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1. Multi-trait analysis characterizes the genetics of thyroid function and identifies causal associations with clinical implications

Author: Rosalie B. T. M. Sterenborg, Inga Steinbrenner, Yong Li, Melissa N. Bujnis, Tatsuhiko Naito, Eirini Marouli, Tessel E. Galesloot, Oladapo Babajide, Laura Andreasen, Arne Astrup, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Stefania Bandinelli, Marian Beekman, John P. Beilby, Jette Bork-Jensen, Thibaud Boutin, Jennifer A. Brody, Suzanne J. Brown, Ben Brumpton, Purdey J. Campbell, Anne R. Cappola, Graziano Ceresini, Layal Chaker, Daniel I. Chasman, Maria Pina Concas, Rodrigo Coutinho de Almeida, Simone M. Cross, Francesco Cucca, Ian J. Deary, Alisa Devedzic Kjaergaard, Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, Christina Ellervik, Johan G. Eriksson, Luigi Ferrucci, Jan Freudenberg, GHS DiscovEHR, Regeneron Genetics Center, Christian Fuchsberger, Christian Gieger, Franco Giulianini, Martin Gögele, Sarah E. Graham, Niels Grarup, Ivana Gunjača, Torben Hansen, Barbara N. Harding, Sarah E. Harris, Stig Haunsø, Caroline Hayward, Jennie Hui, Till Ittermann, J. Wouter Jukema, Eero Kajantie, Jørgen K. Kanters, Line L. Kårhus, Lambertus A. L. M. Kiemeney, Margreet Kloppenburg, Brigitte Kühnel, Jari Lahti, Claudia Langenberg, Bruno Lapauw, Graham Leese, Shuo Li, David C. M. Liewald, Allan Linneberg, Jesus V. T. Lominchar, Jian’an Luan, Nicholas G. Martin, Antonela Matana, Marcel E. Meima, Thomas Meitinger, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Braxton D. Mitchell, Line T. Møllehave, Samia Mora, Silvia Naitza, Matthias Nauck, Romana T. Netea-Maier, Raymond Noordam, Casia Nursyifa, Yukinori Okada, Stefano Onano, Areti Papadopoulou, Colin N. A. Palmer, Cristian Pattaro, Oluf Pedersen, Annette Peters, Maik Pietzner, Ozren Polašek, Peter P. Pramstaller, Bruce M. Psaty, Ante Punda, Debashree Ray, Paul Redmond, J. Brent Richards, Paul M. Ridker, Tom C. Russ, Kathleen A. Ryan, Morten Salling Olesen, Ulla T. Schultheiss, Elizabeth Selvin, Moneeza K. Siddiqui, Carlo Sidore, P. Eline Slagboom, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Enrique Soto-Pedre, Tim D. Spector, Beatrice Spedicati, Sundararajan Srinivasan, John M. Starr, David J. Stott, Toshiko Tanaka, Vesela Torlak, Stella Trompet, Johanna Tuhkanen, André G. Uitterlinden, Erik B. van den Akker, Tibbert van den Eynde, Melanie M. van der Klauw, Diana van Heemst, Charlotte Verroken, W. Edward Visser, Dina Vojinovic, Henry Völzke, Melanie Waldenberger, John P. Walsh, Nicholas J. Wareham, Stefan Weiss, Cristen J. Willer, Scott G. Wilson, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Hanneke J. C. M. Wouters, Margaret J. Wright, Qiong Yang, Tatijana Zemunik, Wei Zhou, Gu Zhu, Sebastian Zöllner, Johannes W. A. Smit, Robin P. Peeters, Anna Köttgen, Alexander Teumer, and Marco Medici
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Abstract To date only a fraction of the genetic footprint of thyroid function has been clarified. We report a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of thyroid function in up to 271,040 individuals of European ancestry, including reference range thyrotropin (TSH), free thyroxine (FT4), free and total triiodothyronine (T3), proxies for metabolism (T3/FT4 ratio) as well as dichotomized high and low TSH levels. We revealed 259 independent significant associations for TSH (61% novel), 85 for FT4 (67% novel), and 62 novel signals for the T3 related traits. The loci explained 14.1%, 6.0%, 9.5% and 1.1% of the total variation in TSH, FT4, total T3 and free T3 concentrations, respectively. Genetic correlations indicate that TSH associated loci reflect the thyroid function determined by free T3, whereas the FT4 associations represent the thyroid hormone metabolism. Polygenic risk score and Mendelian randomization analyses showed the effects of genetically determined variation in thyroid function on various clinical outcomes, including cardiovascular risk factors and diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. In conclusion, our results improve the understanding of thyroid hormone physiology and highlight the pleiotropic effects of thyroid function on various diseases.
Published: 2024
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2. X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements

Author: Markus Scholz, Katrin Horn, Janne Pott, Matthias Wuttke, Andreas Kühnapfel, M. Kamal Nasr, Holger Kirsten, Yong Li, Anselm Hoppmann, Mathias Gorski, Sahar Ghasemi, Man Li, Adrienne Tin, Jin-Fang Chai, Massimiliano Cocca, Judy Wang, Teresa Nutile, Masato Akiyama, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Nisha Bansal, Mary L. Biggs, Thibaud Boutin, Hermann Brenner, Ben Brumpton, Ralph Burkhardt, Jianwen Cai, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, John Chalmers, Daniel I. Chasman, Miao Ling Chee, Miao Li Chee, Xu Chen, Ching-Yu Cheng, Renata Cifkova, Martha Daviglus, Graciela Delgado, Katalin Dittrich, Todd L. Edwards, Karlhans Endlich, J. Michael Gaziano, Ayush Giri, Franco Giulianini, Scott D. Gordon, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Stein Hallan, Pavel Hamet, Catharina A. Hartman, Caroline Hayward, Iris M. Heid, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Bernd Holleczek, Hilma Holm, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Kristian Hveem, Berend Isermann, Jost B. Jonas, Peter K. Joshi, Yoichiro Kamatani, Masahiro Kanai, Mika Kastarinen, Chiea Chuen Khor, Wieland Kiess, Marcus E. Kleber, Antje Körner, Peter Kovacs, Alena Krajcoviechova, Holly Kramer, Bernhard K. Krämer, Mikko Kuokkanen, Mika Kähönen, Leslie A. Lange, James P. Lash, Terho Lehtimäki, Hengtong Li, Bridget M. Lin, Jianjun Liu, Markus Loeffler, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Nicholas G. Martin, Koichi Matsuda, Yuri Milaneschi, Pashupati P. Mishra, Nina Mononen, Grant W. Montgomery, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Winfried März, Matthias Nauck, Kjell Nikus, Ilja M. Nolte, Raymond Noordam, Yukinori Okada, Isleifur Olafsson, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Markus Perola, Nicola Pirastu, Ozren Polasek, David J. Porteous, Tanja Poulain, Bruce M. Psaty, Ton J. Rabelink, Laura M. Raffield, Olli T. Raitakari, Humaira Rasheed, Dermot F. Reilly, Kenneth M. Rice, Anne Richmond, Paul M. Ridker, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Veikko Salomaa, Neil Schneiderman, Ben Schöttker, Mario Sims, Harold Snieder, Klaus J. Stark, Kari Stefansson, Hannah Stocker, Michael Stumvoll, Patrick Sulem, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Per O. Svensson, E-Shyong Tai, Kent D. Taylor, Bamidele O. Tayo, Andrej Teren, Yih-Chung Tham, Joachim Thiery, Chris H. L. Thio, Laurent F. Thomas, Johanne Tremblay, Anke Tönjes, Peter J. van der Most, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Ya Xing Wang, Chaolong Wang, Wen Bin Wei, John B. Whitfield, Sarah H. Wild, James F. Wilson, Thomas W. Winkler, Tien-Yin Wong, Mark Woodward, Xueling Sim, Audrey Y. Chu, Mary F. Feitosa, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Adriana M. Hung, Alexander Teumer, Nora Franceschini, Afshin Parsa, Anna Köttgen, Pascal Schlosser, and Cristian Pattaro
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Abstract X-chromosomal genetic variants are understudied but can yield valuable insights into sexually dimorphic human traits and diseases. We performed a sex-stratified cross-ancestry X-chromosome-wide association meta-analysis of seven kidney-related traits (n = 908,697), identifying 23 loci genome-wide significantly associated with two of the traits: 7 for uric acid and 16 for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), including four novel eGFR loci containing the functionally plausible prioritized genes ACSL4, CLDN2, TSPAN6 and the female-specific DRP2. Further, we identified five novel sex-interactions, comprising male-specific effects at FAM9B and AR/EDA2R, and three sex-differential findings with larger genetic effect sizes in males at DCAF12L1 and MST4 and larger effect sizes in females at HPRT1. All prioritized genes in loci showing significant sex-interactions were located next to androgen response elements (ARE). Five ARE genes showed sex-differential expressions. This study contributes new insights into sex-dimorphisms of kidney traits along with new prioritized gene targets for further molecular research.
Published: 2024
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3. Typing myalgic encephalomyelitis by infection at onset: A DecodeME study [version 4; peer review: 2 approved]

