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1. AACLiteNet: A Lightweight Model for Detection of Fine-Grained Abdominal Aortic Calcification

Author

Ilyas, Zaid, Saleem, Afsah, Suter, David, Reid, Siobhan, Schousboe, John, Leslie, William, Lewis, Joshua, and Gilani, Syed Zulqarnain

Subjects
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Abstract

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, taking 17.9 million lives annually. Abdominal Aortic Calcification (AAC) is an established marker for CVD, which can be observed in lateral view Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) scans, usually done for vertebral fracture detection. Early detection of AAC may help reduce the risk of developing clinical CVDs by encouraging preventive measures. Manual analysis of VFA scans for AAC measurement is time consuming and requires trained human assessors. Recently, efforts have been made to automate the process, however, the proposed models are either low in accuracy, lack granular level score prediction, or are too heavy in terms of inference time and memory footprint. Considering all these shortcomings of existing algorithms, we propose 'AACLiteNet', a lightweight deep learning model that predicts both cumulative and granular level AAC scores with high accuracy, and also has a low memory footprint, and computation cost (Floating Point Operations (FLOPs)). The AACLiteNet achieves a significantly improved one-vs-rest average accuracy of 85.94% as compared to the previous best 81.98%, with 19.88 times less computational cost and 2.26 times less memory footprint, making it implementable on portable computing devices., Comment: 10 pages including references

Published
2024

4. Can AI Understand Human Personality? -- Comparing Human Experts and AI Systems at Predicting Personality Correlations

Author

Schoenegger, Philipp, Greenberg, Spencer, Grishin, Alexander, Lewis, Joshua, and Caviola, Lucius

Subjects
Computer Science - Computers and Society, K.4.0, J.4
Abstract

We test the abilities of specialised deep neural networks like PersonalityMap as well as general LLMs like GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus in understanding human personality. Specifically, we compare their ability to predict correlations between personality items to the abilities of lay people and academic experts. We find that when compared with individual humans, all AI models make better predictions than the vast majority of lay people and academic experts. However, when selecting the median prediction for each item, we find a different pattern: Experts and PersonalityMap outperform LLMs and lay people on most measures. Our results suggest that while frontier LLMs' are better than most individual humans at predicting correlations between personality items, specialised models like PersonalityMap continue to match or exceed expert human performance even on some outcome measures where LLMs underperform. This provides evidence both in favour of the general capabilities of large language models and in favour of the continued place for specialised models trained and deployed for specific domains., Comment: 45 pages, 6 figures

Published
2024

5. Exploring Multiscale Quantum Media: High-Precision Efficient Numerical Solution of the Fractional Schr\'odinger equation, Eigenfunctions with Physical Potentials, and Fractionally-Enhanced Quantum Tunneling

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Lewis, Joshua M. and Carr, Lincoln D.

Subjects
Quantum Physics
Abstract

Fractional evolution equations lack generally accessible and well-converged codes excepting anomalous diffusion. A particular equation of strong interest to the growing intersection of applied mathematics and quantum information science and technology is the fractional Schr\"odinger equation, which describes sub-and super-dispersive behavior of quantum wavefunctions induced by multiscale media. We derive a computationally efficient sixth-order split-step numerical method to converge the eigenfunctions of the FSE to arbitrary numerical precision for arbitrary fractional order derivative. We demonstrate applications of this code to machine precision for classic quantum problems such as the finite well and harmonic oscillator, which take surprising twists due to the non-local nature of the fractional derivative. For example, the evanescent wave tails in the finite well take a Mittag-Leffer-like form which decay much slower than the well-known exponential from integer-order derivative wave theories, enhancing penetration into the barrier and therefore quantum tunneling rates. We call this effect \emph{fractionally enhanced quantum tunneling}. This work includes an open source code for communities from quantum experimentalists to applied mathematicians to easily and efficiently explore the solutions of the fractional Schr\"odinger equation in a wide variety of practical potentials for potential realization in quantum tunneling enhancement and other quantum applications.

Published
2024

7. Determinants of mosaic chromosomal alteration fitness.

Author

Pershad, Yash, Mack, Taralynn, Poisner, Hannah, Jakubek, Yasminka, Stilp, Adrienne, Mitchell, Braxton, Lewis, Joshua, Boerwinkle, Eric, Loos, Ruth, Chami, Nathalie, Wang, Zhe, Barnes, Kathleen, Pankratz, Nathan, Fornage, Myriam, Redline, Susan, Psaty, Bruce, Bis, Joshua, Shojaie, Ali, Silverman, Edwin, Cho, Michael, Yun, Jeong, DeMeo, Dawn, Levy, Daniel, Johnson, Andrew, Mathias, Rasika, Taub, Margaret, Arnett, Donna, North, Kari, Raffield, Laura, Carson, April, Doyle, Margaret, Rich, Stephen, Guo, Xiuqing, Cox, Nancy, Roden, Dan, Franceschini, Nora, Desai, Pinkal, Reiner, Alex, Auer, Paul, Scheet, Paul, Jaiswal, Siddhartha, Weinstock, Joshua, Bick, Alexander, and Rotter, Jerome

Subjects
Humans, Mosaicism, Chromosome Aberrations, Clonal Hematopoiesis, Male, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Janus Kinase 2, Telomerase, Loss of Heterozygosity, Cross-Sectional Studies, Mutation, Middle Aged, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Aged
Abstract

Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) is characterized by the acquisition of a somatic mutation in a hematopoietic stem cell that results in a clonal expansion. These driver mutations can be single nucleotide variants in cancer driver genes or larger structural rearrangements called mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs). The factors that influence the variations in mCA fitness and ultimately result in different clonal expansion rates are not well understood. We used the Passenger-Approximated Clonal Expansion Rate (PACER) method to estimate clonal expansion rate as PACER scores for 6,381 individuals in the NHLBI TOPMed cohort with gain, loss, and copy-neutral loss of heterozygosity mCAs. Our mCA fitness estimates, derived by aggregating per-individual PACER scores, were correlated (R2 = 0.49) with an alternative approach that estimated fitness of mCAs in the UK Biobank using population-level distributions of clonal fraction. Among individuals with JAK2 V617F clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential or mCAs affecting the JAK2 gene on chromosome 9, PACER score was strongly correlated with erythrocyte count. In a cross-sectional analysis, genome-wide association study of estimates of mCA expansion rate identified a TCL1A locus variant associated with mCA clonal expansion rate, with suggestive variants in NRIP1 and TERT.

