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1. Gastroesophageal reflux GWAS identifies risk loci that also associate with subsequent severe esophageal diseases

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Jue-Sheng Ong, René Thieme, Janusz Jankowski, Jiyuan An, Anne C. Böhmer, Stuart MacGregor, David C. Whiteman, Johannes Schumacher, Claire Palles, Rachel E. Neale, Matthew Law, Puya Gharahkhani, Ines Gockel, John Lai, Catherine M. Olsen, Xikun Han, Beacon, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Tom L. Vaughan, Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Law, Matthew H [0000-0002-4303-8821], Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Olsen, Catherine M [0000-0003-4483-1888], Böhmer, Anne C [0000-0002-5716-786X], Fitzgerald, Rebecca C [0000-0002-3434-3568], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Esophageal Diseases, Genome-wide association studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Gastroenterology, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, Internal medicine, Humans, Medicine, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, Esophagus, Risk factor, lcsh:Science, Cancer genetics, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Esophageal disease, Oesophageal cancer, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, humanities, digestive system diseases, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Genetic Loci, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Gastroesophageal Reflux, GERD, Adenocarcinoma, lcsh:Q, Female, business, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is caused by gastric acid entering the esophagus. GERD has high prevalence and is the major risk factor for Barrett’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA). We conduct a large GERD GWAS meta-analysis (80,265 cases, 305,011 controls), identifying 25 independent genome-wide significant loci for GERD. Several of the implicated genes are existing or putative drug targets. Loci discovery is greatest with a broad GERD definition (including cases defined by self-report or medication data). Further, 91% of the GERD risk-increasing alleles also increase BE and/or EA risk, greatly expanding gene discovery for these traits. Our results map genes for GERD and related traits and uncover potential new drug targets for these conditions., Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a major risk factor for Barret’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA). Here, An et al. report 25 genetic loci for GERD, many of which associate with BE and EA or with other traits such as BMI.

Published
2019

2. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries

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Gharahkhani, Puya, Jorgenson, Eric, Hysi, Pirro, Khawaja, Anthony P, Pendergrass, Sarah, Han, Xikun, Ong, Jue Sheng, Hewitt, Alex W, Segrè, Ayellet V, Rouhana, John M, Hamel, Andrew R, Igo, Robert P, Choquet, Helene, Qassim, Ayub, Josyula, Navya S, Cooke Bailey, Jessica N, Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM, Iglesias, Adriana, Siggs, Owen M, Young, Terri L, Vitart, Veronique, Thiadens, Alberta AHJ, Karjalainen, Juha, Uebe, Steffen, Melles, Ronald B, Nair, K Saidas, Luben, Robert, Simcoe, Mark, Amersinghe, Nishani, Cree, Angela J, Hohn, Rene, Poplawski, Alicia, Chen, Li Jia, Rong, Shi-Song, Aung, Tin, Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, ANZRAG consortium, Biobank Japan project, FinnGen study, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, GIGA study group, 23 and Me Research Team, Tamiya, Gen, Shiga, Yukihiro, Yamamoto, Masayuki, Nakazawa, Toru, Currant, Hannah, Birney, Ewan, Wang, Xin, Auton, Adam, Lupton, Michelle K, Martin, Nicholas G, Ashaye, Adeyinka, Olawoye, Olusola, Williams, Susan E, Akafo, Stephen, Ramsay, Michele, Hashimoto, Kazuki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Akiyama, Masato, Momozawa, Yukihide, Foster, Paul J, Khaw, Peng T, Morgan, James E, Strouthidis, Nicholas G, Kraft, Peter, Kang, Jae H, Pang, Chi Pui, Pasutto, Francesca, Mitchell, Paul, Lotery, Andrew J, Palotie, Aarno, van Duijn, Cornelia, Haines, Jonathan L, Hammond, Chris, Pasquale, Louis R, Klaver, Caroline CW, Hauser, Michael, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Mackey, David A, Kubo, Michiaki, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Craig, Jamie E, MacGregor, Stuart, Wiggs, Janey L, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Genetics, Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Jorgenson, Eric [0000-0002-5829-8191], Hysi, Pirro [0000-0001-5752-2510], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Ong, Jue Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Hewitt, Alex W [0000-0002-5123-5999], Rouhana, John M [0000-0002-8599-0271], Igo, Robert P [0000-0002-0024-1993], Choquet, Helene [0000-0001-9839-8667], Josyula, Navya S [0000-0003-2782-8812], Cooke Bailey, Jessica N [0000-0002-4001-8702], Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM [0000-0001-5154-6765], Iglesias, Adriana [0000-0001-5532-764X], Siggs, Owen M [0000-0003-2840-4851], Young, Terri L [0000-0001-6994-9941], Vitart, Veronique [0000-0002-4991-3797], Thiadens, Alberta AHJ [0000-0002-4911-9462], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Simcoe, Mark [0000-0003-2432-0810], Cree, Angela J [0000-0002-1987-8900], Poplawski, Alicia [0000-0003-2527-0763], Rong, Shi-Song [0000-0001-8352-6363], Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie [0000-0002-8898-0095], Yamamoto, Masayuki [0000-0002-9073-9436], Currant, Hannah [0000-0003-2764-6787], Birney, Ewan [0000-0001-8314-8497], Wang, Xin [0000-0001-7242-357X], Martin, Nicholas G [0000-0003-4069-8020], Olawoye, Olusola [0000-0003-2357-8924], Williams, Susan E [0000-0002-4479-8638], Ramsay, Michele [0000-0002-4156-4801], Kamatani, Yoichiro [0000-0001-8748-5597], Foster, Paul J [0000-0002-4755-177X], Khaw, Peng T [0000-0002-8087-2268], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Kang, Jae H [0000-0003-4812-0557], Pasutto, Francesca [0000-0002-0026-5362], Lotery, Andrew J [0000-0001-5541-4305], Haines, Jonathan L [0000-0002-4351-4728], Hammond, Chris [0000-0002-3227-2620], Pasquale, Louis R [0000-0002-5835-3496], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], Khor, Chiea Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Cheng, Ching-Yu [0000-0003-0655-885X], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], Wiggs, Janey L [0000-0003-1890-3278], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, HUSLAB, HUS Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, APH - Mental Health, APH - Methodology, and Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neuroinfection & -inflammation

