, Michael, Schumann, Claudia, Smit, Roelof AJ, Torres-Mejía, Gabriela, Acuña-Alonzo, Victor, Bedoya, Gabriel, Bortolini, Maria-Cátira, Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel, Gallo, Carla, González-José, Rolando, Poletti, Giovanni, Rothhammer, Francisco, Hakonarson, Hakon, Igo, Robert, Adler, Sharon G, Iyengar, Sudha K, Nicholas, Susanne B, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Isasi, Carmen R, Papnicolaou, George, Stilp, Adrienne M, Qi, Qibin, Kho, Minjung, Smith, Jennifer A, Langefeld, Carl D, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Mckean-Cowdin, Roberta, Gao, Xiaoyi Raymond, Nousome, Darryl, Conti, David V, Feng, Ye, Allison, Matthew A, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Buchanan, Thomas A, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Genter, Pauline M, Goodarzi, Mark O, Hai, Yang, Hsueh, Willa, Ipp, Eli, Kandeel, Fouad R, Lam, Kelvin, Li, Xiaohui, Nadler, Jerry L, Raffel, Leslie J, Roll, Kathryn, Sandow, Kevin, Tan, Jingyi, Taylor, Kent D, Xiang, Anny H, Yao, Jie, Audirac-Chalifour, Astride, de Jesus Peralta Romero, Jose, Hartwig, Fernando, Horta, Bernando, Blangero, John, Curran, Joanne E, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Lehman, Donna E, Puppala, Sobha, Fejerman, Laura, John, Esther M, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos, Burtt, Noël P, Florez, Jose C, García-Ortíz, Humberto, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Mercader, Josep, Orozco, Lorena, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Blanco, Estela, Gahagan, Sheila, Cox, Nancy J, and Hanis, Craig
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Obesity, Human Genome, Hispanic/Latino, anthropometrics, diversity, fine-mapping, obesity, population stratification, trans-ancestral or trans-ethnic
Abstract: Hispanic/Latinos have been underrepresented in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for anthropometric traits despite their notable anthropometric variability, ancestry proportions, and high burden of growth stunting and overweight/obesity. To address this knowledge gap, we analyzed densely imputed genetic data in a sample of Hispanic/Latino adults to identify and fine-map genetic variants associated with body mass index (BMI), height, and BMI-adjusted waist-to-hip ratio (WHRadjBMI). We conducted a GWAS of 18 studies/consortia as part of the Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry (HISLA) Consortium (stage 1, n = 59,771) and generalized our findings in 9 additional studies (stage 2, n = 10,538). We conducted a trans-ancestral GWAS with summary statistics from HISLA stage 1 and existing consortia of European and African ancestries. In our HISLA stage 1 + 2 analyses, we discovered one BMI locus, as well as two BMI signals and another height signal each within established anthropometric loci. In our trans-ancestral meta-analysis, we discovered three BMI loci, one height locus, and one WHRadjBMI locus. We also identified 3 secondary signals for BMI, 28 for height, and 2 for WHRadjBMI in established loci. We show that 336 known BMI, 1,177 known height, and 143 known WHRadjBMI (combined) SNPs demonstrated suggestive transferability (nominal significance and effect estimate directional consistency) in Hispanic/Latino adults. Of these, 36 BMI, 124 height, and 11 WHRadjBMI SNPs were significant after trait-specific Bonferroni correction. Trans-ancestral meta-analysis of the three ancestries showed a small-to-moderate impact of uncorrected population stratification on the resulting effect size estimates. Our findings demonstrate that future studies may also benefit from leveraging diverse ancestries and differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns to discover novel loci and additional signals with less residual population stratification.
Published: 2022

7. Localized variation in ancestral admixture identifies pilocytic astrocytoma risk loci among Latino children

Author: Li, Shaobo, Chiang, Charleston WK, Myint, Swe Swe, Arroyo, Katti, Chan, Tsz Fung, Morimoto, Libby, Metayer, Catherine, de Smith, Adam J, Walsh, Kyle M, and Wiemels, Joseph L
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Brain Disorders, Prevention, Pediatric, Clinical Research, Astrocytoma, Child, Chromosome Mapping, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Developmental Biology
Abstract: BackgroundPilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is the most common pediatric brain tumor. PA has at least a 50% higher incidence in populations of European ancestry compared to other ancestral groups, which may be due in part to genetic differences.MethodsWe first compared the global proportions of European, African, and Amerindian ancestries in 301 PA cases and 1185 controls of self-identified Latino ethnicity from the California Biobank. We then conducted admixture mapping analysis to assess PA risk with local ancestry.ResultsWe found PA cases had a significantly higher proportion of global European ancestry than controls (case median = 0.55, control median = 0.51, P value = 3.5x10-3). Admixture mapping identified 13 SNPs in the 6q14.3 region (SNX14) contributing to risk, as well as three other peaks approaching significance on chromosomes 7, 10 and 13. Downstream fine mapping in these regions revealed several SNPs potentially contributing to childhood PA risk.ConclusionsThere is a significant difference in genomic ancestry associated with Latino PA risk and several genomic loci potentially mediating this risk.
Published: 2022

8. Mitochondrial genome copy number measured by DNA sequencing in human blood is strongly associated with metabolic traits via cell-type composition differences

Author: Ganel, Liron, Chen, Lei, Christ, Ryan, Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Young, Erica, Das, Indraniel, Kanchi, Krishna, Larson, David, Regier, Allison, Abel, Haley, Kang, Chul Joo, Scott, Alexandra, Havulinna, Aki, Chiang, Charleston WK, Service, Susan, Freimer, Nelson, Palotie, Aarno, Ripatti, Samuli, Kuusisto, Johanna, Boehnke, Michael, Laakso, Markku, Locke, Adam, Stitziel, Nathan O, and Hall, Ira M
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Adult, Aged, Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins, Cell Lineage, DNA Copy Number Variations, DNA, Mitochondrial, Female, GTP-Binding Proteins, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Mitochondrial, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Membrane Proteins, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myb, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Exome Sequencing, Metabolic syndrome, Mitochondrial content, Human genetics, Human genome sequencing, Genome-wide association studies, Mendelian randomization, Genetics & Heredity, Biochemistry and cell biology
Abstract: BackgroundMitochondrial genome copy number (MT-CN) varies among humans and across tissues and is highly heritable, but its causes and consequences are not well understood. When measured by bulk DNA sequencing in blood, MT-CN may reflect a combination of the number of mitochondria per cell and cell-type composition. Here, we studied MT-CN variation in blood-derived DNA from 19184 Finnish individuals using a combination of genome (N = 4163) and exome sequencing (N = 19034) data as well as imputed genotypes (N = 17718).ResultsWe identified two loci significantly associated with MT-CN variation: a common variant at the MYB-HBS1L locus (P = 1.6 × 10-8), which has previously been associated with numerous hematological parameters; and a burden of rare variants in the TMBIM1 gene (P = 3.0 × 10-8), which has been reported to protect against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. We also found that MT-CN is strongly associated with insulin levels (P = 2.0 × 10-21) and other metabolic syndrome (metS)-related traits. Using a Mendelian randomization framework, we show evidence that MT-CN measured in blood is causally related to insulin levels. We then applied an MT-CN polygenic risk score (PRS) derived from Finnish data to the UK Biobank, where the association between the PRS and metS traits was replicated. Adjusting for cell counts largely eliminated these signals, suggesting that MT-CN affects metS via cell-type composition.ConclusionThese results suggest that measurements of MT-CN in blood-derived DNA partially reflect differences in cell-type composition and that these differences are causally linked to insulin and related traits.
Published: 2021