Published
2024

8. SCOL: Supervised Contrastive Ordinal Loss for Abdominal Aortic Calcification Scoring on Vertebral Fracture Assessment Scans

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Saleem, Afsah, Ilyas, Zaid, Suter, David, Hassan, Ghulam Mubashar, Reid, Siobhan, Schousboe, John T., Prince, Richard, Leslie, William D., Lewis, Joshua R., and Gilani, Syed Zulqarnain

Subjects
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Abstract

Abdominal Aortic Calcification (AAC) is a known marker of asymptomatic Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases (ASCVDs). AAC can be observed on Vertebral Fracture Assessment (VFA) scans acquired using Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) machines. Thus, the automatic quantification of AAC on VFA DXA scans may be used to screen for CVD risks, allowing early interventions. In this research, we formulate the quantification of AAC as an ordinal regression problem. We propose a novel Supervised Contrastive Ordinal Loss (SCOL) by incorporating a label-dependent distance metric with existing supervised contrastive loss to leverage the ordinal information inherent in discrete AAC regression labels. We develop a Dual-encoder Contrastive Ordinal Learning (DCOL) framework that learns the contrastive ordinal representation at global and local levels to improve the feature separability and class diversity in latent space among the AAC-24 genera. We evaluate the performance of the proposed framework using two clinical VFA DXA scan datasets and compare our work with state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, for predicted AAC scores, we provide a clinical analysis to predict the future risk of a Major Acute Cardiovascular Event (MACE). Our results demonstrate that this learning enhances inter-class separability and strengthens intra-class consistency, which results in predicting the high-risk AAC classes with high sensitivity and high accuracy., Comment: Accepted in conference MICCAI 2023

Published
2023

9. Mosaic chromosomal alterations in blood across ancestries using whole-genome sequencing.

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Jakubek, Yasminka, Zhou, Ying, Stilp, Adrienne, Bacon, Jason, Wong, Justin, Ozcan, Zuhal, Arnett, Donna, Barnes, Kathleen, Bis, Joshua, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brody, Jennifer, Carson, April, Chasman, Daniel, Chen, Jiawen, Cho, Michael, Conomos, Matthew, Cox, Nancy, Doyle, Margaret, Fornage, Myriam, Guo, Xiuqing, Kardia, Sharon, Lewis, Joshua, Loos, Ruth, Ma, Xiaolong, Machiela, Mitchell, Mack, Taralynn, Mathias, Rasika, Mitchell, Braxton, Mychaleckyj, Josyf, North, Kari, Pankratz, Nathan, Peyser, Patricia, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce, Raffield, Laura, Vasan, Ramachandran, Redline, Susan, Rich, Stephen, Silverman, Edwin, Smith, Jennifer, Smith, Aaron, Taub, Margaret, Taylor, Kent, Yun, Jeong, Li, Yun, Desai, Pinkal, Bick, Alexander, Reiner, Alexander, Scheet, Paul, Auer, Paul, and Rotter, Jerome

Subjects
Humans, Black People, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hispanic or Latino, Precision Medicine, Mosaicism, Genome, Human
Abstract

Megabase-scale mosaic chromosomal alterations (mCAs) in blood are prognostic markers for a host of human diseases. Here, to gain a better understanding of mCA rates in genetically diverse populations, we analyzed whole-genome sequencing data from 67,390 individuals from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program. We observed higher sensitivity with whole-genome sequencing data, compared with array-based data, in uncovering mCAs at low mutant cell fractions and found that individuals of European ancestry have the highest rates of autosomal mCAs and the lowest rates of chromosome X mCAs, compared with individuals of African or Hispanic ancestry. Although further studies in diverse populations will be needed to replicate our findings, we report three loci associated with loss of chromosome X, associations between autosomal mCAs and rare variants in DCPS, ADM17, PPP1R16B and TET2 and ancestry-specific variants in ATM and MPL with mCAs in cis.

Published
2023

10. Impact of provision of abdominal aortic calcification results on fruit and vegetable intake: 12-week randomized phase 2 controlled trial

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Radavelli-Bagatini, Simone, Bondonno, Catherine P., Dalla Via, Jack, Sim, Marc, Gebre, Abadi K., Blekkenhorst, Lauren C., Connolly, Emma L., Bondonno, Nicola P., Schousboe, John T., Woodman, Richard J., Zhu, Kun, Mullin, Shelby, Szulc, Pawel, Jackson, Ben, Dimmock, James, Schlaich, Markus P., Cox, Kay L., Kiel, Douglas P., Lim, Wai H., Stanley, Mandy, Devine, Amanda, Thompson, Peter L., Williams, Evan J., Wood, Lisa G., Sim, Moira, Daly, Robin M., Hodgson, Jonathan M., and Lewis, Joshua R.

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2024
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11. Cruciferous vegetables lower blood pressure in adults with mildly elevated blood pressure in a randomized, controlled, crossover trial: the VEgetableS for vaScular hEaLth (VESSEL) study

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Connolly, Emma L., Liu, Alex H., Radavelli-Bagatini, Simone, Shafaei, Armaghan, Boyce, Mary C., Wood, Lisa G., McCahon, Lyn, Koch, Henrietta, Sim, Marc, Hill, Caroline R., Parmenter, Benjamin H., Bondonno, Nicola P., Devine, Amanda, Croft, Kevin D., Mithen, Richard, Gan, Seng Khee, Schultz, Carl J., Woodman, Richard J., Bondonno, Catherine P., Lewis, Joshua R., Hodgson, Jonathan M., and Blekkenhorst, Lauren C.

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2024
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12. Rab4A-directed endosome traffic shapes pro-inflammatory mitochondrial metabolism in T cells via mitophagy, CD98 expression, and kynurenine-sensitive mTOR activation

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Huang, Nick, Winans, Thomas, Wyman, Brandon, Oaks, Zachary, Faludi, Tamas, Choudhary, Gourav, Lai, Zhi-Wei, Lewis, Joshua, Beckford, Miguel, Duarte, Manuel, Krakko, Daniel, Patel, Akshay, Park, Joy, Caza, Tiffany, Sadeghzadeh, Mahsa, Morel, Laurence, Haas, Mark, Middleton, Frank, Banki, Katalin, and Perl, Andras

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2024
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14. A Hybrid CNN-Transformer Feature Pyramid Network for Granular Abdominal Aortic Calcification Detection from DXA Images

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Ilyas, Zaid, Saleem, Afsah, Suter, David, Schousboe, John T., Leslie, William D., Lewis, Joshua R., Gilani, Syed Zulqarnain, Goos, Gerhard, Series Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Linguraru, Marius George, editor, Dou, Qi, editor, Feragen, Aasa, editor, Giannarou, Stamatia, editor, Glocker, Ben, editor, Lekadir, Karim, editor, and Schnabel, Julia A., editor

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2024
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15. The genetic determinants of recurrent somatic mutations in 43,693 blood genomes

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Weinstock, Joshua S, Laurie, Cecelia A, Broome, Jai G, Taylor, Kent D, Guo, Xiuqing, Shuldiner, Alan R, O’Connell, Jeffrey R, Lewis, Joshua P, Boerwinkle, Eric, Barnes, Kathleen C, Chami, Nathalie, Kenny, Eimear E, Loos, Ruth JF, Fornage, Myriam, Redline, Susan, Cade, Brian E, Gilliland, Frank D, Chen, Zhanghua, Gauderman, W James, Kumar, Rajesh, Grammer, Leslie, Schleimer, Robert P, Psaty, Bruce M, Bis, Joshua C, Brody, Jennifer A, Silverman, Edwin K, Yun, Jeong H, Qiao, Dandi, Weiss, Scott T, Lasky-Su, Jessica, DeMeo, Dawn L, Palmer, Nicholette D, Freedman, Barry I, Bowden, Donald W, Cho, Michael H, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Johnson, Andrew D, Yanek, Lisa R, Becker, Lewis C, Kardia, Sharon, He, Jiang, Kaplan, Robert, Heckbert, Susan R, Smith, Nicholas L, Wiggins, Kerri L, Arnett, Donna K, Irvin, Marguerite R, Tiwari, Hemant, Correa, Adolfo, Raffield, Laura M, Gao, Yan, de Andrade, Mariza, Rotter, Jerome I, Rich, Stephen S, Manichaikul, Ani W, Konkle, Barbara A, Johnsen, Jill M, Wheeler, Marsha M, Custer, Brian S, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Curran, Joanne E, Blangero, John, Gui, Hongsheng, Xiao, Shujie, Williams, L Keoki, Meyers, Deborah A, Li, Xingnan, Ortega, Victor, McGarvey, Stephen, Gu, C Charles, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Lee, Wen-Jane, Shoemaker, M Benjamin, Darbar, Dawood, Roden, Dan, Albert, Christine, Kooperberg, Charles, Desai, Pinkal, Blackwell, Thomas W, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Smith, Albert V, Kang, Hyun M, Mathias, Rasika, Natarajan, Pradeep, Jaiswal, Siddhartha, Reiner, Alexander P, Bick, Alexander G, and Consortium, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine

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Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Lung, Genetic Testing, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Good Health and Well Being, Humans, Middle Aged, Hematopoiesis, Mutation, Germ-Line Mutation, Mutation, Missense, Phenotype, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium
Abstract

Nononcogenic somatic mutations are thought to be uncommon and inconsequential. To test this, we analyzed 43,693 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine blood whole genomes from 37 cohorts and identified 7131 non-missense somatic mutations that are recurrently mutated in at least 50 individuals. These recurrent non-missense somatic mutations (RNMSMs) are not clearly explained by other clonal phenomena such as clonal hematopoiesis. RNMSM prevalence increased with age, with an average 50-year-old having 27 RNMSMs. Inherited germline variation associated with RNMSM acquisition. These variants were found in genes involved in adaptive immune function, proinflammatory cytokine production, and lymphoid lineage commitment. In addition, the presence of eight specific RNMSMs associated with blood cell traits at effect sizes comparable to Mendelian genetic mutations. Overall, we found that somatic mutations in blood are an unexpectedly common phenomenon with ancestry-specific determinants and human health consequences.

Published
2023

16. Aberrant activation of TCL1A promotes stem cell expansion in clonal haematopoiesis.

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Weinstock, Joshua, Gopakumar, Jayakrishnan, Burugula, Bala, Uddin, Md, Jahn, Nikolaus, Belk, Julia, Bouzid, Hind, Daniel, Bence, Miao, Zhuang, Ly, Nghi, Mack, Taralynn, Luna, Sofia, Prothro, Katherine, Mitchell, Shaneice, Laurie, Cecelia, Broome, Jai, Taylor, Kent, Guo, Xiuqing, Sinner, Moritz, von Falkenhausen, Aenne, Kääb, Stefan, Shuldiner, Alan, OConnell, Jeffrey, Lewis, Joshua, Boerwinkle, Eric, Barnes, Kathleen, Chami, Nathalie, Kenny, Eimear, Loos, Ruth, Fornage, Myriam, Hou, Lifang, Lloyd-Jones, Donald, Redline, Susan, Cade, Brian, Psaty, Bruce, Bis, Joshua, Brody, Jennifer, Silverman, Edwin, Yun, Jeong, Qiao, Dandi, Palmer, Nicholette, Freedman, Barry, Bowden, Donald, Cho, Michael, DeMeo, Dawn, Vasan, Ramachandran, Yanek, Lisa, Becker, Lewis, Kardia, Sharon, Peyser, Patricia, He, Jiang, Rienstra, Michiel, Van der Harst, Pim, Kaplan, Robert, Heckbert, Susan, Smith, Nicholas, Wiggins, Kerri, Arnett, Donna, Irvin, Marguerite, Tiwari, Hemant, Cutler, Michael, Knight, Stacey, Muhlestein, J, Correa, Adolfo, Raffield, Laura, Gao, Yan, de Andrade, Mariza, Rotter, Jerome, Rich, Stephen, Tracy, Russell, Konkle, Barbara, Johnsen, Jill, Wheeler, Marsha, Smith, J, Melander, Olle, Nilsson, Peter, Custer, Brian, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Curran, Joanne, Blangero, John, McGarvey, Stephen, Williams, L, Xiao, Shujie, Yang, Mao, Gu, C, Chen, Yii-Der, Lee, Wen-Jane, Kane, John, Pullinger, Clive, Shoemaker, M, Darbar, Dawood, Roden, Dan, Albert, Christine, Kooperberg, Charles, Zhou, Ying, Manson, JoAnn, Desai, Pinkal, Johnson, Andrew, Mathias, Rasika, and Blackwell, Thomas

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Animals, Humans, Mice, Alleles, Clonal Hematopoiesis, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hematopoiesis, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Mutation, Promoter Regions, Genetic
Abstract

Mutations in a diverse set of driver genes increase the fitness of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), leading to clonal haematopoiesis1. These lesions are precursors for blood cancers2-6, but the basis of their fitness advantage remains largely unknown, partly owing to a paucity of large cohorts in which the clonal expansion rate has been assessed by longitudinal sampling. Here, to circumvent this limitation, we developed a method to infer the expansion rate from data from a single time point. We applied this method to 5,071 people with clonal haematopoiesis. A genome-wide association study revealed that a common inherited polymorphism in the TCL1A promoter was associated with a slower expansion rate in clonal haematopoiesis overall, but the effect varied by driver gene. Those carrying this protective allele exhibited markedly reduced growth rates or prevalence of clones with driver mutations in TET2, ASXL1, SF3B1 and SRSF2, but this effect was not seen in clones with driver mutations in DNMT3A. TCL1A was not expressed in normal or DNMT3A-mutated HSCs, but the introduction of mutations in TET2 or ASXL1 led to the expression of TCL1A protein and the expansion of HSCs in vitro. The protective allele restricted TCL1A expression and expansion of mutant HSCs, as did experimental knockdown of TCL1A expression. Forced expression of TCL1A promoted the expansion of human HSCs in vitro and mouse HSCs in vivo. Our results indicate that the fitness advantage of several commonly mutated driver genes in clonal haematopoiesis may be mediated by TCL1A activation.

