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1. A large-scale multi-ancestry genome-wide study accounting for smoking bahavior identifies multiple genome-wide significant loci for systolic and diastolic blood pressure

Author: Sung, YJ, Lehne, B, Scott, WR, Sever, P, Chambers, J, Froguel, P, Kooner, JS, Scott, J, Elliott, P, Chasman, DI, British Heart Foundation, Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome Trust, Action on Hearing Loss, Home Office, National Institute for Health Research, and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding
Subjects: Genetics & Heredity, lifestyle, multi-ancestry, GWAS, blood pressure, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, 06 Biological Sciences, GxE interactions, smoking
Abstract: Genome- wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify novel BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome -wide association meta -analys es of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene -smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals . Stage 1 analysis examined ~18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow -up analysis of promising variants in 480 ,178 additional individuals from fiv e ancestr ies . We identifie d 15 new loci that were genome- wide significant (P < 5 ×10 -8 ) in Stage 1 and formally replicated in Stage 2 . A combined Stage 1 and 2 meta -analysis identified 66 additional genome - wide significant loci ( 13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African and trans -ancestry, respectively ). A total of 5 6 k nown BP loci were also identified by our results (P < 5 ×10 -8 ). O f the newly identified loci , 10 sho wed significant interaction with smoking status , but none of them were replicated in Stage 2 . Several loci were identified in African ancestry , highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with c ardiometabolic and addiction traits . They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function ( CDKN1B , BCAR1 -CFDP1 , PXDN , EEA1 ), ciliopathies ( SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L ), telomere maintenance ( TNKS , PINX1 , AKTIP ) , and cen tral dopaminergic signaling ( MSRA , EBF2 )
Published: 2018

2. Erratum: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls.

Author: Flannick, J, Fuchsberger, C, Mahajan, A, Teslovich, TM, Agarwala, V, Gaulton, KJ, Caulkins, L, Koesterer, R, Ma, C, Moutsianas, L, McCarthy, DJ, Rivas, MA, Perry, JRB, Sim, X, Blackwell, TW, Robertson, NR, Rayner, NW, Cingolani, P, Locke, AE, Tajes, JF, Highland, HM, Dupuis, J, Chines, PS, Lindgren, CM, Hartl, C, Jackson, AU, Chen, H, Huyghe, JR, van de Bunt, M, Pearson, RD, Kumar, A, Mueller-Nurasyid, M, Grarup, N, Stringham, HM, Gamazon, ER, Lee, J, Chen, Y, Scott, RA, Below, JE, Chen, P, Huang, J, Go, MJ, Stitzel, ML, Pasko, D, Parker, SCJ, Varga, TV, Green, T, Beer, NL, Day-Williams, AG, Ferreira, T, Fingerlin, T, Horikoshi, M, Hu, C, Huh, I, Ikram, MK, Kim, B-J, Kim, Y, Kim, YJ, Kwon, M-S, Lee, S, Lin, K-H, Maxwell, TJ, Nagai, Y, Wang, X, Welch, RP, Yoon, J, Zhang, W, Barzilai, N, Voight, BF, Han, B-G, Jenkinson, CP, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Manning, A, Ng, MCY, Palmer, ND, Balkau, B, Stancakova, A, Abboud, HE, Boeing, H, Giedraitis, V, Prabhakaran, D, Gottesman, O, Scott, J, Carey, J, Kwan, P, Grant, G, Smith, JD, Neale, BM, Purcell, S, Butterworth, AS, Howson, JMM, Lee, HM, Lu, Y, Kwak, S-H, Zhao, W, Danesh, J, Lam, VKL, Park, KS, Saleheen, D, So, WY, Tam, CHT, Afzal, U, Aguilar, D, Arya, R, Aung, T, Chan, E, Navarro, C, Cheng, C-Y, Palli, D, Correa, A, Curran, JE, Rybin, D, Farook, VS, Fowler, SP, Freedman, BI, Griswold, M, Hale, DE, Hicks, PJ, Khor, C-C, Kumar, S, Lehne, B, Thuillier, D, Lim, WY, Liu, J, Loh, M, Musani, SK, Puppala, S, Scott, WR, Yengo, L, Tan, S-T, Taylor, HA, Thameem, F, Wilson, G, Wong, TY, Njolstad, PR, Levy, JC, Mangino, M, Bonnycastle, LL, Schwarzmayr, T, Fadista, J, Surdulescu, GL, Herder, C, Groves, CJ, Wieland, T, Bork-Jensen, J, Brandslund, I, Christensen, C, Koistinen, HA, Doney, ASF, Kinnunen, L, Esko, T, Farmer, AJ, Hakaste, L, Hodgkiss, D, Kravic, J, Lyssenko, V, Hollensted, M, Jorgensen, ME, Jorgensen, T, Ladenvall, C, Justesen, JM, Karajamaki, A, Kriebel, J, Rathmann, W, Lannfelt, L, Lauritzen, T, Narisu, N, Linneberg, A, Melander, O, Milani, L, Neville, M, Orho-Melander, M, Qi, L, Qi, Q, Roden, M, Rolandsson, O, Swift, A, Rosengren, AH, Stirrups, K, Wood, AR, Mihailov, E, Blancher, C, Carneiro, MO, Maguire, J, Poplin, R, Shakir, K, Fennell, T, DePristo, M, de Angelis, MH, Deloukas, P, Gjesing, AP, Jun, G, Nilsson, PM, Murphy, J, Onofrio, R, Thorand, B, Hansen, T, Meisinger, C, Hu, FB, Isomaa, B, Karpe, F, Liang, L, Peters, A, Huth, C, O'Rahilly, SP, Palmer, CNA, Pedersen, O, Rauramaa, R, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Watanabe, RM, Syvanen, A-C, Bergman, RN, Bharadwaj, D, Bottinger, EP, Cho, YS, Chandak, GR, Chan, JC, Chia, KS, Daly, MJ, Ebrahim, SB, Langenberg, C, Elliott, P, Jablonski, KA, Lehman, DM, Jia, W, Ma, RCW, Pollin, TI, Sandhu, M, Tandon, N, Froguel, P, Barroso, I, Teo, YY, Zeggini, E, Loos, RJF, Small, KS, Ried, JS, DeFronzo, RA, Grallert, H, Glaser, B, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Walker, M, Banks, E, Gieger, C, Ingelsson, E, Im, HK, Illig, T, Franks, PW, Buck, G, Trakalo, J, Buck, D, Prokopenko, I, Magi, R, Lind, L, Farjoun, Y, Owen, KR, Gloyn, AL, Strauch, K, Tuomi, T, Kooner, JS, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Donnelly, P, Morris, AD, Hattersley, AT, Bowden, DW, Collins, FS, Atzmon, G, Chambers, JC, Spector, TD, Laakso, M, Strom, TM, Bell, GI, Blangero, J, Duggirala, R, Tai, E, McVean, G, Hanis, CL, Wilson, JG, Seielstad, M, Frayling, TM, Meigs, JB, Cox, NJ, Sladek, R, Lander, ES, Gabriel, S, Mohlke, KL, Meitinger, T, Groop, L, Abecasis, G, Scott, LJ, Morris, AP, Kang, HM, Altshuler, D, Burtt, NP, Florez, JC, Boehnke, M, McCarthy, MI, Flannick, J, Fuchsberger, C, Mahajan, A, Teslovich, TM, Agarwala, V, Gaulton, KJ, Caulkins, L, Koesterer, R, Ma, C, Moutsianas, L, McCarthy, DJ, Rivas, MA, Perry, JRB, Sim, X, Blackwell, TW, Robertson, NR, Rayner, NW, Cingolani, P, Locke, AE, Tajes, JF, Highland, HM, Dupuis, J, Chines, PS, Lindgren, CM, Hartl, C, Jackson, AU, Chen, H, Huyghe, JR, van de Bunt, M, Pearson, RD, Kumar, A, Mueller-Nurasyid, M, Grarup, N, Stringham, HM, Gamazon, ER, Lee, J, Chen, Y, Scott, RA, Below, JE, Chen, P, Huang, J, Go, MJ, Stitzel, ML, Pasko, D, Parker, SCJ, Varga, TV, Green, T, Beer, NL, Day-Williams, AG, Ferreira, T, Fingerlin, T, Horikoshi, M, Hu, C, Huh, I, Ikram, MK, Kim, B-J, Kim, Y, Kim, YJ, Kwon, M-S, Lee, S, Lin, K-H, Maxwell, TJ, Nagai, Y, Wang, X, Welch, RP, Yoon, J, Zhang, W, Barzilai, N, Voight, BF, Han, B-G, Jenkinson, CP, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Manning, A, Ng, MCY, Palmer, ND, Balkau, B, Stancakova, A, Abboud, HE, Boeing, H, Giedraitis, V, Prabhakaran, D, Gottesman, O, Scott, J, Carey, J, Kwan, P, Grant, G, Smith, JD, Neale, BM, Purcell, S, Butterworth, AS, Howson, JMM, Lee, HM, Lu, Y, Kwak, S-H, Zhao, W, Danesh, J, Lam, VKL, Park, KS, Saleheen, D, So, WY, Tam, CHT, Afzal, U, Aguilar, D, Arya, R, Aung, T, Chan, E, Navarro, C, Cheng, C-Y, Palli, D, Correa, A, Curran, JE, Rybin, D, Farook, VS, Fowler, SP, Freedman, BI, Griswold, M, Hale, DE, Hicks, PJ, Khor, C-C, Kumar, S, Lehne, B, Thuillier, D, Lim, WY, Liu, J, Loh, M, Musani, SK, Puppala, S, Scott, WR, Yengo, L, Tan, S-T, Taylor, HA, Thameem, F, Wilson, G, Wong, TY, Njolstad, PR, Levy, JC, Mangino, M, Bonnycastle, LL, Schwarzmayr, T, Fadista, J, Surdulescu, GL, Herder, C, Groves, CJ, Wieland, T, Bork-Jensen, J, Brandslund, I, Christensen, C, Koistinen, HA, Doney, ASF, Kinnunen, L, Esko, T, Farmer, AJ, Hakaste, L, Hodgkiss, D, Kravic, J, Lyssenko, V, Hollensted, M, Jorgensen, ME, Jorgensen, T, Ladenvall, C, Justesen, JM, Karajamaki, A, Kriebel, J, Rathmann, W, Lannfelt, L, Lauritzen, T, Narisu, N, Linneberg, A, Melander, O, Milani, L, Neville, M, Orho-Melander, M, Qi, L, Qi, Q, Roden, M, Rolandsson, O, Swift, A, Rosengren, AH, Stirrups, K, Wood, AR, Mihailov, E, Blancher, C, Carneiro, MO, Maguire, J, Poplin, R, Shakir, K, Fennell, T, DePristo, M, de Angelis, MH, Deloukas, P, Gjesing, AP, Jun, G, Nilsson, PM, Murphy, J, Onofrio, R, Thorand, B, Hansen, T, Meisinger, C, Hu, FB, Isomaa, B, Karpe, F, Liang, L, Peters, A, Huth, C, O'Rahilly, SP, Palmer, CNA, Pedersen, O, Rauramaa, R, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Watanabe, RM, Syvanen, A-C, Bergman, RN, Bharadwaj, D, Bottinger, EP, Cho, YS, Chandak, GR, Chan, JC, Chia, KS, Daly, MJ, Ebrahim, SB, Langenberg, C, Elliott, P, Jablonski, KA, Lehman, DM, Jia, W, Ma, RCW, Pollin, TI, Sandhu, M, Tandon, N, Froguel, P, Barroso, I, Teo, YY, Zeggini, E, Loos, RJF, Small, KS, Ried, JS, DeFronzo, RA, Grallert, H, Glaser, B, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Walker, M, Banks, E, Gieger, C, Ingelsson, E, Im, HK, Illig, T, Franks, PW, Buck, G, Trakalo, J, Buck, D, Prokopenko, I, Magi, R, Lind, L, Farjoun, Y, Owen, KR, Gloyn, AL, Strauch, K, Tuomi, T, Kooner, JS, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Donnelly, P, Morris, AD, Hattersley, AT, Bowden, DW, Collins, FS, Atzmon, G, Chambers, JC, Spector, TD, Laakso, M, Strom, TM, Bell, GI, Blangero, J, Duggirala, R, Tai, E, McVean, G, Hanis, CL, Wilson, JG, Seielstad, M, Frayling, TM, Meigs, JB, Cox, NJ, Sladek, R, Lander, ES, Gabriel, S, Mohlke, KL, Meitinger, T, Groop, L, Abecasis, G, Scott, LJ, Morris, AP, Kang, HM, Altshuler, D, Burtt, NP, Florez, JC, Boehnke, M, and McCarthy, MI
Abstract: This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.179.
Published: 2018

3. Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

Author: Feitosa, MF, Kraja, AT, Chasman, DI, Sung, YJ, Winkler, TW, Ntalla, I, Guo, XQ, Franceschini, N, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Sim, XL, Vojinovic, Dina, Marten, J, Musani, SK, Li, CW, Bentley, AR, Brown, MR, Schwander, K, Richard, MA, Noordam, R, Aschard, H, Bartz, TM, Bielak, LF, Dorajoo, R, Fisher, V, Hartwig, FP, Horimoto, A, Lohman, KK, Manning, AK, Rankinen, T, Smith, AV, Tajuddin, S M, Wojczynski, MK, Alver, M, Boissel, M, Cai, QY, Campbell, A (Archie), Chai, JF, Chen, X, Divers, J, Gao, C, Goel, A, Hagemeijer, Y, Harris, SE, He, MI, Hsu, FC, Jackson, AU, Kahonen, M, Kasturiratne, A, Komulainen, P, Kuhnel, B, Laguzzi, F, Luan, J, Matoba, N, Nolte, IM, Padmanabhan, S, Riaz, M, Rueedi, R, Robino, A, Said, MA, Scott, RA, Sofer, T, Stancakova, A, Takeuchi, F, Tayo, BO, van der Most, PJ, Varga, TV, Vitart, V, Wang, YJ, Ware, EB, Warren, HR, Weiss, S, Wen, WQ, Yanek, LR, Zhang, WH, Zhao, JH, Afaq, S, Amin, Najaf, Amini, M, Arking, DE, Aung, T, Boerwinkle, E, Borecki, I, Broeckel, U, Brown, M, Brumat, M, Burke, GL, Canouil, M, Chakravarti, A, Charumathi, S, Chen, YDI, Connell, JM, Correa, A, Fuentes, LDL, de Mutsert, R, de Silva, HJ, Deng, X, Ding, J, Duan, Q, Eaton, CB, Ehret, G, Eppinga, RN, Evangelou, E, Fau, JD, Felix, SB, Forouhi, NG, Forrester, T, Franco Duran, OH, Friedlander, Y, Gandin, I, Gao, H, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gigante, B, Gu, CC, Gu, DF, Hagenaars, SP, Hallmans, G, Harris, TB, He, J, Heikkinen, S, Heng, CK, Hirata, M, Howard, BV, Ikram, Arfan, John, U, Katsuya, T, Khor, CC, Kilpelainen, TO, Koh, WP, Krieger, JE, Kritchevsky, SB, Kubo, M, Kuusisto, J, Lakka, TA, Langefeld, CD, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Lehne, B, Lewis, CE, Li, YZ, Lin, S, Liu, JJ, Liu, JM, Loh, M, Louie, T, Magi, R, McKenzie, CA, Meitinger, T, Metspalu, A, Milaneschi, Y, Milani, L, Mohlke, KL, Momozawa, Y, Nalls, MA, Nelson, CP, Sotoodehnia, N, Norris, JM, O'Connell, JR, Palmer, ND, Perls, T, Pedersen, NL, Peters, A, Peyser, PA, Poulter, N, Raffel, LJ, Raitakari, OT, Roll, K, Rose, LM, Rosendaal, FR, Rotter, JI, Schmidt, CO, Schreiner, PJ, Schupf, N, Scott, WR, Sever, PS, Shi, Y, Sidney, S, Sims, M, Sitlani, CM, Smith, JA, Snieder, H, Starr, JM, Strauch, K, Stringham, HM, Tan, NYQ, Tang, H, Taylor, KD, Teo, YY, Tham, YC, Turner, ST, Uitterlinden, André, Vollenweider, P, Waldenberger, M, Wang, LH, Wang, YX, Wei, W, Williams, C, Yao, J, Yu, CZ, Yuan, JM, Zhao, W, Zonderman, AB, Becker, DM, Boehnke, M, Bowden, DW, Chambers, JC, Deary, IJ, Esko, T, Farrall, M, Franks, PW, Freedman, BI, Froguel, P, Gasparini, P, Gieger, C, Jonas, JB, Kamatani, Y, Kato, N, Kooner, JS, Kutalik, Z, Laakso, M, Laurie, CC, Leander, K, Lehtimaki, T, Study, LC, Magnusson, PKE, Oldehinkel, AJ, Penninx, B, Poiasek, O, Porteous, DJ, Rauramaa, R, Samani, NJ, Scott, J, Shu, XO, van der Harst, P, Wagenknecht, LE, Wareham, NJ, Watkins, H, Weir, DR, Wickremasinghe, AR, Wu, TC, Zheng, W, Bouchard, C, Christensen, K, Evans, MK, Gudnason, V, Horta, BL, Kardia, SLR, Liu, YM, Pereira, AC, Psaty, BM, Ridker, PM, van Dam, RM, Gauderman, WJ, Zhu, XF, Mook, Dennis, Fornage, M, Rotimi, CN, Cupples, LA, Kelly, TN, Fox, ER, Hayward, C, Duijn, Cornelia, Tai, ES, Wong, TY, Kooperberg, C, Palmas, W, Rice, K, Morrison, AC, Elliott, P, Caulfield, MJ, Munroe, PB, Rao, DC, Province, MA, Levy, D, Feitosa, MF, Kraja, AT, Chasman, DI, Sung, YJ, Winkler, TW, Ntalla, I, Guo, XQ, Franceschini, N, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Sim, XL, Vojinovic, Dina, Marten, J, Musani, SK, Li, CW, Bentley, AR, Brown, MR, Schwander, K, Richard, MA, Noordam, R, Aschard, H, Bartz, TM, Bielak, LF, Dorajoo, R, Fisher, V, Hartwig, FP, Horimoto, A, Lohman, KK, Manning, AK, Rankinen, T, Smith, AV, Tajuddin, S M, Wojczynski, MK, Alver, M, Boissel, M, Cai, QY, Campbell, A (Archie), Chai, JF, Chen, X, Divers, J, Gao, C, Goel, A, Hagemeijer, Y, Harris, SE, He, MI, Hsu, FC, Jackson, AU, Kahonen, M, Kasturiratne, A, Komulainen, P, Kuhnel, B, Laguzzi, F, Luan, J, Matoba, N, Nolte, IM, Padmanabhan, S, Riaz, M, Rueedi, R, Robino, A, Said, MA, Scott, RA, Sofer, T, Stancakova, A, Takeuchi, F, Tayo, BO, van der Most, PJ, Varga, TV, Vitart, V, Wang, YJ, Ware, EB, Warren, HR, Weiss, S, Wen, WQ, Yanek, LR, Zhang, WH, Zhao, JH, Afaq, S, Amin, Najaf, Amini, M, Arking, DE, Aung, T, Boerwinkle, E, Borecki, I, Broeckel, U, Brown, M, Brumat, M, Burke, GL, Canouil, M, Chakravarti, A, Charumathi, S, Chen, YDI, Connell, JM, Correa, A, Fuentes, LDL, de Mutsert, R, de Silva, HJ, Deng, X, Ding, J, Duan, Q, Eaton, CB, Ehret, G, Eppinga, RN, Evangelou, E, Fau, JD, Felix, SB, Forouhi, NG, Forrester, T, Franco Duran, OH, Friedlander, Y, Gandin, I, Gao, H, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gigante, B, Gu, CC, Gu, DF, Hagenaars, SP, Hallmans, G, Harris, TB, He, J, Heikkinen, S, Heng, CK, Hirata, M, Howard, BV, Ikram, Arfan, John, U, Katsuya, T, Khor, CC, Kilpelainen, TO, Koh, WP, Krieger, JE, Kritchevsky, SB, Kubo, M, Kuusisto, J, Lakka, TA, Langefeld, CD, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Lehne, B, Lewis, CE, Li, YZ, Lin, S, Liu, JJ, Liu, JM, Loh, M, Louie, T, Magi, R, McKenzie, CA, Meitinger, T, Metspalu, A, Milaneschi, Y, Milani, L, Mohlke, KL, Momozawa, Y, Nalls, MA, Nelson, CP, Sotoodehnia, N, Norris, JM, O'Connell, JR, Palmer, ND, Perls, T, Pedersen, NL, Peters, A, Peyser, PA, Poulter, N, Raffel, LJ, Raitakari, OT, Roll, K, Rose, LM, Rosendaal, FR, Rotter, JI, Schmidt, CO, Schreiner, PJ, Schupf, N, Scott, WR, Sever, PS, Shi, Y, Sidney, S, Sims, M, Sitlani, CM, Smith, JA, Snieder, H, Starr, JM, Strauch, K, Stringham, HM, Tan, NYQ, Tang, H, Taylor, KD, Teo, YY, Tham, YC, Turner, ST, Uitterlinden, André, Vollenweider, P, Waldenberger, M, Wang, LH, Wang, YX, Wei, W, Williams, C, Yao, J, Yu, CZ, Yuan, JM, Zhao, W, Zonderman, AB, Becker, DM, Boehnke, M, Bowden, DW, Chambers, JC, Deary, IJ, Esko, T, Farrall, M, Franks, PW, Freedman, BI, Froguel, P, Gasparini, P, Gieger, C, Jonas, JB, Kamatani, Y, Kato, N, Kooner, JS, Kutalik, Z, Laakso, M, Laurie, CC, Leander, K, Lehtimaki, T, Study, LC, Magnusson, PKE, Oldehinkel, AJ, Penninx, B, Poiasek, O, Porteous, DJ, Rauramaa, R, Samani, NJ, Scott, J, Shu, XO, van der Harst, P, Wagenknecht, LE, Wareham, NJ, Watkins, H, Weir, DR, Wickremasinghe, AR, Wu, TC, Zheng, W, Bouchard, C, Christensen, K, Evans, MK, Gudnason, V, Horta, BL, Kardia, SLR, Liu, YM, Pereira, AC, Psaty, BM, Ridker, PM, van Dam, RM, Gauderman, WJ, Zhu, XF, Mook, Dennis, Fornage, M, Rotimi, CN, Cupples, LA, Kelly, TN, Fox, ER, Hayward, C, Duijn, Cornelia, Tai, ES, Wong, TY, Kooperberg, C, Palmas, W, Rice, K, Morrison, AC, Elliott, P, Caulfield, MJ, Munroe, PB, Rao, DC, Province, MA, and Levy, D
Published: 2018

4. Assessing the effects of time and spatial averaging in 15N chemical shift/15N-1H dipolar correlation solid state NMR experiments