9. Genetic determinants of blood-cell traits influence susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Author: Kachuri, Linda, Jeon, Soyoung, DeWan, Andrew T, Metayer, Catherine, Ma, Xiaomei, Witte, John S, Chiang, Charleston WK, Wiemels, Joseph L, and de Smith, Adam J
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Childhood Leukemia, Human Genome, Pediatric, Pediatric Cancer, Cancer, Clinical Research, Prevention, Rare Diseases, Hematology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adult, Aged, Biomarkers, Tumor, Blood Platelets, Case-Control Studies, Child, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lymphocytes, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Monocytes, Neutrophils, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Prognosis, Prospective Studies, Quantitative Trait Loci, United Kingdom, GWAS, Mendelian randomization, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, blood-cell traits, lymphocytes, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Despite overlap between genetic risk loci for ALL and hematologic traits, the etiological relevance of dysregulated blood-cell homeostasis remains unclear. We investigated this question in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of childhood ALL (2,666 affected individuals, 60,272 control individuals) and a multi-trait GWAS of nine blood-cell indices in the UK Biobank. We identified 3,000 blood-cell-trait-associated (p < 5.0 × 10-8) variants, explaining 4.0% to 23.9% of trait variation and including 115 loci associated with blood-cell ratios (LMR, lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio; NLR, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio). ALL susceptibility was genetically correlated with lymphocyte counts (rg = 0.088, p = 4.0 × 10-4) and PLR (rg = -0.072, p = 0.0017). In Mendelian randomization analyses, genetically predicted increase in lymphocyte counts was associated with increased ALL risk (odds ratio [OR] = 1.16, p = 0.031) and strengthened after accounting for other cell types (OR = 1.43, p = 8.8 × 10-4). We observed positive associations with increasing LMR (OR = 1.22, p = 0.0017) and inverse effects for NLR (OR = 0.67, p = 3.1 × 10-4) and PLR (OR = 0.80, p = 0.002). Our study shows that a genetically induced shift toward higher lymphocyte counts, overall and in relation to monocytes, neutrophils, and platelets, confers an increased susceptibility to childhood ALL.
Published: 2021

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

Author: Graff, Mariaelisa, Justice, Anne E, Young, Kristin L, Marouli, Eirini, Zhang, Xinruo, Fine, Rebecca S, Lim, Elise, Buchanan, Victoria, Rand, Kristin, Feitosa, Mary F, Wojczynski, Mary K, Yanek, Lisa R, Shao, Yaming, Rohde, Rebecca, Adeyemo, Adebowale A, Aldrich, Melinda C, Allison, Matthew A, Ambrosone, Christine B, Ambs, Stefan, Amos, Christopher, Arnett, Donna K, Atwood, Larry, Bandera, Elisa V, Bartz, Traci, Becker, Diane M, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blot, William J, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Brody, Jennifer A, Broeckel, Ulrich, Burke, Gregory, Cade, Brian E, Cai, Qiuyin, Caporaso, Neil, Carlson, Chris, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Minhui, Chen, Yii-Der I, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Chiang, Charleston WK, Chu, Lisa, Coetzee, Gerry A, Conti, David V, Cooper, Richard S, Cushman, Mary, Demerath, Ellen, Deming, Sandra L, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Ding, Jingzhong, Diver, W Ryan, Duan, Qing, Evans, Michele K, Falusi, Adeyinka G, Faul, Jessica D, Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline, Freedman, Barry I, Garcia, Melissa, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Goodman, Phyllis, Gottesman, Omri, Grant, Struan FA, Guo, Xiuqing, Hakonarson, Hakon, Haritunians, Talin, Harris, Tamara B, Harris, Curtis C, Henderson, Brian E, Hennis, Anselm, Hernandez, Dena G, Hirschhorn, Joel N, McNeill, Lorna Haughton, Howard, Timothy D, Howard, Barbara, Hsing, Ann W, Hsu, Yu-Han H, Hu, Jennifer J, Huff, Chad D, Huo, Dezheng, Ingles, Sue A, Irvin, Marguerite R, John, Esther M, Johnson, Karen C, Jordan, Joanne M, Kabagambe, Edmond K, Kang, Sun J, Kardia, Sharon L, Keating, Brendan J, Kittles, Rick A, Klein, Eric A, Kolb, Suzanne, and Kolonel, Laurence N
Subjects: Human Genome, Genetics, Africa, Black or African American, Black People, Body Height, Europe, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African ancestry, fine-mapping, genome-wide, height, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract: Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC). We additionally combined our African ancestry meta-analysis results with published European genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. In the African ancestry analyses, we identified three novel loci (SLC4A3, NCOA2, ECD/FAM149B1) in sex-combined results and two loci (CRB1, KLF6) in women only. In the African plus European sex-combined GWAS, we identified an additional three novel loci (RCCD1, G6PC3, CEP95) which were equally driven by AAAGC and European results. Among 39 genome-wide significant signals at known loci, conditioning index SNPs from European studies identified 20 secondary signals. Two of the 20 new secondary signals and none of the 8 novel loci had minor allele frequencies (MAF) < 5%. Of 802 known European height signals, 643 displayed directionally consistent associations with height, of which 205 were nominally significant (p < 0.05) in the African ancestry sex-combined sample. Furthermore, 148 of 241 loci contained ≤20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% of the posterior probability of driving the associations. In summary, trans-ethnic meta-analyses revealed novel signals and further improved fine-mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between African and European ancestry populations.
Published: 2021

11. Association of structural variation with cardiometabolic traits in Finns

Author: Chen, Lei, Abel, Haley J, Das, Indraniel, Larson, David E, Ganel, Liron, Kanchi, Krishna L, Regier, Allison A, Young, Erica P, Kang, Chul Joo, Scott, Alexandra J, Chiang, Colby, Wang, Xinxin, Lu, Shuangjia, Christ, Ryan, Service, Susan K, Chiang, Charleston WK, Havulinna, Aki S, Kuusisto, Johanna, Boehnke, Michael, Laakso, Markku, Palotie, Aarno, Ripatti, Samuli, Freimer, Nelson B, Locke, Adam E, Stitziel, Nathan O, and Hall, Ira M
Subjects: Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Alleles, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cholesterol, DNA Copy Number Variations, Female, Finland, Genome, Human, Genomic Structural Variation, Genotype, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Male, Mitochondrial Proteins, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)-Phosphatase, Pyruvic Acid, Serum Albumin, Human, Finnish population, cardiometabolic traits, genome-wide association study, structural variation, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract: The contribution of genome structural variation (SV) to quantitative traits associated with cardiometabolic diseases remains largely unknown. Here, we present the results of a study examining genetic association between SVs and cardiometabolic traits in the Finnish population. We used sensitive methods to identify and genotype 129,166 high-confidence SVs from deep whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data of 4,848 individuals. We tested the 64,572 common and low-frequency SVs for association with 116 quantitative traits and tested candidate associations using exome sequencing and array genotype data from an additional 15,205 individuals. We discovered 31 genome-wide significant associations at 15 loci, including 2 loci at which SVs have strong phenotypic effects: (1) a deletion of the ALB promoter that is greatly enriched in the Finnish population and causes decreased serum albumin level in carriers (p = 1.47 × 10-54) and is also associated with increased levels of total cholesterol (p = 1.22 × 10-28) and 14 additional cholesterol-related traits, and (2) a multi-allelic copy number variant (CNV) at PDPR that is strongly associated with pyruvate (p = 4.81 × 10-21) and alanine (p = 6.14 × 10-12) levels and resides within a structurally complex genomic region that has accumulated many rearrangements over evolutionary time. We also confirmed six previously reported associations, including five led by stronger signals in single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and one linking recurrent HP gene deletion and cholesterol levels (p = 6.24 × 10-10), which was also found to be strongly associated with increased glycoprotein level (p = 3.53 × 10-35). Our study confirms that integrating SVs in trait-mapping studies will expand our knowledge of genetic factors underlying disease risk.
Published: 2021