Author: Andy Devereux-Cooke, Simon J. McGrath, Emma Northwood, Sian Leary, Pippa Stacey, Anna Redshaw, Jim Wilson, Claire Tripp, Isabel Lewis, Sonya Chowdhury, Sumy V. Baby, Øyvind Almelid, Hannes Becher, Tom Baker, Malgorzata Clyde, Thibaud Boutin, John Ireland, Diana Garcia, Ewan McDowall, Shona M. Kerr, Gemma L. Samms, David Perry, Jareth C. Wolfe, Veronique Vitart, Chris P. Ponting, and Andrew D. Bretherick
Subjects: Myalgic encephalomyelitis, Post-viral syndrome, Post-exertional malaise, Sex-bias, Sub-types, eng, Medicine
Abstract: Background: People with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) experience core symptoms of post-exertional malaise, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive impairment. Despite numbering 0.2-0.4% of the population, no laboratory test is available for their diagnosis, no effective therapy exists for their treatment, and no scientific breakthrough regarding pathogenesis has been made. It remains unknown, despite decades of small-scale studies, whether individuals experience different types of ME/CFS separated by onset-type, sex or age. Methods: DecodeME is a large population-based study of ME/CFS that recruited 17,074 participants in the first 3 months following full launch. Detailed questionnaire responses from UK-based participants who all reported being diagnosed with ME/CFS by a health professional provided an unparalleled opportunity to investigate, using logistic regression, whether ME/CFS severity or onset type is significantly associated with sex, age, illness duration, comorbid conditions or symptoms. Results: The well-established sex-bias among ME/CFS patients is evident in the initial DecodeME cohort: 83.5% of participants were females. What was not known previously was that females tend to have more comorbidities than males. Moreover, being female, being older and being over 10 years from ME/CFS onset are significantly associated with greater severity. Five different ME/CFS onset types were examined in the self-reported data: those with ME/CFS onset (i) after glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis); (ii) after COVID-19 infection; (iii) after other infections; (iv) without an infection at onset; and, (v) where the occurrence of an infection at or preceding onset is not known. Among other findings, ME/CFS onset with unknown infection status was significantly associated with active fibromyalgia. Conclusions: DecodeME participants differ in symptoms, comorbid conditions and/or illness severity when stratified by their sex-at-birth and/or infection around the time of ME/CFS onset.
Published: 2023
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4. Colocalization of corneal resistance factor GWAS loci with GTEx e/sQTLs highlights plausible candidate causal genes for keratoconus postnatal corneal stroma weakening

Author: Xinyi Jiang, Thibaud Boutin, and Veronique Vitart
Subjects: cornea, genome-wide association studies, fine-mapping, colocalization, keratoconus, extracellular matrix, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for corneal resistance factor (CRF) have identified 100s of loci and proved useful to uncover genetic determinants for keratoconus, a corneal ectasia of early-adulthood onset and common indication of corneal transplantation. In the current absence of studies to probe the impact of candidate causal variants in the cornea, we aimed to fill some of this knowledge gap by leveraging tissue-shared genetic effects.Methods: 181 CRF signals were examined for evidence of colocalization with genetic signals affecting steady-state gene transcription and splicing in adult, non-eye, tissues of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. Expression of candidate causal genes thus nominated was evaluated in single cell transcriptomes from adult cornea, limbus and conjunctiva. Fine-mapping and colocalization of CRF and keratoconus GWAS signals was also deployed to support their sharing causal variants.Results and discussion: 26.5% of CRF causal signals colocalized with GTEx v8 signals and nominated genes enriched in genes with high and specific expression in corneal stromal cells amongst tissues examined. Enrichment analyses carried out with nearest genes to all 181 CRF GWAS signals indicated that stromal cells of the limbus could be susceptible to signals that did not colocalize with GTEx’s. These cells might not be well represented in GTEx and/or the genetic associations might have context specific effects. The causal signals shared with GTEx provide new insights into mediation of CRF genetic effects, including modulation of splicing events. Functionally relevant roles for several implicated genes’ products in providing tensile strength, mechano-sensing and signaling make the corresponding genes and regulatory variants prime candidates to be validated and their roles and effects across tissues elucidated. Colocalization of CRF and keratoconus GWAS signals strengthened support for shared causal variants but also highlighted many ways into which likely true shared signals could be missed when using readily available GWAS summary statistics.
Published: 2023
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5. Fine-mapping and cell-specific enrichment at corneal resistance factor loci prioritize candidate causal regulatory variants

Author: Xinyi Jiang, Nefeli Dellepiane, Erola Pairo-Castineira, Thibaud Boutin, Yatendra Kumar, Wendy A. Bickmore, and Veronique Vitart
Subjects: Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Here, the authors report a genome-wide association analysis for corneal resistance factor (CRF), a measure of corneal biomechanical properties relevant to a number of corneal diseases. They identify 135 loci associated with CRF and use fine-mapping and ATAC-seq in human cornea cell lines to identify putative causal variants affecting gene expression.
Published: 2020
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6. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction

Author: Ioanna Ntalla, Lu-Chen Weng, James H. Cartwright, Amelia Weber Hall, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Nathan R. Tucker, Seung Hoan Choi, Mark D. Chaffin, Carolina Roselli, Michael R. Barnes, Borbala Mifsud, Helen R. Warren, Caroline Hayward, Jonathan Marten, James J. Cranley, Maria Pina Concas, Paolo Gasparini, Thibaud Boutin, Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Nathalia M. Araujo, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Renan P. Souza, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Erik Ingelsson, Anubha Mahajan, Andrew P. Morris, Fabiola Del Greco M, Luisa Foco, Martin Gögele, Andrew A. Hicks, James P. Cook, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Johan Sundström, Christopher P. Nelson, Muhammad B. Riaz, Nilesh J. Samani, Gianfranco Sinagra, Sheila Ulivi, Mika Kähönen, Pashupati P. Mishra, Nina Mononen, Kjell Nikus, Mark J. Caulfield, Anna Dominiczak, Sandosh Padmanabhan, May E. Montasser, Jeff R. O’Connell, Kathleen Ryan, Alan R. Shuldiner, Stefanie Aeschbacher, David Conen, Lorenz Risch, Sébastien Thériault, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Terho Lehtimäki, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Olli T. Raitakari, Catriona L. K. Barnes, Harry Campbell, Peter K. Joshi, James F. Wilson, Aaron Isaacs, Jan A. Kors, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Paul L. Huang, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, Lenore J. Launer, Albert V. Smith, Erwin P. Bottinger, Ruth J. F. Loos, Girish N. Nadkarni, Michael H. Preuss, Adolfo Correa, Hao Mei, James Wilson, Thomas Meitinger, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Annette Peters, Melanie Waldenberger, Massimo Mangino, Timothy D. Spector, Michiel Rienstra, Yordi J. van de Vegte, Pim van der Harst, Niek Verweij, Stefan Kääb, Katharina Schramm, Moritz F. Sinner, Konstantin Strauch, Michael J. Cutler, Diane Fatkin, Barry London, Morten Olesen, Dan M. Roden, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, J. Gustav Smith, Mary L. Biggs, Joshua C. Bis, Jennifer A. Brody, Bruce M. Psaty, Kenneth Rice, Nona Sotoodehnia, Alessandro De Grandi, Christian Fuchsberger, Cristian Pattaro, Peter P. Pramstaller, Ian Ford, J. Wouter Jukema, Peter W. Macfarlane, Stella Trompet, Marcus Dörr, Stephan B. Felix, Uwe Völker, Stefan Weiss, Aki S. Havulinna, Antti Jula, Katri Sääksjärvi, Veikko Salomaa, Xiuqing Guo, Susan R. Heckbert, Henry J. Lin, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Jie Yao, Renée de Mutsert, Arie C. Maan, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Raymond Noordam, Francesco Cucca, Jun Ding, Edward G. Lakatta, Yong Qian, Kirill V. Tarasov, Daniel Levy, Honghuang Lin, Christopher H. Newton-Cheh, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Alison D. Murray, David J. Porteous, Blair H. Smith, Bruno H. Stricker, André Uitterlinden, Marten E. van den Berg, Jeffrey Haessler, Rebecca D. Jackson, Charles Kooperberg, Ulrike Peters, Alexander P. Reiner, Eric A. Whitsel, Alvaro Alonso, Dan E. Arking, Eric Boerwinkle, Georg B. Ehret, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Christy L. Avery, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Kathleen F. Kerr, Cathy C. Laurie, Amanda A. Seyerle, Adrienne Stilp, Solmaz Assa, M. Abdullah Said, M. Yldau van der Ende, Pier D. Lambiase, Michele Orini, Julia Ramirez, Stefan Van Duijvenboden, David O. Arnar, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Hilma Holm, Patrick Sulem, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emelia J. Benjamin, Andrew Tinker, Kari Stefansson, Patrick T. Ellinor, Yalda Jamshidi, Steven A. Lubitz, and Patricia B. Munroe
Subjects: Science
Abstract: On the electrocardiogram, the PR interval reflects conduction from the atria to ventricles and also serves as risk indicator of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Here, the authors perform genome-wide meta-analyses for PR interval in multiple ancestries and identify 141 previously unreported genetic loci.
Published: 2020
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7. SNP and Haplotype Regional Heritability Mapping (SNHap-RHM): Joint Mapping of Common and Rare Variation Affecting Complex Traits

Author: Richard F. Oppong, Thibaud Boutin, Archie Campbell, Andrew M. McIntosh, David Porteous, Caroline Hayward, Chris S. Haley, Pau Navarro, and Sara Knott
Subjects: MDD, height, haplotypes, regional heritability mapping, missing heritability, rare variation, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: We describe a genome-wide analytical approach, SNP and Haplotype Regional Heritability Mapping (SNHap-RHM), that provides regional estimates of the heritability across locally defined regions in the genome. This approach utilises relationship matrices that are based on sharing of SNP and haplotype alleles at local haplotype blocks delimited by recombination boundaries in the genome. We implemented the approach on simulated data and show that the haplotype-based regional GRMs capture variation that is complementary to that captured by SNP-based regional GRMs, and thus justifying the fitting of the two GRMs jointly in a single analysis (SNHap-RHM). SNHap-RHM captures regions in the genome contributing to the phenotypic variation that existing genome-wide analysis methods may fail to capture. We further demonstrate that there are real benefits to be gained from this approach by applying it to real data from about 20,000 individuals from the Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study. We analysed height and major depressive disorder (MDD). We identified seven genomic regions that are genome-wide significant for height, and three regions significant at a suggestive threshold (p-value < 1 × 10−5) for MDD. These significant regions have genes mapped to within 400 kb of them. The genes mapped for height have been reported to be associated with height in humans. Similarly, those mapped for MDD have been reported to be associated with major depressive disorder and other psychiatry phenotypes. The results show that SNHap-RHM presents an exciting new opportunity to analyse complex traits by allowing the joint mapping of novel genomic regions tagged by either SNPs or haplotypes, potentially leading to the recovery of some of the “missing” heritability.
Published: 2022
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8. An epigenome-wide association study of sex-specific chronological ageing

Author: Daniel L. McCartney, Futao Zhang, Robert F. Hillary, Qian Zhang, Anna J. Stevenson, Rosie M. Walker, Mairead L. Bermingham, Thibaud Boutin, Stewart W. Morris, Archie Campbell, Alison D. Murray, Heather C. Whalley, David J. Porteous, Caroline Hayward, Kathryn L. Evans, Tamir Chandra, Ian J. Deary, Andrew M. McIntosh, Jian Yang, Peter M. Visscher, Allan F. McRae, and Riccardo E. Marioni
Subjects: DNA methylation, Ageing, Sexual dimorphism, X chromosome, Generation Scotland, Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background Advanced age is associated with cognitive and physical decline and is a major risk factor for a multitude of disorders. There is also a gap in life expectancy between males and females. DNA methylation differences have been shown to be associated with both age and sex. Here, we investigate age-by-sex differences in blood-based DNA methylation in an unrelated cohort of 2586 individuals between the ages of 18 and 87 years, with replication in a further 4450 individuals between the ages of 18 and 93 years. Methods Linear regression models were applied, with stringent genome-wide significance thresholds (p
Published: 2019
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9. Genome-Wide Association Analysis and Genomic Prediction of Thyroglobulin Plasma Levels

Author: Nikolina Pleić, Mirjana Babić Leko, Ivana Gunjača, Thibaud Boutin, Vesela Torlak, Antonela Matana, Ante Punda, Ozren Polašek, Caroline Hayward, and Tatijana Zemunik
Subjects: genome-wide association study, thyroglobulin, thyroid, ST6GAL1, LMM, BSLMM, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Chemistry, QD1-999
Abstract: Thyroglobulin (Tg) is an iodoglycoprotein produced by thyroid follicular cells which acts as an essential substrate for thyroid hormone synthesis. To date, only one genome-wide association study (GWAS) of plasma Tg levels has been performed by our research group. Utilizing recent advancements in computation and modeling, we apply a Bayesian approach to the probabilistic inference of the genetic architecture of Tg. We fitted a Bayesian sparse linear mixed model (BSLMM) and a frequentist linear mixed model (LMM) of 7,289,083 variants in 1096 healthy European-ancestry participants of the Croatian Biobank. Meta-analysis with two independent cohorts (total n = 2109) identified 83 genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the ST6GAL1 gene (p<5×10−8). BSLMM revealed additional association signals on chromosomes 1, 8, 10, and 14. For ST6GAL1 and the newly uncovered genes, we provide physiological and pathophysiological explanations of how their expression could be associated with variations in plasma Tg levels. We found that the SNP-heritability of Tg is 17% and that 52% of this variation is due to a small number of 16 variants that have a major effect on Tg levels. Our results suggest that the genetic architecture of plasma Tg is not polygenic, but influenced by a few genes with major effects.
Published: 2022
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10. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