Author: Straus, SK, Scott, WR, and Watts, A
Subjects: Physics::Biological Physics, Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules
Abstract: The effect of time and spatial averaging on (15)N chemical shift/(1)H-(15)N dipolar correlation spectra, i.e., PISEMA spectra, of alpha-helical membrane peptides and proteins is investigated. Three types of motion are considered: (a) Librational motion of the peptide planes in the alpha-helix; (b) rotation of the helix about its long axis; and (c) wobble of the helix about a nominal tilt angle. A 2ns molecular dynamics simulation of helix D of bacteriorhodopsin is used to determine the effect of librational motion on the spectral parameters. For the time averaging, the rotation and wobble of this same helix are modelled by assuming either Gaussian motion about the respective angles or a uniform distribution of a given width. For the spatial averaging, regions of possible (15)N chemical shift/(1)H-(15)N dipolar splittings are computed for a distribution of rotations and/or tilt angles of the helix. The computed spectra show that under certain motional modes the (15)N chemical shift/(1)H-(15)N dipolar pairs for each of the residues do not form patterns which mimic helical wheel patterns. As a result, the unambiguous identification of helix tilt and helix rotation without any resonance assignments or on the basis of a single assignment may be difficult.
Published: 2016

5. Data Descriptor: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls

Author: Flannick, J, Fuchsberger, C, Mahajan, A, Teslovich, TM, Agarwala, V, Gaulton, KJ, Caulkins, L, Koesterer, R, Ma, C, Moutsianas, L, McCarthy, DJ, Rivas, MA, Perry, JRB, Sim, X, Blackwell, TW, Robertson, NR, Rayner, NW, Cingolani, P, Locke, AE, Tajes, JF, Highland, HM, Dupuis, J, Chines, PS, Lindgren, CM, Hartl, C, Jackson, AU, Chen, H, Huyghe, JR, De Bunt, MV, Pearson, RD, Kumar, A, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Grarup, N, Stringham, HM, Gamazon, ER, Lee, J, Chen, Y, Scott, RA, Below, JE, Chen, P, Huang, J, Go, MJ, Stitzel, ML, Pasko, D, Parker, SCJ, Varga, TV, Green, T, Beer, NL, Day-Williams, AG, Ferreira, T, Fingerlin, T, Horikoshi, M, Hu, C, Huh, I, Ikram, MK, Kim, B-J, Kim, Y, Kim, YJ, Kwon, M-S, Lee, S, Lin, K-H, Maxwell, TJ, Nagai, Y, Wang, X, Welch, RP, Yoon, J, Zhang, W, Barzilai, N, Voight, BF, Han, B-G, Jenkinson, CP, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Manning, A, Ng, MCY, Palmer, ND, Balkau, B, Stancakova, A, Abboud, HE, Boeing, H, Giedraitis, V, Prabhakaran, D, Gottesman, O, Scott, J, Carey, J, Kwan, P, Grant, G, Smith, JD, Neale, BM, Purcell, S, Butterworth, AS, Howson, JMM, Lee, HM, Lu, Y, Kwak, S-H, Zhao, W, Danesh, J, Lam, VKL, Park, KS, Saleheen, D, So, WY, Tam, CHT, Afzal, U, Aguilar, D, Arya, R, Aung, T, Chan, E, Navarro, C, Cheng, C-Y, Palli, D, Correa, A, Curran, JE, Rybin, D, Farook, VS, Fowler, SP, Freedman, BI, Griswold, M, Hale, DE, Hicks, PJ, Khor, C-C, Kumar, S, Lehne, B, Thuillier, D, Lim, WY, Liu, J, Loh, M, Musani, SK, Puppala, S, Scott, WR, Yengo, L, Tan, S-T, Taylor, HA, Thameem, F, Wilson, G, Wong, TY, Njolstad, PR, Levy, JC, Mangino, M, Bonnycastle, LL, Schwarzmayr, T, Fadista, J, Surdulescu, GL, Herder, C, Groves, CJ, Wieland, T, Bork-Jensen, J, Brandslund, I, Christensen, C, Koistinen, HA, Doney, ASF, Kinnunen, L, Esko, T, Farmer, AJ, Hakaste, L, Hodgkiss, D, Kravic, J, Lyssenko, V, Hollensted, M, Jorgensen, ME, Jorgensen, T, Ladenvall, C, Justesen, JM, Karajamaki, A, Kriebel, J, Rathmann, W, Lannfelt, L, Lauritzen, T, Narisu, N, Linneberg, A, Melander, O, Milani, L, Neville, M, Orho-Melander, M, Qi, L, Qi, Q, Roden, M, Rolandsson, O, Swift, A, Rosengren, AH, Stirrups, K, Wood, AR, Mihailov, E, Blancher, C, Carneiro, MO, Maguire, J, Poplin, R, Shakir, K, Fennell, T, DePristo, M, De Angelis, MH, Deloukas, P, Gjesing, AP, Jun, G, Nilsson, PM, Murphy, J, Onofrio, R, Thorand, B, Hansen, T, Meisinger, C, Hu, FB, Isomaa, B, Karpe, F, Liang, L, Peters, A, Huth, C, O'Rahilly, SP, Palmer, CNA, Pedersen, O, Rauramaa, R, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Watanabe, RM, Syvanen, A-C, Bergman, RN, Bharadwaj, D, Bottinger, EP, Cho, YS, Chandak, GR, Chan, JC, Chia, KS, Daly, MJ, Ebrahim, SB, Langenberg, C, Elliott, P, Jablonski, KA, Lehman, DM, Jia, W, Ma, RC, Pollin, TI, Sandhu, M, Tandon, N, Froguel, P, Barroso, I, Teo, YY, Zeggini, E, Loos, RJF, Small, KS, Ried, JS, DeFronzo, RA, Grallert, H, Glaser, B, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Walker, M, Banks, E, Gieger, C, Ingelsson, E, Im, HK, Illig, T, Franks, PW, Buck, G, Trakalo, J, Buck, D, Prokopenko, I, Magi, R, Lind, L, Farjoun, Y, Owen, KR, Gloyn, AL, Strauch, K, Tuomi, T, Kooner, JS, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Donnelly, P, Morris, AD, Hattersley, AT, Bowden, DW, Collins, FS, Atzmon, G, Chambers, JC, Spector, TD, Laakso, M, Strom, TM, Bell, GI, Blangero, J, Duggirala, R, Tai, E, McVean, G, Hanis, CL, Wilson, JG, Seielstad, M, Frayling, TM, Meigs, JB, Cox, NJ, Sladek, R, Lander, ES, Gabriel, S, Mohlke, KL, Meitinger, T, Groop, L, Abecasis, G, Scott, LJ, Morris, AP, Kang, HM, Altshuler, D, Burtt, NP, Florez, JC, Boehnke, M, McCarthy, MI, Flannick, J, Fuchsberger, C, Mahajan, A, Teslovich, TM, Agarwala, V, Gaulton, KJ, Caulkins, L, Koesterer, R, Ma, C, Moutsianas, L, McCarthy, DJ, Rivas, MA, Perry, JRB, Sim, X, Blackwell, TW, Robertson, NR, Rayner, NW, Cingolani, P, Locke, AE, Tajes, JF, Highland, HM, Dupuis, J, Chines, PS, Lindgren, CM, Hartl, C, Jackson, AU, Chen, H, Huyghe, JR, De Bunt, MV, Pearson, RD, Kumar, A, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Grarup, N, Stringham, HM, Gamazon, ER, Lee, J, Chen, Y, Scott, RA, Below, JE, Chen, P, Huang, J, Go, MJ, Stitzel, ML, Pasko, D, Parker, SCJ, Varga, TV, Green, T, Beer, NL, Day-Williams, AG, Ferreira, T, Fingerlin, T, Horikoshi, M, Hu, C, Huh, I, Ikram, MK, Kim, B-J, Kim, Y, Kim, YJ, Kwon, M-S, Lee, S, Lin, K-H, Maxwell, TJ, Nagai, Y, Wang, X, Welch, RP, Yoon, J, Zhang, W, Barzilai, N, Voight, BF, Han, B-G, Jenkinson, CP, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Manning, A, Ng, MCY, Palmer, ND, Balkau, B, Stancakova, A, Abboud, HE, Boeing, H, Giedraitis, V, Prabhakaran, D, Gottesman, O, Scott, J, Carey, J, Kwan, P, Grant, G, Smith, JD, Neale, BM, Purcell, S, Butterworth, AS, Howson, JMM, Lee, HM, Lu, Y, Kwak, S-H, Zhao, W, Danesh, J, Lam, VKL, Park, KS, Saleheen, D, So, WY, Tam, CHT, Afzal, U, Aguilar, D, Arya, R, Aung, T, Chan, E, Navarro, C, Cheng, C-Y, Palli, D, Correa, A, Curran, JE, Rybin, D, Farook, VS, Fowler, SP, Freedman, BI, Griswold, M, Hale, DE, Hicks, PJ, Khor, C-C, Kumar, S, Lehne, B, Thuillier, D, Lim, WY, Liu, J, Loh, M, Musani, SK, Puppala, S, Scott, WR, Yengo, L, Tan, S-T, Taylor, HA, Thameem, F, Wilson, G, Wong, TY, Njolstad, PR, Levy, JC, Mangino, M, Bonnycastle, LL, Schwarzmayr, T, Fadista, J, Surdulescu, GL, Herder, C, Groves, CJ, Wieland, T, Bork-Jensen, J, Brandslund, I, Christensen, C, Koistinen, HA, Doney, ASF, Kinnunen, L, Esko, T, Farmer, AJ, Hakaste, L, Hodgkiss, D, Kravic, J, Lyssenko, V, Hollensted, M, Jorgensen, ME, Jorgensen, T, Ladenvall, C, Justesen, JM, Karajamaki, A, Kriebel, J, Rathmann, W, Lannfelt, L, Lauritzen, T, Narisu, N, Linneberg, A, Melander, O, Milani, L, Neville, M, Orho-Melander, M, Qi, L, Qi, Q, Roden, M, Rolandsson, O, Swift, A, Rosengren, AH, Stirrups, K, Wood, AR, Mihailov, E, Blancher, C, Carneiro, MO, Maguire, J, Poplin, R, Shakir, K, Fennell, T, DePristo, M, De Angelis, MH, Deloukas, P, Gjesing, AP, Jun, G, Nilsson, PM, Murphy, J, Onofrio, R, Thorand, B, Hansen, T, Meisinger, C, Hu, FB, Isomaa, B, Karpe, F, Liang, L, Peters, A, Huth, C, O'Rahilly, SP, Palmer, CNA, Pedersen, O, Rauramaa, R, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Watanabe, RM, Syvanen, A-C, Bergman, RN, Bharadwaj, D, Bottinger, EP, Cho, YS, Chandak, GR, Chan, JC, Chia, KS, Daly, MJ, Ebrahim, SB, Langenberg, C, Elliott, P, Jablonski, KA, Lehman, DM, Jia, W, Ma, RC, Pollin, TI, Sandhu, M, Tandon, N, Froguel, P, Barroso, I, Teo, YY, Zeggini, E, Loos, RJF, Small, KS, Ried, JS, DeFronzo, RA, Grallert, H, Glaser, B, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Walker, M, Banks, E, Gieger, C, Ingelsson, E, Im, HK, Illig, T, Franks, PW, Buck, G, Trakalo, J, Buck, D, Prokopenko, I, Magi, R, Lind, L, Farjoun, Y, Owen, KR, Gloyn, AL, Strauch, K, Tuomi, T, Kooner, JS, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Donnelly, P, Morris, AD, Hattersley, AT, Bowden, DW, Collins, FS, Atzmon, G, Chambers, JC, Spector, TD, Laakso, M, Strom, TM, Bell, GI, Blangero, J, Duggirala, R, Tai, E, McVean, G, Hanis, CL, Wilson, JG, Seielstad, M, Frayling, TM, Meigs, JB, Cox, NJ, Sladek, R, Lander, ES, Gabriel, S, Mohlke, KL, Meitinger, T, Groop, L, Abecasis, G, Scott, LJ, Morris, AP, Kang, HM, Altshuler, D, Burtt, NP, Florez, JC, Boehnke, M, and McCarthy, MI
Abstract: To investigate the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) to high resolution, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia catalogued variation from whole-genome sequencing of 2,657 European individuals and exome sequencing of 12,940 individuals of multiple ancestries. Over 27M SNPs, indels, and structural variants were identified, including 99% of low-frequency (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.1-5%) non-coding variants in the whole-genome sequenced individuals and 99.7% of low-frequency coding variants in the whole-exome sequenced individuals. Each variant was tested for association with T2D in the sequenced individuals, and, to increase power, most were tested in larger numbers of individuals (>80% of low-frequency coding variants in ~82 K Europeans via the exome chip, and ~90% of low-frequency non-coding variants in ~44 K Europeans via genotype imputation). The variants, genotypes, and association statistics from these analyses provide the largest reference to date of human genetic information relevant to T2D, for use in activities such as T2D-focused genotype imputation, functional characterization of variants or genes, and other novel analyses to detect associations between sequence variation and T2D.
Published: 2017

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

Author: Graff, M, Scott, RA, Justice, AE, Young, KL, Feitosa, MF, Barata, L, Winkler, TW, Chu, AY, Mahajan, A, Hadley, D, Xue, LT, Workalemahu, T, Heard-Costa, NL, den Hoed, M, Ahluwalia, TS, Qi, QB, Ngwa, JS, Renstrom, F, Quaye, L, Eicher, JD, Hayes, J E, Cornelis, M, Kutalik, Z, Lim, E, Luan, J, Huffman, JE, Zhang, WH, Zhao, W, Griffin, PJ, Haller, T, Ahmad, Shahzad, Marques-Vidal, PM, Bien, S, Yengo, L, Teumer, A, Smith, AV, Kumari, M, Harder, MN, Justesen, JM, Kleber, ME, Hollensted, M, Lohman, K, Rivera, NV, Whitfield, JB, Zhao, JH, Stringham, HM, Lyytikainen, LP, Huppertz, C, Willemsen, G, Peyrot, WJ, Wu, Fenny, Kristiansson, K, Demirkan, Ayse, Fornage, M, Hassinen, M, Bielak, LF, Cadby, G, Tanaka, T, Magl, R, van der Most, PJ, Jackson, AU, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Vitart, V, Marten, J, Navarro, P, Bellis, C, Pasko, D, Johansson, A, Snitker, S, Cheng, YC, Eriksson, J, Lim, U, Aadahl, M, Adair, LS, Amin, Najaf, Balkau, B, Auvinen, J, Beilby, J, Bergman, RN, Bergmann, S, Bertoni, AG, Blangero, J, Bonnefond, A, Bonnycastle, LL, Borja, JB, Brage, S, Busonero, F, Buyske, S, Campbell, H, Chines, PS, Collins, FS, Corre, T, Smith, GD, Delgado, GE, Dueker, N, Dorr, M, Ebeling, T, Eiriksdottir, G, Esko, T, Faul, JD, Fu, M, Faerch, K, Gieger, C, Glaser, S, Gong, J, Gordon-Larsen, P, Grallert, H, Grammer, TB, Grarup, N, Van Grootheest, G, Harald, K, Hastie, ND, Havulinna, AS, Hernandez, D, Hindorff, L, Hocking, LJ, Holmens, OL, Holzapfel, C, Hottenga, JJ, Huang, J, Huang, T, Hui, J, Huth, C, Hutri-Kahonen, N, James, AL, Jansson, JO, Jhun, MA, Juonala, M, Kinnunen, L, Koistinen, HA, Kolcic, I, Komulainen, P, Kuusisto, J, Kvaloy, K, Kahonen, M, Lakka, TA, Launer, LJ, Lehne, B, Lindgren, CM, Lorentzon, M, Luben, R, Marre, M (Michel), Milaneschi, Y, Monda, KL, Montgomery, GW, de Moor, MHM, Mulas, A, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Musk, AW, Mannikko, R, Mannisto, S, Narisu, N, Nauck, M, Nettleton, JA, Nolte, IM, Oldehinkel, AJ (A.), Olden, M, Ong, KK, Padmanabhan, S, Paternoster, L, Perez, J, Perola, M, Peters, A, Peters, U, Peyser, PA, Prokopenko, I, Puolijoki, H, Raitakari, OT, Rankinen, T, Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ, Rawal, R, Ridker, PM, Rose, LM, Rudan, I, Sarti, C, Sarzynski, MA, Savonen, K, Scott, WR, Sanna, S, Shuldiner, AR, Sidney, S, Silbernagel, G, Smith, BH, Smith, JA, Snieder, H, Stancakova, A, Sternfeld, B, Swift, AJ, Tammelin, T, Tan, ST, Thorand, B, Thuillier, D, Vandenput, L, Vestergaard, H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Vohl, MC, Volker, U, Waeber, G, Walker, M, Wild, S, Wong, A, Wright, AF, Zillikens, M.C., Zubair, N, Haiman, CA, LeMarchand, L, Gyllensten, U, Ohlsson, C, Ohlsson, CC, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André, Perusse, L, Wilson, JF, Hayward, C, Polasek, O, Cucca, F, Hveem, K, Hartman, CA, Tonjes, A, Bandinelli, S, Palmer, LJ, Kardia, SLR, Rauramaa, R, Sorensen, TIA, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Penninx, B, de Geus, EJC, Boomsma, DI, Lehtimaki, T, Mangino, M, Laakso, M, Bouchard, C, Martin, NG, Kuh, D, Liu, YM, Linneberg, A, Marz, W, Strauch, K, Kivimaki, M, Harris, TB, Gudnason, V, Volzke, H, Qi, L, Jarvelin, MR, Chambers, JC, Kooner, JS, Froguel, P, Kooperberg, C, Vollenweider, P, Hallmans, G, Hansen, T, Pedersen, O, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Langenberg, C, Weir, DR, Porteous, DJ, Boerwinkle, E, Chasman, DI, Abecasis, GR, Barroso, I, McCarthy, MI, Frayling, TM, O'Connell, JR, Duijn, Cornelia, Boehnke, M, Heid, IM, Mohlke, KL, Strachan, DP, Fox, CS, Liu, CT, Hirschhorn, JN, Klein, RJ, Johnson, AD, Borecki, IB, Franks, PW, North, KE, Cupples, LA, Loos, RJF, Kilpelainen, TO, Graff, M, Scott, RA, Justice, AE, Young, KL, Feitosa, MF, Barata, L, Winkler, TW, Chu, AY, Mahajan, A, Hadley, D, Xue, LT, Workalemahu, T, Heard-Costa, NL, den Hoed, M, Ahluwalia, TS, Qi, QB, Ngwa, JS, Renstrom, F, Quaye, L, Eicher, JD, Hayes, J E, Cornelis, M, Kutalik, Z, Lim, E, Luan, J, Huffman, JE, Zhang, WH, Zhao, W, Griffin, PJ, Haller, T, Ahmad, Shahzad, Marques-Vidal, PM, Bien, S, Yengo, L, Teumer, A, Smith, AV, Kumari, M, Harder, MN, Justesen, JM, Kleber, ME, Hollensted, M, Lohman, K, Rivera, NV, Whitfield, JB, Zhao, JH, Stringham, HM, Lyytikainen, LP, Huppertz, C, Willemsen, G, Peyrot, WJ, Wu, Fenny, Kristiansson, K, Demirkan, Ayse, Fornage, M, Hassinen, M, Bielak, LF, Cadby, G, Tanaka, T, Magl, R, van der Most, PJ, Jackson, AU, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Vitart, V, Marten, J, Navarro, P, Bellis, C, Pasko, D, Johansson, A, Snitker, S, Cheng, YC, Eriksson, J, Lim, U, Aadahl, M, Adair, LS, Amin, Najaf, Balkau, B, Auvinen, J, Beilby, J, Bergman, RN, Bergmann, S, Bertoni, AG, Blangero, J, Bonnefond, A, Bonnycastle, LL, Borja, JB, Brage, S, Busonero, F, Buyske, S, Campbell, H, Chines, PS, Collins, FS, Corre, T, Smith, GD, Delgado, GE, Dueker, N, Dorr, M, Ebeling, T, Eiriksdottir, G, Esko, T, Faul, JD, Fu, M, Faerch, K, Gieger, C, Glaser, S, Gong, J, Gordon-Larsen, P, Grallert, H, Grammer, TB, Grarup, N, Van Grootheest, G, Harald, K, Hastie, ND, Havulinna, AS, Hernandez, D, Hindorff, L, Hocking, LJ, Holmens, OL, Holzapfel, C, Hottenga, JJ, Huang, J, Huang, T, Hui, J, Huth, C, Hutri-Kahonen, N, James, AL, Jansson, JO, Jhun, MA, Juonala, M, Kinnunen, L, Koistinen, HA, Kolcic, I, Komulainen, P, Kuusisto, J, Kvaloy, K, Kahonen, M, Lakka, TA, Launer, LJ, Lehne, B, Lindgren, CM, Lorentzon, M, Luben, R, Marre, M (Michel), Milaneschi, Y, Monda, KL, Montgomery, GW, de Moor, MHM, Mulas, A, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Musk, AW, Mannikko, R, Mannisto, S, Narisu, N, Nauck, M, Nettleton, JA, Nolte, IM, Oldehinkel, AJ (A.), Olden, M, Ong, KK, Padmanabhan, S, Paternoster, L, Perez, J, Perola, M, Peters, A, Peters, U, Peyser, PA, Prokopenko, I, Puolijoki, H, Raitakari, OT, Rankinen, T, Rasmussen-Torvik, LJ, Rawal, R, Ridker, PM, Rose, LM, Rudan, I, Sarti, C, Sarzynski, MA, Savonen, K, Scott, WR, Sanna, S, Shuldiner, AR, Sidney, S, Silbernagel, G, Smith, BH, Smith, JA, Snieder, H, Stancakova, A, Sternfeld, B, Swift, AJ, Tammelin, T, Tan, ST, Thorand, B, Thuillier, D, Vandenput, L, Vestergaard, H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Vohl, MC, Volker, U, Waeber, G, Walker, M, Wild, S, Wong, A, Wright, AF, Zillikens, M.C., Zubair, N, Haiman, CA, LeMarchand, L, Gyllensten, U, Ohlsson, C, Ohlsson, CC, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, André, Perusse, L, Wilson, JF, Hayward, C, Polasek, O, Cucca, F, Hveem, K, Hartman, CA, Tonjes, A, Bandinelli, S, Palmer, LJ, Kardia, SLR, Rauramaa, R, Sorensen, TIA, Tuomilehto, J, Salomaa, V, Penninx, B, de Geus, EJC, Boomsma, DI, Lehtimaki, T, Mangino, M, Laakso, M, Bouchard, C, Martin, NG, Kuh, D, Liu, YM, Linneberg, A, Marz, W, Strauch, K, Kivimaki, M, Harris, TB, Gudnason, V, Volzke, H, Qi, L, Jarvelin, MR, Chambers, JC, Kooner, JS, Froguel, P, Kooperberg, C, Vollenweider, P, Hallmans, G, Hansen, T, Pedersen, O, Metspalu, A, Wareham, NJ, Langenberg, C, Weir, DR, Porteous, DJ, Boerwinkle, E, Chasman, DI, Abecasis, GR, Barroso, I, McCarthy, MI, Frayling, TM, O'Connell, JR, Duijn, Cornelia, Boehnke, M, Heid, IM, Mohlke, KL, Strachan, DP, Fox, CS, Liu, CT, Hirschhorn, JN, Klein, RJ, Johnson, AD, Borecki, IB, Franks, PW, North, KE, Cupples, LA, Loos, RJF, and Kilpelainen, TO
Published: 2017