12. Genetic Studies of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Singaporeans Identify Variants in TNNI3 and TNNT2 that Are Common in Chinese Patients

Author: Pua, Chee Jian, Tham, Nevin, Chin, Calvin WL, Walsh, Roddy, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Toepfer, Christopher N, Repetti, Giuliana G, Garfinkel, Amanda C, Ewoldt, Jourdan F, Cloonan, Paige, Chen, Christopher S, Lim, Shi Qi, Cai, Jiashen, Loo, Li Yang, Kong, Siew Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Whiffin, Nicola, de Marvao, Antonio, Lio, Pei Min, Hii, An An, Yang, Cheng Xi, Le, Thu Thao, Bylstra, Yasmin, Lim, Weng Khong, Teo, Jing Xian, Padilha, Kallyandra, Silva, Gabriela V, Pan, Bangfen, Govind, Risha, Buchan, Rachel J, Barton, Paul JR, Tan, Patrick, Foo, Roger, Yip, James WL, Wong, Raymond CC, Chan, Wan Xian, Pereira, Alexandre C, Tang, Hak Chiaw, Jamuar, Saumya Shekhar, Ware, James S, Seidman, Jonathan G, Seidman, Christine E, and Cook, Stuart A
Subjects: Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Genetics, Cardiovascular, Clinical Research, Heart Disease, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Asian People, Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic, China, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Association Studies, Haplotypes, Heart Ventricles, Heterozygote, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk, Singapore, Troponin I, Troponin T, cardiomyopathies, hypertrophy, population, troponin I, troponin T, Medical Biotechnology, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Abstract: BackgroundTo assess the genetic architecture of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in patients of predominantly Chinese ancestry.MethodsWe sequenced HCM disease genes in Singaporean patients (n=224) and Singaporean controls (n=3634), compared findings with additional populations and White HCM cohorts (n=6179), and performed in vitro functional studies.ResultsSingaporean HCM patients had significantly fewer confidently interpreted HCM disease variants (pathogenic/likely pathogenic: 18%, P
Published: 2020

13. Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations

Author: Chen, Ming-Huei, Raffield, Laura M, Mousas, Abdou, Sakaue, Saori, Huffman, Jennifer E, Moscati, Arden, Trivedi, Bhavi, Jiang, Tao, Akbari, Parsa, Vuckovic, Dragana, Bao, Erik L, Zhong, Xue, Manansala, Regina, Laplante, Véronique, Chen, Minhui, Lo, Ken Sin, Qian, Huijun, Lareau, Caleb A, Beaudoin, Mélissa, Hunt, Karen A, Akiyama, Masato, Bartz, Traci M, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Beswick, Andrew, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P, Brody, Jennifer A, van Rooij, Frank JA, Chitrala, Kumaraswamynaidu, Cho, Kelly, Choquet, Hélène, Correa, Adolfo, Danesh, John, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Dimou, Niki, Ding, Jingzhong, Elliott, Paul, Esko, Tõnu, Evans, Michele K, Floyd, James S, Broer, Linda, Grarup, Niels, Guo, Michael H, Greinacher, Andreas, Haessler, Jeff, Hansen, Torben, Howson, Joanna MM, Huang, Qin Qin, Huang, Wei, Jorgenson, Eric, Kacprowski, Tim, Kähönen, Mika, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kanai, Masahiro, Karthikeyan, Savita, Koskeridis, Fotis, Lange, Leslie A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lerch, Markus M, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yongmei, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Manichaikul, Ani, Martin, Hilary C, Matsuda, Koichi, Mohlke, Karen L, Mononen, Nina, Murakami, Yoshinori, Nadkarni, Girish N, Nauck, Matthias, Nikus, Kjell, Ouwehand, Willem H, Pankratz, Nathan, Pedersen, Oluf, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Raitakari, Olli T, Roberts, David J, Rich, Stephen S, Rodriguez, Benjamin AT, Rosen, Jonathan D, Rotter, Jerome I, Schubert, Petra, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Surendran, Praveen, Tang, Hua, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Trembath, Richard C, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Watkins, Nicholas A, Zonderman, Alan B, Program, VA Million Veteran, Wilson, Peter WF, Li, Yun, Butterworth, Adam S, Gauchat, Jean-François, Chiang, Charleston WK, and Li, Bingshan
Subjects: Genetics, Good Health and Well Being, Asian People, Genome-Wide Association Study, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Interleukin-7, Mutation, Missense, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, VA Million Veteran Program, interleukin-7, genetic architecture, fine-mapping, selective sweeps, polygenic trait score, phenome-wide association study, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR). In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including 184,535 non-EUR individuals, we identified 5,552 trait-variant associations at p < 5 × 10-9, including 71 novel associations not found in EUR populations. We also identified 28 additional novel variants in ancestry-specific, non-EUR meta-analyses, including an IL7 missense variant in South Asians associated with lymphocyte count in vivo and IL-7 secretion levels in vitro. Fine-mapping prioritized variants annotated as functional and generated 95% credible sets that were 30% smaller when using the trans-ethnic as opposed to the EUR-only results. We explored the clinical significance and predictive value of trans-ethnic variants in multiple populations and compared genetic architecture and the effect of natural selection on these blood phenotypes between populations. Altogether, our results for hematological traits highlight the value of a more global representation of populations in genetic studies.
Published: 2020

14. Exome sequencing of Finnish isolates enhances rare-variant association power

Author: Locke, Adam E, Steinberg, Karyn Meltz, Chiang, Charleston WK, Service, Susan K, Havulinna, Aki S, Stell, Laurel, Pirinen, Matti, Abel, Haley J, Chiang, Colby C, Fulton, Robert S, Jackson, Anne U, Kang, Chul Joo, Kanchi, Krishna L, Koboldt, Daniel C, Larson, David E, Nelson, Joanne, Nicholas, Thomas J, Pietilä, Arto, Ramensky, Vasily, Ray, Debashree, Scott, Laura J, Stringham, Heather M, Vangipurapu, Jagadish, Welch, Ryan, Yajnik, Pranav, Yin, Xianyong, Eriksson, Johan G, Ala-Korpela, Mika, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Männikkö, Minna, Laivuori, Hannele, Dutcher, Susan K, Stitziel, Nathan O, Wilson, Richard K, Hall, Ira M, Sabatti, Chiara, Palotie, Aarno, Salomaa, Veikko, Laakso, Markku, Ripatti, Samuli, Boehnke, Michael, and Freimer, Nelson B
Subjects: Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Alleles, Cholesterol, HDL, Cluster Analysis, Endpoint Determination, Finland, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Geographic Mapping, Humans, Multifactorial Inheritance, Quantitative Trait Loci, Reproducibility of Results, Exome Sequencing, FinnGen Project, General Science & Technology
Abstract: Exome-sequencing studies have generally been underpowered to identify deleterious alleles with a large effect on complex traits as such alleles are mostly rare. Because the population of northern and eastern Finland has expanded considerably and in isolation following a series of bottlenecks, individuals of these populations have numerous deleterious alleles at a relatively high frequency. Here, using exome sequencing of nearly 20,000 individuals from these regions, we investigate the role of rare coding variants in clinically relevant quantitative cardiometabolic traits. Exome-wide association studies for 64 quantitative traits identified 26 newly associated deleterious alleles. Of these 26 alleles, 19 are either unique to or more than 20 times more frequent in Finnish individuals than in other Europeans and show geographical clustering comparable to Mendelian disease mutations that are characteristic of the Finnish population. We estimate that sequencing studies of populations without this unique history would require hundreds of thousands to millions of participants to achieve comparable association power.
Published: 2019

15. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study.