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0301 basic medicine, Aging, genetic structures, General Physics and Astronomy, Glaucoma, PROTEIN, Genome-wide association study, Neurodegenerative, Genome, ANNOTATION, Genome-wide association studies, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], 0302 clinical medicine, Polymorphism (computer science), Genotype, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, ANZRAG consortium, Aetiology, GENE-EXPRESSION, Genetics, HUMAN-DISEASES, RISK, Multidisciplinary, and Me Research Team, Single Nucleotide, ASSOCIATION, GIGA study group, Biobank Japan project, 3. Good health, PREVALENCE, Open-Angle, Meta-analysis, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, Optic nerve diseases, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Open angle glaucoma, Science, European Continental Ancestry Group, FinnGen study, Biology, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, Article, White People, 03 medical and health sciences, Asian People, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 3125 Otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology, Polymorphism, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Genetic association, MUTATIONS, Human Genome, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, eye diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, sense organs, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a heritable common cause of blindness world-wide. To identify risk loci, we conduct a large multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on a total of 34,179 cases and 349,321 controls, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and confirming 83 loci that were previously known. The majority of loci have broadly consistent effects across European, Asian and African ancestries. Cross-ancestry data improve fine-mapping of causal variants for several loci. Integration of multiple lines of genetic evidence support the functional relevance of the identified POAG risk loci and highlight potential contributions of several genes to POAG pathogenesis, including SVEP1, RERE, VCAM1, ZNF638, CLIC5, SLC2A12, YAP1, MXRA5, and SMAD6. Several drug compounds targeting POAG risk genes may be potential glaucoma therapeutic candidates., Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is highly heritable, yet not well understood from a genetic perspective. Here, the authors perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 34,179 POAG cases, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and mapping effects across multiple ethnicities.

Published
2021

3. A comprehensive re-assessment of the association between vitamin D and cancer susceptibility using Mendelian randomization

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Ong, Jue-Sheng, Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C., Han, Xikun, An, Jiyuan, Liyanage, Upekha, Dusingize, Jean-Cluade, Schumacher, Johannes, Gockel, Ines, Böhmer, Anne, Jankowski, Janusz, Palles, Claire, O’Mara, Tracy, Spurdle, Amanda, Law, Matthew H., Iles, Mark M., Pharoah, Paul, Berchuck, Andrew, Zheng, Wei, Thrift, Aaron P., Olsen, Catherine, Neale, Rachel E., Gharahkhani, Puya, Webb, Penelope M., MacGregor, Stuart, Fitzgerald, Rebecca, Buas, Matt, Gammon, Marilie D., Corley, Douglas A., Shaheen, Nicholas J., Hardie, Laura J., Bird, Nigel C., Reid, Brian J., Chow, Wong-Ho, Risch, Harvey A., Ye, Weimin, Liu, Geoffrey, Romero, Yvonne, Bernstein, Leslie, Wu, Anna H., Whiteman, David E., Vaughan, Thomas, Agee, M., Alipanahi, B., Auton, A., Bell, R. K., Bryc, K., Elson, S. L., Fontanillas, P., Furlotte, N. A., Hinds, D. A., Huber, K. E., Kleinman, A., Litterman, N. K., McIntyre, M. H., Mountain, J. L., Noblin, E. S., Northover, C. A. M., Pitts, S. J., Sathirapongsasuti, J. Fah, Sazonova, O. V., Shelton, J. F., Shringarpure, S., Tian, C., Tung, J. Y., Vacic, V., Wilson, C. H., Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C. [0000-0003-3714-8386], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Gockel, Ines [0000-0001-7423-713X], Böhmer, Anne [0000-0002-5716-786X], O’Mara, Tracy [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda [0000-0003-1337-7897], Law, Matthew H. [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M. [0000-0002-2603-6509], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Zheng, Wei [0000-0003-1226-070X], Thrift, Aaron P. [0000-0002-0084-5308], Olsen, Catherine [0000-0003-4483-1888], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Webb, Penelope M. [0000-0003-0733-5930], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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631/67/68, 45/43, article, 692/699/67/2195, 692/4028/67/2324
Abstract

Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies on 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and cancer have typically adopted a handful of variants and found no relationship between 25(OH)D and cancer; however, issues of horizontal pleiotropy cannot be reliably addressed. Using a larger set of variants associated with 25(OH)D (74 SNPs, up from 6 previously), we perform a unified MR analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between 25(OH)D and ten cancers. Our findings are broadly consistent with previous MR studies indicating no relationship, apart from ovarian cancers (OR 0.89; 95% C.I: 0.82 to 0.96 per 1 SD change in 25(OH)D concentration) and basal cell carcinoma (OR 1.16; 95% C.I.: 1.04 to 1.28). However, after adjustment for pigmentation related variables in a multivariable MR framework, the BCC findings were attenuated. Here we report that lower 25(OH)D is unlikely to be a causal risk factor for most cancers, with our study providing more precise confidence intervals than previously possible.