Author: Adriana I. Iglesias, Aniket Mishra, Veronique Vitart, Yelena Bykhovskaya, René Höhn, Henriët Springelkamp, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Puya Gharahkhani, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Colin E. Willoughby, Xiaohui Li, Seyhan Yazar, Abhishek Nag, Anthony P. Khawaja, Ozren Polašek, David Siscovick, Paul Mitchell, Yih Chung Tham, Jonathan L. Haines, Lisa S. Kearns, Caroline Hayward, Yuan Shi, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Kent D. Taylor, Blue Mountains Eye Study—GWAS group, Pieter Bonnemaijer, Jerome I. Rotter, Nicholas G. Martin, Tanja Zeller, Richard A. Mills, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Sandra E. Staffieri, Jost B. Jonas, Irene Schmidtmann, Thibaud Boutin, Jae H. Kang, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Tien Yin Wong, Manfred E. Beutel, James F. Wilson, NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2), André G. Uitterlinden, Eranga N. Vithana, Paul J. Foster, Pirro G. Hysi, Alex W. Hewitt, Chiea Chuen Khor, Louis R. Pasquale, Grant W. Montgomery, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Tin Aung, Norbert Pfeiffer, David A. Mackey, Christopher J. Hammond, Ching-Yu Cheng, Jamie E. Craig, Yaron S. Rabinowitz, Janey L. Wiggs, Kathryn P. Burdon, Cornelia M. van Duijn, and Stuart MacGregor
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Reduced central corneal thickness (CCT) is observed in common eye diseases as well as in rare Mendelian disorders. Here, in a cross-ancestry GWAS, the authors identify 19 novel genetic loci associated with CCT, a subset of which is involved in rare corneal or connective tissue disorders.
Published: 2018
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11. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies novel loci associated with parathyroid hormone level

Author: Antonela Matana, Dubravka Brdar, Vesela Torlak, Thibaud Boutin, Marijana Popović, Ivana Gunjača, Ivana Kolčić, Vesna Boraska Perica, Ante Punda, Ozren Polašek, Maja Barbalić, Caroline Hayward, and Tatijana Zemunik
Subjects: Parathyroid hormone, Genome-wide association analysis, Meta-analysis, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, RM1-950, Biochemistry, QD415-436
Abstract: Abstract Background Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is one of the principal regulators of calcium homeostasis. Although serum PTH level is mostly accounted by genetic factors, genetic background underlying PTH level is insufficiently known. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify novel genetic variants associated with PTH levels. Methods We performed GWAS meta-analysis within two genetically isolated Croatian populations followed by replication analysis in a Croatian mainland population and we also combined results across all three analyzed populations. The analyses included 2596 individuals. A total of 7,411,206 variants, imputed using the 1000 Genomes reference panel, were analysed for the association. In addition, a sex-specific GWAS meta-analyses were performed. Results Polymorphisms with the lowest P-values were located on chromosome 4 approximately 84 kb of the 5′ of RASGEF1B gene. The most significant SNP was rs11099476 (P = 1.15 × 10−8). Sex-specific analysis identified genome-wide significant association of the variant rs77178854, located within DPP10 gene in females only (P = 2.21 × 10− 9). There were no genome-wide significant findings in the meta-analysis of males. Conclusions We identified two biologically plausible novel loci associated with PTH levels, providing us with further insights into the genetics of this complex trait.
Published: 2018
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12. Author Correction: Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

Author: Adriana I. Iglesias, Aniket Mishra, Veronique Vitart, Yelena Bykhovskaya, René Höhn, Henriët Springelkamp, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Puya Gharahkhani, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Colin E. Willoughby, Xiaohui Li, Seyhan Yazar, Abhishek Nag, Anthony P. Khawaja, Ozren Polašek, David Siscovick, Paul Mitchell, Yih Chung Tham, Jonathan L. Haines, Lisa S. Kearns, Caroline Hayward, Yuan Shi, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Kent D. Taylor, Blue Mountains Eye Study - GWAS group, Pieter Bonnemaijer, Jerome I. Rotter, Nicholas G. Martin, Tanja Zeller, Richard A. Mills, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Sandra E. Staffieri, Jost B. Jonas, Irene Schmidtmann, Thibaud Boutin, Jae H. Kang, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Tien Yin Wong, Manfred E. Beutel, James F. Wilson, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2), NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, André G. Uitterlinden, Eranga N. Vithana, Paul J. Foster, Pirro G. Hysi, Alex W. Hewitt, Chiea Chuen Khor, Louis R. Pasquale, Grant W. Montgomery, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Tin Aung, Norbert Pfeiffer, David A. Mackey, Christopher J. Hammond, Ching-Yu Cheng, Jamie E. Craig, Yaron S. Rabinowitz, Janey L. Wiggs, Kathryn P. Burdon, Cornelia M. van Duijn, and Stuart MacGregor
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Emmanuelle Souzeau, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this Article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
Published: 2019
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13. Genetic Risk Score for Intracranial Aneurysms: Prediction of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Role in Clinical Heterogeneity