7. Whole-Genome Sequencing Coupled to Imputation Discovers Genetic Signals for Anthropometric Traits

Author: Tachmazidou, I, Suveges, D, Min, JL, Ritchie, GRS, Steinberg, J, Walter, K, Iotchkova, V, Schwartzentruber, J, Huang, J, Memari, Y, McCarthy, S, Crawford, AA, Bombieri, C, Cocca, M, Farmaki, AE, Gaunt, TR, Jousilahti, P, Kooijman, Marjolein, Lehne, B, Malerba, G, Mannisto, S, Matchan, A, Medina Gomez, Maria, Metrustry, SJ, Nag, A, Ntalla, I, Paternoster, L, Rayner, NW, Sala, C, Scott, WR, Shihab, HA, Southam, L, St Pourcain, B, Traglia, M, Trajanoska, Katerina, Zaza, G, Zhang, WH, Artigas, MS, Bansal, N, Benn, M, Chen, ZS, Danecek, P, Lin, WY, Locke, A, Luan, JA, Manning, AK, Mulas, A, Sidore, C, Tybjaerg-Hansen, A, Varbo, A, Zoledziewska, M, Finan, C, Hatzikotoulas, K, Hendricks, AE, Kemp, JP, Moayyeri, A, Panoutsopoulou, K, Szpak, M, Wilson, SG, Boehnke, M, Cucca, F, Di Angelantonio, E, Langenberg, C, Lindgren, C, McCarthy, MI, Morris, AP, Nordestgaard, BG, Scott, RA, Tobin, MD, Wareham, NJ, Burton, P, Chambers, JC, Smith, GD, Dedoussis, G, Felix, Janine, Franco Duran, OH, Gambaro, G, Gasparini, P, Hammond, CJ, Hofman, Bert, Jaddoe, Vincent, Kleber, M, Kooner, JS, Perola, M, Relton, C, Ring, SM, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Salomaa, V, Spector, TD, Stegle, O, Toniolo, D, Uitterlinden, André, Barroso, I, Greenwood, CMT, Perry, JRB, Walker, BR, Butterworth, AS, Xue, YL, Durbin, R, Small, KS, Soranzo, N, Timpson, NJ, Zeggini, E, Tachmazidou, I, Suveges, D, Min, JL, Ritchie, GRS, Steinberg, J, Walter, K, Iotchkova, V, Schwartzentruber, J, Huang, J, Memari, Y, McCarthy, S, Crawford, AA, Bombieri, C, Cocca, M, Farmaki, AE, Gaunt, TR, Jousilahti, P, Kooijman, Marjolein, Lehne, B, Malerba, G, Mannisto, S, Matchan, A, Medina Gomez, Maria, Metrustry, SJ, Nag, A, Ntalla, I, Paternoster, L, Rayner, NW, Sala, C, Scott, WR, Shihab, HA, Southam, L, St Pourcain, B, Traglia, M, Trajanoska, Katerina, Zaza, G, Zhang, WH, Artigas, MS, Bansal, N, Benn, M, Chen, ZS, Danecek, P, Lin, WY, Locke, A, Luan, JA, Manning, AK, Mulas, A, Sidore, C, Tybjaerg-Hansen, A, Varbo, A, Zoledziewska, M, Finan, C, Hatzikotoulas, K, Hendricks, AE, Kemp, JP, Moayyeri, A, Panoutsopoulou, K, Szpak, M, Wilson, SG, Boehnke, M, Cucca, F, Di Angelantonio, E, Langenberg, C, Lindgren, C, McCarthy, MI, Morris, AP, Nordestgaard, BG, Scott, RA, Tobin, MD, Wareham, NJ, Burton, P, Chambers, JC, Smith, GD, Dedoussis, G, Felix, Janine, Franco Duran, OH, Gambaro, G, Gasparini, P, Hammond, CJ, Hofman, Bert, Jaddoe, Vincent, Kleber, M, Kooner, JS, Perola, M, Relton, C, Ring, SM, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Salomaa, V, Spector, TD, Stegle, O, Toniolo, D, Uitterlinden, André, Barroso, I, Greenwood, CMT, Perry, JRB, Walker, BR, Butterworth, AS, Xue, YL, Durbin, R, Small, KS, Soranzo, N, Timpson, NJ, and Zeggini, E
Published: 2017

8. Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians

Author: Palmer, ND, Scott, WR, Zhang, W, Loh, M, Tan, S-T, Lehne, B, Afzal, U, Peralta, J, Saxena, R, Ralhan, S, Wander, GS, Bozaoglu, K, Sanghera, DK, Elliott, P, Scott, J, Chambers, JC, Kooner, JS, Palmer, ND, Scott, WR, Zhang, W, Loh, M, Tan, S-T, Lehne, B, Afzal, U, Peralta, J, Saxena, R, Ralhan, S, Wander, GS, Bozaoglu, K, Sanghera, DK, Elliott, P, Scott, J, Chambers, JC, and Kooner, JS
Abstract: South Asians are 1/4 of the world's population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on genome-wide association studies of common SNPs in Europeans. To evaluate the contribution of DNA sequence variation to the higher levels of central obesity (defined as waist hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, WHR) among South Asians compared to Europeans we carried out: i) a genome-wide association analysis of >6M genetic variants in 10,318 South Asians with focused analysis of population-specific SNPs; ii) an exome-wide association analysis of ~250K SNPs in protein-coding regions in 2,637 South Asians; iii) a comparison of risk allele frequencies and effect sizes of 48 known WHR SNPs in 12,240 South Asians compared to Europeans. In genome-wide analyses, we found no novel associations between common genetic variants and WHR in South Asians at P<5x10-8; variants showing equivocal association with WHR (P<1x10-5) did not replicate at P<0.05 in an independent cohort of South Asians (N = 1,922) or in published, predominantly European meta-analysis data. In the targeted analyses of 122,391 population-specific SNPs we also found no associations with WHR in South Asians at P<0.05 after multiple testing correction. Exome-wide analyses showed no new associations between genetic variants and WHR in South Asians, either individually at P<1.5x10-6 or grouped by gene locus at P<2.5x10-6. At known WHR loci, risk allele frequencies were not higher in South Asians compared to Europeans (P = 0.77), while effect sizes were unexpectedly smaller in South Asians than Europeans (P<5.0x10-8). Our findings argue against an important contribution for population-specific or cosmopolitan genetic variants underlying the increased risk of central obesity in South Asians compared to Europeans.
Published: 2016

9. y New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

Author: Lu, YC, Day, FR, Gustafsson, S, Buchkovich, ML, Na, JB, Bataille, V, Cousminer, DL, Dastani, Z, Drong, AW, Esko, T, Evans, DM, Falchi, M, Feitosa, MF, Ferreira, T, Hedman, AK, Haring, R, Hysi, PG, Iles, MM, Justice, AE, Kanoni, S, Lagou, V, Li, R, Li, X, Locke, A, Lu, C, Magi, R, Perry, JRB, Pers, TH, Qi, QB, Sanna, M, Schmidt, EM, Scott, WR, Shungin, D, Teumer, A, Vinkhuyzen, AAE, Walker, RW, Westra, HJ, Zhang, MF, Zhang, WH, Zhao, JH, Zhu, ZH, Afzal, U, Ahluwalia, TS, Bakker, SJL, Bellis, C, Bonnefond, A, Borodulin, K, Buchman, AS, Cederholm, T, Choh, AC, Choi, HJ, Curran, JE, de Groot, LCPGM (Lisette), De Jager, PL, Dhonukshe-Rutten, RAM, Enneman, Anke, Eury, E, Evans, DS, Forsen, T, Friedrich, N, Fumeron, F, Garcia, ME, Gartner, S, Han, BG, Havulinna, AS, Hayward, C, Hernandez, D, Hillege, H, Ittermann, T, Kent, JW, Kolcic, I, Laatikainen, T, Lahti, J, Leach, IM, Lee, CG, Lee, JY, Liu, T, Liu, YF, Lobbens, S, Loh, M, Lyytikainen, LP, Medina-Gomez, C, Michaelsson, K, Nalls, MA, Nielson, CM, Oozageer, L, Pascoe, L, Paternoster, L, Polasek, O, Ripatti, S, Sarzynski, MA, Shin, CS, Narancic, NS, Spira, D, Srikanth, P, Steinhagen-Thiessen, E, Sung, YJ, Swart, KMA, Taittonen, L, Tanaka, T, Tikkanen, E, van der Velde, Nathalie, Schoor, NM, Verweij, N (Niek), Wright, AF, Yu, L, Zmuda, JM, Eklund, N, Forrester, T, Grarup, N, Jackson, AU, Kristiansson, K, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Lichtner, P, Luan, JA, Mahajan, A, Mannisto, S, Palmer, CD, Ried, JS, Scott, RA, Stancakova, A, Wagner, PJ, Demirkan, Ayse, Doring, A, Gudnason, V, Kiel, DP, Kuhnel, B, Mangino, M, McKnight, B, Menni, C, O'Connell, JR, Oostra, Ben, Shuldiner, AR, Song, KJ, Vandenput, L, Duijn, Cornelia, Vollenweider, P, White, CC, Boehnke, M, Boettcher, Y, Cooper, RS, Forouhi, NG, Gieger, C, Grallert, H, Hingorani, A, Jorgensen, T, Jousilahti, P, Kivimaki, M, Kumari, M, Laakso, M, Langenberg, C, Linneberg, A, Luke, A, McKenzie, CA, Palotie, A, Pedersen, O, Peters, A, Strauch, K, Tayo, BO, Wareham, NJ, Bennett, DA, Bertram, L, Blangero, J, Bluher, M, Bouchard, C, Campbell, H, Cho, NH, Cummings, SR, Czerwinski, SA, Demuth, I, Eckardt, R, Eriksson, JG, Ferrucci, L, Franco Duran, OH, Froguel, P, Gansevoort, RT, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hastie, N, Heliovaara, M, Hofman, Bert, Jordan, JM, Jula, A, Kahonen, M, Kajantie, E, Knekt, PB, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Lehtimaki, T, Lind, L, Liu, YM, Orwoll, ES, Osmond, C, Perola, M, Perusse, L, Raitakari, OT, Rankinen, T, Rao, DC, Rice, TK, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rudan, I, Salomaa, V, Sorensen, TIA, Stumvoll, M, Tonjes, A, Towne, B, Tranah, GJ, Tremblay, A, Uitterlinden, André, van der Harst, P, Vartiainen, E, Viikari, JS, Vitart, V, Vohl, MC, Volzke, H, Walker, M, Wallaschofski, H, Wild, S, Wilson, JF, Yengo, L, Bishop, DT, Borecki, IB, Chambers, JC, Cupples, LA, Dehghan, Abbas, Deloukas, P, Fatemifar, G, Fox, C, Furey, TS, Franke, L, Han, JL, Hunter, DJ, Karjalainen, J, Karpe, F, Kaplan, RC, Kooner, JS, McCarthy, MI, Murabito, JM, Morris, AP, Bishop, JAN, North, KE, Ohlsson, C, Ong, KK, Prokopenko, I, Richards, JB, Schadt, EE, Spector, TD, Widen, E, Willer, CJ, Yang, Jiaqi, Ingelsson, E, Mohlke, KL, Hirschhorn, JN, Pospisilik, JA, Zillikens, M.C., Lindgren, C, Kilpelainen, TO, Loos, RJF, Lu, YC, Day, FR, Gustafsson, S, Buchkovich, ML, Na, JB, Bataille, V, Cousminer, DL, Dastani, Z, Drong, AW, Esko, T, Evans, DM, Falchi, M, Feitosa, MF, Ferreira, T, Hedman, AK, Haring, R, Hysi, PG, Iles, MM, Justice, AE, Kanoni, S, Lagou, V, Li, R, Li, X, Locke, A, Lu, C, Magi, R, Perry, JRB, Pers, TH, Qi, QB, Sanna, M, Schmidt, EM, Scott, WR, Shungin, D, Teumer, A, Vinkhuyzen, AAE, Walker, RW, Westra, HJ, Zhang, MF, Zhang, WH, Zhao, JH, Zhu, ZH, Afzal, U, Ahluwalia, TS, Bakker, SJL, Bellis, C, Bonnefond, A, Borodulin, K, Buchman, AS, Cederholm, T, Choh, AC, Choi, HJ, Curran, JE, de Groot, LCPGM (Lisette), De Jager, PL, Dhonukshe-Rutten, RAM, Enneman, Anke, Eury, E, Evans, DS, Forsen, T, Friedrich, N, Fumeron, F, Garcia, ME, Gartner, S, Han, BG, Havulinna, AS, Hayward, C, Hernandez, D, Hillege, H, Ittermann, T, Kent, JW, Kolcic, I, Laatikainen, T, Lahti, J, Leach, IM, Lee, CG, Lee, JY, Liu, T, Liu, YF, Lobbens, S, Loh, M, Lyytikainen, LP, Medina-Gomez, C, Michaelsson, K, Nalls, MA, Nielson, CM, Oozageer, L, Pascoe, L, Paternoster, L, Polasek, O, Ripatti, S, Sarzynski, MA, Shin, CS, Narancic, NS, Spira, D, Srikanth, P, Steinhagen-Thiessen, E, Sung, YJ, Swart, KMA, Taittonen, L, Tanaka, T, Tikkanen, E, van der Velde, Nathalie, Schoor, NM, Verweij, N (Niek), Wright, AF, Yu, L, Zmuda, JM, Eklund, N, Forrester, T, Grarup, N, Jackson, AU, Kristiansson, K, Kuulasmaa, T, Kuusisto, J, Lichtner, P, Luan, JA, Mahajan, A, Mannisto, S, Palmer, CD, Ried, JS, Scott, RA, Stancakova, A, Wagner, PJ, Demirkan, Ayse, Doring, A, Gudnason, V, Kiel, DP, Kuhnel, B, Mangino, M, McKnight, B, Menni, C, O'Connell, JR, Oostra, Ben, Shuldiner, AR, Song, KJ, Vandenput, L, Duijn, Cornelia, Vollenweider, P, White, CC, Boehnke, M, Boettcher, Y, Cooper, RS, Forouhi, NG, Gieger, C, Grallert, H, Hingorani, A, Jorgensen, T, Jousilahti, P, Kivimaki, M, Kumari, M, Laakso, M, Langenberg, C, Linneberg, A, Luke, A, McKenzie, CA, Palotie, A, Pedersen, O, Peters, A, Strauch, K, Tayo, BO, Wareham, NJ, Bennett, DA, Bertram, L, Blangero, J, Bluher, M, Bouchard, C, Campbell, H, Cho, NH, Cummings, SR, Czerwinski, SA, Demuth, I, Eckardt, R, Eriksson, JG, Ferrucci, L, Franco Duran, OH, Froguel, P, Gansevoort, RT, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hastie, N, Heliovaara, M, Hofman, Bert, Jordan, JM, Jula, A, Kahonen, M, Kajantie, E, Knekt, PB, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Lehtimaki, T, Lind, L, Liu, YM, Orwoll, ES, Osmond, C, Perola, M, Perusse, L, Raitakari, OT, Rankinen, T, Rao, DC, Rice, TK, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rudan, I, Salomaa, V, Sorensen, TIA, Stumvoll, M, Tonjes, A, Towne, B, Tranah, GJ, Tremblay, A, Uitterlinden, André, van der Harst, P, Vartiainen, E, Viikari, JS, Vitart, V, Vohl, MC, Volzke, H, Walker, M, Wallaschofski, H, Wild, S, Wilson, JF, Yengo, L, Bishop, DT, Borecki, IB, Chambers, JC, Cupples, LA, Dehghan, Abbas, Deloukas, P, Fatemifar, G, Fox, C, Furey, TS, Franke, L, Han, JL, Hunter, DJ, Karjalainen, J, Karpe, F, Kaplan, RC, Kooner, JS, McCarthy, MI, Murabito, JM, Morris, AP, Bishop, JAN, North, KE, Ohlsson, C, Ong, KK, Prokopenko, I, Richards, JB, Schadt, EE, Spector, TD, Widen, E, Willer, CJ, Yang, Jiaqi, Ingelsson, E, Mohlke, KL, Hirschhorn, JN, Pospisilik, JA, Zillikens, M.C., Lindgren, C, Kilpelainen, TO, and Loos, RJF
Abstract: To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (P < 5 x 10(-8)), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near COBLL1/GRB14, IGF2BP1, PLA2G6, CRTC1) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.
Published: 2016

10. Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels

Author: Leeuwen, Elisa, Sabo, A, Bis, JC, Huffman, JE, Manichaikul, A, Smith, AV, Feitosa, MF, Demissie, S, Joshi, PK, Duan, Q, Marten, J, van Klinken, JB, Surakka, I, Nolte, IM, Zhang, WH, Mbarek, H, Li-Gao, RF, Trompet, S, Verweij, N, Evangelou, E, Lyytikainen, LP, Tayo, BO, Deelen, J, van der Most, PJ, van der Laan, SW, Arking, DE, Morrison, A, Dehghan, Abbas, Franco Duran, OH, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Sijbrands, E.J.G., Uitterlinden, André, Mychaleckyj, JC, Campbell, A (Archie), Hocking, LJ, Padmanabhan, S, Brody, JA, Rice, KM, White, CC, Harris, T, Isaacs, Aaron, Campbell, H, Lange, LA, Rudan, I, Kolcic, I, Navarro, P, Zemunik, T, Salomaa, V, Kooner, AS, Kooner, JS, Lehne, B, Scott, WR, Tan, ST, de Geus, EJ, Milaneschi, Y, Penninx, BWJH, Willemsen, G, de Mutsert, R, Ford, I, Gansevoort, RT, Segura-Lepe, M P, Raitakari, OT, Viikari, JS, Nikus, K, Forrester, T, McKenzie, CA, de Craen, AJM, den Ruijter, HM, Pasterkamp, G, Snieder, H, Oldehinkel, AJ, Slagboom, PE (Eline), Cooper, RS, Kahonen, M, Lehtimaki, T, Elliott, P, van der Harst, P, Jukema, JW, Mook-Kanamori, DO, Boomsma, DI, Chambers, JC, Swertz, M, Ripatti, S, van Dijk, KW, Vitart, V, Polasek, O, Hayward, C, Wilson, JG, Wilson, JF, Gudnason, V, Rich, SS, Psaty, BM, Borecki, IB, Boerwinkle, E, Rotter, JI, Cupples, LA, Duijn, Cornelia, Leeuwen, Elisa, Sabo, A, Bis, JC, Huffman, JE, Manichaikul, A, Smith, AV, Feitosa, MF, Demissie, S, Joshi, PK, Duan, Q, Marten, J, van Klinken, JB, Surakka, I, Nolte, IM, Zhang, WH, Mbarek, H, Li-Gao, RF, Trompet, S, Verweij, N, Evangelou, E, Lyytikainen, LP, Tayo, BO, Deelen, J, van der Most, PJ, van der Laan, SW, Arking, DE, Morrison, A, Dehghan, Abbas, Franco Duran, OH, Hofman, Bert, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Sijbrands, E.J.G., Uitterlinden, André, Mychaleckyj, JC, Campbell, A (Archie), Hocking, LJ, Padmanabhan, S, Brody, JA, Rice, KM, White, CC, Harris, T, Isaacs, Aaron, Campbell, H, Lange, LA, Rudan, I, Kolcic, I, Navarro, P, Zemunik, T, Salomaa, V, Kooner, AS, Kooner, JS, Lehne, B, Scott, WR, Tan, ST, de Geus, EJ, Milaneschi, Y, Penninx, BWJH, Willemsen, G, de Mutsert, R, Ford, I, Gansevoort, RT, Segura-Lepe, M P, Raitakari, OT, Viikari, JS, Nikus, K, Forrester, T, McKenzie, CA, de Craen, AJM, den Ruijter, HM, Pasterkamp, G, Snieder, H, Oldehinkel, AJ, Slagboom, PE (Eline), Cooper, RS, Kahonen, M, Lehtimaki, T, Elliott, P, van der Harst, P, Jukema, JW, Mook-Kanamori, DO, Boomsma, DI, Chambers, JC, Swertz, M, Ripatti, S, van Dijk, KW, Vitart, V, Polasek, O, Hayward, C, Wilson, JG, Wilson, JF, Gudnason, V, Rich, SS, Psaty, BM, Borecki, IB, Boerwinkle, E, Rotter, JI, Cupples, LA, and Duijn, Cornelia
Published: 2016

11. The South Asian genome

Author: Chambers, JC, Abbott, J, Zhang, W, Turro, E, Scott, WR, Tan, ST, Afzal, U, Afaq, S, Loh, M, Lehne, B, O'Reilly, P, Gaulton, KJ, Pearson, RD, Li, X, Lavery, A, Vandrovcova, J, Wass, MN, Miller, K, Sehmi, J, Oozageer, L, Kooner, IK, Al-Hussaini, A, Mills, R, Grewal, J, Panoulas, V, Lewin, AM, Northwood, K, Wander, GS, Geoghegan, F, Li, Y, Wang, J, Aitman, TJ, McCarthy, MI, Scott, J, Butcher, S, Elliott, P, Kooner, JS, and Zhi, Degui
Subjects: Spatial Epidemiology, Epidemiology, lcsh:Medicine, Population genetics, Genome-wide association study, Human genetic variation, Cardiovascular, Genome, South Asians, Medicine and Health Sciences, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, DNA sequencing, Aetiology, lcsh:Science, Genetics of disease, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Diabetes, Genomics, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Asians, Research Design, Genetic Epidemiology, Sequence Analysis, Research Article, Human, Biotechnology, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Asia, Genotype, Clinical Research Design, General Science & Technology, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, European Continental Ancestry Group, Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Research and Analysis Methods, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Asian People, Clinical Research, Underpinning research, Genetic variation, Humans, Polymorphism, Molecular Biology Techniques, Sequencing Techniques, education, Molecular Biology, Alleles, Metabolic and endocrine, Whole genome sequencing, Population Biology, Genome, Human, Whites, lcsh:R, Human Genome, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Genetic Variation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, DNA, Genome analysis, Genome Analysis, Genetics, Population, lcsh:Q, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Genetics of disease Microarrays Variant genotypes Population genetics Sequence alignment Alleles The genetic sequence variation of people from the Indian subcontinent who comprise one-quarter of the world's population, is not well described. We carried out whole genome sequencing of 168 South Asians, along with whole-exome sequencing of 147 South Asians to provide deeper characterisation of coding regions. We identify 12,962,155 autosomal sequence variants, including 2,946,861 new SNPs and 312,738 novel indels. This catalogue of SNPs and indels amongst South Asians provides the first comprehensive map of genetic variation in this major human population, and reveals evidence for selective pressures on genes involved in skin biology, metabolism, infection and immunity. Our results will accelerate the search for the genetic variants underlying susceptibility to disorders such as type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease which are highly prevalent amongst South Asians. Whole genome sequencing to discover genetic variants underlying type-2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and related phenotypes amongst Indian Asians. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust cBRC 2011-13 (JS Kooner [PI], JC Chambers).
Published: 2014
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12. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