Published
2021
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4. A comprehensive re-assessment of the association between vitamin D and cancer susceptibility using Mendelian randomization

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Upekha E Liyanage, Amanda B. Spurdle, K. E. Huber, Anna H. Wu, J. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, Douglas A. Corley, C. Tian, Anne Böhmer, David A. Hinds, A. Auton, Xikun Han, Matt Buas, M. Agee, Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Puya Gharahkhani, Yvonne Romero, S. L. Elson, Ines Gockel, Johannes Schumacher, Leslie Bernstein, Nigel C. Bird, Thomas L. Vaughan, E. S. Noblin, P. Fontanillas, Laura J. Hardie, Brian J. Reid, V. Vacic, M. H. McIntyre, Jiyuan An, Andrew Berchuck, Claire Palles, Weimin Ye, K. Bryc, S. J. Pitts, Jue-Sheng Ong, Geoffrey Liu, R. K. Bell, Rachel E. Neale, Marilie D. Gammon, J. L. Mountain, C. A. M. Northover, Catherine M. Olsen, C. H. Wilson, Janusz Jankowski, Matthew Law, A. Kleinman, Suzanne C. Dixon-Suen, J. Y. Tung, Aaron P. Thrift, Wong-Ho Chow, Paul Pharoah, Jean-Cluade Dusingize, Suyash Shringarpure, Mark M. Iles, Wei Zheng, N. A. Furlotte, Penelope M. Webb, B. Alipanahi, O. V. Sazonova, Stuart MacGregor, David Whiteman, J. F. Shelton, Harvey A. Risch, N. K. Litterman, Tracy A. O'Mara, Nicholas J. Shaheen, Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C [0000-0003-3714-8386], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Gockel, Ines [0000-0001-7423-713X], Böhmer, Anne [0000-0002-5716-786X], O'Mara, Tracy [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda [0000-0003-1337-7897], Law, Matthew H [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M [0000-0002-2603-6509], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Zheng, Wei [0000-0003-1226-070X], Thrift, Aaron P [0000-0002-0084-5308], Olsen, Catherine [0000-0003-4483-1888], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Webb, Penelope M [0000-0003-0733-5930], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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0301 basic medicine, Oncology, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, Sunburn, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, Cancer prevention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cancer epidemiology, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, Neoplasms, Mendelian randomization, Vitamin D and neurology, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 030212 general & internal medicine, Risk factor, Vitamin D, Child, Cancer genetics, Multidisciplinary, business.industry, Pigmentation, Case-control study, Cancer, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Multivariate Analysis, business
Abstract

Previous Mendelian randomization (MR) studies on 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) and cancer have typically adopted a handful of variants and found no relationship between 25(OH)D and cancer; however, issues of horizontal pleiotropy cannot be reliably addressed. Using a larger set of variants associated with 25(OH)D (74 SNPs, up from 6 previously), we perform a unified MR analysis to re-evaluate the relationship between 25(OH)D and ten cancers. Our findings are broadly consistent with previous MR studies indicating no relationship, apart from ovarian cancers (OR 0.89; 95% C.I: 0.82 to 0.96 per 1 SD change in 25(OH)D concentration) and basal cell carcinoma (OR 1.16; 95% C.I.: 1.04 to 1.28). However, after adjustment for pigmentation related variables in a multivariable MR framework, the BCC findings were attenuated. Here we report that lower 25(OH)D is unlikely to be a causal risk factor for most cancers, with our study providing more precise confidence intervals than previously possible., Studies of the genetic association between vitamin D and cancer risk have typically been underpowered. Here the authors analyse this using Mendelian Randomisation with more than 70 vitamin D variants obtained from the UK Biobank and large-scale data from various consortia, confirming null associations between vitamin D and most cancers.