Author: Mark K. Bakker, Jos P. Kanning, Gad Abraham, Amy E. Martinsen, Bendik S. Winsvold, John-Anker Zwart, Romain Bourcier, Tomonobu Sawada, Masaru Koido, Yoichiro Kamatani, Sandrine Morel, Philippe Amouyel, Stéphanie Debette, Philippe Bijlenga, Takiy Berrandou, Santhi K. Ganesh, Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Gregory Jones, Matthew Bown, Gabriel J.E. Rinkel, Jan H. Veldink, Ynte M. Ruigrok, Anne Hege Aamodt, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Ben M Brumpton, Cristen J Willer, Else C Sandset, Espen S Kristoffersen, Hanne Ellekjær, Ingrid Heuch, Jonas B Nielsen, Knut Hagen, Kristian Hveem, Lars G Fritsche, Laurent F Thomas, Linda M Pedersen, Maiken E Gabrielsen, Oddgeir L Holmen, Sigrid Børte, Wei Zhou, Shérine Abboud, Massimo Pandolfo, Vincent Thijs, Didier Leys, Marie Bodenant, Fabien Louillet, Emmanuel Touzé, Jean-Louis Mas, Yves Samson, Sara Leder, Anne Léger, Sandrine Deltour, Sophie Crozier, Isabelle Méresse, Sandrine Canaple, Olivier Godefroy, Maurice Giroud, Yannick Béjot, Pierre Decavel, Elizabeth Medeiros, Paola Montiel, Thierry Moulin, Fabrice Vuillier, Jean Dallongeville, Antti J Metso, Tiina Metso, Turgut Tatlisumak, Caspar Grond-Ginsbach, Christoph Lichy, Manja Kloss, Inge Werner, Marie-Luise Arnold, Michael Dos Santos, Armin Grau, Martin Dichgans, Constanze Thomas-Feles, Ralf Weber, Tobias Brandt, Alessandro Pezzini, Valeria De Giuli, Filomena Caria, Loris Poli, Alessandro Padovani, Anna Bersano, Silvia Lanfranconi, Simone Beretta, Carlo Ferrarese, Giacomo Giacolone, Stefano Paolucci, Philippe Lyrer, Stefan Engelter, Felix Fluri, Florian Hatz, Dominique Gisler, Leo Bonati, Henrik Gensicke, Margareth Amort, Hugh Markus, Jennifer Majersik, Bradford Worrall, Andrew Southerland, John Cole, Steven Kittner, Evangelos Evangelou, Helen R Warren, He Gao, Georgios Ntritsos, Niki Dimou, Tonu Esko, Reedik Mägi, Lili Milani, Peter Almgren, Thibaud Boutin, Jun Ding, Franco Giulianini, Elizabeth G Holliday, Anne U Jackson, Ruifang Li-Gao, Wei-Yu Lin, Jian’an Luan, Massimo Mangino, Christopher Oldmeadow, Bram Peter Prins, Yong Qian, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Nabi Shah, Praveen Surendran, Sébastien Thériault, Niek Verweij, Sara M Willems, Jing-Hua Zhao, John Connell, Renée de Mutsert, Alex SF Doney, Martin Farrall, Cristina Menni, Andrew D Morris, Raymond Noordam, Guillaume Paré, Neil R Poulter, Denis C Shields, Alice Stanton, Simon Thom, Gonçalo Abecasis, Najaf Amin, Dan E Arking, Kristin L Ayers, Caterina M Barbieri, Chiara Batini, Joshua C Bis, Tineka Blake, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Erwin P Bottinger, Peter S Braund, Marco Brumat, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Aravinda Chakravarti, John C Chambers, Ganesh Chauhan, Marina Ciullo, Massimiliano Cocca, Francis Collins, Heather J Cordell, Gail Davies, Martin H de Borst, Eco J de Geus, Ian J Deary, Joris Deelen, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, Marcus Dörr, Georg B Ehret, Roberto Elosua, Stefan Enroth, A Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Ferreira, Mattias Frånberg, Oscar H Franco, Ilaria Gandin, Paolo Gasparini, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Christian Gieger, Giorgia Girotto, Anuj Goel, Alan J Gow, Vilmundur Gudnason, Xiuqing Guo, Ulf Gyllensten, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Sarah E Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Aki S Havulinna, Andrew A Hicks, Edith Hofer, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Shih-Jen Hwang, Erik Ingelsson, Alan James, Rick Jansen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Roby Joehanes, Åsa Johansson, Andrew D Johnson, Peter K Joshi, Pekka Jousilahti, J Wouter Jukema, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Sekar Kathiresan, Bernard D Keavney, Kay-Tee Khaw, Paul Knekt, Joanne Knight, Ivana Kolcic, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Kati Kristiansson, Zoltan Kutalik, Maris Laan, Marty Larson, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Terho Lehtimäki, David CM Liewald, Li Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, YongMei Liu, Ruth JF Loos, Lorna M Lopez, Yingchang Lu, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Jaume Marrugat, Jonathan Marten, Yuri Milaneschi, Anna Morgan, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Peter J Munson, Mike A Nalls, Priyanka Nandakumar, Christopher P Nelson, Teemu Niiranen, Ilja M Nolte, Teresa Nutile, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Paul F O’Reilly, Elin Org, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Walter Palmas, Aarno Palotie, Alison Pattie, Brenda WJH Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, 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Butterworth, Daniel I Chasman, David Conen, Francesco Cucca, John Danesh, Caroline Hayward, Joanna MM Howson, Markku Laakso, Edward G Lakatta, Claudia Langenberg, Olle Melander, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Colin NA Palmer, Lorenz Risch, Robert A Scott, Rodney J Scott, Peter Sever, Tim D Spector, Pim van der Harst, Nicholas J Wareham, Eleftheria Zeggini, Daniel Levy, Patricia B Munroe, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Morris J Brown, Andres Metspalu, Bruce M. 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Shields, Alice Stanton, Simon Thom, Gonçalo Abecasis, Najaf Amin, Dan E Arking, Kristin L Ayers, Caterina M Barbieri, Chiara Batini, Joshua C Bis, Tineka Blake, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I Boomsma, Erwin P Bottinger, Peter S Braund, Marco Brumat, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Aravinda Chakravarti, John C Chambers, Ganesh Chauhan, Marina Ciullo, Massimiliano Cocca, Francis Collins, Heather J Cordell, Gail Davies, Martin H de Borst, Eco J de Geus, Ian J Deary, Joris Deelen, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, Marcus Dörr, Georg B Ehret, Roberto Elosua, Stefan Enroth, A Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Ferreira, Mattias Frånberg, Oscar H Franco, Ilaria Gandin, Paolo Gasparini, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Christian Gieger, Giorgia Girotto, Anuj Goel, Alan J Gow, Vilmundur Gudnason, Xiuqing Guo, Ulf Gyllensten, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Sarah E Harris, Catharina A Hartman, Aki S Havulinna, Andrew A Hicks, Edith Hofer, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E Huffman, Shih-Jen Hwang, Erik Ingelsson, Alan James, Rick Jansen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Roby Joehanes, Åsa Johansson, Andrew D Johnson, Peter K Joshi, Pekka Jousilahti, J Wouter Jukema, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Sekar Kathiresan, Bernard D Keavney, Kay-Tee Khaw, Paul Knekt, Joanne Knight, Ivana Kolcic, Jaspal S Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Kati Kristiansson, Zoltan Kutalik, Maris Laan, Marty Larson, Lenore J Launer, Benjamin Lehne, Terho Lehtimäki, David Cm Liewald, Li Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, YongMei Liu, Ruth Jf Loos, Lorna M Lopez, Yingchang Lu, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Jaume Marrugat, Jonathan Marten, Yuri Milaneschi, Anna Morgan, Andrew P Morris, Alanna C Morrison, Peter J Munson, Mike A Nalls, Priyanka Nandakumar, Christopher P Nelson, Teemu Niiranen, Ilja M Nolte, Teresa Nutile, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ben A Oostra, Paul F O'Reilly, Elin Org, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Walter Palmas, Aarno Palotie, Alison Pattie, Brenda Wjh Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Peter P Pramstaller, Quang Tri Nguyen, Olli T Raitakari, Rainer Rettig, Kenneth Rice, Paul M Ridker, Janina S Ried, Harriëtte Riese, Samuli Ripatti, Antonietta Robino, Lynda M Rose, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Daniela Ruggiero, Yasaman Saba, Cinzia F Sala, Veikko Salomaa, Nilesh J Samani, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Reinhold Schmidt, Helena Schmidt, Nick Shrine, David Siscovick, Albert V Smith, Harold Snieder, Siim Sõber, Rossella Sorice, John M Starr, David J Stott, David P Strachan, Rona J Strawbridge, Johan Sundström, Morris A Swertz, Kent D Taylor, Alexander Teumer, Martin D Tobin, Maciej Tomaszewski, Daniela Toniolo, Michela Traglia, Stella Trompet, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Christophe Tzourio, André G Uitterlinden, Ahmad Vaez, Peter J van der Most, Cornelia M van Duijn, Germaine C Verwoert, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Dragana Vuckovic, Hugh Watkins, Sarah H Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, James F Wilson, Alan F Wright, Jie Yao, Tatijana Zemunik, Weihua Zhang, John R Attia, Adam S Butterworth, Daniel I Chasman, David Conen, Francesco Cucca, John Danesh, Caroline Hayward, Joanna Mm Howson, Markku Laakso, Edward G Lakatta, Claudia Langenberg, Olle Melander, Dennis O Mook-Kanamori, Colin Na Palmer, Lorenz Risch, Robert A Scott, Rodney J Scott, Peter Sever, Tim D Spector, Pim van der Harst, Nicholas J Wareham, Eleftheria Zeggini, Daniel Levy, Patricia B Munroe, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Morris J Brown, Andres Metspalu, Bruce M Psaty, Louise V Wain, Paul Elliott, Mark J Caulfield, Padhraig Gormley, Verneri Anttila, Priit Palta, Tonu Esko, Tune H Pers, Kai-How Farh, Ester Cuenca-Leon, Mikko Muona, Nicholas A Furlotte, Tobias Kurth, Andres Ingason, George McMahon, Lannie Ligthart, Gisela M Terwindt, Mikko Kallela, Tobias M Freilinger, Caroline Ran, Scott G Gordon, Anine H Stam, Stacy Steinberg, Guntram Borck, Markku Koiranen, Lydia Quaye, Hieab H H Adams, Terho Lehtimäki, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Juho Wedenoja, David A Hinds, Julie E Buring, Markus Schürks, Paul M Ridker, Maria Gudlaug Hrafnsdottir, Hreinn Stefansson, Susan M Ring, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Brenda W J H Penninx, Markus Färkkilä, Ville Artto, Mari Kaunisto, Salli Vepsäläinen, Rainer Malik, Andrew C Heath, Pamela A F Madden, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Mitja I Kurki, Mart Kals, Reedik Mägi, Kalle Pärn, Eija Hämäläinen, Hailiang Huang, Andrea E Byrnes, Lude Franke, Jie Huang, Evie Stergiakouli, Phil H Lee, Cynthia Sandor, Caleb Webber, Zameel Cader, Bertram Muller-Myhsok, Stefan Schreiber, Thomas Meitinger, Johan G Eriksson, Veikko Salomaa, Kauko Heikkilä, Elizabeth Loehrer, Andre G Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Cornelia M van Duijn, Lynn Cherkas, Linda M Pedersen, Audun Stubhaug, Christopher S Nielsen, Minna Männikkö, Evelin Mihailov, Lili Milani, Hartmut Göbel, Ann-Louise Esserlind, Anne Francke Christensen, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Thomas Werge, Jaakko Kaprio, Arpo J Aromaa, Olli Raitakari, M Arfan Ikram, Tim Spector, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Andres Metspalu, Christian Kubisch, David P Strachan, Michel D Ferrari, Andrea C Belin, Martin Dichgans, Maija Wessman, Arn M J M van den Maagdenberg, Dorret I Boomsma, George Davey Smith, Kari Stefansson, Nicholas Eriksson, Mark J Daly, Benjamin M Neale, Jes Olesen, Daniel I Chasman, Dale R Nyholt, Aarno Palotie, Masato Akiyama, Varinder S Alg, Sigrid Børte, Joseph P Broderick, Ben M Brumpton, Jérôme Dauvillier, Hubert Desal, Christian Dina, Christoph M Friedrich, Emília I Gaál-Paavola, Jean-Christophe Gentric, Sven Hirsch, Isabel C Hostettler, Henry Houlden, Kristian Hveem, Juha E Jääskeläinen, Marianne Bakke Johnsen, Liming Li, Kuang Lin, Antti Lindgren, Olivier Martin, Koichi Matsuda, Iona Y Millwood, Olivier Naggara, Mika Niemelä, Joanna Pera, Richard Redon, Guy A Rouleau, Marie Søfteland Sandvei, Sabine Schilling, Eimad Shotar, Agnieszka Slowik, Chikashi Terao, W M Monique Verschuren, Robin G Walters, David J Werring, Cristen J Willer, Daniel Woo, Bradford B Worrall, Sirui Zhou, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, and Admin, Oskar
Subjects: Advanced and Specialized Nursing, Incidence, risk assessment, Smoking/epidemiology, intracranial aneurysm, genetic heterogeneity, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Risk Factors, Intracranial Aneurysm/epidemiology, Humans, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage/epidemiology, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, genetics, Neurology (clinical), aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, genetic, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Abstract: Background: Recently, common genetic risk factors for intracranial aneurysm (IA) and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (ASAH) were found to explain a large amount of disease heritability and therefore have potential to be used for genetic risk prediction. We constructed a genetic risk score to (1) predict ASAH incidence and IA presence (combined set of unruptured IA and ASAH) and (2) assess its association with patient characteristics. Methods: A genetic risk score incorporating genetic association data for IA and 17 traits related to IA (so-called metaGRS) was created using 1161 IA cases and 407 392 controls from the UK Biobank population study. The metaGRS was validated in combination with risk factors blood pressure, sex, and smoking in 828 IA cases and 68 568 controls from the Nordic HUNT population study. Furthermore, we assessed association between the metaGRS and patient characteristics in a cohort of 5560 IA patients. Results: Per SD increase of metaGRS, the hazard ratio for ASAH incidence was 1.34 (95% CI, 1.20–1.51) and the odds ratio for IA presence 1.09 (95% CI, 1.01–1.18). Upon including the metaGRS on top of clinical risk factors, the concordance index to predict ASAH hazard increased from 0.63 (95% CI, 0.59–0.67) to 0.65 (95% CI, 0.62–0.69), while prediction of IA presence did not improve. The metaGRS was statistically significantly associated with age at ASAH (β=−4.82×10 −3 per year [95% CI, −6.49×10 −3 to −3.14×10 −3 ]; P =1.82×10 −8 ), and location of IA at the internal carotid artery (odds ratio=0.92 [95% CI, 0.86–0.98]; P =0.0041). Conclusions: The metaGRS was predictive of ASAH incidence, although with limited added value over clinical risk factors. The metaGRS was not predictive of IA presence. Therefore, we do not recommend using this metaGRS in daily clinical care. Genetic risk does partly explain the clinical heterogeneity of IA warranting prioritization of clinical heterogeneity in future genetic prediction studies of IA and ASAH.
Published: 2023