Author: Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, de Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, and Tachmazidou, Ioanna
Subjects: CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Waist-Hip Ratio, Chromosome Mapping, Age Factors, Sex Characteristics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology, Genetics
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR
Published: 2015

16. Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

Author: Olalde, Iñigo, Allentoft, Morten E, Sánchez-Quinto, Federico, Santpere, Gabriel, Chiang, Charleston WK, DeGiorgio, Michael, Prado-Martinez, Javier, Rodríguez, Juan Antonio, Rasmussen, Simon, Quilez, Javier, Ramírez, Oscar, Marigorta, Urko M, Fernández-Callejo, Marcos, Prada, María Encina, Encinas, Julio Manuel Vidal, Nielsen, Rasmus, Netea, Mihai G, Novembre, John, Sturm, Richard A, Sabeti, Pardis, Marquès-Bonet, Tomàs, Navarro, Arcadi, Willerslev, Eske, and Lalueza-Fox, Carles
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Skin, Agriculture, Alleles, Biological Evolution, Caves, Eye Color, Fossils, Genome, Human, Genomics, History, Ancient, Humans, Immunity, Lactose Intolerance, Male, Pigmentation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Principal Component Analysis, Skeleton, Skin Pigmentation, Spain, White People, General Science & Technology
Abstract: Ancient genomic sequences have started to reveal the origin and the demographic impact of farmers from the Neolithic period spreading into Europe. The adoption of farming, stock breeding and sedentary societies during the Neolithic may have resulted in adaptive changes in genes associated with immunity and diet. However, the limited data available from earlier hunter-gatherers preclude an understanding of the selective processes associated with this crucial transition to agriculture in recent human evolution. Here we sequence an approximately 7,000-year-old Mesolithic skeleton discovered at the La Braña-Arintero site in León, Spain, to retrieve a complete pre-agricultural European human genome. Analysis of this genome in the context of other ancient samples suggests the existence of a common ancient genomic signature across western and central Eurasia from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic. The La Braña individual carries ancestral alleles in several skin pigmentation genes, suggesting that the light skin of modern Europeans was not yet ubiquitous in Mesolithic times. Moreover, we provide evidence that a significant number of derived, putatively adaptive variants associated with pathogen resistance in modern Europeans were already present in this hunter-gatherer.
Published: 2014

17. A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry

Author: Monda, Keri L, Chen, Gary K, Taylor, Kira C, Palmer, Cameron, Edwards, Todd L, Lange, Leslie A, Ng, Maggie CY, Adeyemo, Adebowale A, Allison, Matthew A, Bielak, Lawrence F, Chen, Guanjie, Graff, Mariaelisa, Irvin, Marguerite R, Rhie, Suhn K, Li, Guo, Liu, Yongmei, Liu, Youfang, Lu, Yingchang, Nalls, Michael A, Sun, Yan V, Wojczynski, Mary K, Yanek, Lisa R, Aldrich, Melinda C, Ademola, Adeyinka, Amos, Christopher I, Bandera, Elisa V, Bock, Cathryn H, Britton, Angela, Broeckel, Ulrich, Cai, Quiyin, Caporaso, Neil E, Carlson, Chris S, Carpten, John, Casey, Graham, Chen, Wei-Min, Chen, Fang, Chen, Yii-Der I, Chiang, Charleston WK, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Demerath, Ellen, Deming-Halverson, Sandra L, Driver, Ryan W, Dubbert, Patricia, Feitosa, Mary F, Feng, Ye, Freedman, Barry I, Gillanders, Elizabeth M, Gottesman, Omri, Guo, Xiuqing, Haritunians, Talin, Harris, Tamara, Harris, Curtis C, Hennis, Anselm JM, Hernandez, Dena G, McNeill, Lorna H, Howard, Timothy D, Howard, Barbara V, Howard, Virginia J, Johnson, Karen C, Kang, Sun J, Keating, Brendan J, Kolb, Suzanne, Kuller, Lewis H, Kutlar, Abdullah, Langefeld, Carl D, Lettre, Guillaume, Lohman, Kurt, Lotay, Vaneet, Lyon, Helen, Manson, JoAnn E, Maixner, William, Meng, Yan A, Monroe, Kristine R, Morhason-Bello, Imran, Murphy, Adam B, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Nadukuru, Rajiv, Nathanson, Katherine L, Nayak, Uma, N'Diaye, Amidou, Nemesure, Barbara, Wu, Suh-Yuh, Leske, M Cristina, Neslund-Dudas, Christine, Neuhouser, Marian, Nyante, Sarah, Ochs-Balcom, Heather, Ogunniyi, Adesola, Ogundiran, Temidayo O, Ojengbede, Oladosu, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Palmer, Julie R, Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A, Palmer, Nicholette D, Press, Michael F, Rampersaud, Evandine, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L, Salako, Babatunde, and Schadt, Eric E
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Black or African American, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, NABEC Consortium, UKBEC Consortium, BioBank Japan Project, AGEN Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 36 loci associated with body mass index (BMI), predominantly in populations of European ancestry. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the association of >3.2 million SNPs with BMI in 39,144 men and women of African ancestry and followed up the most significant associations in an additional 32,268 individuals of African ancestry. We identified one new locus at 5q33 (GALNT10, rs7708584, P = 3.4 × 10(-11)) and another at 7p15 when we included data from the GIANT consortium (MIR148A-NFE2L3, rs10261878, P = 1.2 × 10(-10)). We also found suggestive evidence of an association at a third locus at 6q16 in the African-ancestry sample (KLHL32, rs974417, P = 6.9 × 10(-8)). Thirty-two of the 36 previously established BMI variants showed directionally consistent effect estimates in our GWAS (binomial P = 9.7 × 10(-7)), five of which reached genome-wide significance. These findings provide strong support for shared BMI loci across populations, as well as for the utility of studying ancestrally diverse populations.
Published: 2013

18. Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs

Author: Turchin, Michael C, Chiang, Charleston WK, Palmer, Cameron D, Sankararaman, Sriram, Reich, David, and Hirschhorn, Joel N
Subjects: Adult, Body Height, Cohort Studies, Europe, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Variation, Genetics, Population, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Likelihood Functions, Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Selection, Genetic, White People, Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Strong signatures of positive selection at newly arising genetic variants are well documented in humans(1-8), but this form of selection may not be widespread in recent human evolution(9). Because many human traits are highly polygenic and partly determined by common, ancient genetic variation, an alternative model for rapid genetic adaptation has been proposed: weak selection acting on many pre-existing (standing) genetic variants, or polygenic adaptation(10-12). By studying height, a classic polygenic trait, we demonstrate the first human signature of widespread selection on standing variation. We show that frequencies of alleles associated with increased height, both at known loci and genome wide, are systematically elevated in Northern Europeans compared with Southern Europeans (P < 4.3 × 10(-4)). This pattern mirrors intra-European height differences and is not confounded by ancestry or other ascertainment biases. The systematic frequency differences are consistent with the presence of widespread weak selection (selection coefficients ∼10(-3)-10(-5) per allele) rather than genetic drift alone (P < 10(-15)).
Published: 2012