Published
2020

5. Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers

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Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Ellen L. Goode, Mark M. Iles, Brian M. Wolpin, Stephen J. Chanock, Susan L. Slager, Li Hsu, Clare Turnbull, Ccfr, Michael Hoffmeister, Peter T. Campbell, Maria Teresa Landi, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Amber N. Hurson, Melissa L. Bondy, Roger L. Milne, Peter A. Kanetsky, Simon A. Gayther, Christopher A. Haiman, Nicola J. Camp, Mark A. Jenkins, Margaret Wrensch, Bcac, Ulrike Peters, Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, Richard S. Houlston, PanScan, Haoyu Zhang, Christopher I. Amos, Ben Kinnersley, GenoMEL, Florence Demenais, Rosalind A. Eeles, Katherine A. McGlynn, Practical, John K. Wiencke, Gicc, Katherine L. Nathanson, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Brenda M. Birmann, Rayjean J. Hung, Donghui Li, David C. Whiteman, Ghislaine Scelo, Sonja I. Berndt, Alison P. Klein, Sarah V. Ward, Per Hall, D. Timothy Bishop, Tracy A. O'Mara, Kirsten B. Moysich, Corect, Laufey T. Amundadottir, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Ian Tomlinson, Ocac, Yan Zhang, Gloria M. Petersen, Ali Amin Al Olama, Puya Gharahkhani, Deborah J. Thompson, Paul Brennan, Douglas F. Easton, Celeste Leigh Pearce, InterLymph, Jacques Simard, Mark H. Greene, Zsofia Kote-Jarai, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ecac, Marlene Danner Dalgaard, Mark P. Purdue, Beatrice Melin, Graham Casey, Rajesh Kumar, Jenny Chang-Claude, Thomas A. Sellers, Stephen B. Gruber, Beacon, James D. McKay, Tecac, Stephanie L. Schmit, Tom Grotmol, Kyriaki Michailidou, Immaculata De Vivo, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Eric J. Jacobs, Fredrik Wiklund, Amanda B. Spurdle, Nathaniel Rothman, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Peter Kraft, Panc, Renal Cancer Gwas, Neil E. Caporaso, Joe Dennis, Matthew Law, Fredrick R. Schumacher, Harvey A. Risch, Stuart MacGregor, Andrew Berchuck, Ilcco, Oral Cancer Gwas, Zhang, Yan Dora [0000-0002-5302-3690], Hurson, Amber N. [0000-0001-7831-6660], Easton, Douglas F. [0000-0003-2444-3247], Milne, Roger L. [0000-0001-5764-7268], Simard, Jacques [0000-0001-6906-3390], Michailidou, Kyriaki [0000-0001-7065-1237], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Schmidt, Marjanka K. [0000-0002-2228-429X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Whiteman, David [0000-0003-2563-9559], Jenkins, Mark [0000-0002-8964-6160], Peters, Ulrike [0000-0001-5666-9318], Schmit, Stephanie L. [0000-0001-5931-1194], O’Mara, Tracy A. [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda B. [0000-0003-1337-7897], Thompson, Deborah J. [0000-0003-1465-5799], Tomlinson, Ian [0000-0003-3037-1470], Landi, Maria Teresa [0000-0003-4507-329X], Law, Matthew H. [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M. [0000-0002-2603-6509], Demenais, Florence [0000-0001-8361-0936], Kumar, Rajiv [0000-0002-6093-0395], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], Bishop, D. Timothy [0000-0002-8752-8785], Houlston, Richard [0000-0002-5268-0242], Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill [0000-0001-6190-9304], Kinnersley, Ben [0000-0003-1783-6296], Amos, Christopher I. [0000-0002-8540-7023], Hung, Rayjean J. [0000-0002-4486-7496], Brennan, Paul [0000-0002-0518-8714], Birmann, Brenda M. [0000-0002-7550-5498], Camp, Nicola J. [0000-0002-4788-1998], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Pharoah, Paul D. P. [0000-0001-8494-732X], Gayther, Simon A. [0000-0001-7937-5443], Amundadottir, Laufey T. [0000-0003-1859-8971], Jacobs, Eric J. [0000-0002-8458-7659], Klein, Alison P. [0000-0003-2737-8399], Eeles, Rosalind A. [0000-0002-3698-6241], Schumacher, Fredrick R. [0000-0002-3073-7463], Greene, Mark H. [0000-0003-1852-9239], Kanetsky, Peter A. [0000-0002-5567-9618], Nathanson, Katherine L. [0000-0002-6740-0901], Wiklund, Fredrik [0000-0002-4623-0544], Chanock, Stephen J. [0000-0002-2324-3393], Garcia-Closas, Montserrat [0000-0003-1033-2650], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Hurson, Amber N [0000-0001-7831-6660], Easton, Douglas F [0000-0003-2444-3247], Milne, Roger L [0000-0001-5764-7268], Schmidt, Marjanka K [0000-0002-2228-429X], Schmit, Stephanie L [0000-0001-5931-1194], O'Mara, Tracy A [0000-0002-5436-3232], Spurdle, Amanda B [0000-0003-1337-7897], Thompson, Deborah J [0000-0003-1465-5799], Law, Matthew H [0000-0002-4303-8821], Iles, Mark M [0000-0002-2603-6509], Bishop, D Timothy [0000-0002-8752-8785], Amos, Christopher I [0000-0002-8540-7023], Hung, Rayjean J [0000-0002-4486-7496], Birmann, Brenda M [0000-0002-7550-5498], Camp, Nicola J [0000-0002-4788-1998], Pharoah, Paul DP [0000-0001-8494-732X], Gayther, Simon A [0000-0001-7937-5443], Amundadottir, Laufey T [0000-0003-1859-8971], Jacobs, Eric J [0000-0002-8458-7659], Klein, Alison P [0000-0003-2737-8399], Eeles, Rosalind A [0000-0002-3698-6241], Schumacher, Fredrick R [0000-0002-3073-7463], Greene, Mark H [0000-0003-1852-9239], Kanetsky, Peter A [0000-0002-5567-9618], Nathanson, Katherine L [0000-0002-6740-0901], and Chanock, Stephen J [0000-0002-2324-3393]

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, Oncology, Multifactorial Inheritance, 45/43, General Physics and Astronomy, Diseases, Genome-wide association study, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Neoplasms, 631/208/68, lcsh:Science, Cancer genetics, Multidisciplinary, 692/699, Incidence, article, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Medical genetics, Female, Medical Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Internal medicine, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Animals, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Lung cancer, Genetic association, Medicinsk genetik, Cancer och onkologi, Models, Genetic, 45, Cancer, General Chemistry, Heritability, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Sample size determination, Relative risk, Cancer and Oncology, lcsh:Q, Ovarian cancer, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have led to the identification of hundreds of susceptibility loci across cancers, but the impact of further studies remains uncertain. Here we analyse summary-level data from GWAS of European ancestry across fourteen cancer sites to estimate the number of common susceptibility variants (polygenicity) and underlying effect-size distribution. All cancers show a high degree of polygenicity, involving at a minimum of thousands of loci. We project that sample sizes required to explain 80% of GWAS heritability vary from 60,000 cases for testicular to over 1,000,000 cases for lung cancer. The maximum relative risk achievable for subjects at the 99th risk percentile of underlying polygenic risk scores (PRS), compared to average risk, ranges from 12 for testicular to 2.5 for ovarian cancer. We show that PRS have potential for risk stratification for cancers of breast, colon and prostate, but less so for others because of modest heritability and lower incidence., In cancer many gene variants may contribute to disease etiology, but the impact of a given gene variant may have varied effect size. Here, the authors analyse summary statistics of genome-wide association studies from fourteen cancers, and show the utility of polygenic risk scores may vary depending on cancer type.