Author: Winkler, TW, Justice, AE, Graff, M, Barata, L, Feitosa, MF, Chu, S, Czajkowski, J, Esko, T, Fall, T, Kilpelainen, TO, Lu, YC, Magi, R, Mihailov, E, Pers, TH, Rueger, S, Teumer, A, Ehret, GB, Ferreira, T, Heard-Costa, NL, Karjalainen, J, Lagou, V, Mahajan, A, Neinast, MD, Prokopenko, I, Simino, J, Teslovich, TM, Jansen, R, Westra, HJ, White, CC, Absher, D, Ahluwalia, TS, Ahmad, Shahzad, Albrecht, E, Alves, AC, Bragg-Gresham, JL, de Craen, AJM, Bis, JC, Bonnefond, A, Boucher, G, Cadby, G, Cheng, YC, Chiang, CWK, Delgado, G, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, N, Eklund, N, Eiriksdottir, G, Eriksson, J, Feenstra, B, Fischer, K (Kirsten), Frau, F, Galesloot, TE, Geller, F, Goel, A, Gorski, M, Grammer, TB, Gustafsson, S, Haitjema, S, Hottenga, JJ (Jouke Jan), Huffman, JE, Jackson, AU, Jacobs, KB, Johansson, A, Kaakinen, M, Kleber, ME, Lahti, J, Leach, IM, Lehne, B, Liu, YF, Lo, KS, Lorentzon, M, Luan, J, Madden, PAF, Mangino, M, McKnight, B, Medina Gomez, Maria, Monda, KL, Montasser, ME, Muller, G, Muller-Nurasyid, M, Nolte, IM (Ilja), Panoutsopoulou, K, Pascoe, L, Paternoster, L, Rayner, NW, Renstrom, F, Rizzi, F, Rose, LM, Ryan, KA, Salo, P, Sanna, S, Scharnagl, H, Shi, JX, Smith, AV, Southam, L, Stancakova, A, Steinthorsdottir, V, Strawbridge, RJ, Sung, YJ, Tachmazidou, I, Tanaka, T, Thorleifsson, G, Trompet, S, Pervjakova, N, Tyrer, JP, Vandenput, L, Laan, Sander, van der Velde, Nathalie, van Setten, J, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Verweij, N (Niek), Vlachopoulou, E, Waite, LL, Wang, SR, Wang, ZM, Wild, SH, Willenborg, C, Wilson, JF, Wong, A, Yang, Jiaqi, Yengo, L, Yerges-Armstrong, LM, Yu, L, Zhang, WH, Zhao, JH, Andersson, EA, Bakker, SJL, Baldassarre, D, Banasik, K, Barcella, M, Barlassina, C, Bellis, C, Benaglio, P, Blangero, J, Bluher, M, Bonnet, F, Bonnycastle, LL, Boyd, HA, Bruinenberg, M, Buchman, AS, Campbell, H, Chen, YDI, Chines, PS, Claudi-Boehm, S, Cole, J, Collins, FS, de Geus, EJC, de Groot, LCPGM (Lisette), Dimitriou, M, Duan, J, Enroth, S, Eury, E, Farmaki, AE, Forouhi, NG, Friedrich, N, Gejman, PV, Gigante, B, Glorioso, N, Go, AS, Gottesman, O, Grassler, J, Grallert, H, Grarup, N, Gu, YM, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies, Hansen, T, Harris, TB, Hartman, CA, Hassinen, M, Hastie, N, Hattersley, AT, Heath, AC, Henders, AK, Hernandez, D, Hillege, H, Holmen, O, Hovingh, KG, Hui, J, Husemoen, LL, Hutri-Kahonen, N, Hysi, PG, Illig, T, De Jager, PL, Jalilzadeh, S, Jorgensen, T, Jukema, JW, Juonala, M, Kanoni, S, Karaleftheri, M, Khaw, KT, Kinnunen, L, Kittner, SJ, Koenig, W, Kolcic, I, Kovacs, P, Krarup, NT, Kratzer, W, Kruger, J, Kuh, D, Kumari, M, Kyriakou, T, Langenberg, C, Lannfelt, L, Lanzani, C, Lotay, V, Launer, LJ (Lenore), Leander, K, Lindstrom, J, Linneberg, A, Liu, YP, Lobbens, S, Luben, R, Lyssenko, V, Mannisto, S, Magnusson, PK, McArdle, WL, Menni, C, Merger, S, Milani, L, Montgomery, GW, Morris, AP, Narisu, N, Nelis, M, Ong, KK, Palotie, A, Perusse, L, Pichler, I, Pilia, MG, Pouta, A, Rheinberger, M, Ribel-Madsen, R, Richards, 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Abstract: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age-and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to similar to 2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men <= 50y, men > 50y, women <= 50y, women > 50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR< 5%) age-specific effects, of which 11 had larger effects in younger (< 50y) than in older adults (>= 50y). No sex-dependent effects were identified for BMI. For WHRadjBMI, we identified 44 loci (27 previously established for main effects, 17 novel) with sex-specific effects, of which 28 showed larger effects in women than in men, five showed larger effects in men than in women, and 11 showed opposite effects between sexes. No age-dependent effects were identified for WHRadjBMI. This is the first genome-wide interaction meta-analysis to report convincing evidence of age-dependent genetic effects on BMI. In addition, we confirm the sex-specificity of genetic effects on WHRadjBMI. These results may providefurther insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexually dimorphism of body shap
Published: 2015

13. Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations

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Gillham-Nasenya, I, Gottesman, O, Graff, M, Grodstein, F, Gu, C, Haley, C, Hammond, CJ, Harris, SE, Harris, TB, Hastie, ND, Heard-Costa, NL, Heikkila, K, Hocking, LJ, Homuth, G, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huang, JY, Huffman, JE, Hysi, Pirro G., Arfan Ikram, M., Ingelsson, E, Joensuu, A, Johansson, A, Jousilahti, P, Jukema, JW, Kahonen, M, Kamatani, Y, Kanoni, S, Kerr, SM, Khan, NM, Koellinger, P, Koistinen, HA, Kooner, MK, Kubo, M, Kuusisto, J, Lahti, J, Launer, Lenore J., Lea, RA, Lehne, B, Lehtimaki, T, Liewald, DCM, Lind, L, Loh, M, Lokki, ML, London, SJ, Loomis, SJ, Loukola, A, Lu, YC, Lumley, T, Lundqvist, A, Mannisto, S, Marques-Vidal, P, Masciullo, C, Matchan, A, Mathias, RA, Matsuda, K, Meigs, JB, Meisinger, C, Meitinger, T, Menni, C, Mentch, FD, Mihailov, E, Milani, L, Montasser, ME, Montgomery, G, Morrison, A, Myers, RH, Nadukuru, R, Navarro, P, Nelis, M, Nieminen, MS, Nolte, Ilja M., O'Connor, GT, Ogunniyi, A, Padmanabhan, S, Palmas, WR, Pankow, JS, Patarcic, I, Pavani, F, Peyser, PA, Pietilainen, K, Poulter, N, Prokopenko, I, Ralhan, S, Redmond, P, Rich, SS, Rissanen, H, Robino, A, Rose, LM, Rose, R, Sala, C, Salako, B, Salomaa, V, Sarin, AP, Saxena, R, Schmidt, Heléna, Scott, LJ, Scott, WR, Sennblad, B, Seshadri, S, Sever, P, Shrestha, S, Smith, BH, Smith, JA, Soranzo, N, Sotoodehnia, N, Southam, L, Stanton, AV, Stathopoulou, MG, Strauch, K, Strawbridge, RJ, Suderman, MJ, Tandon, N, Tang, ST, Taylor, KD, Tayo, BO, Toglhofer, AM, Tomaszewski, M, Tsernikova, N, Tuomilehto, J, Uitterlinden, André, Vaidya, D, Vlieg, AV, van Setten, J, Vasankari, T, Vedantam, S, Vlachopoulou, E, Vozzi, D, Vuoksimaa, E, Waldenberger, M, Ware, EB, Wentworth-Shields, W, Whitfield, JB, Wild, S, Willemsen, G, Yajnik, CS, Yao, J, Zaza, G, Zhu, XF, Salem, RM, Melbye, M, Bisgaard, H, Samani, NJ, Cusi, D, Mackey, DA, Cooper, RS, Froguel, P, Pasterkamp, G, Grant, SFA, Hakonarson, H, Ferrucci, L, Scott, RA, Morris, AD, Palmer, CNA, Dedoussis, G, Deloukas, P, Bertram, L, Lindenberger, U, Berndt, SI, Lindgren, CM, Timpson, NJ, Tonjes, A, Munroe, PB, Sorensen, TIA, Rotimi, CN, Arnett, DK, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Kardia, SLR, Balkau, B, Gambaro, G, Morris, AP, Eriksson, JG, Wright, MJ, Martin, NG, Hunt, SC, Starr, JM, Deary, IJ, Griffiths, LR, Tiemeier, Henning, Pirastu, N, Kaprio, J, Wareham, NJ, Peerusse, L, Wilson, JG, Girotto, G, Caulfield, MJ, Raitakari, O, Boomsma, DI, Gieger, C, van der Harst, P, Hicks, AA, Kraft, P, Sinisalo, J, Knekt, P, Johannesson, M, Magnusson, PKE, Hamsten, A, Schmidt, R, Borecki, IB, Vartiainen, E, Becker, DM, Bharadwaj, D, Mohlke, KL, Boehnke, M, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Sanghera, DK, Teumer, A, Zeggini, E, Metspalu, A, Gasparini, P, Ulivi, S, Ober, C, Toniolo, D, Rudan, I, Porteous, DJ, Ciullo, M, Spector, Tim D., Hayward, C, Dupuis, J, Loos, RJF, Wright, AF, Chandak, GR, Vollenweider, P, Shuldiner, AR, Ridker, PM, Rotter, JI, Sattar, N, Gyllensten, U, North, KE, Pirastu, M, Psaty, Bruce M., Weir, DR, Laakso, M, Gudnason, V, Takahashi, A, Chambers, JC, Kooner, JS, Strachan, DP, Campbell, H, Hirschhorn, JN, Perola, M, Polasek, O, and Wilson, JF
Abstract: Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders(1), and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness(2). However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power(3,4). Here we use runs of homozygosity to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts, and find statistically significant associations between summed runs of homozygosity and four complex traits: height, forced expiratory lung volume in one second, general cognitive ability and educational attainment (P < 1 x 10(-300), 2.1 x 10(-6), 2.5 x 10(-10) and 1.8 x 10(-10), respectively). In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months' less education. Similar effect sizes were found across four continental groups and populations with different degrees of genome-wide homozygosity, providing evidence that homozygosity, rather than confounding, directly contributes to phenotypic variance. Contrary to earlier reports in substantially smaller samples(5,6), no evidence was seen of an influence of genome-wide homozygosity on blood pressure and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, or ten other cardio-metabolic traits. Since directional dominance is predicted for traits under directional evolutionary selection(7), this study provides evidence that increased stature and cognitive function have been positively sele
Published: 2015

14. Innovation in Medical Care Organizations: A Synthetic Review

Author: Scott Wr
Subjects: Organizational innovation, business.industry, Communication, 05 social sciences, MEDLINE, 050109 social psychology, General Medicine, Models, Theoretical, Medical care, Organizational Innovation, Hospital Administration, Nursing, 0502 economics and business, Medical Laboratory Science, Medicine, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Diffusion of Innovation, business, Decision Making, Organizational, 050203 business & management
Published: 1990
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15. A New Technique to Produce Josephson Junctions Based on Controlled Crack Growth Techniques

Author: Perez, I, primary, Granata, D, additional, and Scott, WR, additional
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16. Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Fatigue in Titanium Aluminide XD Composite

Author: Lee, EU, primary, Granata, DM, additional, and Scott, WR, additional
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17. Acoustic Emission Response Characteristics of Metal Matrix Composites

Author: Pipes, RB, primary, Ballintyn, NJ, additional, Scott, WR, additional, and Carlyle, JM, additional
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18. Summary

Author: Scott, WR, primary
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19. Correlating Interphase Glass Transition and Interfacial Microcracking in Polymer Composites

Author: Sottos, NR, primary, Hiemstra, DL, additional, and Scott, WR, additional
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20. The organization of medical care services: toward an integrated theoretical model

Author: Scott Wr
Subjects: Government, business.industry, 05 social sciences, MEDLINE, Organizational culture, 050109 social psychology, General Medicine, Medical care, Organizational Culture, Privatization, United States, Interinstitutional Relations, Nursing, Models, Organizational, 0502 economics and business, Medicine, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Comprehensive Health Care, business, Delivery of Health Care, 050203 business & management
Published: 1994

21. The TGF-ß1 gene codon 10 polymorphism contributes to the genetic predisposition to nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes.

Author: Patel A, Scott WR, Lympany PA, Rippin JD, Gill GV, Barnett AH, Bain SC, and Warren 3/UK GoKind Study Group
Abstract: AIMS: We hypothesize that transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), a multifunctional growth factor which plays a key role in the development of tissue fibrosis, may be involved in the pathophysiology of diabetic nephropathy. Our aim was to examine three polymorphisms within the TGF-beta 1 gene, in codons 10, 25 and 263, for association with nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes. METHODS: We conducted a large case-control study using cases with Type 1 diabetes and clinical nephropathy. Controls were Type 1 diabetic subjects who have been injecting insulin for at least 50 years and have extremely low risk of nephropathy. Genotyping was by polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primers. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the frequency of the TGF-beta 1 codon 10 genotypes in the diabetic nephropathy group (n = 420) when compared with the controls (n = 410, P = 0.007). There were no significant differences when the frequencies of the TGF-beta1 codons 25 and 263 genotypes in the diabetic nephropathy group were compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS: In our study the TGF-beta 1 codon 10 polymorphism is associated with nephropathy in Type 1 diabetes and variation in this gene may contribute to the genetic predisposition to this complication in Type 1 diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published: 2005
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22. Does Practice Make Perfect?

Author: Ann Barry Flood, Scott Wr, and Ewy W
Subjects: Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Risk level, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, MEDLINE, Patient care, Low volume, Hospital volume, Acute care, Emergency medicine, Health care, medicine, business, Surgical patients
Abstract: The effect of a greater volume of patients with similar conditions being treated at a hospital on the outcomes achieved is studied using a variety of categories of patients, 15 surgical and 2 medical, and involving 550,000 patients treated in over 1,200 nonfederal United States acute care hospitals. After demonstrating that there are significant differences in the outcomes of patients, taking into account patient health status, the authors examine the impact of being treated in a hospital with a high or low volume of similar patients. Strong and consistent evidence is found that high volume is associated with better outcomes for surgical patients, which supports regionalizing patient care by procedure. Two additional variables, relative difficulty of the procedure and risk level of the patients, are analyzed to determine whether they change the relationship between volume and outcome. Some evidence is found that low-volume hospitals are associated with the poorest outcome for low-risk surgical patients. The evidence for medical patients is weak and mixed. Possible alternative explanations for the observed findings for surgical and medical patients are discussed.
Published: 1984
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23. Does Practice Make Perfect?

Author: Ewy W, Ann Barry Flood, and Scott Wr
Subjects: Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Emergency medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, medicine, National level, Regression analysis, business, Outcome (game theory), Volume (compression), Surgical patients
Abstract: The effect of a greater volume of patients with similar conditions being treated at a hospital on the outcomes achieved is investigated for almost 500,000 selected surgical and medical patients treated in over 1,200 nonfederal United States hospitals. In Part I the authors found strong and consistent evidence for surgical patients that high volume is associated with better outcome; evidence for medical patients was mixed. In this paper the authors include other hospital variables related both to volume and outcome--hospital size, teaching status, and expenditures--to determine whether they mask the true relationship; still, strong and consistent evidence that greater volume produces better outcome was found for both surgical and medical patients. This relation was significant for low-, medium-, and high-risk patients. Among the hospital variations added, only size was consistently and strongly related to outcome; greater size was associated with poorer outcome after accounting for volume. The potential importance of the findings for reducing deaths and days in hospital on a national level is discussed. The evidence is strongly supportive of the need for policies that would promote greater regionalization of a given service, and not greater size, to obtain better quality outcome for patients treated.
Published: 1984
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24. Review Article : Costs and Quality of Hospital Care: a Review of the Literature

Author: Flood Ab and Scott Wr
Subjects: business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, General Medicine, Hospital care, 0506 political science, Ambulatory care, Nursing, 0502 economics and business, 050602 political science & public administration, Medicine, Quality (business), 050207 economics, business, media_common
Published: 1984
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25. The effects of frosts on seed production in subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum)

Author: Scott, WR
Abstract: Six cultivars of subterranean clover, Geraldton, Yarloop, Woogenellup, Clare, Mount Barker, and Tallarook, were grown as ungrazed swards at 1,700 feet a.s.1. in the Mackenzie Country of South Canterbury, New Zealand. In this very frosty environment seed yields tended to increase with increasing lateness of flowering although Clare and perhaps Tallarook appeared to be more frost susceptible than the other cultivars. It is suggested that the deleterious effects of frosts in reducing the seed yields of subterranean clover may have been overemphasized in the past and that the trend for seed yields to increase with increasing lateness of flowering can be partially explained by differences in runner production.
Published: 1971
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26. The relationship between intensity and duration of medical services and outcomes for hospitalized patients

Author: Ewy W, W H Forrest, Scott Wr, Ann Barry Flood, and Brown Bw
Subjects: Service (business), Inpatients, business.industry, Medical record, media_common.quotation_subject, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Statistics as Topic, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Better than Expected, Health Services, Length of Stay, medicine.disease, Hospitals, United States, Stratified sampling, Hospitalization, Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care, Health care, medicine, Medical history, Quality (business), Medical emergency, Duration (project management), business, media_common
Abstract: Much recent research on the delivery of care in health care systems has concentrated on the issues of cost containment and assurance of quality care. The research reported here is part of a larger study examining the organizational and contextual determinants of service intensity and duration, costs, and quality of outcomes for hospitalized patients in a stratified random sample of short-term hospitals in the United States. The focus of this paper is on the relationship between the services received by patients in a hospital and their resultant outcomes, i.e., do hospitals which provide more services to their patients achieve better outcomes? The adequacy of previous research bearing on this relationship is briefly reviewed and the problems for defining these measures and for making comparisons among hospitals with differing case mixes of patients are described. Data for assessing the amount and mix of services and the outcomes of patients were obtained from an abstract of each patient's medical record for over 600,000 patients treated in 17 hospitals. Both for the intensity and duration of services and for outcome, an empirical standardization procedure is used to predict the level of services and outcome required by a patient, given his type of disease and physical status as indicated by various demographic and medical history attributes recorded on the abstract. This procedure allows comparisons of levels of services and outcomes for patients which take into account differences in patient populations. Thus the question being asked finally is whether services in excess of those typically provided to this type of patient produce outcomes better than expected. Using a composite measure of the intensity of specific medical services reflecting the mix, amount, and relative costliness of the services provided, out data clearly supported the expectation that hospitals providing higher than expected levels of specific services to their patients also had better outcomes than expected. When a measure of duration of services-the number of days stay-was used, hospitals which kept their patients longer than expected had worse outcomes than expected for their patients. However, when these results were examined for regional effects, strong evidence for regional variations in medical practice was found, especially for duration of services. Further, when the relationship between services and outcomes was examined for hospitals within regions, there was no longer any relationship between duration of services and outcomes. In contrast, even within regions, hospitals providing more specific services to patients also had better outcomes.
Published: 1979