19. Erratum: Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium.

Author: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Graff, Mariaelisa, Buchanan, Victoria L, Justice, Anne E, Highland, Heather M, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhu, Wanying, Chen, Hung-Hsin, Young, Kristin L, Adhikari, Kaustubh, Palmer, Nicholette D, Below, Jennifer E, Bradfield, Jonathan, Pereira, Alexandre C, Glover, LáShauntá, Kim, Daeeun, Lilly, Adam G, Shrestha, Poojan, Thomas, Alvin G, Zhang, Xinruo, Chen, Minhui, Chiang, Charleston WK, Pulit, Sara, Horimoto, Andrea, Krieger, Jose E, Guindo-Martínez, Marta, Preuss, Michael, Schumann, Claudia, Smit, Roelof AJ, Torres-Mejía, Gabriela, Acuña-Alonzo, Victor, Bedoya, Gabriel, Bortolini, Maria-Cátira, Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel, Gallo, Carla, González-José, Rolando, Poletti, Giovanni, Rothhammer, Francisco, Hakonarson, Hakon, Igo, Robert, Adler, Sharon G, Iyengar, Sudha K, Nicholas, Susanne B, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Isasi, Carmen R, Papnicolaou, George, Stilp, Adrienne M, Qi, Qibin, Kho, Minjung, Smith, Jennifer A, Langefeld, Carl D, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Mckean-Cowdin, Roberta, Gao, Xiaoyi Raymond, Nousome, Darryl, Conti, David V, Feng, Ye, Allison, Matthew A, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Buchanan, Thomas A, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Genter, Pauline M, Goodarzi, Mark O, Hai, Yang, Hsueh, Willa, Ipp, Eli, Kandeel, Fouad R, Lam, Kelvin, Li, Xiaohui, Nadler, Jerry L, Raffel, Leslie J, Roll, Kathryn, Sandow, Kevin, Tan, Jingyi, Taylor, Kent D, Xiang, Anny H, Yao, Jie, Audirac-Chalifour, Astride, Peralta Romero, Jose de Jesus, Hartwig, Fernando, Horta, Bernando, Blangero, John, Curran, Joanne E, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Lehman, Donna E, Puppala, Sobha, Fejerman, Laura, John, Esther M, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos, Burtt, Noël P, Florez, Jose C, García-Ortíz, Humberto, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Mercader, Josep, Orozco, Lorena, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Blanco, Estela, Gahagan, Sheila, Cox, Nancy J, Hanis, Craig, Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay, Graff, Mariaelisa, Buchanan, Victoria L, Justice, Anne E, Highland, Heather M, Guo, Xiuqing, Zhu, Wanying, Chen, Hung-Hsin, Young, Kristin L, Adhikari, Kaustubh, Palmer, Nicholette D, Below, Jennifer E, Bradfield, Jonathan, Pereira, Alexandre C, Glover, LáShauntá, Kim, Daeeun, Lilly, Adam G, Shrestha, Poojan, Thomas, Alvin G, Zhang, Xinruo, Chen, Minhui, Chiang, Charleston WK, Pulit, Sara, Horimoto, Andrea, Krieger, Jose E, Guindo-Martínez, Marta, Preuss, Michael, Schumann, Claudia, Smit, Roelof AJ, Torres-Mejía, Gabriela, Acuña-Alonzo, Victor, Bedoya, Gabriel, Bortolini, Maria-Cátira, Canizales-Quinteros, Samuel, Gallo, Carla, González-José, Rolando, Poletti, Giovanni, Rothhammer, Francisco, Hakonarson, Hakon, Igo, Robert, Adler, Sharon G, Iyengar, Sudha K, Nicholas, Susanne B, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Isasi, Carmen R, Papnicolaou, George, Stilp, Adrienne M, Qi, Qibin, Kho, Minjung, Smith, Jennifer A, Langefeld, Carl D, Wagenknecht, Lynne, Mckean-Cowdin, Roberta, Gao, Xiaoyi Raymond, Nousome, Darryl, Conti, David V, Feng, Ye, Allison, Matthew A, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Buchanan, Thomas A, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Genter, Pauline M, Goodarzi, Mark O, Hai, Yang, Hsueh, Willa, Ipp, Eli, Kandeel, Fouad R, Lam, Kelvin, Li, Xiaohui, Nadler, Jerry L, Raffel, Leslie J, Roll, Kathryn, Sandow, Kevin, Tan, Jingyi, Taylor, Kent D, Xiang, Anny H, Yao, Jie, Audirac-Chalifour, Astride, Peralta Romero, Jose de Jesus, Hartwig, Fernando, Horta, Bernando, Blangero, John, Curran, Joanne E, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Lehman, Donna E, Puppala, Sobha, Fejerman, Laura, John, Esther M, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos, Burtt, Noël P, Florez, Jose C, García-Ortíz, Humberto, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Mercader, Josep, Orozco, Lorena, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Blanco, Estela, Gahagan, Sheila, Cox, Nancy J, and Hanis, Craig
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099.].
Published: 2023

20. Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies

Author: Sohail, Mashaal, primary, Maier, Robert M, additional, Ganna, Andrea, additional, Bloemendal, Alex, additional, Martin, Alicia R, additional, Turchin, Michael C, additional, Chiang, Charleston WK, additional, Hirschhorn, Joel, additional, Daly, Mark J, additional, Patterson, Nick, additional, Neale, Benjamin, additional, Mathieson, Iain, additional, Reich, David, additional, and Sunyaev, Shamil R, additional
Published: 2019
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21. Author response: Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies

Author: Sohail, Mashaal, primary, Maier, Robert M, additional, Ganna, Andrea, additional, Bloemendal, Alex, additional, Martin, Alicia R, additional, Turchin, Michael C, additional, Chiang, Charleston WK, additional, Hirschhorn, Joel, additional, Daly, Mark J, additional, Patterson, Nick, additional, Neale, Benjamin, additional, Mathieson, Iain, additional, Reich, David, additional, and Sunyaev, Shamil R, additional
Published: 2018
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22. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