Published
2020

6. Multi-trait genome-wide association study identifies new loci associated with optic disc parameters

Author

Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM, van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M, Iglesias, Adriana I, Gharahkhani, Puya, Vitart, Veronique, Khawaja, Anthony P, Simcoe, Mark, Hoehn, Rene, Cree, Angela J, Igo, Rob P, Burdon, Kathryn P, Craig, Jamie E, Hewitt, Alex W, Jonas, Jost, Khor, Chiea-Cheun, Pasutto, Francesca, Mackey, David A, Mitchell, Paul, Mishra, Aniket, Pang, Calvin, Pasquale, Louis R, Springelkamp, Henriette, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Viswanathan, Ananth C, Wojciechowski, Robert, Wong, Tien, Young, Terrri L, Zeller, Tanja, Atan, Denize, Aslam, Tariq, Barman, Sarah A, Barrett, Jenny H, Bishop, Paul, Blows, Peter, Bunce, Catey, Carare, Roxana O, Chakravarthy, Usha, Chan, Michelle, Chua, Sharon YL, Crabb, David P, Cumberland, Philippa M, Day, Alexander, Desai, Parul, Dhillon, Bal, Dick, Andrew D, Egan, Cathy, Ennis, Sarah, Foster, Paul, Fruttiger, Marcus, Gallacher, John EJ, Garway, David F, Gibson, Jane, Gore, Dan, Guggenheim, Jeremy A, Hardcastle, Alison, Harding, Simon P, Hogg, Ruth E, Keane, Pearse A, Khaw, Peng T, Lascaratos, Gerassimos, Macgillivray, Tom, Mackie, Sarah, Martin, Keith, McGaughey, Michelle, McGuinness, Bernadette, Mckay, Gareth J, McKibbin, Martin, Mitry, Danny, Moore, Tony, Morgan, James E, Muthy, Zaynah A, O'Sullivan, Eoin, Owen, Chris G, Patel, Praveen, Paterson, Euan, Peto, Tunde, Petzold, Axel, Rahi, Jugnoo S, Rudnikca, Alicja R, Self, Jay, Sivaprasad, Sobha, Steel, David, Stratton, Irene, Strouthidis, Nicholas, Sudlow, Cathie, Thomas, Dhanes, Trucco, Emanuele, Tufail, Adnan, Vernon, Stephen A, Williams, Cathy, Williams, Katie, Woodside, Jayne V, Yates, Max M, Yip, Jennifer, Zheng, Yalin, Allingham, Rand, Budenz, Don, Bailey, Jessica Cooke, Fingert, John, Gaasterland, Douglas, Gaasterland, Teresa, Haines, Jonathan L, Hark, Lisa, Hauser, Michael, Kang, Jae Hee, Kraft, Peter, Lee, Richard, Lichter, Paul, Liu, Yutao, Moroi, Syoko, Pericak, Margaret, Realini, Anthony, Rhee, Doug, Richards, Julia R, Ritch, Robert, Scott, William K, Singh, Kuldev, Sit, Arthur, Vollrath, Douglas, Weinreb, Robert, Wollstein, Gadi, Wilmer, Don Zack, Gerhold-Ay, Aslihan, Nickels, Stefan, Wilson, James F, Hayward, Caroline, Boutin, Thibaud S, Polasek, Ozren, Aung, Tin, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Amin, Najaf, Lotery, Andrew J, Wiggs, Janey L, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Hysi, Pirro G, Hammond, Christopher J, Thiadens, Alberta AHJ, MacGregor, Stuart, Klaver, Caroline CW, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Consortium, Int Glaucoma Genetics, Consortium, Uk Biobank Eye Vision, Consortium, NEIGHBORHOOD, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Genetics, Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM [0000-0001-5154-6765], Iglesias, Adriana I [0000-0001-5532-764X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Vitart, Veronique [0000-0002-4991-3797], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Simcoe, Mark [0000-0003-2432-0810], Nickels, Stefan [0000-0003-0415-2354], Wilson, James F [0000-0001-5751-9178], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Boutin, Thibaud S [0000-0003-4754-1675], Khor, Chiea Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Lotery, Andrew J [0000-0001-5541-4305], Wiggs, Janey L [0000-0003-1890-3278], Cheng, Ching-Yu [0000-0003-0655-885X], Hysi, Pirro G [0000-0001-5752-2510], Hammond, Christopher J [0000-0002-3227-2620], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
genetic structures, Optic disk, Medicine (miscellaneous), Genome-wide association study, Neurodegenerative, Genome-wide association studies, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], 0302 clinical medicine, Optic Nerve Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, 610 Medicine & health, lcsh:QH301-705.5, 0303 health sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Single Nucleotide, medicine.anatomical_structure, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Optic disc, Signal Transduction, Optic Disk, Quantitative Trait Loci, International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, Genetic correlation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Quantitative Trait, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, medicine, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 1000 Genomes Project, Polymorphism, Heritable, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS, METAANALYSIS, GLAUCOMA, EXPRESSION, HERITABILITY, PREVALENCE, STATISTICS, PANEL, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Gene Expression Profiling, Haplotype, Human Genome, Computational Biology, Glaucoma, Molecular Sequence Annotation, eye diseases, lcsh:Biology (General), Evolutionary biology, Case-Control Studies, RE, sense organs, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