14. Typing myalgic encephalomyelitis by infection at onset: A DecodeME study

Author: Andrew D. Bretherick, Simon J. McGrath, Andy Devereux-Cooke, Sian Leary, Emma Northwood, Anna Redshaw, Pippa Stacey, Claire Tripp, Jim Wilson, Sonya Chowdhury, Isabel Lewis, Øyvind Almelid, Sumy V. Baby, Tom Baker, Hannes Becher, Thibaud Boutin, Malgorzata Clyde, Diana Garcia, John Ireland, Shona M. Kerr, Ewan McDowall, David Perry, Gemma L. Samms, Veronique Vitart, Jareth C. Wolfe, and Chris P. Ponting
Abstract: Background: People with myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) daily experience core symptoms of post-exertional malaise, unrefreshing sleep, and cognitive impairment or brain fog. Despite numbering 0.2-0.4% of the population, no laboratory test is available for their diagnosis, no effective therapy exists for their treatment, and no scientific breakthrough regarding their pathogenesis has been made. It remains unknown, despite decades of small-scale studies, whether individuals experience different types of ME/CFS separated by onset-type, sex or age. Methods: DecodeME is a large population-based study of ME/CFS that recruited 17,074 participants in the first 3 months following full launch. Their detailed questionnaire responses provided an unparalleled opportunity to investigate illness severity, onset, course and duration. Results: The well-established sex-bias among ME/CFS patients is evident in the initial DecodeME cohort: 83.5% of participants were females. What was not known previously was that females’ comorbidities and symptoms tend to be more numerous than males’. Moreover, being female, being older and being over 10 years from ME/CFS onset are significantly associated with greater severity. Five different ME/CFS onset types were examined in the self-reported data: those with ME/CFS onset (i) after glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis); (ii) after COVID-19 infection; (iii) after other infections; (iv) without an identified infectious onset; and, (v) where the occurrence of an infection at or preceding onset is not known. Conclusions: This revealed that people with a ME/CFS diagnosis are not a homogeneous group, as clear differences exist in symptomatology and comorbidity.
Published: 2023

15. Genome-wide analysis in over 1 million individuals reveals over 2,000 independent genetic signals for blood pressure

Author: Helen Warren, Todd Edwards, Ahmad Vaez, Jacob Keaton, Zoha Kamali, Tian Xie, Alireza Ani, Evangelos Evangelou, Jacklyn Hellwege, Loïc Yengo, William Young, Matthew Traylor, Ayush Giri, Peter Visscher, Daniel Chasman, Andrew Morris, Mark Caulfield, Shih-Jen Hwang, Jaspal Kooner, David Conen, John Attia, Alanna Morrison, Ruth Loos, Kati Kristiansson, Reinhold Schmidt, Andrew Hicks, Peter Pramstaller, Christopher Nelson, Nilesh Samani, Lorenz Risch, Ulf Gyllensten, Olle Melander, Harriëtte Riese, James Wilson, Harry Campbell, Bruce Psaty, Yingchang Lu, Jerome Rotter, Xiuqing Guo, Kenneth Rice, Peter Vollenweider, Johan Sundstrom, Claudia Langenberg, Martin Tobin, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Jian'an Luan, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Zoltan Kutalik, Samuli Ripatti, Veikko Salomaa, Giorgia Girotto, Stella Trompet, J Wouter Jukema, Pim van der Harst, Paul Ridker, Franco Giulianini, Veronique Vitart, Anuj Goel, Hugh Watkins, Sarah Harris, Ian Deary, Peter van der Most, Albertine Oldehinkel, Bernard Keavney, Caroline Hayward, Archie Campbell, Michael Boehnke, Laura Scott, Thibaud Boutin, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Annette Peters, Christian Gieger, Edward Lakatta, Francesco Cucca, Jennie Hui, Paul Knekt, Stefan Enroth, Martin de Borst, Ozren Polasek, Maria Pina Concas, Eulalia Catamo, Massimiliano Cocca, Ruifang Li-Gao, Edith Hofer, Helena Schmidt, Beatrice Spedicati, Melanie Waldenberger, David Strachan, Maris Laan, Alexander Teumer, Marcus Dörr, Vilmundur Gudnason, James Cook, Daniela Ruggiero, Ivana Kolcic, Eric Boerwinkle, Michela Traglia, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli Raitakari, Andrew Johnson, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Morris Brown, Anna Dominiczak, Peter Sever, Neil Poulter, John Chambers, Roberto Elosua, David Siscovick, Tōnu Esko, Andres Metspalu, Rona Strawbridge, Markku Laakso, Anders Hamsten, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Eco de Geus, Colin Palmer, Ilja Nolte, Yuri Milaneschi, Jonathan Marten, Alan Wright, Eleftheria Zeggini, Joanna Howson, Christopher O'Donnell, Tim Spector, Mike Nalls, Eleanor Simonsick, Yongmei Liu, Cornelia van Duijn, Adam Butterworth, John Danesh, Cristina Menni, Nick Wareham, Kay Khaw, Joshua Denny, Daniel Levy, Patricia Munroe, and Harold Snieder
Abstract: Hypertension is a leading cause of premature death affecting more than a billion individuals worldwide. Here we report on the genetic determinants of blood pressure (BP) traits (systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressure) in the largest single-stage genome-wide analysis to date (N = 1,028,980 European-descent individuals). We identified 2,103 independent genetic signals (P − 8) for BP traits, including 113 novel loci. These associations explain ~ 40% of common SNP heritability of systolic and diastolic BP. Comparison of top versus bottom deciles of polygenic risk scores (PRS) based on these results reveal clinically meaningful differences in BP (12.9 mm Hg for systolic BP, 95% CI 11.5–14.2 mm Hg, p = 9.08×10− 73) and hypertension risk (OR 5.41; 95% CI 4.12 to 7.10; P = 9.71×10− 33) in an independent dataset. Compared with the area under the curve (AUC) for hypertension discrimination for a model with sex, age, BMI, and genetic ancestry, adding systolic and diastolic BP PRS increased discrimination from 0.791 (95% CI = 0.781–0.801) to 0.814 (95% CI = 0.805–0.824, ∆AUC = 0.023, P = 2.27x10− 22). Our transcriptome-wide association study detected 2,793 BP colocalized associations with genetically-predicted expression of 1,070 genes in five cardiovascular tissues, of which 500 are previously unreported for BP traits. These findings represent an advance in our understanding of hypertension and highlight the role of increasingly large genomic studies for development of more accurate PRS, which may inform precision health research.
Published: 2022