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

Author: Wheeler, E, Leong, A, Liu, C-T, Hivert, M-F, Strawbridge, RJ, Podmore, C, Li, M, Yao, J, Sim, X, Hong, J, Chu, AY, Zhang, W, Wang, X, Chen, P, Maruthur, NM, Porneala, BC, Sharp, SJ, Jia, Y, Kabagambe, EK, Chang, L-C, Chen, W-M, Elks, CE, Evans, DS, Fan, Q, Giulianini, F, Go, MJ, Hottenga, J-J, Hu, Y, Jackson, AU, Kanoni, S, Kim, YJ, Kleber, ME, Ladenvall, C, Lecoeur, C, Lim, S-H, Lu, Y, Mahajan, A, Marzi, C, Nalls, MA, Navarro, P, Nolte, IM, Rose, LM, Rybin, DV, Sanna, S, Shi, Y, Stram, DO, Takeuchi, F, Tan, SP, Van Der Most, PJ, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV, Wong, A, Yengo, L, Zhao, W, Goel, A, Martinez Larrad, MT, Radke, D, Salo, P, Tanaka, T, Van Iperen, EPA, Abecasis, G, Afaq, S, Alizadeh, BZ, Bertoni, AG, Bonnefond, A, Böttcher, Y, Bottinger, EP, Campbell, H, Carlson, OD, Chen, C-H, Cho, YS, Garvey, WT, Gieger, C, Goodarzi, MO, Grallert, H, Hamsten, A, Hartman, CA, Herder, C, Hsiung, CA, Huang, J, Igase, M, Isono, M, Katsuya, T, Khor, C-C, Kiess, W, Kohara, K, Kovacs, P, Lee, J, Lee, W-J, Lehne, B, Li, H, Liu, J, Lobbens, S, Luan, J, Lyssenko, V, Meitinger, T, Miki, T, Miljkovic, I, Moon, S, Mulas, A, Müller, G, Müller-Nurasyid, M, Nagaraja, R, Nauck, M, Pankow, JS, Polasek, O, Prokopenko, I, Ramos, PS, Rasmussen-Torvik, L, Rathmann, W, Rich, SS, Robertson, NR, Roden, M, Roussel, R, Rudan, I, Scott, RA, Scott, WR, Sennblad, B, Siscovick, DS, Strauch, K, Sun, L, Swertz, M, Tajuddin, SM, Taylor, KD, Teo, Y-Y, Tham, YC, Tönjes, A, Wareham, NJ, Willemsen, G, Wilsgaard, T, Hingorani, AD, EPIC-CVD Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Lifelines Cohort Study, Egan, J, Ferrucci, L, Hovingh, GK, Jula, A, Kivimaki, M, Kumari, M, Njølstad, I, Palmer, CNA, Serrano Ríos, M, Stumvoll, M, Watkins, H, Aung, T, Blüher, M, Boehnke, M, Boomsma, DI, Bornstein, Chambers, JC, Chasman, DI, Chen, Y-DI, Chen, Y-T, Cheng, C-Y, Cucca, F, De Geus, EJC, Deloukas, P, Evans, MK, Fornage, M, Friedlander, Y, Froguel, P, Groop, L, Gross, MD, Harris, TB, Hayward, C, Heng, C-K, Ingelsson, E, Kato, N, Kim, B-J, Koh, W-P, Kooner, JS, Körner, A, Kuh, D, Kuusisto, J, Laakso, M, Lin, X, Liu, Y, Loos, RJF, Magnusson, PKE, März, W, McCarthy, MI, Oldehinkel, AJ, Ong, KK, Pedersen, NL, Pereira, MA, Peters, A, Ridker, PM, Sabanayagam, C, Sale, M, Saleheen, D, Saltevo, J, Schwarz, PE, Sheu, WHH, Snieder, H, Spector, TD, Tabara, Y, Tuomilehto, J, Van Dam, RM, Wilson, JG, Wilson, JF, Wolffenbuttel, BHR, Wong, TY, Wu, J-Y, Yuan, J-M, Zonderman, AB, Soranzo, N, Guo, X, Roberts, DJ, Florez, JC, Sladek, R, Dupuis, J, Morris, AP, Tai, E-S, Selvin, E, Rotter, JI, Langenberg, C, Barroso, I, and Meigs, JB
Subjects: Hemoglobin A, Glycosylated, endocrine system diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, phenotype, genetic variation, nutritional and metabolic diseases, humans, 3. Good health, Genome-Wide Association Study, risk
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to diagnose type 2 diabetes (T2D) and assess glycemic control in patients with diabetes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 18 HbA1c-associated genetic variants. These variants proved to be classifiable by their likely biological action as erythrocytic (also associated with erythrocyte traits) or glycemic (associated with other glucose-related traits). In this study, we tested the hypotheses that, in a very large scale GWAS, we would identify more genetic variants associated with HbA1c and that HbA1c variants implicated in erythrocytic biology would affect the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. We therefore expanded the number of HbA1c-associated loci and tested the effect of genetic risk-scores comprised of erythrocytic or glycemic variants on incident diabetes prediction and on prevalent diabetes screening performance. Throughout this multiancestry study, we kept a focus on interancestry differences in HbA1c genetics performance that might influence race-ancestry differences in health outcomes. METHODS & FINDINGS: Using genome-wide association meta-analyses in up to 159,940 individuals from 82 cohorts of European, African, East Asian, and South Asian ancestry, we identified 60 common genetic variants associated with HbA1c. We classified variants as implicated in glycemic, erythrocytic, or unclassified biology and tested whether additive genetic scores of erythrocytic variants (GS-E) or glycemic variants (GS-G) were associated with higher T2D incidence in multiethnic longitudinal cohorts (N = 33,241). Nineteen glycemic and 22 erythrocytic variants were associated with HbA1c at genome-wide significance. GS-G was associated with higher T2D risk (incidence OR = 1.05, 95% CI 1.04-1.06, per HbA1c-raising allele, p = 3 × 10-29); whereas GS-E was not (OR = 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.01, p = 0.60). In Europeans and Asians, erythrocytic variants in aggregate had only modest effects on the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. Yet, in African Americans, the X-linked G6PD G202A variant (T-allele frequency 11%) was associated with an absolute decrease in HbA1c of 0.81%-units (95% CI 0.66-0.96) per allele in hemizygous men, and 0.68%-units (95% CI 0.38-0.97) in homozygous women. The G6PD variant may cause approximately 2% (N = 0.65 million, 95% CI 0.55-0.74) of African American adults with T2D to remain undiagnosed when screened with HbA1c. Limitations include the smaller sample sizes for non-European ancestries and the inability to classify approximately one-third of the variants. Further studies in large multiethnic cohorts with HbA1c, glycemic, and erythrocytic traits are required to better determine the biological action of the unclassified variants. CONCLUSIONS: As G6PD deficiency can be clinically silent until illness strikes, we recommend investigation of the possible benefits of screening for the G6PD genotype along with using HbA1c to diagnose T2D in populations of African ancestry or groups where G6PD deficiency is common. Screening with direct glucose measurements, or genetically-informed HbA1c diagnostic thresholds in people with G6PD deficiency, may be required to avoid missed or delayed diagnoses.

28. Professional Power and Professional Effectiveness: The Power of the Surgical Staff and the Quality of Surgical Care in Hospitals

Author: Scott Wr and Ann Barry Flood
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Surgical nursing, Social Psychology, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Surgical care, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Affect (psychology), Health administration, Higher Power, Power (social and political), Family medicine, medicine, Quality (business), Professional association, business, media_common
Abstract: In order to examine some of the determinants of professional effectiveness in professional organizations, a study was conducted relating the power of the surgical organization in hospitals to the quality of surgical care delivered. Data utilized were from approximately 8,000 patients treated by 500 surgeons in 15 short-term general hospitals in the United States. Several measures were employed to assess two aspects of power: (1) the power of the surgical staff and other major role groups within each hospital, and (2) the power of the surgical staff over individual surgeons. Quality of surgical care was measured by mortality and morbidity data, adjusted for differences among patients in pre-surgical condition. Additional variables were introduced to assess surgeon qualifications, hospital characteristics, and features other than power differences which might relate to outcome. Controlling for those variables which did significantly affect adjusted outcomes, regression analyses revealed that the extent of control exercised by the surgical staff over individual surgeons did relate to the quality of care as predicted. However, the power of the surgical staff relative to other groups did not relate significantly to care quality; rather, higher power by the hospital administration was the factor most strongly associated with quality of surgical care.
Published: 1978
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29. Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids

Author: Bentley, Amy R, Sung, Yun J, Brown, Michael R, Winkler, Thomas W, Kraja, Aldi T, Ntalla, Ioanna, Schwander, Karen, Chasman, Daniel I, Lim, Elise, Deng, Xuan, Guo, Xiuqing, Liu, Jingmin, Lu, Yingchang, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Sim, Xueling, Vojinovic, Dina, Huffman, Jennifer E, Musani, Solomon K, Li, Changwei, Feitosa, Mary F, Richard, Melissa A, Noordam, Raymond, Baker, Jenna, Chen, Guanjie, Aschard, Hugues, Bartz, Traci M, Ding, Jingzhong, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Manning, Alisa K, Rankinen, Tuomo, Smith, Albert V, Tajuddin, Salman M, Zhao, Wei, Graff, Mariaelisa, Alver, Maris, Boissel, Mathilde, Chai, Jin Fang, Chen, Xu, Divers, Jasmin, Evangelou, Evangelos, Gao, Chuan, Goel, Anuj, Hagemeijer, Yanick, Harris, Sarah E, Hartwig, Fernando P, He, Meian, Horimoto, Andrea RVR, Hsu, Fang-Chi, Hung, Yi-Jen, Jackson, Anne U, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kuehnel, Brigitte, Leander, Karin, Lin, Keng-Hung, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Matoba, Nana, Nolte, Ilja M, Pietzner, Maik, Prins, Bram, Riaz, Muhammad, Robino, Antonietta, Said, M Abdullah, Schupf, Nicole, Scott, Robert A, Sofer, Tamar, Stancakova, Alena, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tayo, Bamidele O, van der Most, Peter J, Varga, Tibor V, Wang, Tzung-Dau, Wang, Yajuan, Ware, Erin B, Wen, Wanqing, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yanek, Lisa R, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Afaq, Saima, Amin, Najaf, Amini, Marzyeh, Arking, Dan E, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Aung, Tin, Ballantyne, Christie, Barr, R Graham, Bielak, Lawrence F, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bottinger, Erwin P, Broeckel, Ulrich, Brown, Morris, Cade, Brian E, Campbell, Archie, Canouil, Mickael, Charumathi, Sabanayagam, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Christensen, Kaare, Concas, Maria Pina, Connell, John M, de las Fuentes, Lisa, de Silva, H Janaka, de Vries, Paul S, Doumatey, Ayo, Duan, Qing, Eaton, Charles B, Eppinga, Ruben N, Faul, Jessica D, Floyd, James S, Forouhi, Nita G, Forrester, Terrence, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gandin, Ilaria, Gao, He, Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gharib, Sina A, Gigante, Bruna, Giulianini, Franco, Grabe, Hans J, Gu, C Charles, Harris, Tamara B, Heikkinen, Sami, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hirata, Makoto, Hixson, James E, Ikram, M Arfan, Jia, Yucheng, Joehanes, Roby, Johnson, Craig, Jonas, Jost Bruno, Justice, Anne E, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kilpelainen, Tuomas O, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooperberg, Charles, Krieger, Jose E, Kritchevsky, Stephen B, Kubo, Michiaki, Kuusisto, Johanna, Lakka, Timo A, Langefeld, Carl D, Langenberg, Claudia, Launer, Lenore J, Lehne, Benjamin, Lewis, Cora E, Li, Yize, Liang, Jingjing, Lin, Shiow, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Jianjun, Liu, Kiang, Loh, Marie, Lohman, Kurt K, Louie, Tin, Luzzi, Anna, Magi, Reedik, Mahajan, Anubha, Manichaikul, Ani W, McKenzie, Colin A, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Milaneschi, Yuri, Milani, Lili, Mohlke, Karen L, Momozawa, Yukihide, Morris, Andrew P, Murray, Alison D, Nalls, Mike A, Nauck, Matthias, Nelson, Christopher P, North, Kari E, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Palmer, Nicholette D, Papanicolau, George J, Pedersen, Nancy L, Peters, Annette, Peyser, Patricia A, Polasek, Ozren, Poulter, Neil, Raitakari, Olli T, Reiner, Alex P, Renstrom, Frida, Rice, Treva K, Rich, Stephen S, Robinson, Jennifer G, Rose, Lynda M, Rosendaal, Frits R, Rudan, Igor, Schmidt, Carsten O, Schreiner, Pamela J, Scott, William R, Sever, Peter, Shi, Yuan, Sidney, Stephen, Sims, Mario, Smith, Jennifer A, Snieder, Harold, Starr, John M, Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M, Tan, Nicholas YQ, Tang, Hua, Taylor, Kent D, Teo, Yik Ying, Tham, Yih Chung, Tiemeier, Henning, Turner, Stephen T, Uitterlinden, Andre G, van Heemst, Diana, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wang, Heming, Wang, Lan, Wang, Lihua, Wei, Wen Bin, Williams, Christine A, Sr, Wilson Gregory, Wojczynski, Mary K, Yao, Jie, Young, Kristin, Yu, Caizheng, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zhou, Jie, Zonderman, Alan B, Becker, Diane M, Boehnke, Michael, Bowden, Donald W, Chambers, John C, Cooper, Richard S, de Faire, Ulf, Deary, Ian J, Elliott, Paul, 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Chan School of Public Health, University of Washington [Seattle], Wake Forest University, Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University (LSU), Icelandic Heart Association [Kopavogur, Iceland] (IHA), University of Iceland [Reykjavik], University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill] (UNC), University of North Carolina System (UNC), University of Tartu, Metabolic functional (epi)genomics and molecular mechanisms involved in type 2 diabetes and related diseases - UMR 8199 - UMR 1283 (GI3M), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Wake Forest School of Medicine [Winston-Salem], Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Imperial College London, University of Ioannina, University of Oxford [Oxford], University of Groningen [Groningen], Universidade Federal de Pelotas = Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), University of Bristol [Bristol], Huazhong University of Science and Technology [Wuhan] (HUST), Universidade de São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP), Case Western Reserve University [Cleveland], University of Southern California (USC), This project was largely supported by a grant from the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (R01HL118305) and by the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health through the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH). 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Subjects: Male, Linkage disequilibrium, Blood lipids, Genome-wide association study, VARIANTS, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Environment interaction, Genome, Linkage Disequilibrium, MESH: Genotype, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Aged, 80 and over, Genotype, NICOTINE METABOLISM, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Aged, 80 and over, Genetics, MESH: Aged, 0303 health sciences, ARCHITECTURE, [STAT.AP]Statistics [stat]/Applications [stat.AP], Genotype imputation, MESH: Middle Aged, CHOLESTEROL, Smoking, MESH: Life Style, Lifelines Cohort, Middle Aged, Lipids, 3. Good health, ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, RISK LOCI, METAANALYSIS, CIGARETTES, Cholesterol, MESH: Linkage Disequilibrium, MESH: Young Adult, Meta-analysis, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Smoking/blood, Medical genetics, Female, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, [STAT.ME]Statistics [stat]/Methodology [stat.ME], Adult, Metaanalysi, Understanding Society Scientific Group, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Smoking, Adolescent, Genomics, COGENT-Kidney Consortium, Biology, Nicotine metabolism, Risk loci, Metaanalysis, Cigarettes, Article, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, genomics, medicine, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium/genetics, Life Style, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, MESH: Adolescent, Science & Technology, MESH: Humans, Lipids/blood, MESH: Adult, 06 Biological Sciences, MESH: Lipids, MESH: Male, cardiovascular diseases, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, genome-wide association studies, MESH: Genome-Wide Association Study, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: The concentrations of high- and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are influenced by smoking, but it is unknown whether genetic associations with lipids may be modified by smoking. We conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study in 133,805 individuals with follow-up in an additional 253,467 individuals. Combined meta-analyses identified 13 novel loci, some of which were detected only because the association differed by smoking status. Additionally, we demonstrated the importance of including diverse populations, particularly in studies of interactions with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences by ancestry may contribute to novel findings., Editorial summary: A multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study identifies 13 new loci associated with serum lipids.
Published: 2019
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30. Effects of 15N-labelled crop residues and management practices on subsequent winter wheat yields, nitrogen benefits and recovery under field conditions

Author: Kumar, K, Goh, KM, Scott, WR, and Frampton, CM
Published: 2001
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31. Chronic GIPR agonism results in pancreatic islet GIPR functional desensitisation.

Author: Davies I, Adriaenssens AE, Scott WR, Carling D, Murphy KG, Minnion JS, Bloom SR, Jones B, and Tan TM
Subjects: Animals, Mice, Male, beta-Arrestin 2 metabolism, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 drug therapy, Glucose Tolerance Test, Cyclic AMP metabolism, Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone agonists, Receptors, Gastrointestinal Hormone metabolism, Islets of Langerhans metabolism, Islets of Langerhans drug effects, Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide pharmacology, Gastric Inhibitory Polypeptide metabolism, Mice, Inbred C57BL
Abstract: Objectives: There is renewed interest in targeting the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor (GIPR) for treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. G-protein coupled receptor desensitisation is suggested to reduce the long-term efficacy of glucagon-like-peptide 1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists and may similarly affect the efficacy of GIPR agonists. We explored the extent of pancreatic GIPR functional desensitisation with sustained agonist exposure., Methods: A long-acting GIPR agonist, GIP108, was used to probe the effect of sustained agonist exposure on cAMP responses in dispersed pancreatic islets using live cell imaging, with rechallenge cAMP responses after prior agonist treatment used to quantify functional desensitisation. Receptor internalisation and β-arrestin-2 activation were investigated in vitro using imaging-based assays. Pancreatic mouse GIPR desensitisation was assessed in vivo via intraperitoneal glucose tolerance testing., Results: GIP108 treatment led to weight loss and improved glucose homeostasis in mice. Prolonged exposure to GIPR agonists produced homologous functional GIPR desensitisation in isolated islets. GIP108 pre-treatment in vivo also reduced the subsequent anti-hyperglycaemic response to GIP re-challenge. GIPR showed minimal agonist-induced internalisation or β-arrestin-2 activation., Conclusions: Although GIP108 chronic treatment improved glucose tolerance, it also resulted in partial desensitisation of the pancreatic islet GIPR. This suggests that ligands with reduced desensitisation tendency might lead to improved in vivo efficacy. Understanding whether pancreatic GIPR desensitisation affects the long-term benefits of GIPR agonists in humans is vital to design effective metabolic pharmacotherapies., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Tricia MM Tan reports a relationship with Zihipp Ltd that includes: consulting or advisory. Stephen R Bloom reports a relationship with Zihipp Ltd that includes: employment. James S Minnion reports a relationship with Zihipp Ltd that includes: employment. Ben Jones reports a relationship with Metsera Inc that includes: consulting or advisory. Ben Jones reports a relationship with Eli Lilly and Company that includes: funding grants. Ben Jones reports a relationship with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd that includes: funding grants. Stephen R Bloom has patent #PCT/GB2024/050504 licensed to IP2IPO INNOVATIONS LIMITED. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2025
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32. EPAS1 Attenuates Atherosclerosis Initiation at Disturbed Flow Sites Through Endothelial Fatty Acid Uptake.

Author: Pirri D, Tian S, Tardajos-Ayllon B, Irving SE, Donati F, Allen SP, Mammoto T, Vilahur G, Kabir L, Bennett J, Rasool Y, Pericleous C, Mazzei G, McAllan L, Scott WR, Koestler T, Zingg U, Birdsey GM, Miller CL, Schenkel T, Chambers EV, Dunning MJ, Serbanovic-Canic J, Botrè F, Mammoto A, Xu S, Osto E, Han W, Fragiadaki M, and Evans PC
Subjects: Animals, Mice, Cells, Cultured, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Swine, Male, Diet, High-Fat, Endothelium, Vascular metabolism, Endothelium, Vascular pathology, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors metabolism, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors genetics, Atherosclerosis metabolism, Atherosclerosis genetics, Atherosclerosis pathology, Endothelial Cells metabolism, Endothelial Cells pathology, Obesity metabolism, Obesity genetics, Fatty Acids metabolism
Abstract: Background: Atherosclerotic plaques form unevenly due to disturbed blood flow, causing localized endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction. Obesity exacerbates this process, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear. The transcription factor EPAS1 (HIF2A) has regulatory roles in endothelium, but its involvement in atherosclerosis remains unexplored. This study investigates the potential interplay between EPAS1, obesity, and atherosclerosis., Methods: Responses to shear stress were analyzed using cultured porcine aortic EC exposed to flow in vitro coupled with metabolic and molecular analyses and by en face immunostaining of murine aortic EC exposed to disturbed flow in vivo. Obesity and dyslipidemia were induced in mice via exposure to a high-fat diet or through Leptin gene deletion. The role of Epas1 in atherosclerosis was evaluated by inducible endothelial Epas1 deletion, followed by hypercholesterolemia induction (adeno-associated virus-PCSK9 [proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9]; high-fat diet)., Results: En face staining revealed EPAS1 enrichment at sites of disturbed blood flow that are prone to atherosclerosis initiation. Obese mice exhibited substantial reduction in endothelial EPAS1 expression. Sulforaphane, a compound with known atheroprotective effects, restored EPAS1 expression and concurrently reduced plasma triglyceride levels in obese mice. Consistently, triglyceride derivatives (free fatty acids) suppressed EPAS1 in cultured EC by upregulating the negative regulator PHD2. Clinical observations revealed that reduced serum EPAS1 correlated with increased endothelial PHD2 and PHD3 in obese individuals. Functionally, endothelial EPAS1 deletion increased lesion formation in hypercholesterolemic mice, indicating an atheroprotective function. Mechanistic insights revealed that EPAS1 protects arteries by maintaining endothelial proliferation by positively regulating the expression of the fatty acid-handling molecules CD36 (cluster of differentiation 36) and LIPG (endothelial type lipase G) to increase fatty acid beta-oxidation., Conclusions: Endothelial EPAS1 attenuates atherosclerosis at sites of disturbed flow by maintaining EC proliferation via fatty acid uptake and metabolism. This endothelial repair pathway is inhibited in obesity, suggesting a novel triglyceride-PHD2 modulation pathway suppressing EPAS1 expression. These findings have implications for therapeutic strategies addressing vascular dysfunction in obesity., Competing Interests: None.
Published: 2024
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33. Artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiography derived body mass index as a predictor of future cardiometabolic disease.

Author: Pastika L, Sau A, Patlatzoglou K, Sieliwonczyk E, Ribeiro AH, McGurk KA, Khan S, Mandic D, Scott WR, Ware JS, Peters NS, Ribeiro ALP, Kramer DB, Waks JW, and Ng FS
Abstract: The electrocardiogram (ECG) can capture obesity-related cardiac changes. Artificial intelligence-enhanced ECG (AI-ECG) can identify subclinical disease. We trained an AI-ECG model to predict body mass index (BMI) from the ECG alone. Developed from 512,950 12-lead ECGs from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a secondary care cohort, and validated on UK Biobank (UKB) (n = 42,386), the model achieved a Pearson correlation coefficient (r) of 0.65 and 0.62, and an R 2 of 0.43 and 0.39 in the BIDMC cohort and UK Biobank, respectively for AI-ECG BMI vs. measured BMI. We found delta-BMI, the difference between measured BMI and AI-ECG-predicted BMI (AI-ECG-BMI), to be a biomarker of cardiometabolic health. The top tertile of delta-BMI showed increased risk of future cardiometabolic disease (BIDMC: HR 1.15, p < 0.001; UKB: HR 1.58, p < 0.001) and diabetes mellitus (BIDMC: HR 1.25, p < 0.001; UKB: HR 2.28, p < 0.001) after adjusting for covariates including measured BMI. Significant enhancements in model fit, reclassification and improvements in discriminatory power were observed with the inclusion of delta-BMI in both cohorts. Phenotypic profiling highlighted associations between delta-BMI and cardiometabolic diseases, anthropometric measures of truncal obesity, and pericardial fat mass. Metabolic and proteomic profiling associates delta-BMI positively with valine, lipids in small HDL, syntaxin-3, and carnosine dipeptidase 1, and inversely with glutamine, glycine, colipase, and adiponectin. A genome-wide association study revealed associations with regulators of cardiovascular/metabolic traits, including SCN10A, SCN5A, EXOG and RXRG. In summary, our AI-ECG-BMI model accurately predicts BMI and introduces delta-BMI as a non-invasive biomarker for cardiometabolic risk stratification., (© 2024. The Author(s).)
Published: 2024
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34. Integrative genomic analyses in adipocytes implicate DNA methylation in human obesity and diabetes.

Author: McAllan L, Baranasic D, Villicaña S, Brown S, Zhang W, Lehne B, Adamo M, Jenkinson A, Elkalaawy M, Mohammadi B, Hashemi M, Fernandes N, Lambie N, Williams R, Christiansen C, Yang Y, Zudina L, Lagou V, Tan S, Castillo-Fernandez J, King JWD, Soong R, Elliott P, Scott J, Prokopenko I, Cebola I, Loh M, Lenhard B, Batterham RL, Bell JT, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, and Scott WR
Subjects: Humans, Adipocytes metabolism, Obesity metabolism, Genomics, Epigenesis, Genetic, DNA Methylation, Diabetes Mellitus metabolism
Abstract: DNA methylation variations are prevalent in human obesity but evidence of a causative role in disease pathogenesis is limited. Here, we combine epigenome-wide association and integrative genomics to investigate the impact of adipocyte DNA methylation variations in human obesity. We discover extensive DNA methylation changes that are robustly associated with obesity (N = 190 samples, 691 loci in subcutaneous and 173 loci in visceral adipocytes, P < 1 × 10-7). We connect obesity-associated methylation variations to transcriptomic changes at >500 target genes, and identify putative methylation-transcription factor interactions. Through Mendelian Randomisation, we infer causal effects of methylation on obesity and obesity-induced metabolic disturbances at 59 independent loci. Targeted methylation sequencing, CRISPR-activation and gene silencing in adipocytes, further identifies regional methylation variations, underlying regulatory elements and novel cellular metabolic effects. Our results indicate DNA methylation is an important determinant of human obesity and its metabolic complications, and reveal mechanisms through which altered methylation may impact adipocyte functions., (© 2023. The Author(s).)
Published: 2023
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35. Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function.