A new avenue of mining published genome-wide association studies includes the joint analysis of related traits. The power of this approach depends on the genetic correlation of traits, which reflects the number of pleiotropic loci, i.e. genetic loci influencing multiple traits. Here, we applied new meta-analyses of optic nerve head (ONH) related traits implicated in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG); intraocular pressure and central corneal thickness using Haplotype reference consortium imputations. We performed a multi-trait analysis of ONH parameters cup area, disc area and vertical cup-disc ratio. We uncover new variants; rs11158547 in PPP1R36-PLEKHG3 and rs1028727 near SERPINE3 at genome-wide significance that replicate in independent Asian cohorts imputed to 1000 Genomes. At this point, validation of these variants in POAG cohorts is hampered by the high degree of heterogeneity. Our results show that multi-trait analysis is a valid approach to identify novel pleiotropic variants for ONH., The International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium reports a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of optic disc parameters relevant to primary open-angle glaucoma. They identify two novel variants in PPP1R36-PLEKHG3 and SERPINE3 by multi-trait analysis in European-ancestry cohorts that were replicated in independent Asian cohorts.

Published
2019

7. Gastroesophageal reflux GWAS identifies risk loci that also associate with subsequent severe esophageal diseases

Author

An, Jiyuan, Gharahkhani, Puya, Law, Matthew H., Ong, Jue-Sheng, Han, Xikun, Olsen, Catherine M., Neale, Rachel E., Lai, John, Vaughan, Tom L., Gockel, Ines, Thieme, René, Böhmer, Anne C., Jankowski, Janusz, Fitzgerald, Rebecca C., Schumacher, Johannes, Palles, Claire, Whiteman, David C., MacGregor, Stuart, Gammon, Marilie D., Corley, Douglas A., Shaheen, Nicholas J., Bird, Nigel C., Hardie, Laura J., Murray, Liam J., Reid, Brian J., Chow, Wong-Ho, Risch, Harvey A., Ye, Weimin, Liu, Geoffrey, Romero, Yvonne, Bernstein, Leslie, Wu, Anna H., Agee, M., Alipanahi, B., Auton, A., Bell, R. K., Bryc, K., Elson, S. L., Fontanillas, P., Furlotte, N. A., Hinds, D. A., Huber, K. E., Kleinman, A., Litterman, N. K., McIntyre, M. H., Mountain, J. L., Noblin, E. S., Northover, C. A. M., Pitts, S. J., Sathirapongsasuti, J. Fah, Sazonova, O. V., Shelton, J. F., Shringarpure, S., Tian, C., Tung, J. Y., Vacic, V., Wilson, C. H., Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Law, Matthew H. [0000-0002-4303-8821], Ong, Jue-Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Olsen, Catherine M. [0000-0003-4483-1888], Böhmer, Anne C. [0000-0002-5716-786X], Fitzgerald, Rebecca C. [0000-0002-3434-3568], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
631/67/1504/1477, 631/208/205/2138, 45/43, article, 38/39, 631/208/68, 692/699/1503/1476/196, health care economics and organizations, humanities, digestive system diseases
Abstract

Funder: The Swedish Esophageal Cancer Study was funded by grants (R01 CA57947-03) from the National Cancer Institute he California Tobacco Related Research Program (3RT-0122; and; 10RT-0251) Marit Peterson Fund for Melanoma Research. CIDR is supported by contract HHSN268200782096C, Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is caused by gastric acid entering the esophagus. GERD has high prevalence and is the major risk factor for Barrett’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA). We conduct a large GERD GWAS meta-analysis (80,265 cases, 305,011 controls), identifying 25 independent genome-wide significant loci for GERD. Several of the implicated genes are existing or putative drug targets. Loci discovery is greatest with a broad GERD definition (including cases defined by self-report or medication data). Further, 91% of the GERD risk-increasing alleles also increase BE and/or EA risk, greatly expanding gene discovery for these traits. Our results map genes for GERD and related traits and uncover potential new drug targets for these conditions.