Published
2023

18. A genetic association study of circulating coagulation factor VIII and von Willebrand factor levels

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Abe, Namiko, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Aguet, Francois, Albert, Christine, Almasy, Laura, Alonso, Alvaro, Ament, Seth, Anderson, Peter, Anugu, Pramod, Applebaum-Bowden, Deborah, Ardlie, Kristin, Arking, Dan, Arnett, Donna K, Ashley-Koch, Allison, Aslibekyan, Stella, Assimes, Tim, Auer, Paul, Avramopoulos, Dimitrios, Ayas, Najib, Balasubramanian, Adithya, Barnard, John, Barnes, Kathleen, Barr, R. Graham, Barron-Casella, Emily, Barwick, Lucas, Beaty, Terri, Beck, Gerald, Becker, Diane, Becker, Lewis, Beer, Rebecca, Beitelshees, Amber, Benjamin, Emelia, Benos, Takis, Bezerra, Marcos, Bielak, Larry, Bis, Joshua, Blackwell, Thomas, Blangero, John, Blue, Nathan, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bowden, Donald W., Bowler, Russell, Brody, Jennifer, Broeckel, Ulrich, Broome, Jai, Brown, Deborah, Bunting, Karen, Burchard, Esteban, Bustamante, Carlos, Buth, Erin, Cade, Brian, Cardwell, Jonathan, Carey, Vincent, Carrier, Julie, Carson, April P., Carty, Cara, Casaburi, Richard, Casas Romero, Juan P, Casella, James, Castaldi, Peter, Chaffin, Mark, Chang, Christy, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chasman, Daniel, Chavan, Sameer, Chen, Bo-Juen, Chen, Wei-Min, Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Cho, Michael, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Chung, Mina, Chung, Ren-Hua, Clish, Clary, Comhair, Suzy, Conomos, Matthew, Cornell, Elaine, Correa, Adolfo, Crandall, Carolyn, Crapo, James, Cupples, L. Adrienne, Curran, Joanne, Curtis, Jeffrey, Custer, Brian, Damcott, Coleen, Darbar, Dawood, David, Sean, Davis, Colleen, Daya, Michelle, de Andrade, Mariza, de las Fuentes, Lisa, de Vries, Paul, DeBaun, Michael, Deka, Ranjan, DeMeo, Dawn, Devine, Scott, Dinh, Huyen, Doddapaneni, Harsha, Duan, Qing, Dugan-Perez, Shannon, Duggirala, Ravi, Durda, Jon Peter, Dutcher, Susan K., Eaton, Charles, Ekunwe, Lynette, El Boueiz, Adel, Ellinor, Patrick, Emery, Leslie, Erzurum, Serpil, Farber, Charles, Farek, Jesse, Fingerlin, Tasha, Flickinger, Matthew, Fornage, Myriam, Franceschini, Nora, Frazar, Chris, Fu, Mao, Fullerton, Stephanie M., Fulton, Lucinda, Gabriel, Stacey, Gan, Weiniu, Gao, Shanshan, Gao, Yan, Gass, Margery, Geiger, Heather, Gelb, Bruce, Geraci, Mark, Germer, Soren, Gerszten, Robert, Ghosh, Auyon, Gibbs, Richard, Gignoux, Chris, Gladwin, Mark, Glahn, David, Gogarten, Stephanie, Gong, Da-Wei, Goring, Harald, Graw, Sharon, Gray, Kathryn J., Grine, Daniel, Gross, Colin, Gu, C. Charles, Guan, Yue, Guo, Xiuqing, Gupta, Namrata, Haessler, Jeff, Hall, Michael, Han, Yi, Hanly, Patrick, Harris, Daniel, Hawley, Nicola L., He, Jiang, Heavner, Ben, Heckbert, Susan, Hernandez, Ryan, Herrington, David, Hersh, Craig, Hidalgo, Bertha, Hixson, James, Hobbs, Brian, Hokanson, John, Hong, Elliott, Hoth, Karin, Hsiung, Chao (Agnes), Hu, Jianhong, Hung, Yi-Jen, Huston, Haley, Hwu, Chii Min, Irvin, Marguerite Ryan, Jackson, Rebecca, Jain, Deepti, Jaquish, Cashell, Johnsen, Jill, Johnson, Andrew, Johnson, Craig, Johnston, Rich, Jones, Kimberly, Kang, Hyun Min, Kaplan, Robert, Kardia, Sharon, Kelly, Shannon, Kenny, Eimear, Kessler, Michael, Khan, Alyna, Khan, Ziad, Kim, Wonji, Kimoff, John, Kinney, Greg, Konkle, Barbara, Kooperberg, Charles, Kramer, Holly, Lange, Christoph, Lange, Ethan, Lange, Leslie, Laurie, Cathy, Laurie, Cecelia, LeBoff, Meryl, Lee, Jiwon, Lee, Sandra, Lee, Wen-Jane, LeFaive, Jonathon, Levine, David, Levy, Dan, Lewis, Joshua, Li, Xiaohui, Li, Yun, Lin, Henry, Lin, Honghuang, Lin, Xihong, Liu, Simin, Liu, Yongmei, Liu, Yu, Loos, Ruth J. F., Lubitz, Steven, Lunetta, Kathryn, Luo, James, Magalang, Ulysses, Mahaney, Michael, Make, Barry, Manichaikul, Ani, Manning, Alisa, Manson, JoAnn, Martin, Lisa, Marton, Melissa, Mathai, Susan, Mathias, Rasika, May, Susanne, McArdle, Patrick, McDonald, Merry-Lynn, McFarland, Sean, McGarvey, Stephen, McGoldrick, Daniel, McHugh, Caitlin, McNeil, Becky, Mei, Hao, Meigs, James, Menon, Vipin, Mestroni, Luisa, Metcalf, Ginger, Meyers, Deborah A, Mignot, Emmanuel, Mikulla, Julie, Min, Nancy, Minear, Mollie, Minster, Ryan L, Mitchell, Braxton D., Moll, Matt, Momin, Zeineen, Montasser, May E., Montgomery, Courtney, Muzny, Donna, Mychaleckyj, Josyf C, Nadkarni, Girish, Naik, Rakhi, Naseri, Take, Natarajan, Pradeep, Nekhai, Sergei, Nelson, Sarah C., Neltner, Bonnie, Nessner, Caitlin, Nickerson, Deborah, Nkechinyere, Osuji, North, Kari, O'Connell, Jeff, O'Connor, Tim, Ochs-Balcom, Heather, Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Pack, Allan, Paik, David T., Palmer, Nicholette, Pankow, James, Papanicolaou, George, Parker, Cora, Peloso, Gina, Peralta, Juan Manuel, Perez, Marco, Perry, James, Peters, Ulrike, Peyser, Patricia, Phillips, Lawrence S, Pleiness, Jacob, Pollin, Toni, Post, Wendy, Becker, Julia Powers, Boorgula, Meher Preethi, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce, Qasba, Pankaj, Qiao, Dandi, Qin, Zhaohui, Rafaels, Nicholas, Raffield, Laura, Rajendran, Mahitha, Ramachandran, Vasan S., Rao, D. C., Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura, Ratan, Aakrosh, Redline, Susan, Reed, Robert, Reeves, Catherine, Regan, Elizabeth, Reiner, Alex, Reupena, Muagututi‘a Sefuiva, Rice, Ken, Rich, Stephen, Robillard, Rebecca, Robine, Nicolas, Roden, Dan, Roselli, Carolina, Rotter, Jerome, Ruczinski, Ingo, Runnels, Alexi, Russell, Pamela, Ruuska, Sarah, Ryan, Kathleen, Sabino, Ester Cerdeira, Saleheen, Danish, Salimi, Shabnam, Salvi, Sejal, Salzberg, Steven, Sandow, Kevin, Sankaran, Vijay G., Santibanez, Jireh, Schwander, Karen, Schwartz, David, Sciurba, Frank, Seidman, Christine, Seidman, Jonathan, Sériès, Frédéric, Sheehan, Vivien, Sherman, Stephanie L., Shetty, Amol, Shetty, Aniket, Hui-Heng Sheu, Wayne, Shoemaker, M. Benjamin, Silver, Brian, Silverman, Edwin, Skomro, Robert, Smith, Albert Vernon, Smith, Jennifer, Smith, Josh, Smith, Nicholas, Smith, Tanja, Smoller, Sylvia, Snively, Beverly, Snyder, Michael, Sofer, Tamar, Sotoodehnia, Nona, Stilp, Adrienne M., Storm, Garrett, Streeten, Elizabeth, Su, Jessica Lasky, Sung, Yun Ju, Sylvia, Jody, Szpiro, Adam, Taliun, Daniel, Tang, Hua, Taub, Margaret, Taylor, Kent D., Taylor, Matthew, Taylor, Simeon, Telen, Marilyn, Thornton, Timothy A., Threlkeld, Machiko, Tinker, Lesley, Tirschwell, David, Tishkoff, Sarah, Tiwari, Hemant, Tong, Catherine, Tracy, Russell, Tsai, Michael, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Van Den Berg, David, VandeHaar, Peter, Vrieze, Scott, Walker, Tarik, Wallace, Robert, Walts, Avram, Wang, Fei Fei, Wang, Heming, Wang, Jiongming, Watson, Karol, Watt, Jennifer, Weeks, Daniel E., Weinstock, Joshua, Weir, Bruce, Weiss, Scott T, Weng, Lu-Chen, Wessel, Jennifer, Willer, Cristen, Williams, Kayleen, Williams, L. Keoki, Wilson, Carla, Wilson, James, Winterkorn, Lara, Wong, Quenna, Wu, Joseph, Xu, Huichun, Yanek, Lisa, Yang, Ivana, Yu, Ketian, Zekavat, Seyedeh Maryam, Zhang, Yingze, Zhao, Snow Xueyan, Zhao, Wei, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Ziv, Elad, Zody, Michael, Zoellner, Sebastian, Lindstrom, Sara, Wang, Lu, Smith, Erin N., Gordon, William, van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid, Brody, Jennifer A., Pattee, Jack W., Haessler, Jeffrey, Brumpton, Ben M., Chasman, Daniel I., Suchon, Pierre, Chen, Ming-Huei, Turman, Constance, Germain, Marine, Wiggins, Kerri L., MacDonald, James, Braekkan, Sigrid K., Armasu, Sebastian M., Pankratz, Nathan, Jackson, Rabecca D., Nielsen, Jonas B., Giulianini, Franco, Puurunen, Marja K., Ibrahim, Manal, Heckbert, Susan R., Bammler, Theo K., Frazer, Kelly A., McCauley, Bryan M., Taylor, Kent, Pankow, James S., Reiner, Alexander P., Gabrielsen, Maiken E., Deleuze, Jean-François, O'Donnell, Chris J., Kim, Jihye, McKnight, Barbara, Kraft, Peter, Hansen, John-Bjarne, Rosendaal, Frits R., Heit, John A., Psaty, Bruce M., Tang, Weihong, Hveem, Kristian, Ridker, Paul M., Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel, Johnson, Andrew D., Kabrhel, Christopher, AlexandreTrégouët, David, Smith, Nicholas L., de Vries, Paul S., Reventun, Paula, Brown, Michael R., Heath, Adam S., Huffman, Jennifer E., Le, Ngoc-Quynh, Bebo, Allison, Temprano-Sagrera, Gerard, Raffield, Laura M., Ozel, Ayse Bilge, Thibord, Florian, Lewis, Joshua P., Rodriguez, Benjamin A. T., Polasek, Ozren, Yanek, Lisa R., Carrasquilla, German D., Marioni, Riccardo E., Kleber, Marcus E., Trégouët, David-Alexandre, Yao, Jie, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Joshi, Peter K., Trompet, Stella, Martinez-Perez, Angel, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Howard, Tom E., Reiner, Alex P., Arvanitis, Marios, Ryan, Kathleen A., Bartz, Traci M., Rudan, Igor, Faraday, Nauder, Linneberg, Allan, Davies, Gail, Delgado, Graciela E., Klaric, Lucija, Noordam, Raymond, van Rooij, Frank, Curran, Joanne E., Wheeler, Marsha M., Osburn, William O., O'Connell, Jeffrey R., Beswick, Andrew, Kolcic, Ivana, Souto, Juan Carlos, Becker, Lewis C., Hansen, Torben, Doyle, Margaret F., Harris, Sarah E., Moissl, Angela P., Rich, Stephen S., Campbell, Harry, Stott, David J., Soria, Jose Manuel, de Maat, Moniek P. M., Brody, Lawrence C., Auer, Paul L., Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Hayward, Caroline, Mathias, Rasika A., Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., Lange, Leslie A., Cox, Simon R., März, Winfried, Rotter, Jerome I., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Wilson, James F., van der Harst, Pim, Jukema, J. Wouter, Ikram, M. Arfan, Desch, Karl C., Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Lowenstein, Charles J., and Morrison, Alanna C.