16. Insights into the genetic basis of retinal detachment

Author: Caroline Hayward, David G. Charteris, Danny Mitry, Thibaud Boutin, David A. Hinds, Archie Campbell, Susan Campbell, Aman Chandra, Priyanka Nandakumar, and Veronique Vitart
Subjects: Genetic Markers, medicine.medical_specialty, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, Biology, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Epidemiology, Genetics, medicine, Humans, genetics, myopia, Association Studies Article, genome, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Sweden, 0303 health sciences, genome-wide association study, datasets, radiation recall dermatitis, Retinal Detachment, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, Case-control study, General Medicine, self-report, Biobank, United Kingdom, cataract, Genetic marker, Case-Control Studies, biobanks, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Etiology, Genome-Wide Association Study, retinal detachment
Abstract: Retinal detachment is a serious and common condition, but genetic studies to date have been hampered by the small size of the assembled cohorts. In the UK Biobank dataset, where retinal detachment was ascertained by self-report or hospital records, genetic correlations between retinal detachment and high myopia or cataract operation were respectively 0.46 (SE=0.08) and 0.44 (SE=0.07). These correlations are consistent with known epidemiological associations. Through meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies using UK Biobank retinal detachment cases (N=3977) and two cohorts, each comprising ~1000 clinically-ascertained rhegmatogenous retinal detachment patients, we uncovered 11 genome-wide significant association signals. These are near or within ZC3H11B, BMP3, COL22A1, DLG5, PLCE1, EFEMP2, TYR, FAT3, TRIM29, COL2A1 and LOXL1. Replication in the 23andMe dataset, where retinal detachment is self-reported by participants, firmly establishes six retinal detachment risk loci: FAT3, COL22A1, TYR, BMP3, ZC3H11B and PLCE1. Based on the genetic associations with eye traits described to date, the first two specifically impact risk of a retinal detachment, while the last four point to shared aetiologies with macular condition, myopia and glaucoma. Fine-mapping prioritised the lead common missense variant (TYR S192Y) as causal variant at the TYR locus and a small set of credible causal variants at the FAT3 locus. The larger study size presented here, enabled by resources linked to health records or self-report, provides novel insights into retinal detachment aetiology and underlying pathological pathways.
Published: 2019

17. SNP and Haplotype Regional Heritability Mapping (SNHap-RHM): Joint Mapping of Common and Rare Variation Affecting Complex Traits

Author: Richard F. Oppong, Thibaud Boutin, Archie Campbell, Andrew M. McIntosh, David Porteous, Caroline Hayward, Chris S. Haley, Pau Navarro, and Sara Knott
Subjects: MDD, Linkage disequilibrium, haplotypes, rare variation, Haplotype, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, QH426-470, Biology, Heritability, Genome, Evolutionary biology, missing heritability, Genetics, Methods, Molecular Medicine, SNP, Allele, Gene, regional heritability mapping, Genetics (clinical), height, genome-wide analysis
Abstract: We describe a genome-wide analytical approach, SNP and Haplotype Regional Heritability Mapping (SNHap-RHM), that provides regional estimates of the heritability across locally defined regions in the genome. This approach utilises relationship matrices that are based on sharing of SNP and haplotype alleles at local haplotype blocks delimited by recombination boundaries in the genome. We implemented the approach on simulated data and show that the haplotype-based regional GRMs capture variation that is complementary to that captured by SNP-based regional GRMs, and thus justifying the fitting of the two GRMs jointly in a single analysis (SNHap-RHM). SNHap-RHM captures regions in the genome contributing to the phenotypic variation that existing genome-wide analysis methods may fail to capture. We further demonstrate that there are real benefits to be gained from this approach by applying it to real data from about 20,000 individuals from the Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study. We analysed height and major depressive disorder (MDD). We identified seven genomic regions that are genome-wide significant for height, and three regions significant at a suggestive threshold (p-value < 1 × 10−5) for MDD. These significant regions have genes mapped to within 400kb of them. The genes mapped for height have been reported to be associated with height in humans. Similarly, those mapped for MDD have been reported to be associated with major depressive disorder and other psychiatry phenotypes. The results show that SNHap-RHM presents an exciting new opportunity to analyse complex traits by allowing the joint mapping of novel genomic regions tagged by either SNPs or haplotypes, potentially leading to the recovery of some of the “missing” heritability.Author SummaryIn untangling the genetic contribution to observed phenotype differences, situations can arise where causative variants might be tagged by haplotypes and not in linkage disequilibrium with individual SNPs. This scenario is likely for relatively newly arisen and rarer variants. Here, we propose a regional heritability method, SNHap-RHM, that jointly fits haplotype-based and SNP-based genomic relationship matrices (GRMs) to capture genomic regions harbouring rare variants that the SNP-based GRMs might miss. By analysing ~20,000 Scottish individuals, we show by simulation that the two GRMs are very specific to the type of variant effects they can capture; – the haplotype-based GRMs specifically target haplotype effects which are mostly missed by SNP-based GRMs and vice versa. Applying the method to height and major depressive disorder led to the uncovering of regions in the genome that harbour genes associated with those traits. These results are uniquely important because first they confirm that effects tagged by haplotypes may be missed by conventional SNP-based methods. Secondly, our method, SNHap-RHM, presents an exciting new opportunity to analyse complex traits by allowing the joint mapping of genomic regions tagged by either SNPs or haplotypes, potentially leading to the recovery of some of the “missing” heritability.
Published: 2021