Published
2019

8. Genome-wide association meta-analysis highlights light-induced signaling as a driver for refractive error

Author

Tedja, MS, Wojciechowski, R, Hysi, PG, Eriksson, N, Furlotte, NA, Verhoeven, VJM, Iglesias, AI, Meester-Smoor, MA, Tompson, SW, Fan, Q, Khawaja, AP, Cheng, C-Y, Höhn, R, Yamashiro, K, Wenocur, A, Grazal, C, Haller, T, Metspalu, A, Wedenoja, J, Jonas, JB, Wang, YX, Xie, J, Mitchell, P, Foster, PJ, Klein, BEK, Klein, R, Paterson, AD, Hosseini, SM, Shah, RL, Williams, C, Teo, YY, Tham, YC, Gupta, P, Zhao, W, Shi, Y, Saw, W-Y, Tai, E-S, Sim, XL, Huffman, JE, Polašek, O, Hayward, C, Bencic, G, Rudan, I, Wilson, JF, Consortium, Cream, Team, 23Andme Research, Consortium, Uk Biobank Eye And Vision, Joshi, PK, Tsujikawa, A, Matsuda, F, Whisenhunt, KN, Zeller, T, Van Der Spek, PJ, Haak, R, Meijers-Heijboer, H, Van Leeuwen, EM, Iyengar, SK, Lass, JH, Hofman, A, Rivadeneira, F, Uitterlinden, AG, Vingerling, JR, Lehtimäki, T, Raitakari, OT, Biino, G, Concas, MP, Schwantes-An, T-H, Igo, RP, Cuellar-Partida, G, Martin, NG, Craig, JE, Gharahkhani, P, Williams, KM, Nag, A, Rahi, JS, Cumberland, PM, Delcourt, C, Bellenguez, C, Ried, JS, Bergen, AA, Meitinger, T, Gieger, C, Wong, TY, Hewitt, AW, Mackey, DA, Simpson, CL, Pfeiffer, N, Pärssinen, O, Baird, PN, Vitart, V, Amin, N, Van Duijn, CM, Bailey-Wilson, JE, Young, TL, Saw, S-M, Stambolian, D, Macgregor, S, Guggenheim, JA, Tung, JY, Hammond, CJ, Klaver, CCW, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Pediatric surgery, Tedja, Milly S [0000-0003-0356-9684], Hysi, Pirro G [0000-0001-5752-2510], Verhoeven, Virginie JM [0000-0001-7359-7862], Iglesias, Adriana I [0000-0001-5532-764X], Tompson, Stuart W [0000-0001-9788-6730], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Yamashiro, Kenji [0000-0001-9354-8558], Wedenoja, Juho [0000-0002-6155-0378], Jonas, Jost B [0000-0003-2972-5227], Wang, Ya Xing [0000-0003-2749-7793], Foster, Paul J [0000-0002-4755-177X], Klein, Ronald [0000-0002-4428-6237], Shah, Rupal L [0000-0001-8789-8869], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Rudan, Igor [0000-0001-6993-6884], Wilson, James F [0000-0001-5751-9178], Joshi, Peter K [0000-0002-6361-5059], Whisenhunt, Kristina N [0000-0003-2412-7666], Rivadeneira, Fernando [0000-0001-9435-9441], Biino, Ginevra [0000-0002-9936-946X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Williams, Katie M [0000-0003-4596-3938], Delcourt, Cécile [0000-0002-2099-0481], Bellenguez, Céline [0000-0002-1240-7874], Hewitt, Alex W [0000-0002-5123-5999], Baird, Paul N [0000-0002-1305-3502], Bailey-Wilson, Joan E [0000-0002-9153-2920], Young, Terri L [0000-0001-6994-9941], Guggenheim, Jeremy A [0000-0001-5164-340X], Hammond, Christopher J [0000-0002-3227-2620], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Genetics, Pathology, Internal Medicine, Graduate School, Human Genetics, Experimental Immunology, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, and ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, Cell type, ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/MICRA, In silico, taittovirheet, Genome-wide association study, Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Biology, Blindness, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Article, Retina, White People, 03 medical and health sciences, HIGH-GRADE MYOPIA, RETINAL-PIGMENT EPITHELIUM, SEROTONIN PATHWAY GENES, FORM-DEPRIVATION MYOPIA, COMMON VARIANTS, OCULAR GROWTH, RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, MISSENSE MUTATIONS, DOPAMINE-RECEPTORS, Asian People, refractive errors, Retinitis pigmentosa, Genetics, medicine, Myopia, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 610 Medicine & health, Regulation of gene expression, Retinal pigment epithelium, medicine.disease, Refractive Errors, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, Gene Expression Regulation, genetic factors, Eye disorder, Female, sense organs, geneettiset tekijät, Neuroscience, Genome-Wide Association Study, Signal Transduction
Abstract

Skin affections after sulfur mustard (SM) exposure include erythema, blister formation and severe inflammation. An antidote or specific therapy does not exist. Anti-inflammatory compounds as well as substances counteracting SM-induced cell death are under investigation. In this study, we investigated the benzylisoquinoline alkaloide berberine (BER), a metabolite in plants like berberis vulgaris, which is used as herbal pharmaceutical in Asian countries, against SM toxicity using a well-established in vitro approach. Keratinocyte (HaCaT) mono-cultures (MoC) or HaCaT/THP-1 co-cultures (CoC) were challenged with 100, 200 or 300 mM SM for 1 h. Post-exposure, both MoC and CoC were treated with 10, 30 or 50 mu M BER for 24 h. At that time, supernatants were collected and analyzed both for interleukine (IL) 6 and 8 levels and for content of adenylate-kinase (AK) as surrogate marker for cell necrosis. Cells were lysed and nucleosome formation as marker for late apoptosis was assessed. In parallel, AK in cells was determined for normalization purposes. BER treatment did not influence necrosis, but significantly decreased apoptosis. Anti-inflammatory effects were moderate, but also significant, primarily in CoC. Overall, BER has protective effects against SM toxicity in vitro. Whether this holds true should be evaluated in future in vivo studies.