Author: Hawe JS, Wilson R, Schmid KT, Zhou L, Lakshmanan LN, Lehne BC, Kühnel B, Scott WR, Wielscher M, Yew YW, Baumbach C, Lee DP, Marouli E, Bernard M, Pfeiffer L, Matías-García PR, Autio MI, Bourgeois S, Herder C, Karhunen V, Meitinger T, Prokisch H, Rathmann W, Roden M, Sebert S, Shin J, Strauch K, Zhang W, Tan WLW, Hauck SM, Merl-Pham J, Grallert H, Barbosa EGV, Illig T, Peters A, Paus T, Pausova Z, Deloukas P, Foo RSY, Jarvelin MR, Kooner JS, Loh M, Heinig M, Gieger C, Waldenberger M, and Chambers JC
Subjects: Arthritis, Rheumatoid genetics, Asia, Blood Pressure genetics, Body Mass Index, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes metabolism, CpG Islands, DNA Replication, Europe, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leukocytes metabolism, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, DNA Methylation genetics, Genetic Variation
Abstract: We determined the relationships between DNA sequence variation and DNA methylation using blood samples from 3,799 Europeans and 3,195 South Asians. We identify 11,165,559 SNP-CpG associations (methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTL), P < 10 -14 ), including 467,915 meQTL that operate in trans. The meQTL are enriched for functionally relevant characteristics, including shared chromatin state, High-throuhgput chromosome conformation interaction, and association with gene expression, metabolic variation and clinical traits. We use molecular interaction and colocalization analyses to identify multiple nuclear regulatory pathways linking meQTL loci to phenotypic variation, including UBASH3B (body mass index), NFKBIE (rheumatoid arthritis), MGA (blood pressure) and COMMD7 (white cell counts). For rs6511961 , chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) validates zinc finger protein (ZNF)333 as the likely trans acting effector protein. Finally, we used interaction analyses to identify population- and lineage-specific meQTL, including rs174548 in FADS1, with the strongest effect in CD8 + T cells, thus linking fatty acid metabolism with immune dysregulation and asthma. Our study advances understanding of the potential pathways linking genetic variation to human phenotype., (© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.)
Published: 2022
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36. Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes.

Author: Clark DW, Okada Y, Moore KHS, Mason D, Pirastu N, Gandin I, Mattsson H, Barnes CLK, Lin K, Zhao JH, Deelen P, Rohde R, Schurmann C, Guo X, Giulianini F, Zhang W, Medina-Gomez C, Karlsson R, Bao Y, Bartz TM, Baumbach C, Biino G, Bixley MJ, Brumat M, Chai JF, Corre T, Cousminer DL, Dekker AM, Eccles DA, van Eijk KR, Fuchsberger C, Gao H, Germain M, Gordon SD, de Haan HG, Harris SE, Hofer E, Huerta-Chagoya A, Igartua C, Jansen IE, Jia Y, Kacprowski T, Karlsson T, Kleber ME, Li SA, Li-Gao R, Mahajan A, Matsuda K, Meidtner K, Meng W, Montasser ME, van der Most PJ, Munz M, Nutile T, Palviainen T, Prasad G, Prasad RB, Priyanka TDS, Rizzi F, Salvi E, Sapkota BR, Shriner D, Skotte L, Smart MC, Smith AV, van der Spek A, Spracklen CN, Strawbridge RJ, Tajuddin SM, Trompet S, Turman C, Verweij N, Viberti C, Wang L, Warren HR, Wootton RE, Yanek LR, Yao J, Yousri NA, Zhao W, Adeyemo AA, Afaq S, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Akiyama M, Albert ML, Allison MA, Alver M, Aung T, Azizi F, Bentley AR, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Borja JB, de Borst GJ, Bottinger EP, Broer L, Campbell H, Chanock S, Chee ML, Chen G, Chen YI, Chen Z, Chiu YF, Cocca M, Collins FS, Concas MP, Corley J, Cugliari G, van Dam RM, Damulina A, Daneshpour MS, Day FR, Delgado GE, Dhana K, Doney ASF, Dörr M, Doumatey AP, Dzimiri N, Ebenesersdóttir SS, Elliott J, Elliott P, Ewert R, Felix JF, Fischer K, Freedman BI, Girotto G, Goel A, Gögele M, Goodarzi MO, Graff M, Granot-Hershkovitz E, Grodstein F, Guarrera S, Gudbjartsson DF, Guity K, Gunnarsson B, Guo Y, Hagenaars SP, Haiman CA, Halevy A, Harris TB, Hedayati M, van Heel DA, Hirata M, Höfer I, Hsiung CA, Huang J, Hung YJ, Ikram MA, Jagadeesan A, Jousilahti P, Kamatani Y, Kanai M, Kerrison ND, Kessler T, Khaw KT, Khor CC, de Kleijn DPV, Koh WP, Kolcic I, Kraft P, Krämer BK, Kutalik Z, Kuusisto J, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lawlor DA, Lee IT, Lee WJ, Lerch MM, Li L, Liu J, Loh M, London SJ, Loomis S, Lu Y, Luan J, Mägi R, Manichaikul AW, Manunta P, Másson G, Matoba N, Mei XW, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Mezzavilla M, Milani L, Millwood IY, Momozawa Y, Moore A, Morange PE, Moreno-Macías H, Mori TA, Morrison AC, Muka T, Murakami Y, Murray AD, de Mutsert R, Mychaleckyj JC, Nalls MA, Nauck M, Neville MJ, Nolte IM, Ong KK, Orozco L, Padmanabhan S, Pálsson G, Pankow JS, Pattaro C, Pattie A, Polasek O, Poulter N, Pramstaller PP, Quintana-Murci L, Räikkönen K, Ralhan S, Rao DC, van Rheenen W, Rich SS, Ridker PM, Rietveld CA, Robino A, van Rooij FJA, Ruggiero D, Saba Y, Sabanayagam C, Sabater-Lleal M, Sala CF, Salomaa V, Sandow K, Schmidt H, Scott LJ, Scott WR, Sedaghati-Khayat B, Sennblad B, van Setten J, Sever PJ, Sheu WH, Shi Y, Shrestha S, Shukla SR, Sigurdsson JK, Sikka TT, Singh JR, Smith BH, Stančáková A, Stanton A, Starr JM, Stefansdottir L, Straker L, Sulem P, Sveinbjornsson G, Swertz MA, Taylor AM, Taylor KD, Terzikhan N, Tham YC, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tillander A, Tracy RP, Tusié-Luna T, Tzoulaki I, Vaccargiu S, Vangipurapu J, Veldink JH, Vitart V, Völker U, Vuoksimaa E, Wakil SM, Waldenberger M, Wander GS, Wang YX, Wareham NJ, Wild S, Yajnik CS, Yuan JM, Zeng L, Zhang L, Zhou J, Amin N, Asselbergs FW, Bakker SJL, Becker DM, Lehne B, Bennett DA, van den Berg LH, Berndt SI, Bharadwaj D, Bielak LF, Bochud M, Boehnke M, Bouchard C, Bradfield JP, Brody JA, Campbell A, Carmi S, Caulfield MJ, Cesarini D, Chambers JC, Chandak GR, Cheng CY, Ciullo M, Cornelis M, Cusi D, Smith GD, Deary IJ, Dorajoo R, van Duijn CM, Ellinghaus D, Erdmann J, Eriksson JG, Evangelou E, Evans MK, Faul JD, Feenstra B, Feitosa M, Foisy S, Franke A, Friedlander Y, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Gonzalez C, Goyette P, Grant SFA, Griffiths LR, Groop L, Gudnason V, Gyllensten U, Hakonarson H, Hamsten A, van der Harst P, Heng CK, Hicks AA, Hochner H, Huikuri H, Hunt SC, Jaddoe VWV, De Jager PL, Johannesson M, Johansson Å, Jonas JB, Jukema JW, Junttila J, Kaprio J, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kumari M, Laakso M, van der Laan SW, Lahti J, Laudes M, Lea RA, Lieb W, Lumley T, Martin NG, März W, Matullo G, McCarthy MI, Medland SE, Merriman TR, Metspalu A, Meyer BF, Mohlke KL, Montgomery GW, Mook-Kanamori D, Munroe PB, North KE, Nyholt DR, O'connell JR, Ober C, Oldehinkel AJ, Palmas W, Palmer C, Pasterkamp GG, Patin E, Pennell CE, Perusse L, Peyser PA, Pirastu M, Polderman TJC, Porteous DJ, Posthuma D, Psaty BM, Rioux JD, Rivadeneira F, Rotimi C, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Den Ruijter HM, Sanghera DK, Sattar N, Schmidt R, Schulze MB, Schunkert H, Scott RA, Shuldiner AR, Sim X, Small N, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Tai ES, Teumer A, Timpson NJ, Toniolo D, Tregouet DA, Tuomi T, Vollenweider P, Wang CA, Weir DR, Whitfield JB, Wijmenga C, Wong TY, Wright J, Yang J, Yu L, Zemel BS, Zonderman AB, Perola M, Magnusson PKE, Uitterlinden AG, Kooner JS, Chasman DI, Loos RJF, Franceschini N, Franke L, Haley CS, Hayward C, Walters RG, Perry JRB, Esko T, Helgason A, Stefansson K, Joshi PK, Kubo M, and Wilson JF
Subjects: Alleles, Haplotypes, Homozygote, Humans, Body Size genetics, Cognition, Consanguinity, Fertility genetics, Health Status, Inbreeding Depression genetics, Risk-Taking
Abstract: In many species, the offspring of related parents suffer reduced reproductive success, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. In humans, the importance of this effect has remained unclear, partly because reproduction between close relatives is both rare and frequently associated with confounding social factors. Here, using genomic inbreeding coefficients (F ROH ) for >1.4 million individuals, we show that F ROH is significantly associated (p < 0.0005) with apparently deleterious changes in 32 out of 100 traits analysed. These changes are associated with runs of homozygosity (ROH), but not with common variant homozygosity, suggesting that genetic variants associated with inbreeding depression are predominantly rare. The effect on fertility is striking: F ROH equivalent to the offspring of first cousins is associated with a 55% decrease [95% CI 44-66%] in the odds of having children. Finally, the effects of F ROH are confirmed within full-sibling pairs, where the variation in F ROH is independent of all environmental confounding.
Published: 2019
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37. A multi-ancestry genome-wide study incorporating gene-smoking interactions identifies multiple new loci for pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure.

Author: Sung YJ, de las Fuentes L, Winkler TW, Chasman DI, Bentley AR, Kraja AT, Ntalla I, Warren HR, Guo X, Schwander K, Manning AK, Brown MR, Aschard H, Feitosa MF, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Aslibekyan S, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Li C, Liu Y, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kammerer CM, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, McKenzie CA, Nelson CP, Noordam R, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Waken RJ, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking DE, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cade B, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Gu CC, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt SC, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Kooperberg CB, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kutalik Z, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lee JH, Lehne B, Levy D, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Louie T, Mägi R, Matsuda K, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Mosley TH Jr, Nalls MA, Nasri U, O'Connell JR, Ogunniyi A, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Porteous D, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Xiang YB, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YI, Weir DR, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Perls T, Rauramaa R, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Hixson J, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotimi CN, Bierut LJ, Zhu X, Cupples LA, Province MA, Rotter JI, Franks PW, Rice K, Elliott P, Caulfield MJ, Gauderman WJ, Munroe PB, Rao DC, and Morrison AC
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Antiporters genetics, Blood Pressure genetics, Caspase 9 genetics, Ethnicity genetics, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Hypertension etiology, Male, Membrane Proteins genetics, Middle Aged, Receptors, Vasopressin genetics, Sulfate Transporters genetics, Tumor Suppressor Proteins genetics, Young Adult, Arterial Pressure genetics, Gene-Environment Interaction, Hypertension genetics, Polymorphism, Genetic, Racial Groups genetics, Smoking adverse effects
Abstract: Elevated blood pressure (BP), a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, is influenced by both genetic and lifestyle factors. Cigarette smoking is one such lifestyle factor. Across five ancestries, we performed a genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of mean arterial pressure (MAP) and pulse pressure (PP) in 129 913 individuals in stage 1 and follow-up analysis in 480 178 additional individuals in stage 2. We report here 136 loci significantly associated with MAP and/or PP. Of these, 61 were previously published through main-effect analysis of BP traits, 37 were recently reported by us for systolic BP and/or diastolic BP through gene-smoking interaction analysis and 38 were newly identified (P < 5 × 10-8, false discovery rate < 0.05). We also identified nine new signals near known loci. Of the 136 loci, 8 showed significant interaction with smoking status. They include CSMD1 previously reported for insulin resistance and BP in the spontaneously hypertensive rats. Many of the 38 new loci show biologic plausibility for a role in BP regulation. SLC26A7 encodes a chloride/bicarbonate exchanger expressed in the renal outer medullary collecting duct. AVPR1A is widely expressed, including in vascular smooth muscle cells, kidney, myocardium and brain. FHAD1 is a long non-coding RNA overexpressed in heart failure. TMEM51 was associated with contractile function in cardiomyocytes. CASP9 plays a central role in cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Identified only in African ancestry were 30 novel loci. Our findings highlight the value of multi-ancestry investigations, particularly in studies of interaction with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences may contribute to novel findings., (© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
Published: 2019
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38. Multiancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions.

Author: de Vries PS, Brown MR, Bentley AR, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Ntalla I, Schwander K, Kraja AT, Guo X, Franceschini N, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Huffman JE, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Deng X, Dorajoo R, Lohman KK, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Evangelou E, Graff M, Alver M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Goel A, Hagemeijer Y, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Laguzzi F, Lee JH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Matoba N, Nolte IM, Pietzner M, Riaz M, Said MA, Scott RA, Sofer T, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, Tayo BO, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang Y, Ware EB, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Amin N, Amini M, Arking DE, Aung T, Ballantyne C, Boerwinkle E, Broeckel U, Campbell A, Canouil M, Charumathi S, Chen YI, Connell JM, de Faire U, de las Fuentes L, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Ding J, Dominiczak AF, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Eppinga RN, Faul JD, Fisher V, Forrester T, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Ghanbari M, Giulianini F, Grabe HJ, Grove ML, Gu CC, Harris TB, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hixson JE, Howard BV, Ikram MA, Jacobs DR, Johnson C, Jonas JB, Kammerer CM, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kritchevsky SB, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lemaitre RN, Li Y, Liang J, Liu J, Liu K, Loh M, Louie T, Mägi R, Manichaikul AW, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mohlke KL, Mosley TH, Mukamal KJ, Nalls MA, Nauck M, Nelson CP, Sotoodehnia N, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Pazoki R, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Poulter N, Raffel LJ, Raitakari OT, Reiner AP, Rice TK, Rich SS, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Shi Y, Sidney S, Sims M, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tan N, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, van Heemst D, Vuckovic D, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang Y, Wang Z, Wei WB, Williams C, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Yu B, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhao W, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Kamatani Y, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Leander K, Lehtimäki T, Magnusson PKE, Penninx B, Pereira AC, Rauramaa R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wang YX, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Zheng W, Elliott P, North KE, Bouchard C, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Liu CT, Liu Y, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, van Dam RM, Kardia SLR, Zhu X, Rotimi CN, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Liu J, Rotter JI, Gauderman WJ, Province MA, Munroe PB, Rice K, Chasman DI, Cupples LA, Rao DC, and Morrison AC
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Cholesterol, HDL blood, Cholesterol, LDL blood, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Racial Groups, Triglycerides blood, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor B, Young Adult, Alcohol Drinking epidemiology, Lipids blood
Abstract: A person's lipid profile is influenced by genetic variants and alcohol consumption, but the contribution of interactions between these exposures has not been studied. We therefore incorporated gene-alcohol interactions into a multiancestry genome-wide association study of levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides. We included 45 studies in stage 1 (genome-wide discovery) and 66 studies in stage 2 (focused follow-up), for a total of 394,584 individuals from 5 ancestry groups. Analyses covered the period July 2014-November 2017. Genetic main effects and interaction effects were jointly assessed by means of a 2-degrees-of-freedom (df) test, and a 1-df test was used to assess the interaction effects alone. Variants at 495 loci were at least suggestively associated (P < 1 × 10-6) with lipid levels in stage 1 and were evaluated in stage 2, followed by combined analyses of stage 1 and stage 2. In the combined analysis of stages 1 and 2, a total of 147 independent loci were associated with lipid levels at P < 5 × 10-8 using 2-df tests, of which 18 were novel. No genome-wide-significant associations were found testing the interaction effect alone. The novel loci included several genes (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 5 (PCSK5), vascular endothelial growth factor B (VEGFB), and apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide 1 (APOBEC1) complementation factor (A1CF)) that have a putative role in lipid metabolism on the basis of existing evidence from cellular and experimental models., (Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2019.)
Published: 2019
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39. Consensus Statement on Urgent Care Centers and Retail Clinics in Acute Care of Children.

Author: Saidinejad M, Paul A, Gausche-Hill M, Woolridge D, Heins A, Scott WR, Friesen P, Rayburn D, Conners G, Petrack E, Horeczko T, Stoner M, Edgerton E, and Joseph M
Subjects: Child, Consensus, Health Personnel, Humans, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Ambulatory Care standards, Ambulatory Care Facilities standards, Critical Care standards
Abstract: This article provides recommendations for pediatric readiness, scope of services, competencies, staffing, emergency preparedness, and transfer of care coordination for urgent care centers (UCCs) and retail clinics that provide pediatric care. It also provides general recommendations for the use of telemedicine in these establishments. With continuing increases in wait times and overcrowding in the nation's emergency departments and the mounting challenges in obtaining timely access to primary care providers, a new trend is gaining momentum for the treatment of minor illness and injuries in the form of UCCs and retail clinics. As pediatric visits to these establishments increase, considerations should be made for the type of injury or illnesses that can be safely treated, the required level training and credentials of personnel needed, the proper equipment and resources to specifically care for children, and procedures for safe transfer to a higher level of care, when needed. When used appropriately, UCCs and retail clinics can be valuable and convenient patient care resources.
Published: 2019
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40. Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders.

Author: Ligthart S, Vaez A, Võsa U, Stathopoulou MG, de Vries PS, Prins BP, Van der Most PJ, Tanaka T, Naderi E, Rose LM, Wu Y, Karlsson R, Barbalic M, Lin H, Pool R, Zhu G, Macé A, Sidore C, Trompet S, Mangino M, Sabater-Lleal M, Kemp JP, Abbasi A, Kacprowski T, Verweij N, Smith AV, Huang T, Marzi C, Feitosa MF, Lohman KK, Kleber ME, Milaneschi Y, Mueller C, Huq M, Vlachopoulou E, Lyytikäinen LP, Oldmeadow C, Deelen J, Perola M, Zhao JH, Feenstra B, Amini M, Lahti J, Schraut KE, Fornage M, Suktitipat B, Chen WM, Li X, Nutile T, Malerba G, Luan J, Bak T, Schork N, Del Greco M F, Thiering E, Mahajan A, Marioni RE, Mihailov E, Eriksson J, Ozel AB, Zhang W, Nethander M, Cheng YC, Aslibekyan S, Ang W, Gandin I, Yengo L, Portas L, Kooperberg C, Hofer E, Rajan KB, Schurmann C, den Hollander W, Ahluwalia TS, Zhao J, Draisma HHM, Ford I, Timpson N, Teumer A, Huang H, Wahl S, Liu Y, Huang J, Uh HW, Geller F, Joshi PK, Yanek LR, Trabetti E, Lehne B, Vozzi D, Verbanck M, Biino G, Saba Y, Meulenbelt I, O'Connell JR, Laakso M, Giulianini F, Magnusson PKE, Ballantyne CM, Hottenga JJ, Montgomery GW, Rivadineira F, Rueedi R, Steri M, Herzig KH, Stott DJ, Menni C, Frånberg M, St Pourcain B, Felix SB, Pers TH, Bakker SJL, Kraft P, Peters A, Vaidya D, Delgado G, Smit JH, Großmann V, Sinisalo J, Seppälä I, Williams SR, Holliday EG, Moed M, Langenberg C, Räikkönen K, Ding J, Campbell H, Sale MM, Chen YI, James AL, Ruggiero D, Soranzo N, Hartman CA, Smith EN, Berenson GS, Fuchsberger C, Hernandez D, Tiesler CMT, Giedraitis V, Liewald D, Fischer K, Mellström D, Larsson A, Wang Y, Scott WR, Lorentzon M, Beilby J, Ryan KA, Pennell CE, Vuckovic D, Balkau B, Concas MP, Schmidt R, Mendes de Leon CF, Bottinger EP, Kloppenburg M, Paternoster L, Boehnke M, Musk AW, Willemsen G, Evans DM, Madden PAF, Kähönen M, Kutalik Z, Zoledziewska M, Karhunen V, Kritchevsky SB, Sattar N, Lachance G, Clarke R, Harris TB, Raitakari OT, Attia JR, van Heemst D, Kajantie E, Sorice R, Gambaro G, Scott RA, Hicks AA, Ferrucci L, Standl M, Lindgren CM, Starr JM, Karlsson M, Lind L, Li JZ, Chambers JC, Mori TA, de Geus EJCN, Heath AC, Martin NG, Auvinen J, Buckley BM, de Craen AJM, Waldenberger M, Strauch K, Meitinger T, Scott RJ, McEvoy M, Beekman M, Bombieri C, Ridker PM, Mohlke KL, Pedersen NL, Morrison AC, Boomsma DI, Whitfield JB, Strachan DP, Hofman A, Vollenweider P, Cucca F, Jarvelin MR, Jukema JW, Spector TD, Hamsten A, Zeller T, Uitterlinden AG, Nauck M, Gudnason V, Qi L, Grallert H, Borecki IB, Rotter JI, März W, Wild PS, Lokki ML, Boyle M, Salomaa V, Melbye M, Eriksson JG, Wilson JF, Penninx BWJH, Becker DM, Worrall BB, Gibson G, Krauss RM, Ciullo M, Zaza G, Wareham NJ, Oldehinkel AJ, Palmer LJ, Murray SS, Pramstaller PP, Bandinelli S, Heinrich J, Ingelsson E, Deary IJ, Mägi R, Vandenput L, van der Harst P, Desch KC, Kooner JS, Ohlsson C, Hayward C, Lehtimäki T, Shuldiner AR, Arnett DK, Beilin LJ, Robino A, Froguel P, Pirastu M, Jess T, Koenig W, Loos RJF, Evans DA, Schmidt H, Smith GD, Slagboom PE, Eiriksdottir G, Morris AP, Psaty BM, Tracy RP, Nolte IM, Boerwinkle E, Visvikis-Siest S, Reiner AP, Gross M, Bis JC, Franke L, Franco OH, Benjamin EJ, Chasman DI, Dupuis J, Snieder H, Dehghan A, and Alizadeh BZ
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers metabolism, Bipolar Disorder genetics, Bipolar Disorder metabolism, Body Mass Index, C-Reactive Protein genetics, Child, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Humans, Inflammation metabolism, Liver metabolism, Liver pathology, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis methods, Middle Aged, Schizophrenia genetics, Schizophrenia metabolism, Young Adult, Genetic Loci genetics, Inflammation genetics, Metabolic Networks and Pathways genetics
Abstract: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive biomarker of chronic low-grade inflammation and is associated with multiple complex diseases. The genetic determinants of chronic inflammation remain largely unknown, and the causal role of CRP in several clinical outcomes is debated. We performed two genome-wide association studies (GWASs), on HapMap and 1000 Genomes imputed data, of circulating amounts of CRP by using data from 88 studies comprising 204,402 European individuals. Additionally, we performed in silico functional analyses and Mendelian randomization analyses with several clinical outcomes. The GWAS meta-analyses of CRP revealed 58 distinct genetic loci (p < 5 × 10 -8 ). After adjustment for body mass index in the regression analysis, the associations at all except three loci remained. The lead variants at the distinct loci explained up to 7.0% of the variance in circulating amounts of CRP. We identified 66 gene sets that were organized in two substantially correlated clusters, one mainly composed of immune pathways and the other characterized by metabolic pathways in the liver. Mendelian randomization analyses revealed a causal protective effect of CRP on schizophrenia and a risk-increasing effect on bipolar disorder. Our findings provide further insights into the biology of inflammation and could lead to interventions for treating inflammation and its clinical consequences., (Copyright © 2018 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2018
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41. Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries.