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19. Whole-genome analysis of plasma fibrinogen reveals population-differentiated genetic regulators with putative liver roles

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Huffman, Jennifer E., Nicholas, Jayna, Hahn, Julie, Heath, Adam S., Raffield, Laura M., Yanek, Lisa R., Brody, Jennifer A., Thibord, Florian, Almasy, Laura, Bartz, Traci M., Bielak, Lawrence F., Bowler, Russell P., Carrasquilla, Germán D., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Ming-Huei, Emmert, David B., Ghanbari, Mohsen, Haessler, Jeffrey, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Kleber, Marcus E., Le, Ngoc-Quynh, Lee, Jiwon, Lewis, Joshua P., Li-Gao, Ruifang, Luan, Jian'an, Malmberg, Anni, Mangino, Massimo, Marioni, Riccardo E., Martinez-Perez, Angel, Pankratz, Nathan, Polasek, Ozren, Richmond, Anne, Rodriguez, Benjamin A. T., Rotter, Jerome I., Steri, Maristella, Suchon, Pierre, Trompet, Stella, Weiss, Stefan, Zare, Marjan, Auer, Paul, Cho, Michael H., Christofidou, Paraskevi, Davies, Gail, de Geus, Eco, Deleuze, Jean-François, Delgado, Graciela E., Ekunwe, Lynette, Faraday, Nauder, Gögele, Martin, Greinacher, Andreas, Gao, He, Howard, Tom, Joshi, Peter K., Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., Lahti, Jari, Linneberg, Allan, Naitza, Silvia, Noordam, Raymond, Paüls-Vergés, Ferran, Rich, Stephen S., Rosendaal, Frits R., Rudan, Igor, Ryan, Kathleen A., Souto, Juan Carlos, van Rooij, Frank J. A., Wang, Heming, Zhao, Wei, Becker, Lewis C., Beswick, Andrew, Brown, Michael R., Cade, Brian E., Campbell, Harry, Cho, Kelly, Crapo, James D., Curran, Joanne E., de Maat, Moniek P. M., Doyle, Margaret, Elliott, Paul, Floyd, James S., Fuchsberger, Christian, Grarup, Niels, Guo, Xiuqing, Harris, Sarah E., Hou, Lifang, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooperberg, Charles, Menni, Cristina, Nauck, Matthias, O'Connell, Jeffrey R., Orrù, Valeria, Psaty, Bruce M., Räikkönen, Katri, Smith, Jennifer A., Soria, Jose Manuel, Stott, David J., van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid, Watkins, Hugh, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, Peter W. F., Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Blangero, John, Boomsma, Dorret, Cox, Simon R., Dehghan, Abbas, Eriksson, Johan G., Fiorillo, Edoardo, Fornage, Myriam, Hansen, Torben, Hayward, Caroline, Ikram, M. Arfan, Jukema, J. Wouter, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Lange, Leslie A., März, Winfried, Mathias, Rasika A., Mitchell, Braxton D., Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel, Pedersen, Oluf, Pramstaller, Peter P., Redline, Susan, Reiner, Alexander, Ridker, Paul M., Silverman, Edwin K., Spector, Tim D., Völker, Uwe, Wareham, Nicholas J., Wilson, James F., Yao, Jie, Trégouët, David-Alexandre, Johnson, Andrew D., Wolberg, Alisa S., de Vries, Paul S., Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Morrison, Alanna C., and Smith, Nicholas L.