Published
2018

9. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

Author

Nicholas G. Martin, René Höhn, Paul Mitchell, Gavin Band, Pamela Whittaker, Michelle Ricketts, Pirro G. Hysi, Jenefer M. Blackwell, Grant W. Montgomery, Elena Rochtchina, Manfred E. Beutel, Richard A. Mills, Anna Rautanen, Alagurevathi Jayakumar, Colin Freeman, Stephen Sawcer, Stuart MacGregor, Irene Schmidtmann, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Nicholas W. Wood, Sayoko E. Moroi, Jonathan L. Haines, Aniket Mishra, Ananth C. Viswanathan, Jie Jin Wang, Donald L. Budenz, Seyhan Yazar, Janey L. Wiggs, Garrett Hellenthal, Kathryn P. Burdon, Jerome I. Rotter, Jamie E Craig, Puya Gharahkhani, Juan P. Casas, R. Rand Allingham, Jost B. Jonas, Ozren Polasek, Julia E. Richards, Sarah Edkins, Rodney J. Scott, Abhishek Nag, Tanja Zeller, Rhian Gwilliam, Chris C. A. Spencer, David S. Friedman, Adriana I Iglesias, Radhi Ravindrarajah, Kent D. Taylor, Caroline Hayward, Eleni Giannoulatou, David A. Mackey, Michael A. Hauser, Paul J. Foster, Emma Gray, Audrey Duncanson, Yih Chung Tham, Murray H. Brilliant, Ching-Yu Cheng, William K. Scott, Robert N. Weinreb, Hugh S. Markus, Xueling Sim, David S. Siscovick, Matti Pirinen, John H. Fingert, Yelena Bykhovskaya, Louis R. Pasquale, Peter Donnelly, Donald J. Zack, Kuldev Singh, Cordelia Langford, Zhan Su, Céline Bellenguez, Joel S. Schuman, Peter Kraft, Christopher G. Mathew, Hannah Blackburn, Sara Widaa, Yuan Shi, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, André G. Uitterlinden, Naomi Hammond, Panos Deloukas, Richard K. Lee, Robert Plomin, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Jae H. Kang, John Attia, Yutao Liu, Simon C. Potter, Jennifer Liddle, Matthew Gillman, Alex W. Hewitt, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, James F. Wilson, Tien Yin Wong, Elvira Bramon, Janusz Jankowski, Henriët Springelkamp, Sarah E. Hunt, Anthony P Khawaja, Veronique Vitart, Xiaohui Li, Pieter W.M. Bonnemaijer, Damjan Vukcevic, Paul R. Lichter, Aiden Corvin, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Matthew Waller, Caroline C W Klaver, Douglas E. Gaasterland, Terry Gaasterland, Norbert Pfeiffer, Douglas Vollrath, Anthony Realini, Eranga N. Vithana, Gadi Wollstein, Thibaud Boutin, Owen T. McCann, Paul A. Weston, Lisa S. Kearns, Inês Barroso, Richard G. Pearson, Christopher J Hammond, Colin N. A. Palmer, Michael Inouye, Chiea Chuen Khor, Stephanie Loomis, Sandra E Staffieri, Yaron S. Rabinowitz, Richard C. Trembath, Tin Aung, William G. Christen, Paul N. Baird, Jing Xie, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Serge Dronov, Arthur J. Sit, Colin E. Willoughby, Kang Zhang, Matthew A. Brown, Suzannah Bumpstead, Amy Strange, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Clinical Genetics, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Experimental Immunology, Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Iglesias, Adriana I [0000-0001-5532-764X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Bailey, Jessica N Cooke [0000-0002-4001-8702], Li, Xiaohui [0000-0002-5037-3572], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Haines, Jonathan L [0000-0002-4351-4728], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Bonnemaijer, Pieter [0000-0001-5154-6765], Staffieri, Sandra E [0000-0003-3131-9359], Jonas, Jost B [0000-0003-2972-5227], Kang, Jae H [0000-0003-4812-0557], Wilson, James F [0000-0001-5751-9178], Foster, Paul J [0000-0002-4755-177X], Hysi, Pirro G [0000-0001-5752-2510], Hewitt, Alex W [0000-0002-5123-5999], Khor, Chiea Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Pasquale, Louis R [0000-0002-5835-3496], Montgomery, Grant W [0000-0002-4140-8139], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], Hammond, Christopher J [0000-0002-3227-2620], Wiggs, Janey L [0000-0003-1890-3278], Burdon, Kathryn P [0000-0001-8217-1249], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Lumican, Candidate gene, genetic structures, Fibrillin-1, Gene Expression, General Physics and Astronomy, Glaucoma, Genome-wide association study, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Corneal Diseases, Marfan Syndrome, Cornea, ADAMTS Proteins, 0302 clinical medicine, Myopia, lcsh:Science, Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Eye Diseases, Hereditary, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Proteoglycans, Decorin, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Keratoconus, Science, Quantitative Trait Loci, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Transforming Growth Factor beta2, 03 medical and health sciences, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Asian People, medicine, Humans, CHROMATIN STATES, GENE-EXPRESSION, RISK-FACTOR, MUTATIONS, LUMICAN, MOUSE, KERATOCONUS, DECORIN, POLYMORPHISMS, HERITABILITY, [SDV.MHEP.OS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Sensory Organs, Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, [SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], Genome, Human, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, eye diseases, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, lcsh:Q, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, sense organs, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait associated with complex eye diseases such as keratoconus and glaucoma. We perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis of CCT and identify 19 novel regions. In addition to adding support for known connective tissue-related pathways, pathway analyses uncover previously unreported gene sets. Remarkably, >20% of the CCT-loci are near or within Mendelian disorder genes. These included FBN1, ADAMTS2 and TGFB2 which associate with connective tissue disorders (Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos and Loeys-Dietz syndromes), and the LUM-DCN-KERA gene complex involved in myopia, corneal dystrophies and cornea plana. Using index CCT-increasing variants, we find a significant inverse correlation in effect sizes between CCT and keratoconus (r = −0.62, P = 5.30 × 10−5) but not between CCT and primary open-angle glaucoma (r = −0.17, P = 0.2). Our findings provide evidence for shared genetic influences between CCT and keratoconus, and implicate candidate genes acting in collagen and extracellular matrix regulation.

Published
2018

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