Author: Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, de Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tanaka, Toshiko, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Trompet, Stella, Pervjakova, Natalia, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Vandenput, Liesbeth, van der Laan, Sander W, van der Velde, Nathalie, van Setten, Jessica, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Waite, Lindsay L, Wang, Sophie R, Wang, Zhaoming, Wild, Sarah H, Willenborg, Christina, Wilson, James F, Wong, Andrew, Yang, Jian, Yengo, Loïc, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Yu, Lei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Andersson, Ehm A, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baldassarre, Damiano, Banasik, Karina, Barcella, Matteo, Barlassina, Cristina, Bellis, Claire, Benaglio, Paola, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnet, Fabrice, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buchman, Aron S, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter S, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cole, John, Collins, Francis S, de Geus, Eco JC, de Groot, Lisette CPGM, Dimitriou, Maria, Duan, Jubao, Enroth, Stefan, Eury, Elodie, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gejman, Pablo V, Gigante, Bruna, Glorioso, Nicola, Go, Alan S, Gottesman, Omri, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gu, Yu-Mei, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies C, Hansen, 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[0000-0002-8802-2903], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Johnson, Kathleen [0000-0002-6823-3252], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Barroso, Ines [0000-0001-5800-4520], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Biochemistry, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Public Health, Medical Oncology, Pathology, Erasmus MC other, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, Biological pathways, QH426-470, Genome, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Genetics (clinical), ddc:616, Genetics & Heredity, Sex Characteristics, Loci, MAGIC Consortium, Mass index, Age Factors, Chromosome Mapping, Middle Aged, Genealogy, Self-reported height, Peripheral-blood, Scale (social sciences), ICBP Consortium, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Medical Genetics, Research Article, arcOGEN Consortium, musculoskeletal diseases, Adult, European Continental Ancestry Group, Natural menopause, Aged, Body Size/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio, Biology, Body size, DIAGRAM Consortium, Age and sex, White People, Fat distribution, GLGC Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Life-course, Genetics, Weight-gain, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Medicinsk genetik, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, 0604 Genetics, Science & Technology, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Correction, 030104 developmental biology, GWAS meta-analysis, Global-BPGen Consortium, Common SNPS, CHARGE Consortium, 3111 Biomedicine, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR, Author Summary Adult body size and body shape differ substantially between men and women and change over time. More than 100 genetic variants that influence body mass index (measure of body size) or waist-to-hip ratio (measure of body shape) have been identified. While there is evidence that some genetic loci affect body shape differently in men than in women, little is known about whether genetic effects differ in older compared to younger adults, and whether such changes differ between men and women. Therefore, we conducted a systematic genome-wide search, including 114 studies (>320,000 individuals), to specifically identify genetic loci with age- and or sex-dependent effects on body size and shape. We identified 15 loci of which the effect on BMI was different in older compared to younger adults, whereas we found no evidence for loci with different effects in men compared to women. The opposite was seen for body shape as we identified 44 loci of which the effect on waist-to-hip ratio differed between men and women, but no difference between younger and older adults were observed. Our observations may provide new insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexual dimorphism of body shape.
Published: 2014

23. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

Author: Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, De Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tanaka, Toshiko, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Trompet, Stella, Pervjakova, Natalia, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Vandenput, Liesbeth, Van Der Laan, Sander W, Van Der Velde, Nathalie, Van Setten, Jessica, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Waite, Lindsay L, Wang, Sophie R, Wang, Zhaoming, Wild, Sarah H, Willenborg, Christina, Wilson, James F, Wong, Andrew, Yang, Jian, Yengo, Loïc, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Yu, Lei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Andersson, Ehm A, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baldassarre, Damiano, Banasik, Karina, Barcella, Matteo, Barlassina, Cristina, Bellis, Claire, Benaglio, Paola, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnet, Fabrice, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buchman, Aron S, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter S, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cole, John, Collins, Francis S, De Geus, Eco JC, De Groot, Lisette CPGM, Dimitriou, Maria, Duan, Jubao, Enroth, Stefan, Eury, Elodie, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gejman, Pablo V, Gigante, Bruna, Glorioso, Nicola, Go, Alan S, Gottesman, Omri, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gu, Yu-Mei, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies C, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Hartman, Catharina A, Hassinen, Maija, Hastie, Nicholas, Hattersley, Andrew T, Heath, Andrew C, Henders, Anjali K, Hernandez, Dena, Hillege, Hans, Holmen, Oddgeir, Hovingh, Kees G, Hui, Jennie, Husemoen, Lise L, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hysi, Pirro G, Illig, Thomas, De Jager, Philip L, Jalilzadeh, Shapour, Jørgensen, Torben, Jukema, J Wouter, Juonala, Markus, Kanoni, Stavroula, Karaleftheri, Maria, Khaw, Kay Tee, Kinnunen, Leena, Kittner, Steven J, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Krarup, Nikolaj T, Kratzer, Wolfgang, Krüger, Janine, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kyriakou, Theodosios, Langenberg, Claudia, Lannfelt, Lars, Lanzani, Chiara, Lotay, Vaneet, Launer, Lenore J, Leander, Karin, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yan-Ping, Lobbens, Stéphane, Luben, Robert, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Männistö, Satu, Magnusson, Patrik K, McArdle, Wendy L, Menni, Cristina, Merger, Sigrun, Milani, Lili, Montgomery, Grant W, Morris, Andrew P, Narisu, Narisu, Nelis, Mari, Ong, Ken K, Palotie, Aarno, Pérusse, Louis, Pichler, Irene, Pilia, Maria G, Pouta, Anneli, Rheinberger, Myriam, Ribel-Madsen, Rasmus, Richards, Marcus, Rice, Kenneth M, Rice, Treva K, Rivolta, Carlo, Salomaa, Veikko, Sanders, Alan R, Sarzynski, Mark A, Scholtens, Salome, Scott, Robert A, Scott, William R, Sebert, Sylvain, Sengupta, Sebanti, Sennblad, Bengt, Seufferlein, Thomas, Silveira, Angela, Slagboom, P Eline, Smit, Jan H, Sparsø, Thomas H, Stirrups, Kathleen, Stolk, Ronald P, Stringham, Heather M, Swertz, Morris A, Swift, Amy J, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tan, Sian-Tsung, Thorand, Barbara, Tönjes, Anke, Tremblay, Angelo, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Van Der Most, Peter J, Völker, Uwe, Vohl, Marie-Claude, Vonk, Judith M, Waldenberger, Melanie, Walker, Ryan W, Wennauer, Roman, Widén, Elisabeth, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilsgaard, Tom, Wright, Alan F, Zillikens, M Carola, Van Dijk, Suzanne C, Van Schoor, Natasja M, Asselbergs, Folkert W, De Bakker, Paul IW, Beckmann, Jacques S, Beilby, John, Bennett, David A, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Böger, Carsten A, Boehm, Bernhard O, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bouchard, Claude, Chambers, John C, Chanock, Stephen J, Chasman, Daniel I, Cucca, Francesco, Cusi, Daniele, Dedoussis, George, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Johan G, Evans, Denis A, De Faire, Ulf, Farrall, Martin, Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Franke, Lude, Franks, Paul W, Froguel, Philippe, Gansevoort, Ron T, Gieger, Christian, Grönberg, Henrik, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hall, Per, Hamsten, Anders, Van Der Harst, Pim, Hayward, Caroline, Heliövaara, Markku, Hengstenberg, Christian, Hicks, Andrew A, Hingorani, Aroon, Hofman, Albert, Hu, Frank, Huikuri, Heikki V, Hveem, Kristian, James, Alan L, Jordan, Joanne M, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kajantie, Eero, Kathiresan, Sekar, Kiemeney, Lambertus ALM, Kivimaki, Mika, Knekt, Paul B, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kooner, Jaspal S, Koskinen, Seppo, Kuusisto, Johanna, Maerz, Winfried, Martin, Nicholas G, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lettre, Guillaume, Levinson, Douglas F, Lind, Lars, Lokki, Marja-Liisa, Mäntyselkä, Pekka, Melbye, Mads, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D, Moll, Frans L, Murray, Jeffrey C, Musk, Arthur W, Nieminen, Markku S, Njølstad, Inger, Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Oostra, Ben A, Palmer, Lyle J, Pankow, James S, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Pedersen, Nancy L, Pedersen, Oluf, Penninx, Brenda W, Perola, Markus, Peters, Annette, Polašek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P, Psaty, Bruce M, Qi, Lu, Quertermous, Thomas, Raitakari, Olli T, Rankinen, Tuomo, Rauramaa, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rioux, John D, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rotter, Jerome I, Rudan, Igor, Den Ruijter, Hester M, Saltevo, Juha, Sattar, Naveed, Schunkert, Heribert, Schwarz, Peter EH, Shuldiner, Alan R, Sinisalo, Juha, Snieder, Harold, Sørensen, Thorkild IA, Spector, Tim D, Staessen, Jan A, Stefania, Bandinelli, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stumvoll, Michael, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Tremoli, Elena, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, Verbeek, André LM, Vermeulen, Sita H, Viikari, Jorma S, Vitart, Veronique, Völzke, Henry, Vollenweider, Peter, Waeber, Gérard, Walker, Mark, Wallaschofski, Henri, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watkins, Hugh, Zeggini, Eleftheria, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Clegg, Deborah J, Cupples, L Adrienne, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Jaquish, Cashell E, Rao, DC, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Assimes, Themistocles L, Barroso, Inês, Berndt, Sonja I, Boehnke, Michael, Deloukas, Panos, Fox, Caroline S, Groop, Leif C, Hunter, David J, Ingelsson, Erik, Kaplan, Robert C, McCarthy, Mark I, Mohlke, Karen L, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Schlessinger, David, Strachan, David P, Stefansson, Kari, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Heid, Iris M, North, Kari E, Borecki, Ingrid B, Kutalik, Zoltán, and Loos, Ruth JF
Subjects: Adult, Male, Sex Characteristics, Waist-Hip Ratio, Age Factors, Chromosome Mapping, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, 3. Good health, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Aged, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR

24. A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape

Author: Ried, Janina S, Jeff M, Janina, Chu, Audrey Y, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Van Dongen, Jenny, Huffman, Jennifer E, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Cadby, Gemma, Eklund, Niina, Eriksson, Joel, Esko, Tõnu, Feitosa, Mary F, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Hayward, Caroline, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Jackson, Anne U, Jokinen, Eero, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kristiansson, Kati, Kutalik, Zoltán, Lahti, Jari, Luan, Jian'an, Mägi, Reedik, Mahajan, Anubha, Mangino, Massimo, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Nolte, Ilja M, Pérusse, Louis, Prokopenko, Inga, Qi, Lu, Rose, Lynda M, Salvi, Erika, Smith, Megan T, Snieder, Harold, Stančáková, Alena, Ju Sung, Yun, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Teumer, Alexander, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Van Der Harst, Pim, Walker, Ryan W, Wang, Sophie R, Wild, Sarah H, Willems, Sara M, Wong, Andrew, Zhang, Weihua, Albrecht, Eva, Couto Alves, Alexessander, Bakker, Stephan JL, Barlassina, Cristina, Bartz, Traci M, Beilby, John, Bellis, Claire, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bornstein, Stefan R, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chiang, Charleston WK, Chines, Peter S, Collins, Francis S, Cucca, Fracensco, Cupples, L Adrienne, D'Avila, Francesca, De Geus, Eco JC, Dedoussis, George, Dimitriou, Maria, Döring, Angela, Eriksson, Johan G, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Farrall, Martin, Ferreira, Teresa, Fischer, Krista, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gjesing, Anette Prior, Glorioso, Nicola, Graff, Mariaelisa, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grewal, Jagvir, Hamsten, Anders, Harder, Marie Neergaard, Hartman, Catharina A, Hassinen, Maija, Hastie, Nicholas, Hattersley, Andrew Tym, Havulinna, Aki S, Heliövaara, Markku, Hillege, Hans, Hofman, Albert, Holmen, Oddgeir, Homuth, Georg, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Hui, Jennie, Husemoen, Lise Lotte, Hysi, Pirro G, Isaacs, Aaron, Ittermann, Till, Jalilzadeh, Shapour, James, Alan L, Jørgensen, Torben, Jousilahti, Pekka, Jula, Antti, Marie Justesen, Johanne, Justice, Anne E, Kähönen, Mika, Karaleftheri, Maria, Tee Khaw, Kay, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M, Kinnunen, Leena, Knekt, Paul B, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Ishminder K, Koskinen, Seppo, Kovacs, Peter, Kyriakou, Theodosios, Laitinen, Tomi, Langenberg, Claudia, Lewin, Alexandra M, Lichtner, Peter, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Lorbeer, Roberto, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luben, Robert, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Männistö, Satu, Manunta, Paolo, Leach, Irene Mateo, McArdle, Wendy L, Mcknight, Barbara, Mohlke, Karen L, Mihailov, Evelin, Milani, Lili, Mills, Rebecca, Montasser, May E, Morris, Andrew P, Müller, Gabriele, Musk, Arthur W, Narisu, Narisu, Ong, Ken K, Oostra, Ben A, Osmond, Clive, Palotie, Aarno, Pankow, James S, Paternoster, Lavinia, Penninx, Brenda W, Pichler, Irene, Pilia, Maria G, Polašek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P, Raitakari, Olli T, Rankinen, Tuomo, Rao, DC, Rayner, Nigel W, Ribel-Madsen, Rasmus, Rice, Treva K, Richards, Marcus, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Ryan, Kathy A, Sanna, Serena, Sarzynski, Mark A, Scholtens, Salome, Scott, Robert A, Sebert, Sylvain, Southam, Lorraine, Sparsø, Thomas Hempel, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stirrups, Kathleen, Stolk, Ronald P, Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M, Swertz, Morris A, Swift, Amy J, Tönjes, Anke, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Van Der Most, Peter J, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Vandenput, Liesbeth, Vartiainen, Erkki, Venturini, Cristina, Verweij, Niek, Viikari, Jorma S, Vitart, Veronique, Vohl, Marie-Claude, Vonk, Judith M, Waeber, Gérard, Widén, Elisabeth, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilsgaard, Tom, Winkler, Thomas W, Wright, Alan F, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Hua Zhao, Jing, Zillikens, M Carola, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bouchard, Claude, Chambers, John C, Chasman, Daniel I, Cusi, Daniele, Gansevoort, Ron T, Gieger, Christian, Hansen, Torben, Hicks, Andrew A, Hu, Frank, Hveem, Kristian, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Kajantie, Eero, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kuh, Diana, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Metspalu, Andres, Njølstad, Inger, Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Palmer, Lyle J, Pedersen, Oluf, Perola, Markus, Peters, Annette, Psaty, Bruce M, Puolijoki, Hannu, Rauramaa, Rainer, Rudan, Igor, Salomaa, Veikko, Schwarz, Peter EH, Shudiner, Alan R, Smit, Jan H, Sørensen, Thorkild IA, Spector, Timothy D, Stefansson, Kari, Stumvoll, Michael, Tremblay, Angelo, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watkins, Hugh, Wilson, James F, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Boehnke, Michael, Borecki, Ingrid B, Deloukas, Panos, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Fox, Caroline, Groop, Leif C, Heid, Iris M, Hunter, David J, Kaplan, Robert C, McCarthy, Mark I, North, Kari E, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Schlessinger, David, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Strachan, David P, Frayling, Timothy, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, and Loos, Ruth JF
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Principal Component Analysis, Anthropometry, Genotype, Models, Genetic, Body Size, Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Large consortia have revealed hundreds of genetic loci associated with anthropometric traits, one trait at a time. We examined whether genetic variants affect body shape as a composite phenotype that is represented by a combination of anthropometric traits. We developed an approach that calculates averaged PCs (AvPCs) representing body shape derived from six anthropometric traits (body mass index, height, weight, waist and hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio). The first four AvPCs explain >99% of the variability, are heritable, and associate with cardiometabolic outcomes. We performed genome-wide association analyses for each body shape composite phenotype across 65 studies and meta-analysed summary statistics. We identify six novel loci: LEMD2 and CD47 for AvPC1, RPS6KA5/C14orf159 and GANAB for AvPC3, and ARL15 and ANP32 for AvPC4. Our findings highlight the value of using multiple traits to define complex phenotypes for discovery, which are not captured by single-trait analyses, and may shed light onto new pathways.

25. Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

Author: Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, De Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tanaka, Toshiko, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Trompet, Stella, Pervjakova, Natalia, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Vandenput, Liesbeth, Van Der Laan, Sander W, Van Der Velde, Nathalie, Van Setten, Jessica, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Waite, Lindsay L, Wang, Sophie R, Wang, Zhaoming, Wild, Sarah H, Willenborg, Christina, Wilson, James F, Wong, Andrew, Yang, Jian, Yengo, Loïc, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Yu, Lei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Andersson, Ehm A, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baldassarre, Damiano, Banasik, Karina, Barcella, Matteo, Barlassina, Cristina, Bellis, Claire, Benaglio, Paola, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnet, Fabrice, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buchman, Aron S, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter S, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cole, John, Collins, Francis S, De Geus, Eco JC, De Groot, Lisette CPGM, Dimitriou, Maria, Duan, Jubao, Enroth, Stefan, Eury, Elodie, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gejman, Pablo V, Gigante, Bruna, Glorioso, Nicola, Go, Alan S, Gottesman, Omri, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gu, Yu-Mei, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies C, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Hartman, Catharina A, Hassinen, Maija, Hastie, Nicholas, Hattersley, Andrew T, Heath, Andrew C, Henders, Anjali K, Hernandez, Dena, Hillege, Hans, Holmen, Oddgeir, Hovingh, Kees G, Hui, Jennie, Husemoen, Lise L, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hysi, Pirro G, Illig, Thomas, De Jager, Philip L, Jalilzadeh, Shapour, Jørgensen, Torben, Jukema, J Wouter, Juonala, Markus, Kanoni, Stavroula, Karaleftheri, Maria, Khaw, Kay Tee, Kinnunen, Leena, Kittner, Steven J, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Krarup, Nikolaj T, Kratzer, Wolfgang, Krüger, Janine, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kyriakou, Theodosios, Langenberg, Claudia, Lannfelt, Lars, Lanzani, Chiara, Lotay, Vaneet, Launer, Lenore J, Leander, Karin, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yan-Ping, Lobbens, Stéphane, Luben, Robert, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Männistö, Satu, Magnusson, Patrik K, McArdle, Wendy L, Menni, Cristina, Merger, Sigrun, Milani, Lili, Montgomery, Grant W, Morris, Andrew P, Narisu, Narisu, Nelis, Mari, Ong, Ken K, Palotie, Aarno, Pérusse, Louis, Pichler, Irene, Pilia, Maria G, Pouta, Anneli, Rheinberger, Myriam, Ribel-Madsen, Rasmus, Richards, Marcus, Rice, Kenneth M, Rice, Treva K, Rivolta, Carlo, Salomaa, Veikko, Sanders, Alan R, Sarzynski, Mark A, Scholtens, Salome, Scott, Robert A, Scott, William R, Sebert, Sylvain, Sengupta, Sebanti, Sennblad, Bengt, Seufferlein, Thomas, Silveira, Angela, Slagboom, P Eline, Smit, Jan H, Sparsø, Thomas H, Stirrups, Kathleen, Stolk, Ronald P, Stringham, Heather M, Swertz, Morris A, Swift, Amy J, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tan, Sian-Tsung, Thorand, Barbara, Tönjes, Anke, Tremblay, Angelo, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Van Der Most, Peter J, Völker, Uwe, Vohl, Marie-Claude, Vonk, Judith M, Waldenberger, Melanie, Walker, Ryan W, Wennauer, Roman, Widén, Elisabeth, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilsgaard, Tom, Wright, Alan F, Zillikens, M Carola, Van Dijk, Suzanne C, Van Schoor, Natasja M, Asselbergs, Folkert W, De Bakker, Paul IW, Beckmann, Jacques S, Beilby, John, Bennett, David A, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Böger, Carsten A, Boehm, Bernhard O, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bouchard, Claude, Chambers, John C, Chanock, Stephen J, Chasman, Daniel I, Cucca, Francesco, Cusi, Daniele, Dedoussis, George, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Johan G, Evans, Denis A, De Faire, Ulf, Farrall, Martin, Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Franke, Lude, Franks, Paul W, Froguel, Philippe, Gansevoort, Ron T, Gieger, Christian, Grönberg, Henrik, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hall, Per, Hamsten, Anders, Van Der Harst, Pim, Hayward, Caroline, Heliövaara, Markku, Hengstenberg, Christian, Hicks, Andrew A, Hingorani, Aroon, Hofman, Albert, Hu, Frank, Huikuri, Heikki V, Hveem, Kristian, James, Alan L, Jordan, Joanne M, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kajantie, Eero, Kathiresan, Sekar, Kiemeney, Lambertus ALM, Kivimaki, Mika, Knekt, Paul B, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kooner, Jaspal S, Koskinen, Seppo, Kuusisto, Johanna, 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Michael, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Tremoli, Elena, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, Verbeek, André LM, Vermeulen, Sita H, Viikari, Jorma S, Vitart, Veronique, Völzke, Henry, Vollenweider, Peter, Waeber, Gérard, Walker, Mark, Wallaschofski, Henri, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watkins, Hugh, Zeggini, Eleftheria, ArcOGEN Consortium, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Clegg, Deborah J, Cupples, L Adrienne, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Jaquish, Cashell E, Rao, DC, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Assimes, Themistocles L, Barroso, Inês, Berndt, Sonja I, Boehnke, Michael, Deloukas, Panos, Fox, Caroline S, Groop, Leif C, Hunter, David J, Ingelsson, Erik, Kaplan, Robert C, McCarthy, Mark I, Mohlke, Karen L, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Schlessinger, David, Strachan, David P, Stefansson, Kari, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Heid, Iris M, North, Kari E, Borecki, Ingrid B, Kutalik, Zoltán, and Loos, Ruth JF
Subjects: GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, CHARGE Consortium, ICBP Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, 3. Good health, arcOGEN Consortium
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005378.].

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1. Folate metabolism and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a genetic pathway analysis from the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium

2. A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children

3. Evaluating genomic polygenic risk scores for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Latinos

4. Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

5. Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation

6. Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

7. Localized variation in ancestral admixture identifies pilocytic astrocytoma risk loci among Latino children

8. Mitochondrial genome copy number measured by DNA sequencing in human blood is strongly associated with metabolic traits via cell-type composition differences

9. Genetic determinants of blood-cell traits influence susceptibility to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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

11. Association of structural variation with cardiometabolic traits in Finns

12. Genetic Studies of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Singaporeans Identify Variants in TNNI3 and TNNT2 that Are Common in Chinese Patients

13. Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations

14. Exome sequencing of Finnish isolates enhances rare-variant association power

15. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study.

16. Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

17. A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry

18. Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs

19. Erratum: Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium.

20. Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies

21. Author response: Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies

22. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

23. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

24. A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape

25. Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

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