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2024
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28. Whole genome sequence analysis of platelet traits in the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) initiative

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Little, Amarise, Hu, Yao, Sun, Quan, Jain, Deepti, Broome, Jai, Chen, Ming-Huei, Thibord, Florian, McHugh, Caitlin, Surendran, Praveen, Blackwell, Thomas W, Brody, Jennifer A, Bhan, Arunoday, Chami, Nathalie, de Vries, Paul S, Ekunwe, Lynette, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Hobbs, Brian D, Manichaikul, Ani, Moon, Jee-Young, Preuss, Michael H, Ryan, Kathleen, Wang, Zhe, Wheeler, Marsha, Yanek, Lisa R, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Almasy, Laura, Beaty, Terri H, Becker, Lewis C, Blangero, John, Boerwinkle, Eric, Butterworth, Adam S, Choquet, Hélène, Correa, Adolfo, Curran, Joanne E, Faraday, Nauder, Fornage, Myriam, Glahn, David C, Hou, Lifang, Jorgenson, Eric, Kooperberg, Charles, Lewis, Joshua P, Lloyd-Jones, Donald M, Loos, Ruth JF, Min, Yuan-I, Mitchell, Braxton D, Morrison, Alanna C, Nickerson, Deborah A, North, Kari E, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Pankratz, Nathan, Psaty, Bruce M, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Smith, Albert V, Smith, Nicholas L, Tang, Hua, Tracy, Russell P, Conomos, Matthew P, Laurie, Cecelia A, Mathias, Rasika A, Li, Yun, Auer, Paul L, Consortium, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine, Thornton, Timothy, Reiner, Alexander P, Johnson, Andrew D, and Raffield, Laura M

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Biological Sciences, Genetics, Hematology, Biotechnology, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Blood Platelets, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.), Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Precision Medicine, United States, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Platelets play a key role in thrombosis and hemostasis. Platelet count (PLT) and mean platelet volume (MPV) are highly heritable quantitative traits, with hundreds of genetic signals previously identified, mostly in European ancestry populations. We here utilize whole genome sequencing (WGS) from NHLBI's Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine initiative (TOPMed) in a large multi-ethnic sample to further explore common and rare variation contributing to PLT (n = 61 200) and MPV (n = 23 485). We identified and replicated secondary signals at MPL (rs532784633) and PECAM1 (rs73345162), both more common in African ancestry populations. We also observed rare variation in Mendelian platelet-related disorder genes influencing variation in platelet traits in TOPMed cohorts (not enriched for blood disorders). For example, association of GP9 with lower PLT and higher MPV was partly driven by a pathogenic Bernard-Soulier syndrome variant (rs5030764, p.Asn61Ser), and the signals at TUBB1 and CD36 were partly driven by loss of function variants not annotated as pathogenic in ClinVar (rs199948010 and rs571975065). However, residual signal remained for these gene-based signals after adjusting for lead variants, suggesting that additional variants in Mendelian genes with impacts in general population cohorts remain to be identified. Gene-based signals were also identified at several genome-wide association study identified loci for genes not annotated for Mendelian platelet disorders (PTPRH, TET2, CHEK2), with somatic variation driving the result at TET2. These results highlight the value of WGS in populations of diverse genetic ancestry to identify novel regulatory and coding signals, even for well-studied traits like platelet traits.

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2022

29. Whole genome sequencing identifies structural variants contributing to hematologic traits in the NHLBI TOPMed program

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Wheeler, Marsha M, Stilp, Adrienne M, Rao, Shuquan, Halldórsson, Bjarni V, Beyter, Doruk, Wen, Jia, Mihkaylova, Anna V, McHugh, Caitlin P, Lane, John, Jiang, Min-Zhi, Raffield, Laura M, Jun, Goo, Sedlazeck, Fritz J, Metcalf, Ginger, Yao, Yao, Bis, Joshua B, Chami, Nathalie, de Vries, Paul S, Desai, Pinkal, Floyd, James S, Gao, Yan, Kammers, Kai, Kim, Wonji, Moon, Jee-Young, Ratan, Aakrosh, Yanek, Lisa R, Almasy, Laura, Becker, Lewis C, Blangero, John, Cho, Michael H, Curran, Joanne E, Fornage, Myriam, Kaplan, Robert C, Lewis, Joshua P, Loos, Ruth JF, Mitchell, Braxton D, Morrison, Alanna C, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Tang, Hua, Tracy, Russell P, Boerwinkle, Eric, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Blackwell, Thomas W, Smith, Albert V, Johnson, Andrew D, Mathias, Rasika A, Nickerson, Deborah A, Conomos, Matthew P, Li, Yun, Þorsteinsdóttir, Unnur, Magnússon, Magnús K, Stefansson, Kari, Pankratz, Nathan D, Bauer, Daniel E, Auer, Paul L, and Reiner, Alex P

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Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Hematology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular, Good Health and Well Being, Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Whole Genome Sequencing, Blood Cells
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of single nucleotide variants and small indels that contribute to variation in hematologic traits. While structural variants are known to cause rare blood or hematopoietic disorders, the genome-wide contribution of structural variants to quantitative blood cell trait variation is unknown. Here we utilized whole genome sequencing data in ancestrally diverse participants of the NHLBI Trans Omics for Precision Medicine program (N = 50,675) to detect structural variants associated with hematologic traits. Using single variant tests, we assessed the association of common and rare structural variants with red cell-, white cell-, and platelet-related quantitative traits and observed 21 independent signals (12 common and 9 rare) reaching genome-wide significance. The majority of these associations (N = 18) replicated in independent datasets. In genome-editing experiments, we provide evidence that a deletion associated with lower monocyte counts leads to disruption of an S1PR3 monocyte enhancer and decreased S1PR3 expression.

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2022

30. Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program

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Mikhaylova, Anna V, McHugh, Caitlin P, Polfus, Linda M, Raffield, Laura M, Boorgula, Meher Preethi, Blackwell, Thomas W, Brody, Jennifer A, Broome, Jai, Chami, Nathalie, Chen, Ming-Huei, Conomos, Matthew P, Cox, Corey, Curran, Joanne E, Daya, Michelle, Ekunwe, Lynette, Glahn, David C, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Highland, Heather M, Hobbs, Brian D, Ilboudo, Yann, Jain, Deepti, Lange, Leslie A, Miller-Fleming, Tyne W, Min, Nancy, Moon, Jee-Young, Preuss, Michael H, Rosen, Jonathon, Ryan, Kathleen, Smith, Albert V, Sun, Quan, Surendran, Praveen, de Vries, Paul S, Walter, Klaudia, Wang, Zhe, Wheeler, Marsha, Yanek, Lisa R, Zhong, Xue, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Almasy, Laura, Barnes, Kathleen C, Beaty, Terri H, Becker, Lewis C, Blangero, John, Boerwinkle, Eric, Butterworth, Adam S, Chavan, Sameer, Cho, Michael H, Choquet, Hélène, Correa, Adolfo, Cox, Nancy, DeMeo, Dawn L, Faraday, Nauder, Fornage, Myriam, Gerszten, Robert E, Hou, Lifang, Johnson, Andrew D, Jorgenson, Eric, Kaplan, Robert, Kooperberg, Charles, Kundu, Kousik, Laurie, Cecelia A, Lettre, Guillaume, Lewis, Joshua P, Li, Bingshan, Li, Yun, Lloyd-Jones, Donald M, Loos, Ruth JF, Manichaikul, Ani, Meyers, Deborah A, Mitchell, Braxton D, Morrison, Alanna C, Ngo, Debby, Nickerson, Deborah A, Nongmaithem, Suraj, North, Kari E, O’Connell, Jeffrey R, Ortega, Victor E, Pankratz, Nathan, Perry, James A, Psaty, Bruce M, Rich, Stephen S, Soranzo, Nicole, Rotter, Jerome I, Silverman, Edwin K, Smith, Nicholas L, Tang, Hua, Tracy, Russell P, Thornton, Timothy A, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Zein, Joe, Mathias, Rasika A, Consortium, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine, Reiner, Alexander P, and Auer, Paul L