Author: Feitosa MF, Kraja AT, Chasman DI, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Li C, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Schwander K, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Dorajoo R, Fisher V, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Lohman KK, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Wojczynski MK, Alver M, Boissel M, Cai Q, Campbell A, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gao C, Goel A, Hagemeijer Y, Harris SE, He M, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kähönen M, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Laguzzi F, Luan J, Matoba N, Nolte IM, Padmanabhan S, Riaz M, Rueedi R, Robino A, Said MA, Scott RA, Sofer T, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, Tayo BO, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Vitart V, Wang Y, Ware EB, Warren HR, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Amin N, Amini M, Arking DE, Aung T, Boerwinkle E, Borecki I, Broeckel U, Brown M, Brumat M, Burke GL, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Charumathi S, Ida Chen YD, Connell JM, Correa A, de las Fuentes L, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Deng X, Ding J, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Eppinga RN, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Felix SB, Forouhi NG, Forrester T, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gandin I, Gao H, Ghanbari M, Gigante B, Gu CC, Gu D, Hagenaars SP, Hallmans G, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Howard BV, Ikram MA, John U, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Krieger JE, Kritchevsky SB, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lin S, Liu J, Liu J, Loh M, Louie T, Mägi R, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mohlke KL, Momozawa Y, Nalls MA, Nelson CP, Sotoodehnia N, Norris JM, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Perls T, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Poulter N, Raffel LJ, Raitakari OT, Roll K, Rose LM, Rosendaal FR, Rotter JI, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Schupf N, Scott WR, Sever PS, Shi Y, Sidney S, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Tan NYQ, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Turner ST, Uitterlinden AG, Vollenweider P, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Williams C, Yao J, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhao W, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Jonas JB, Kamatani Y, Kato N, Kooner JS, Kutalik Z, Laakso M, Laurie CC, Leander K, Lehtimäki T, Study LC, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Penninx BWJH, Polasek O, Porteous DJ, Rauramaa R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zheng W, Bouchard C, Christensen K, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Horta BL, Kardia SLR, Liu Y, Pereira AC, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, van Dam RM, Gauderman WJ, Zhu X, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Rotimi CN, Cupples LA, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Kooperberg C, Palmas W, Rice K, Morrison AC, Elliott P, Caulfield MJ, Munroe PB, Rao DC, Province MA, and Levy D
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cohort Studies, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Predisposition to Disease epidemiology, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pedigree, Young Adult, Alcohol Drinking epidemiology, Alcohol Drinking genetics, Blood Pressure genetics, Hypertension epidemiology, Hypertension genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Racial Groups genetics, Racial Groups statistics & numerical data
Abstract: Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify additional BP loci and contribute to the understanding of alcohol-related BP regulation. We conducted a large two-stage investigation incorporating joint testing of main genetic effects and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-alcohol consumption interactions. In Stage 1, genome-wide discovery meta-analyses in ≈131K individuals across several ancestry groups yielded 3,514 SNVs (245 loci) with suggestive evidence of association (P < 1.0 x 10-5). In Stage 2, these SNVs were tested for independent external replication in ≈440K individuals across multiple ancestries. We identified and replicated (at Bonferroni correction threshold) five novel BP loci (380 SNVs in 21 genes) and 49 previously reported BP loci (2,159 SNVs in 109 genes) in European ancestry, and in multi-ancestry meta-analyses (P < 5.0 x 10-8). For African ancestry samples, we detected 18 potentially novel BP loci (P < 5.0 x 10-8) in Stage 1 that warrant further replication. Additionally, correlated meta-analysis identified eight novel BP loci (11 genes). Several genes in these loci (e.g., PINX1, GATA4, BLK, FTO and GABBR2) have been previously reported to be associated with alcohol consumption. These findings provide insights into the role of alcohol consumption in the genetic architecture of hypertension., Competing Interests: The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Bruce M. Psaty (BMP) serves on the DSMB of a clinical trial funded by Zoll Lifecor and on the Steering Committee of the Yale Open Data Access Project funded by Johnson & Johnson. Barbara V. Howard (BVH) has a contract from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Brenda W.J.H. Penninx (BWJHP) has received research funding (non-related to the work reported here) from Jansen Research and Boehringer Ingelheim. Mike A. Nalls (MAN) is supported by a consulting contract between Data Tecnica International LLC and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA. MAN also consults for Illumina Inc., the Michael J. Fox Foundation, and the University of California Healthcare. MAN also has commercial affiliation with Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, USA. Mark J. Caulfield (MJC) has commercial affiliation and is Chief Scientist for Genomics England, a UK government company. OHF is supported by grants from Metagenics (on women's health and epigenetics) and from Nestlé (on child health). Peter S. Sever (PSS) is financial supported from several pharmaceutical companies which manufacture either blood pressure lowering or lipid lowering agents, or both, and consultancy fees. Paul W. Franks (PWF) has been a paid consultant in the design of a personalized nutrition trial (PREDICT) as part of a private-public partnership at Kings College London, UK, and has received research support from several pharmaceutical companies as part of European Union Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) projects. Terho Lehtimäki (TL) is employed by Fimlab Ltd. Ozren Polašek (OP) is employed by Gen‐info Ltd. There are no patents, products in development, or marked products to declare. All the other authors have declared no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Published: 2018
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42. A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure.

Author: Sung YJ, Winkler TW, de las Fuentes L, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Kraja AT, Schwander K, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aslibekyan S, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Liu Y, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Warren HR, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kähönen M, Kasturiratne A, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, 'an Luan J, McKenzie CA, Meian H, Nelson CP, Rauramaa R, Schupf N, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking D, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cabrera CP, Cade B, Caizheng Y, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Chauhan G, Christensen K, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Debette S, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Fisher VA, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Graff M, Gu CC, Gu D, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt S, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Joehanes R, Justice AE, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Komulainen P, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Lin S, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu K, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Long J, Louie T, Mägi R, Mahajan A, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Morris AP, Mosley TH Jr, Munson P, Murray AD, Nalls MA, Nasri U, Norris JM, North K, Ogunniyi A, Padmanabhan S, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Seshadri S, Sever P, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Williams C, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YI, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Newman AB, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zheng W, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Levy D, O'Connell JR, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Sims M, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, Fornage M, Rotimi CN, Province MA, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Zhu X, Bierut LJ, Gauderman WJ, Caulfield MJ, Elliott P, Rice K, Munroe PB, Morrison AC, Cupples LA, Rao DC, and Chasman DI
Subjects: Cohort Studies, Diastole genetics, Epistasis, Genetic, Female, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Reproducibility of Results, Systole genetics, Blood Pressure genetics, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Racial Groups genetics, Smoking genetics
Abstract: Genome-wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene-smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals. Stage 1 analysis examined ∼18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow-up analysis of promising variants in 480,178 additional individuals from five ancestries. We identified 15 loci that were genome-wide significant (p < 5 × 10 -8 ) in stage 1 and formally replicated in stage 2. A combined stage 1 and 2 meta-analysis identified 66 additional genome-wide significant loci (13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African, and trans-ancestry, respectively). A total of 56 known BP loci were also identified by our results (p < 5 × 10 -8 ). Of the newly identified loci, ten showed significant interaction with smoking status, but none of them were replicated in stage 2. Several loci were identified in African ancestry, highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with cardiometabolic and addiction traits. They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function (CDKN1B, BCAR1-CFDP1, PXDN, EEA1), ciliopathies (SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L), telomere maintenance (TNKS, PINX1, AKTIP), and central dopaminergic signaling (MSRA, EBF2)., (Copyright © 2018 American Society of Human Genetics. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2018
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43. Erratum: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls.

Author: Flannick J, Fuchsberger C, Mahajan A, Teslovich TM, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Caulkins L, Koesterer R, Ma C, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, Perry JRB, Sim X, Blackwell TW, Robertson NR, Rayner NW, Cingolani P, Locke AE, Tajes JF, Highland HM, Dupuis J, Chines PS, Lindgren CM, Hartl C, Jackson AU, Chen H, Huyghe JR, van de Bunt M, Pearson RD, Kumar A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Grarup N, Stringham HM, Gamazon ER, Lee J, Chen Y, Scott RA, Below JE, Chen P, Huang J, Go MJ, Stitzel ML, Pasko D, Parker SCJ, Varga TV, Green T, Beer NL, Day-Williams AG, Ferreira T, Fingerlin T, Horikoshi M, Hu C, Huh I, Ikram MK, Kim BJ, Kim Y, Kim YJ, Kwon MS, Lee J, Lee S, Lin KH, Maxwell TJ, Nagai Y, Wang X, Welch RP, Yoon J, Zhang W, Barzilai N, Voight BF, Han BG, Jenkinson CP, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Manning A, Ng MCY, Palmer ND, Balkau B, Stančáková A, Abboud HE, Boeing H, Giedraitis V, Prabhakaran D, Gottesman O, Scott J, Carey J, Kwan P, Grant G, Smith JD, Neale BM, Purcell S, Butterworth AS, Howson JMM, Lee HM, Lu Y, Kwak SH, Zhao W, Danesh J, Lam VKL, Park KS, Saleheen D, So WY, Tam CHT, Afzal U, Aguilar D, Arya R, Aung T, Chan E, Navarro C, Cheng CY, Palli D, Correa A, Curran JE, Rybin D, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Freedman BI, Griswold M, Hale DE, Hicks PJ, Khor CC, Kumar S, Lehne B, Thuillier D, Lim WY, Liu J, Loh M, Musani SK, Puppala S, Scott WR, Yengo L, Tan ST, Taylor HA, Thameem F, Wilson G, Wong TY, Njølstad PR, Levy JC, Mangino M, Bonnycastle LL, Schwarzmayr T, Fadista J, Surdulescu GL, Herder C, Groves CJ, Wieland T, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Koistinen HA, Doney ASF, Kinnunen L, Esko T, Farmer AJ, Hakaste L, Hodgkiss D, Kravic J, Lyssenko V, Hollensted M, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Ladenvall C, Justesen JM, Käräjämäki A, Kriebel J, Rathmann W, Lannfelt L, Lauritzen T, Narisu N, Linneberg A, Melander O, Milani L, Neville M, Orho-Melander M, Qi L, Qi Q, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Swift A, Rosengren AH, Stirrups K, Wood AR, Mihailov E, Blancher C, Carneiro MO, Maguire J, Poplin R, Shakir K, Fennell T, DePristo M, de Angelis MH, Deloukas P, Gjesing AP, Jun G, Nilsson P, Murphy J, Onofrio R, Thorand B, Hansen T, Meisinger C, Hu FB, Isomaa B, Karpe F, Liang L, Peters A, Huth C, O'Rahilly SP, Palmer CNA, Pedersen O, Rauramaa R, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Watanabe RM, Syvänen AC, Bergman RN, Bharadwaj D, Bottinger EP, Cho YS, Chandak GR, Chan JCN, Chia KS, Daly MJ, Ebrahim SB, Langenberg C, Elliott P, Jablonski KA, Lehman DM, Jia W, Ma RCW, Pollin TI, Sandhu M, Tandon N, Froguel P, Barroso I, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Loos RJF, Small KS, Ried JS, DeFronzo RA, Grallert H, Glaser B, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Walker M, Banks E, Gieger C, Ingelsson E, Im HK, Illig T, Franks PW, Buck G, Trakalo J, Buck D, Prokopenko I, Mägi R, Lind L, Farjoun Y, Owen KR, Gloyn AL, Strauch K, Tuomi T, Kooner JS, Lee JY, Park T, Donnelly P, Morris AD, Hattersley AT, Bowden DW, Collins FS, Atzmon G, Chambers JC, Spector TD, Laakso M, Strom TM, Bell GI, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Tai ES, McVean G, Hanis CL, Wilson JG, Seielstad M, Frayling TM, Meigs JB, Cox NJ, Sladek R, Lander ES, Gabriel S, Mohlke KL, Meitinger T, Groop L, Abecasis G, Scott LJ, Morris AP, Kang HM, Altshuler D, Burtt NP, Florez JC, Boehnke M, and McCarthy MI
Abstract: This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.179.
Published: 2018
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44. Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls.

Author: Flannick J, Fuchsberger C, Mahajan A, Teslovich TM, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Caulkins L, Koesterer R, Ma C, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, Perry JRB, Sim X, Blackwell TW, Robertson NR, Rayner NW, Cingolani P, Locke AE, Tajes JF, Highland HM, Dupuis J, Chines PS, Lindgren CM, Hartl C, Jackson AU, Chen H, Huyghe JR, van de Bunt M, Pearson RD, Kumar A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Grarup N, Stringham HM, Gamazon ER, Lee J, Chen Y, Scott RA, Below JE, Chen P, Huang J, Go MJ, Stitzel ML, Pasko D, Parker SCJ, Varga TV, Green T, Beer NL, Day-Williams AG, Ferreira T, Fingerlin T, Horikoshi M, Hu C, Huh I, Ikram MK, Kim BJ, Kim Y, Kim YJ, Kwon MS, Lee J, Lee S, Lin KH, Maxwell TJ, Nagai Y, Wang X, Welch RP, Yoon J, Zhang W, Barzilai N, Voight BF, Han BG, Jenkinson CP, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Manning A, Ng MCY, Palmer ND, Balkau B, Stančáková A, Abboud HE, Boeing H, Giedraitis V, Prabhakaran D, Gottesman O, Scott J, Carey J, Kwan P, Grant G, Smith JD, Neale BM, Purcell S, Butterworth AS, Howson JMM, Lee HM, Lu Y, Kwak SH, Zhao W, Danesh J, Lam VKL, Park KS, Saleheen D, So WY, Tam CHT, Afzal U, Aguilar D, Arya R, Aung T, Chan E, Navarro C, Cheng CY, Palli D, Correa A, Curran JE, Rybin D, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Freedman BI, Griswold M, Hale DE, Hicks PJ, Khor CC, Kumar S, Lehne B, Thuillier D, Lim WY, Liu J, Loh M, Musani SK, Puppala S, Scott WR, Yengo L, Tan ST, Taylor HA, Thameem F, Wilson G, Wong TY, Njølstad PR, Levy JC, Mangino M, Bonnycastle LL, Schwarzmayr T, Fadista J, Surdulescu GL, Herder C, Groves CJ, Wieland T, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Koistinen HA, Doney ASF, Kinnunen L, Esko T, Farmer AJ, Hakaste L, Hodgkiss D, Kravic J, Lyssenko V, Hollensted M, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Ladenvall C, Justesen JM, Käräjämäki A, Kriebel J, Rathmann W, Lannfelt L, Lauritzen T, Narisu N, Linneberg A, Melander O, Milani L, Neville M, Orho-Melander M, Qi L, Qi Q, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Swift A, Rosengren AH, Stirrups K, Wood AR, Mihailov E, Blancher C, Carneiro MO, Maguire J, Poplin R, Shakir K, Fennell T, DePristo M, de Angelis MH, Deloukas P, Gjesing AP, Jun G, Nilsson P, Murphy J, Onofrio R, Thorand B, Hansen T, Meisinger C, Hu FB, Isomaa B, Karpe F, Liang L, Peters A, Huth C, O'Rahilly SP, Palmer CNA, Pedersen O, Rauramaa R, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Watanabe RM, Syvänen AC, Bergman RN, Bharadwaj D, Bottinger EP, Cho YS, Chandak GR, Chan JC, Chia KS, Daly MJ, Ebrahim SB, Langenberg C, Elliott P, Jablonski KA, Lehman DM, Jia W, Ma RCW, Pollin TI, Sandhu M, Tandon N, Froguel P, Barroso I, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Loos RJF, Small KS, Ried JS, DeFronzo RA, Grallert H, Glaser B, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Walker M, Banks E, Gieger C, Ingelsson E, Im HK, Illig T, Franks PW, Buck G, Trakalo J, Buck D, Prokopenko I, Mägi R, Lind L, Farjoun Y, Owen KR, Gloyn AL, Strauch K, Tuomi T, Kooner JS, Lee JY, Park T, Donnelly P, Morris AD, Hattersley AT, Bowden DW, Collins FS, Atzmon G, Chambers JC, Spector TD, Laakso M, Strom TM, Bell GI, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Tai ES, McVean G, Hanis CL, Wilson JG, Seielstad M, Frayling TM, Meigs JB, Cox NJ, Sladek R, Lander ES, Gabriel S, Mohlke KL, Meitinger T, Groop L, Abecasis G, Scott LJ, Morris AP, Kang HM, Altshuler D, Burtt NP, Florez JC, Boehnke M, and McCarthy MI
Subjects: Humans, White People, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Variation
Abstract: To investigate the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) to high resolution, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia catalogued variation from whole-genome sequencing of 2,657 European individuals and exome sequencing of 12,940 individuals of multiple ancestries. Over 27M SNPs, indels, and structural variants were identified, including 99% of low-frequency (minor allele frequency [MAF] 0.1-5%) non-coding variants in the whole-genome sequenced individuals and 99.7% of low-frequency coding variants in the whole-exome sequenced individuals. Each variant was tested for association with T2D in the sequenced individuals, and, to increase power, most were tested in larger numbers of individuals (>80% of low-frequency coding variants in ~82 K Europeans via the exome chip, and ~90% of low-frequency non-coding variants in ~44 K Europeans via genotype imputation). The variants, genotypes, and association statistics from these analyses provide the largest reference to date of human genetic information relevant to T2D, for use in activities such as T2D-focused genotype imputation, functional characterization of variants or genes, and other novel analyses to detect associations between sequence variation and T2D.
Published: 2017
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45. Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis.

Author: Wheeler E, Leong A, Liu CT, Hivert MF, Strawbridge RJ, Podmore C, Li M, Yao J, Sim X, Hong J, Chu AY, Zhang W, Wang X, Chen P, Maruthur NM, Porneala BC, Sharp SJ, Jia Y, Kabagambe EK, Chang LC, Chen WM, Elks CE, Evans DS, Fan Q, Giulianini F, Go MJ, Hottenga JJ, Hu Y, Jackson AU, Kanoni S, Kim YJ, Kleber ME, Ladenvall C, Lecoeur C, Lim SH, Lu Y, Mahajan A, Marzi C, Nalls MA, Navarro P, Nolte IM, Rose LM, Rybin DV, Sanna S, Shi Y, Stram DO, Takeuchi F, Tan SP, van der Most PJ, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Wong A, Yengo L, Zhao W, Goel A, Martinez Larrad MT, Radke D, Salo P, Tanaka T, van Iperen EPA, Abecasis G, Afaq S, Alizadeh BZ, Bertoni AG, Bonnefond A, Böttcher Y, Bottinger EP, Campbell H, Carlson OD, Chen CH, Cho YS, Garvey WT, Gieger C, Goodarzi MO, Grallert H, Hamsten A, Hartman CA, Herder C, Hsiung CA, Huang J, Igase M, Isono M, Katsuya T, Khor CC, Kiess W, Kohara K, Kovacs P, Lee J, Lee WJ, Lehne B, Li H, Liu J, Lobbens S, Luan J, Lyssenko V, Meitinger T, Miki T, Miljkovic I, Moon S, Mulas A, Müller G, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nagaraja R, Nauck M, Pankow JS, Polasek O, Prokopenko I, Ramos PS, Rasmussen-Torvik L, Rathmann W, Rich SS, Robertson NR, Roden M, Roussel R, Rudan I, Scott RA, Scott WR, Sennblad B, Siscovick DS, Strauch K, Sun L, Swertz M, Tajuddin SM, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Tönjes A, Wareham NJ, Willemsen G, Wilsgaard T, Hingorani AD, Egan J, Ferrucci L, Hovingh GK, Jula A, Kivimaki M, Kumari M, Njølstad I, Palmer CNA, Serrano Ríos M, Stumvoll M, Watkins H, Aung T, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boomsma DI, Bornstein SR, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chen YT, Cheng CY, Cucca F, de Geus EJC, Deloukas P, Evans MK, Fornage M, Friedlander Y, Froguel P, Groop L, Gross MD, Harris TB, Hayward C, Heng CK, Ingelsson E, Kato N, Kim BJ, Koh WP, Kooner JS, Körner A, Kuh D, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lin X, Liu Y, Loos RJF, Magnusson PKE, März W, McCarthy MI, Oldehinkel AJ, Ong KK, Pedersen NL, Pereira MA, Peters A, Ridker PM, Sabanayagam C, Sale M, Saleheen D, Saltevo J, Schwarz PE, Sheu WHH, Snieder H, Spector TD, Tabara Y, Tuomilehto J, van Dam RM, Wilson JG, Wilson JF, Wolffenbuttel BHR, Wong TY, Wu JY, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Soranzo N, Guo X, Roberts DJ, Florez JC, Sladek R, Dupuis J, Morris AP, Tai ES, Selvin E, Rotter JI, Langenberg C, Barroso I, and Meigs JB
Subjects: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 epidemiology, Glycated Hemoglobin metabolism, Humans, Phenotype, Risk, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 diagnosis, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glycated Hemoglobin genetics
Abstract: Background: Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is used to diagnose type 2 diabetes (T2D) and assess glycemic control in patients with diabetes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 18 HbA1c-associated genetic variants. These variants proved to be classifiable by their likely biological action as erythrocytic (also associated with erythrocyte traits) or glycemic (associated with other glucose-related traits). In this study, we tested the hypotheses that, in a very large scale GWAS, we would identify more genetic variants associated with HbA1c and that HbA1c variants implicated in erythrocytic biology would affect the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. We therefore expanded the number of HbA1c-associated loci and tested the effect of genetic risk-scores comprised of erythrocytic or glycemic variants on incident diabetes prediction and on prevalent diabetes screening performance. Throughout this multiancestry study, we kept a focus on interancestry differences in HbA1c genetics performance that might influence race-ancestry differences in health outcomes., Methods & Findings: Using genome-wide association meta-analyses in up to 159,940 individuals from 82 cohorts of European, African, East Asian, and South Asian ancestry, we identified 60 common genetic variants associated with HbA1c. We classified variants as implicated in glycemic, erythrocytic, or unclassified biology and tested whether additive genetic scores of erythrocytic variants (GS-E) or glycemic variants (GS-G) were associated with higher T2D incidence in multiethnic longitudinal cohorts (N = 33,241). Nineteen glycemic and 22 erythrocytic variants were associated with HbA1c at genome-wide significance. GS-G was associated with higher T2D risk (incidence OR = 1.05, 95% CI 1.04-1.06, per HbA1c-raising allele, p = 3 × 10-29); whereas GS-E was not (OR = 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.01, p = 0.60). In Europeans and Asians, erythrocytic variants in aggregate had only modest effects on the diagnostic accuracy of HbA1c. Yet, in African Americans, the X-linked G6PD G202A variant (T-allele frequency 11%) was associated with an absolute decrease in HbA1c of 0.81%-units (95% CI 0.66-0.96) per allele in hemizygous men, and 0.68%-units (95% CI 0.38-0.97) in homozygous women. The G6PD variant may cause approximately 2% (N = 0.65 million, 95% CI 0.55-0.74) of African American adults with T2D to remain undiagnosed when screened with HbA1c. Limitations include the smaller sample sizes for non-European ancestries and the inability to classify approximately one-third of the variants. Further studies in large multiethnic cohorts with HbA1c, glycemic, and erythrocytic traits are required to better determine the biological action of the unclassified variants., Conclusions: As G6PD deficiency can be clinically silent until illness strikes, we recommend investigation of the possible benefits of screening for the G6PD genotype along with using HbA1c to diagnose T2D in populations of African ancestry or groups where G6PD deficiency is common. Screening with direct glucose measurements, or genetically-informed HbA1c diagnostic thresholds in people with G6PD deficiency, may be required to avoid missed or delayed diagnoses.
Published: 2017
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46. Correction: Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.