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Human Genome, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Inflammatory and immune system, Good Health and Well Being, Asthma, Biomarkers, Dermatitis, Atopic, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leukocytes, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.), Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Proteome, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Quantitative Trait Loci, United Kingdom, United States, Whole Genome Sequencing, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, blood-cell counts, whole-genome sequencing, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Many common and rare variants associated with hematologic traits have been discovered through imputation on large-scale reference panels. However, the majority of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been conducted in Europeans, and determining causal variants has proved challenging. We performed a GWAS of total leukocyte, neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophil, and basophil counts generated from 109,563,748 variants in the autosomes and the X chromosome in the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program, which included data from 61,802 individuals of diverse ancestry. We discovered and replicated 7 leukocyte trait associations, including (1) the association between a chromosome X, pseudo-autosomal region (PAR), noncoding variant located between cytokine receptor genes (CSF2RA and CLRF2) and lower eosinophil count; and (2) associations between single variants found predominantly among African Americans at the S1PR3 (9q22.1) and HBB (11p15.4) loci and monocyte and lymphocyte counts, respectively. We further provide evidence indicating that the newly discovered eosinophil-lowering chromosome X PAR variant might be associated with reduced susceptibility to common allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis and asthma. Additionally, we found a burden of very rare FLT3 (13q12.2) variants associated with monocyte counts. Together, these results emphasize the utility of whole-genome sequencing in diverse samples in identifying associations missed by European-ancestry-driven GWASs.

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2021

32. Genome sequencing unveils a regulatory landscape of platelet reactivity.

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Keramati, Ali R, Chen, Ming-Huei, Rodriguez, Benjamin AT, Yanek, Lisa R, Bhan, Arunoday, Gaynor, Brady J, Ryan, Kathleen, Brody, Jennifer A, Zhong, Xue, Wei, Qiang, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision (TOPMed) Consortium, Kammers, Kai, Kanchan, Kanika, Iyer, Kruthika, Kowalski, Madeline H, Pitsillides, Achilleas N, Cupples, L Adrienne, Li, Bingshan, Schlaeger, Thorsten M, Shuldiner, Alan R, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Ruczinski, Ingo, Mitchell, Braxton D, Faraday, Nauder, Taub, Margaret A, Becker, Lewis C, Lewis, Joshua P, Mathias, Rasika A, and Johnson, Andrew D

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NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision (TOPMed) Consortium, Blood Platelets, K562 Cells, Humans, Thrombosis, GTP-Binding Proteins, RGS Proteins, Receptors, Cell Surface, Platelet Function Tests, Chromosome Mapping, Base Sequence, Platelet Aggregation, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, HEK293 Cells, Whole Genome Sequencing
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Platelet aggregation at the site of atherosclerotic vascular injury is the underlying pathophysiology of myocardial infarction and stroke. To build upon prior GWAS, here we report on 16 loci identified through a whole genome sequencing (WGS) approach in 3,855 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) participants deeply phenotyped for platelet aggregation. We identify the RGS18 locus, which encodes a myeloerythroid lineage-specific regulator of G-protein signaling that co-localizes with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) signatures for RGS18 expression in platelets. Gene-based approaches implicate the SVEP1 gene, a known contributor of coronary artery disease risk. Sentinel variants at RGS18 and PEAR1 are associated with thrombosis risk and increased gastrointestinal bleeding risk, respectively. Our WGS findings add to previously identified GWAS loci, provide insights regarding the mechanism(s) by which genetics may influence cardiovascular disease risk, and underscore the importance of rare variant and regulatory approaches to identifying loci contributing to complex phenotypes.

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2021

33. Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program

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Hu, Yao, Stilp, Adrienne M, McHugh, Caitlin P, Rao, Shuquan, Jain, Deepti, Zheng, Xiuwen, Lane, John, de Bellefon, Sébastian Méric, Raffield, Laura M, Chen, Ming-Huei, Yanek, Lisa R, Wheeler, Marsha, Yao, Yao, Ren, Chunyan, Broome, Jai, Moon, Jee-Young, de Vries, Paul S, Hobbs, Brian D, Sun, Quan, Surendran, Praveen, Brody, Jennifer A, Blackwell, Thomas W, Choquet, Hélène, Ryan, Kathleen, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Wang, Zhe, Chami, Nathalie, Preuss, Michael H, Min, Nancy, Ekunwe, Lynette, Lange, Leslie A, Cushman, Mary, Faraday, Nauder, Curran, Joanne E, Almasy, Laura, Kundu, Kousik, Smith, Albert V, Gabriel, Stacey, Rotter, Jerome I, Fornage, Myriam, Lloyd-Jones, Donald M, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Smith, Nicholas L, North, Kari E, Boerwinkle, Eric, Becker, Lewis C, Lewis, Joshua P, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Hou, Lifang, O’Connell, Jeffrey R, Morrison, Alanna C, Beaty, Terri H, Kaplan, Robert, Correa, Adolfo, Blangero, John, Jorgenson, Eric, Psaty, Bruce M, Kooperberg, Charles, Walton, Russell T, Kleinstiver, Benjamin P, Tang, Hua, Loos, Ruth JF, Soranzo, Nicole, Butterworth, Adam S, Nickerson, Debbie, Rich, Stephen S, Mitchell, Braxton D, Johnson, Andrew D, Auer, Paul L, Li, Yun, Mathias, Rasika A, Lettre, Guillaume, Pankratz, Nathan, Laurie, Cathy C, Laurie, Cecelia A, Bauer, Daniel E, Conomos, Matthew P, Reiner, Alexander P, and Consortium, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine

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Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Biotechnology, Clinical Research, Hematology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Aged, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, Datasets as Topic, Erythrocytes, Female, Gene Editing, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.), Phenotype, Quality Control, Reproducibility of Results, United States, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, base editing, red blood cell traits, whole-genome sequencing, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS), a powerful tool for detecting novel coding and non-coding disease-causing variants, has largely been applied to clinical diagnosis of inherited disorders. Here we leveraged WGS data in up to 62,653 ethnically diverse participants from the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program and assessed statistical association of variants with seven red blood cell (RBC) quantitative traits. We discovered 14 single variant-RBC trait associations at 12 genomic loci, which have not been reported previously. Several of the RBC trait-variant associations (RPN1, ELL2, MIDN, HBB, HBA1, PIEZO1, and G6PD) were replicated in independent GWAS datasets imputed to the TOPMed reference panel. Most of these discovered variants are rare/low frequency, and several are observed disproportionately among non-European Ancestry (African, Hispanic/Latino, or East Asian) populations. We identified a 3 bp indel p.Lys2169del (g.88717175_88717177TCT[4]) (common only in the Ashkenazi Jewish population) of PIEZO1, a gene responsible for the Mendelian red cell disorder hereditary xerocytosis (MIM: 194380), associated with higher mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). In stepwise conditional analysis and in gene-based rare variant aggregated association analysis, we identified several of the variants in HBB, HBA1, TMPRSS6, and G6PD that represent the carrier state for known coding, promoter, or splice site loss-of-function variants that cause inherited RBC disorders. Finally, we applied base and nuclease editing to demonstrate that the sentinel variant rs112097551 (nearest gene RPN1) acts through a cis-regulatory element that exerts long-range control of the gene RUVBL1 which is essential for hematopoiesis. Together, these results demonstrate the utility of WGS in ethnically diverse population-based samples and gene editing for expanding knowledge of the genetic architecture of quantitative hematologic traits and suggest a continuum between complex trait and Mendelian red cell disorders.

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2021

38. Epigenome-wide DNA methylation association study of circulating IgE levels identifies novel targets for asthma

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Abe, Namiko, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Aguet, Francois, Albert, Christine, Almasy, Laura, Alonso, Alvaro, Ament, Seth, Anderson, Peter, Anugu, Pramod, Applebaum-Bowden, Deborah, Ardlie, Kristin, Arking, Dan, Arnett, Donna K., Ashley-Koch, Allison, Aslibekyan, Stella, Assimes, Tim, Auer, Paul, Avramopoulos, Dimitrios, Ayas, Najib, Balasubramanian, Adithya, Barnard, John, Barnes, Kathleen, Barr, R. Graham, Barron-Casella, Emily, Barwick, Lucas, Beaty, Terri, Beck, Gerald, Becker, Diane, Becker, Lewis, Beer, Rebecca, Beitelshees, Amber, Benjamin, Emelia, Benos, Takis, Bezerra, Marcos, Bielak, Larry, Bis, Joshua, Blackwell, Thomas, Blangero, John, Blue, Nathan, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bowden, Donald W., Bowler, Russell, Brody, Jennifer, Broeckel, Ulrich, Broome, Jai, Brown, Deborah, Bunting, Karen, Burchard, Esteban, Bustamante, Carlos, Buth, Erin, Cade, Brian, Cardwell, Jonathan, Carey, Vincent, Carrier, Julie, Carson, April P., Carty, Cara, Casaburi, Richard, Casas Romero, Juan P., Casella, James, Castaldi, Peter, Chaffin, Mark, Chang, Christy, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chasman, Daniel, Chavan, Sameer, Chen, Bo-Juen, Chen, Wei-Min, Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Cho, Michael, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Chung, Mina, Chung, Ren-Hua, Clish, Clary, Comhair, Suzy, Conomos, Matthew, Cornell, Elaine, Correa, Adolfo, Crandall, Carolyn, Crapo, James, Cupples, L. Adrienne, Curran, Joanne, Curtis, Jeffrey, Custer, Brian, Damcott, Coleen, Darbar, Dawood, David, Sean, Davis, Colleen, Daya, Michelle, de Andrade, Mariza, de las Fuentes, Lisa, de Vries, Paul, DeBaun, Michael, Deka, Ranjan, DeMeo, Dawn, Devine, Scott, Dinh, Huyen, Doddapaneni, Harsha, Duan, Qing, Dugan-Perez, Shannon, Duggirala, Ravi, Durda, Jon Peter, Dutcher, Susan K., Eaton, Charles, Ekunwe, Lynette, El Boueiz, Adel, Ellinor, Patrick, Emery, Leslie, Erzurum, Serpil, Farber, Charles, Farek, Jesse, Fingerlin, Tasha, Flickinger, Matthew, Fornage, Myriam, Franceschini, Nora, Frazar, Chris, Fu, Mao, Fullerton, Stephanie M., Fulton, Lucinda, Gabriel, Stacey, Gan, Weiniu, Gao, Shanshan, Gao, Yan, Gass, Margery, Geiger, Heather, Gelb, Bruce, Geraci, Mark, Germer, Soren, Gerszten, Robert, Ghosh, Auyon, Gibbs, Richard, Gignoux, Chris, Gladwin, Mark, Glahn, David, Gogarten, Stephanie, Gong, Da-Wei, Goring, Harald, Graw, Sharon, Gray, Kathryn J., Grine, Daniel, Gross, Colin, Gu, C. 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40. Effects of Synchronizing Foot Strike and Cardiac Phase on Exercise Hemodynamics in Patients With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: A Within-Subjects Pilot Study to Fine-Tune Cardio-Locomotor Coupling for Heart Failure

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Wakeham, Denis J., Ivey, Erika, Saland, Sophie A., Lewis, Joshua S., Palmer, Dean, Morris, Margot, Bleich, Jeffery L., Weyand, Peter G., Brazile, Tiffany L., Hearon, Christopher M., Jr, Sarma, Satyam, MacNamara, James P., Hieda, Michinari, and Levine, Benjamin D.

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2023
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44. Allelic Heterogeneity at the CRP Locus Identified by Whole-Genome Sequencing in Multi-ancestry Cohorts

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Raffield, Laura M, Iyengar, Apoorva K, Wang, Biqi, Gaynor, Sheila M, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Zhong, Xue, Kowalski, Madeline H, Salimi, Shabnam, Polfus, Linda M, Benjamin, Emelia J, Bis, Joshua C, Bowler, Russell, Cade, Brian E, Choi, Won Jung, Comellas, Alejandro P, Correa, Adolfo, Cruz, Pedro, Doddapaneni, Harsha, Durda, Peter, Gogarten, Stephanie M, Jain, Deepti, Kim, Ryan W, Kral, Brian G, Lange, Leslie A, Larson, Martin G, Laurie, Cecelia, Lee, Jiwon, Lee, Seonwook, Lewis, Joshua P, Metcalf, Ginger A, Mitchell, Braxton D, Momin, Zeineen, Muzny, Donna M, Pankratz, Nathan, Park, Cheol Joo, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Ryan, Kathleen, Seo, Daekwan, Tracy, Russell P, Viaud-Martinez, Karine A, Yanek, Lisa R, Zhao, Lue Ping, Lin, Xihong, Li, Bingshan, Li, Yun, Dupuis, Josée, Reiner, Alexander P, Mohlke, Karen L, Auer, Paul L, Group, TOPMed Inflammation Working, and Consortium, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine

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Human Genome, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Good Health and Well Being, Asian People, Black People, C-Reactive Protein, Cohort Studies, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Whole Genome Sequencing, TOPMed Inflammation Working Group, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, c-reactive protein, whole-genome sequencing, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) can improve assessment of low-frequency and rare variants, particularly in non-European populations that have been underrepresented in existing genomic studies. The genetic determinants of C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker of chronic inflammation, have been extensively studied, with existing genome-wide association studies (GWASs) conducted in >200,000 individuals of European ancestry. In order to discover novel loci associated with CRP levels, we examined a multi-ancestry population (n = 23,279) with WGS (∼38× coverage) from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. We found evidence for eight distinct associations at the CRP locus, including two variants that have not been identified previously (rs11265259 and rs181704186), both of which are non-coding and more common in individuals of African ancestry (∼10% and ∼1% minor allele frequency, respectively, and rare or monomorphic in 1000 Genomes populations of East Asian, South Asian, and European ancestry). We show that the minor (G) allele of rs181704186 is associated with lower CRP levels and decreased transcriptional activity and protein binding in vitro, providing a plausible molecular mechanism for this African ancestry-specific signal. The individuals homozygous for rs181704186-G have a mean CRP level of 0.23 mg/L, in contrast to individuals heterozygous for rs181704186 with mean CRP of 2.97 mg/L and major allele homozygotes with mean CRP of 4.11 mg/L. This study demonstrates the utility of WGS in multi-ethnic populations to drive discovery of complex trait associations of large effect and to identify functional alleles in noncoding regulatory regions.

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2020

50. Show, Attend and Detect: Towards Fine-Grained Assessment of Abdominal Aortic Calcification on Vertebral Fracture Assessment Scans

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Gilani, Syed Zulqarnain, Sharif, Naeha, Suter, David, Schousboe, John T., Reid, Siobhan, Leslie, William D., Lewis, Joshua R., Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Wang, Linwei, editor, Dou, Qi, editor, Fletcher, P. Thomas, editor, Speidel, Stefanie, editor, and Li, Shuo, editor

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2022
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