Author: Graff M, Scott RA, Justice AE, Young KL, Feitosa MF, Barata L, Winkler TW, Chu AY, Mahajan A, Hadley D, Xue L, Workalemahu T, Heard-Costa NL, den Hoed M, Ahluwalia TS, Qi Q, Ngwa JS, Renström F, Quaye L, Eicher JD, Hayes JE, Cornelis M, Kutalik Z, Lim E, Luan J, Huffman JE, Zhang W, Zhao W, Griffin PJ, Haller T, Ahmad S, Marques-Vidal PM, Bien S, Yengo L, Teumer A, Smith AV, Kumari M, Harder MN, Justesen JM, Kleber ME, Hollensted M, Lohman K, Rivera NV, Whitfield JB, Zhao JH, Stringham HM, Lyytikäinen LP, Huppertz C, Willemsen G, Peyrot WJ, Wu Y, Kristiansson K, Demirkan A, Fornage M, Hassinen M, Bielak LF, Cadby G, Tanaka T, Mägi R, van der Most PJ, Jackson AU, Bragg-Gresham JL, Vitart V, Marten J, Navarro P, Bellis C, Pasko D, Johansson Å, Snitker S, Cheng YC, Eriksson J, Lim U, Aadahl M, Adair LS, Amin N, Balkau B, Auvinen J, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borja JB, Brage S, Busonero F, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chines PS, Collins FS, Corre T, Smith GD, Delgado GE, Dueker N, Dörr M, Ebeling T, Eiriksdottir G, Esko T, Faul JD, Fu M, Færch K, Gieger C, Gläser S, Gong J, Gordon-Larsen P, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, van Grootheest G, Harald K, Hastie ND, Havulinna AS, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Holmens OL, Holzapfel C, Hottenga JJ, Huang J, Huang T, Hui J, Huth C, Hutri-Kähönen N, James AL, Jansson JO, Jhun MA, Juonala M, Kinnunen L, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Komulainen P, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Kähönen M, Lakka TA, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lindgren CM, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Marre M, Milaneschi Y, Monda KL, Montgomery GW, De Moor MHM, Mulas A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Musk AW, Männikkö R, Männistö S, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nettleton JA, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Paternoster L, Perez J, Perola M, Peters A, Peters U, Peyser PA, Prokopenko I, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sarti C, Sarzynski MA, Savonen K, Scott WR, Sanna S, Shuldiner AR, Sidney S, Silbernagel G, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Stančáková A, Sternfeld B, Swift AJ, Tammelin T, Tan ST, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Vandenput L, Vestergaard H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vohl MC, Völker U, Waeber G, Walker M, Wild S, Wong A, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, Zubair N, Haiman CA, Lemarchand L, Gyllensten U, Ohlsson C, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pérusse L, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Polasek O, Cucca F, Hveem K, Hartman CA, Tönjes A, Bandinelli S, Palmer LJ, Kardia SLR, Rauramaa R, Sørensen TIA, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Lehtimäki T, Mangino M, Laakso M, Bouchard C, Martin NG, Kuh D, Liu Y, Linneberg A, März W, Strauch K, Kivimäki M, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Völzke H, Qi L, Järvelin MR, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Froguel P, Kooperberg C, Vollenweider P, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Weir DR, Porteous DJ, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Abecasis GR, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, O'Connell JR, van Duijn CM, Boehnke M, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Strachan DP, Fox CS, Liu CT, Hirschhorn JN, Klein RJ, Johnson AD, Borecki IB, Franks PW, North KE, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, and Kilpeläinen TO
Abstract: [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006528.].
Published: 2017
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47. A Low-Frequency Inactivating AKT2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk.

Author: Manning A, Highland HM, Gasser J, Sim X, Tukiainen T, Fontanillas P, Grarup N, Rivas MA, Mahajan A, Locke AE, Cingolani P, Pers TH, Viñuela A, Brown AA, Wu Y, Flannick J, Fuchsberger C, Gamazon ER, Gaulton KJ, Im HK, Teslovich TM, Blackwell TW, Bork-Jensen J, Burtt NP, Chen Y, Green T, Hartl C, Kang HM, Kumar A, Ladenvall C, Ma C, Moutsianas L, Pearson RD, Perry JRB, Rayner NW, Robertson NR, Scott LJ, van de Bunt M, Eriksson JG, Jula A, Koskinen S, Lehtimäki T, Palotie A, Raitakari OT, Jacobs SBR, Wessel J, Chu AY, Scott RA, Goodarzi MO, Blancher C, Buck G, Buck D, Chines PS, Gabriel S, Gjesing AP, Groves CJ, Hollensted M, Huyghe JR, Jackson AU, Jun G, Justesen JM, Mangino M, Murphy J, Neville M, Onofrio R, Small KS, Stringham HM, Trakalo J, Banks E, Carey J, Carneiro MO, DePristo M, Farjoun Y, Fennell T, Goldstein JI, Grant G, Hrabé de Angelis M, Maguire J, Neale BM, Poplin R, Purcell S, Schwarzmayr T, Shakir K, Smith JD, Strom TM, Wieland T, Lindstrom J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Surdulescu GL, Lakka TA, Doney ASF, Nilsson P, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Varga TV, Franks PW, Rolandsson O, Rosengren AH, Farook VS, Thameem F, Puppala S, Kumar S, Lehman DM, Jenkinson CP, Curran JE, Hale DE, Fowler SP, Arya R, DeFronzo RA, Abboud HE, Syvänen AC, Hicks PJ, Palmer ND, Ng MCY, Bowden DW, Freedman BI, Esko T, Mägi R, Milani L, Mihailov E, Metspalu A, Narisu N, Kinnunen L, Bonnycastle LL, Swift A, Pasko D, Wood AR, Fadista J, Pollin TI, Barzilai N, Atzmon G, Glaser B, Thorand B, Strauch K, Peters A, Roden M, Müller-Nurasyid M, Liang L, Kriebel J, Illig T, Grallert H, Gieger C, Meisinger C, Lannfelt L, Musani SK, Griswold M, Taylor HA Jr, Wilson G Sr, Correa A, Oksa H, Scott WR, Afzal U, Tan ST, Loh M, Chambers JC, Sehmi J, Kooner JS, Lehne B, Cho YS, Lee JY, Han BG, Käräjämäki A, Qi Q, Qi L, Huang J, Hu FB, Melander O, Orho-Melander M, Below JE, Aguilar D, Wong TY, Liu J, Khor CC, Chia KS, Lim WY, Cheng CY, Chan E, Tai ES, Aung T, Linneberg A, Isomaa B, Meitinger T, Tuomi T, Hakaste L, Kravic J, Jørgensen ME, Lauritzen T, Deloukas P, Stirrups KE, Owen KR, Farmer AJ, Frayling TM, O'Rahilly SP, Walker M, Levy JC, Hodgkiss D, Hattersley AT, Kuulasmaa T, Stančáková A, Barroso I, Bharadwaj D, Chan J, Chandak GR, Daly MJ, Donnelly PJ, Ebrahim SB, Elliott P, Fingerlin T, Froguel P, Hu C, Jia W, Ma RCW, McVean G, Park T, Prabhakaran D, Sandhu M, Scott J, Sladek R, Tandon N, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Watanabe RM, Koistinen HA, Kesaniemi YA, Uusitupa M, Spector TD, Salomaa V, Rauramaa R, Palmer CNA, Prokopenko I, Morris AD, Bergman RN, Collins FS, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Tuomilehto J, Karpe F, Groop L, Jørgensen T, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Kuusisto J, Abecasis G, Bell GI, Blangero J, Cox NJ, Duggirala R, Seielstad M, Wilson JG, Dupuis J, Ripatti S, Hanis CL, Florez JC, Mohlke KL, Meigs JB, Laakso M, Morris AP, Boehnke M, Altshuler D, McCarthy MI, Gloyn AL, and Lindgren CM
Subjects: Black or African American genetics, Alleles, Asian People genetics, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 metabolism, Finland, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Hispanic or Latino genetics, Humans, Odds Ratio, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Fasting metabolism, Insulin metabolism, Insulin Resistance genetics, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt genetics, White People genetics
Abstract: To identify novel coding association signals and facilitate characterization of mechanisms influencing glycemic traits and type 2 diabetes risk, we analyzed 109,215 variants derived from exome array genotyping together with an additional 390,225 variants from exome sequence in up to 39,339 normoglycemic individuals from five ancestry groups. We identified a novel association between the coding variant (p.Pro50Thr) in AKT2 and fasting plasma insulin (FI), a gene in which rare fully penetrant mutations are causal for monogenic glycemic disorders. The low-frequency allele is associated with a 12% increase in FI levels. This variant is present at 1.1% frequency in Finns but virtually absent in individuals from other ancestries. Carriers of the FI-increasing allele had increased 2-h insulin values, decreased insulin sensitivity, and increased risk of type 2 diabetes (odds ratio 1.05). In cellular studies, the AKT2-Thr50 protein exhibited a partial loss of function. We extend the allelic spectrum for coding variants in AKT2 associated with disorders of glucose homeostasis and demonstrate bidirectional effects of variants within the pleckstrin homology domain of AKT2 ., (© 2017 by the American Diabetes Association.)
Published: 2017
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48. Whole-Genome Sequencing Coupled to Imputation Discovers Genetic Signals for Anthropometric Traits.

Author: Tachmazidou I, Süveges D, Min JL, Ritchie GRS, Steinberg J, Walter K, Iotchkova V, Schwartzentruber J, Huang J, Memari Y, McCarthy S, Crawford AA, Bombieri C, Cocca M, Farmaki AE, Gaunt TR, Jousilahti P, Kooijman MN, Lehne B, Malerba G, Männistö S, Matchan A, Medina-Gomez C, Metrustry SJ, Nag A, Ntalla I, Paternoster L, Rayner NW, Sala C, Scott WR, Shihab HA, Southam L, St Pourcain B, Traglia M, Trajanoska K, Zaza G, Zhang W, Artigas MS, Bansal N, Benn M, Chen Z, Danecek P, Lin WY, Locke A, Luan J, Manning AK, Mulas A, Sidore C, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Varbo A, Zoledziewska M, Finan C, Hatzikotoulas K, Hendricks AE, Kemp JP, Moayyeri A, Panoutsopoulou K, Szpak M, Wilson SG, Boehnke M, Cucca F, Di Angelantonio E, Langenberg C, Lindgren C, McCarthy MI, Morris AP, Nordestgaard BG, Scott RA, Tobin MD, Wareham NJ, Burton P, Chambers JC, Smith GD, Dedoussis G, Felix JF, Franco OH, Gambaro G, Gasparini P, Hammond CJ, Hofman A, Jaddoe VWV, Kleber M, Kooner JS, Perola M, Relton C, Ring SM, Rivadeneira F, Salomaa V, Spector TD, Stegle O, Toniolo D, Uitterlinden AG, Barroso I, Greenwood CMT, Perry JRB, Walker BR, Butterworth AS, Xue Y, Durbin R, Small KS, Soranzo N, Timpson NJ, and Zeggini E
Subjects: Body Height genetics, Cohort Studies, DNA Methylation genetics, Databases, Genetic, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Lipodystrophy genetics, Male, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Obesity genetics, Physical Chromosome Mapping, Sex Characteristics, Syndrome, United Kingdom, Anthropometry, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Sequence Analysis, DNA methods
Abstract: Deep sequence-based imputation can enhance the discovery power of genome-wide association studies by assessing previously unexplored variation across the common- and low-frequency spectra. We applied a hybrid whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and deep imputation approach to examine the broader allelic architecture of 12 anthropometric traits associated with height, body mass, and fat distribution in up to 267,616 individuals. We report 106 genome-wide significant signals that have not been previously identified, including 9 low-frequency variants pointing to functional candidates. Of the 106 signals, 6 are in genomic regions that have not been implicated with related traits before, 28 are independent signals at previously reported regions, and 72 represent previously reported signals for a different anthropometric trait. 71% of signals reside within genes and fine mapping resolves 23 signals to one or two likely causal variants. We confirm genetic overlap between human monogenic and polygenic anthropometric traits and find signal enrichment in cis expression QTLs in relevant tissues. Our results highlight the potential of WGS strategies to enhance biologically relevant discoveries across the frequency spectrum., (Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2017
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49. Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.

Author: Graff M, Scott RA, Justice AE, Young KL, Feitosa MF, Barata L, Winkler TW, Chu AY, Mahajan A, Hadley D, Xue L, Workalemahu T, Heard-Costa NL, den Hoed M, Ahluwalia TS, Qi Q, Ngwa JS, Renström F, Quaye L, Eicher JD, Hayes JE, Cornelis M, Kutalik Z, Lim E, Luan J, Huffman JE, Zhang W, Zhao W, Griffin PJ, Haller T, Ahmad S, Marques-Vidal PM, Bien S, Yengo L, Teumer A, Smith AV, Kumari M, Harder MN, Justesen JM, Kleber ME, Hollensted M, Lohman K, Rivera NV, Whitfield JB, Zhao JH, Stringham HM, Lyytikäinen LP, Huppertz C, Willemsen G, Peyrot WJ, Wu Y, Kristiansson K, Demirkan A, Fornage M, Hassinen M, Bielak LF, Cadby G, Tanaka T, Mägi R, van der Most PJ, Jackson AU, Bragg-Gresham JL, Vitart V, Marten J, Navarro P, Bellis C, Pasko D, Johansson Å, Snitker S, Cheng YC, Eriksson J, Lim U, Aadahl M, Adair LS, Amin N, Balkau B, Auvinen J, Beilby J, Bergman RN, Bergmann S, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borja JB, Brage S, Busonero F, Buyske S, Campbell H, Chines PS, Collins FS, Corre T, Smith GD, Delgado GE, Dueker N, Dörr M, Ebeling T, Eiriksdottir G, Esko T, Faul JD, Fu M, Færch K, Gieger C, Gläser S, Gong J, Gordon-Larsen P, Grallert H, Grammer TB, Grarup N, van Grootheest G, Harald K, Hastie ND, Havulinna AS, Hernandez D, Hindorff L, Hocking LJ, Holmens OL, Holzapfel C, Hottenga JJ, Huang J, Huang T, Hui J, Huth C, Hutri-Kähönen N, James AL, Jansson JO, Jhun MA, Juonala M, Kinnunen L, Koistinen HA, Kolcic I, Komulainen P, Kuusisto J, Kvaløy K, Kähönen M, Lakka TA, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lindgren CM, Lorentzon M, Luben R, Marre M, Milaneschi Y, Monda KL, Montgomery GW, De Moor MHM, Mulas A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Musk AW, Männikkö R, Männistö S, Narisu N, Nauck M, Nettleton JA, Nolte IM, Oldehinkel AJ, Olden M, Ong KK, Padmanabhan S, Paternoster L, Perez J, Perola M, Peters A, Peters U, Peyser PA, Prokopenko I, Puolijoki H, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rawal R, Ridker PM, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sarti C, Sarzynski MA, Savonen K, Scott WR, Sanna S, Shuldiner AR, Sidney S, Silbernagel G, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Stančáková A, Sternfeld B, Swift AJ, Tammelin T, Tan ST, Thorand B, Thuillier D, Vandenput L, Vestergaard H, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Vohl MC, Völker U, Waeber G, Walker M, Wild S, Wong A, Wright AF, Zillikens MC, Zubair N, Haiman CA, Lemarchand L, Gyllensten U, Ohlsson C, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pérusse L, Wilson JF, Hayward C, Polasek O, Cucca F, Hveem K, Hartman CA, Tönjes A, Bandinelli S, Palmer LJ, Kardia SLR, Rauramaa R, Sørensen TIA, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Penninx BWJH, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Lehtimäki T, Mangino M, Laakso M, Bouchard C, Martin NG, Kuh D, Liu Y, Linneberg A, März W, Strauch K, Kivimäki M, Harris TB, Gudnason V, Völzke H, Qi L, Järvelin MR, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, Froguel P, Kooperberg C, Vollenweider P, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Weir DR, Porteous DJ, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Abecasis GR, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, O'Connell JR, van Duijn CM, Boehnke M, Heid IM, Mohlke KL, Strachan DP, Fox CS, Liu CT, Hirschhorn JN, Klein RJ, Johnson AD, Borecki IB, Franks PW, North KE, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, and Kilpeläinen TO
Subjects: Adiposity physiology, Body Mass Index, Epigenomics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Obesity physiopathology, Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio, Adiposity genetics, Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO genetics, Exercise, Obesity genetics
Abstract: Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference and waist-hip ratio from up to 200,452 adults of European (n = 180,423) or other ancestry (n = 20,029). We standardized PA by categorizing it into a dichotomous variable where, on average, 23% of participants were categorized as inactive and 77% as physically active. While we replicate the interaction with PA for the strongest known obesity-risk locus in the FTO gene, of which the effect is attenuated by ~30% in physically active individuals compared to inactive individuals, we do not identify additional loci that are sensitive to PA. In additional genome-wide meta-analyses adjusting for PA and interaction with PA, we identify 11 novel adiposity loci, suggesting that accounting for PA or other environmental factors that contribute to variation in adiposity may facilitate gene discovery.
Published: 2017
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50. Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity.

Author: Wahl S, Drong A, Lehne B, Loh M, Scott WR, Kunze S, Tsai PC, Ried JS, Zhang W, Yang Y, Tan S, Fiorito G, Franke L, Guarrera S, Kasela S, Kriebel J, Richmond RC, Adamo M, Afzal U, Ala-Korpela M, Albetti B, Ammerpohl O, Apperley JF, Beekman M, Bertazzi PA, Black SL, Blancher C, Bonder MJ, Brosch M, Carstensen-Kirberg M, de Craen AJ, de Lusignan S, Dehghan A, Elkalaawy M, Fischer K, Franco OH, Gaunt TR, Hampe J, Hashemi M, Isaacs A, Jenkinson A, Jha S, Kato N, Krogh V, Laffan M, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Mok ZY, Motta V, Ng HK, Nikolakopoulou Z, Nteliopoulos G, Panico S, Pervjakova N, Prokisch H, Rathmann W, Roden M, Rota F, Rozario MA, Sandling JK, Schafmayer C, Schramm K, Siebert R, Slagboom PE, Soininen P, Stolk L, Strauch K, Tai ES, Tarantini L, Thorand B, Tigchelaar EF, Tumino R, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn C, van Meurs JB, Vineis P, Wickremasinghe AR, Wijmenga C, Yang TP, Yuan W, Zhernakova A, Batterham RL, Smith GD, Deloukas P, Heijmans BT, Herder C, Hofman A, Lindgren CM, Milani L, van der Harst P, Peters A, Illig T, Relton CL, Waldenberger M, Järvelin MR, Bollati V, Soong R, Spector TD, Scott J, McCarthy MI, Elliott P, Bell JT, Matullo G, Gieger C, Kooner JS, Grallert H, and Chambers JC
Subjects: Adipose Tissue metabolism, Asian People genetics, Blood metabolism, Cohort Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 complications, Europe ethnology, Female, Genetic Markers, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, India ethnology, Male, Obesity blood, Obesity complications, Overweight blood, Overweight complications, Overweight genetics, White People genetics, Adiposity genetics, Body Mass Index, DNA Methylation genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Epigenesis, Genetic, Epigenomics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Obesity genetics
Abstract: Approximately 1.5 billion people worldwide are overweight or affected by obesity, and are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related metabolic and inflammatory disturbances. Although the mechanisms linking adiposity to associated clinical conditions are poorly understood, recent studies suggest that adiposity may influence DNA methylation, a key regulator of gene expression and molecular phenotype. Here we use epigenome-wide association to show that body mass index (BMI; a key measure of adiposity) is associated with widespread changes in DNA methylation (187 genetic loci with P < 1 × 10 -7 , range P = 9.2 × 10 -8 to 6.0 × 10 -46 ; n = 10,261 samples). Genetic association analyses demonstrate that the alterations in DNA methylation are predominantly the consequence of adiposity, rather than the cause. We find that methylation loci are enriched for functional genomic features in multiple tissues (P < 0.05), and show that sentinel methylation markers identify gene expression signatures at 38 loci (P < 9.0 × 10 -6 , range P = 5.5 × 10 -6 to 6.1 × 10 -35 , n = 1,785 samples). The methylation loci identify genes involved in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, substrate transport and inflammatory pathways. Finally, we show that the disturbances in DNA methylation predict future development of type 2 diabetes (relative risk per 1 standard deviation increase in methylation risk score: 2.3 (2.07-2.56); P = 1.1 × 10 -54 ). Our results provide new insights into the biologic pathways influenced by adiposity, and may enable development of new strategies for prediction and prevention of type 2 diabetes and other adverse clinical consequences of obesity.
Published: 2017
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