18. Variants associated with HHIP expression have sex-differential effects on lung function

Author: Carl A. Melbourne, Caroline Hayward, Stefan Karrasch, Dirk Keidel, Katherine A. Fawcett, Susan M. Ring, Yohan Bossé, Carol A. Wang, Ben Michael Brumpton, Claudia Langenberg, Peter K. Joshi, Ke Hao, Igor Rudan, David J. Porteous, Don D. Sin, Raquel Granell, Blair H. Smith, Jian'an Luan, Kristian Hveem, Sarah E. Harris, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Archie Campbell, Sebastian May-Wilson, Veronique Vitart, Nicola Pirastu, Arnulf Langhammer, Craig E. Pennell, John M. Starr, Stefan Weiss, Karina Patasova, Nicholas J. Wareham, James F. Wilson, Deborah Jarvis, Tim D. Spector, Nick Shrine, David P. Strachan, Martin D. Tobin, Beate Stubbe, David M. Evans, Kirsi H. Pietiläinen, Mangino Massimo, Ian P. Hall, Graham L. Hall, Jaakko Kaprio, Ralf Ewert, Rachel E. Foong, Claudia Flexeder, Louise V. Wain, Ma'en Obeidat, Cristen J. Willer, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Olli T. Raitakari, John Henderson, Konstantin Strauch, Marta R Moksnes, Cosetta Minelli, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Pirro G. Hysi, Anna L. Guyatt, Henry Völzke, Thomas Meitinger, Peter D. Sly, Ozren Polasek, Anne Richmond, Mika Kähönen, Maarten van den Berge, Medea Imboden, Thibaud Boutin, Lucija Klaric, Laura Portas, Terho Lehtimäki, Ian J. Deary, Taina Rantanen, Catherine John, Teemu Palviainen, Fawcett, Katherine A [0000-0002-6675-2112], Obeidat, Ma'en [0000-0002-5443-2752], Shrine, Nick [0000-0003-3641-4371], Weiss, Stefan [0000-0002-3553-4315], May-Wilson, Sebastian [0000-0003-2668-5717], Boutin, Thibaud S [0000-0003-4754-1675], Portas, Laura [0000-0003-1789-1893], Harris, Sarah E [0000-0002-4941-5106], Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka [0000-0002-7200-5455], Palviainen, Teemu [0000-0002-7847-8384], Keidel, Dirk [0000-0003-4706-5728], Minelli, Cosetta [0000-0001-9166-3958], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Bossé, Yohan [0000-0002-3067-3711], Van den Berge, Maarten [0000-0002-9336-7340], Sin, Don D [0000-0002-0756-6643], Campbell, Archie [0000-0003-0198-5078], Porteous, David [0000-0003-1249-6106], Padmanabhan, Sandosh [0000-0003-3869-5808], Smith, Blair H [0000-0002-5362-9430], Ring, Sue [0000-0003-3103-9330], Rantanen, Taina [0000-0002-1604-1945], Pennell, Craig E [0000-0002-0937-6165], Kaprio, Jaakko [0000-0002-3716-2455], Vitart, Veronique [0000-0002-4991-3797], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Hall, Ian P [0000-0001-9933-3216], Wain, Louise V [0000-0003-4951-1867], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Technology Centre, University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Genetic Epidemiology, HUS Abdominal Center, Department of Medicine, Clinicum, CAMM - Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Department of Public Health, Research Programs Unit, Tampere University, Clinical Medicine, Department of Clinical Chemistry, TAYS Heart Centre, and Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Spirometry, medicine.medical_specialty, HHIP, Medicine (miscellaneous), Expression, Genome-wide Interaction Study, Hhip, Lung Function, Sex, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, 3121 Internal medicine, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genome-wide interaction study, Lung function, Internal medicine, expression, medicine, sex, Allele, Enhancer, Gene, Lung, genome-wide interaction study, medicine.diagnostic_test, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, lung function, ALSPAC, Differential effects, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030228 respiratory system, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract: Background: Lung function is highly heritable and differs between the sexes throughout life. However, little is known about sex-differential genetic effects on lung function. We aimed to conduct the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on lung function to identify genetic effects that differ between males and females. Methods: We tested for interactions between 7,745,864 variants and sex on spirometry-based measures of lung function in UK Biobank (N=303,612), and sought replication in 75,696 independent individuals from the SpiroMeta consortium. Results: Five independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showed genome-wide significant (P-8) interactions with sex on lung function, and 21 showed suggestive interactions (P-6). The strongest signal, from rs7697189 (chr4:145436894) on forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (P=3.15x10-15), was replicated (P=0.016) in SpiroMeta. The C allele increased FEV1 more in males (untransformed FEV1 β=0.028 [SE 0.0022] litres) than females (β=0.009 [SE 0.0014] litres), and this effect was not accounted for by differential effects on height, smoking or pubertal age. rs7697189 resides upstream of the hedgehog-interacting protein (HHIP) gene and was previously associated with lung function and HHIP lung expression. We found HHIP expression was significantly different between the sexes (P=6.90x10-6), but we could not detect sex differential effects of rs7697189 on expression. Conclusions: We identified a novel genotype-by-sex interaction at a putative enhancer region upstream of the HHIP gene. Establishing the mechanism by which HHIP SNPs have different effects on lung function in males and females will be important for our understanding of lung health and diseases in both sexes.
Published: 2021

19. Linking protein to phenotype with Mendelian Randomization detects 38 proteins with causal roles in human diseases and traits

Author: Igor Rudan, Albert Tenesa, Caroline Hayward, James F. Wilson, Thibaud Boutin, J Kenneth Baillie, Harry Campbell, Carmen Amador, Yanni Zeng, Andrew D. Bretherick, Oriol Canela-Xandri, Pau Navarro, Veronique Vitart, Alan F. Wright, Chris P. Ponting, Konrad Rawlik, Peter K. Joshi, Chris Haley, and David W. Clark
Subjects: Male, Cancer Research, Proteome, Pulmonology, Genome-wide association study, Disease, QH426-470, Vascular Medicine, 0302 clinical medicine, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Pleiotropy, Drug Discovery, Medicine and Health Sciences, Coronary Heart Disease, Receptors, Immunologic, Lymphotoxin-alpha, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Statistics, Genomics, Phenotype, Cardiovascular Diseases, Physical Sciences, Female, Research Article, Drug Research and Development, Fibroblast Growth Factor 5, Quantitative Trait Loci, Cardiology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins, Research and Analysis Methods, Instrumental Variable Analysis, 03 medical and health sciences, Mendelian randomization, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Humans, Allele, Statistical Methods, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetic Association Studies, Alleles, 030304 developmental biology, Pharmacology, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Human Genetics, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Genome Analysis, Antigens, Differentiation, Receptors, Interleukin-6, Asthma, Lipoprotein Lipase, Genetic Loci, Genetics of Disease, Schizophrenia, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Mathematics
Abstract: To efficiently transform genetic associations into drug targets requires evidence that a particular gene, and its encoded protein, contribute causally to a disease. To achieve this, we employ a three-step proteome-by-phenome Mendelian Randomization (MR) approach. In step one, 154 protein quantitative trait loci (pQTLs) were identified and independently replicated. From these pQTLs, 64 replicated locally-acting variants were used as instrumental variables for proteome-by-phenome MR across 846 traits (step two). When its assumptions are met, proteome-by-phenome MR, is equivalent to simultaneously running many randomized controlled trials. Step 2 yielded 38 proteins that significantly predicted variation in traits and diseases in 509 instances. Step 3 revealed that amongst the 271 instances from GeneAtlas (UK Biobank), 77 showed little evidence of pleiotropy (HEIDI), and 92 evidence of colocalization (eCAVIAR). Results were wide ranging: including, for example, new evidence for a causal role of tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type substrate 1 (SHPS1; SIRPA) in schizophrenia, and a new finding that intestinal fatty acid binding protein (FABP2) abundance contributes to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. We also demonstrated confirmatory evidence for the causal role of four further proteins (FGF5, IL6R, LPL, LTA) in cardiovascular disease risk., Author summary The targets of most medications prescribed today are proteins. For many common diseases our understanding of the underlying causes is often incomplete, and our ability to predict whether new drugs will be effective is remarkably poor. Attempts to use genetics to identify drug targets have an important limitation: standard study designs link disease risk to DNA but do not explain how the genotype leads to disease. In our study, we made robust statistical links between DNA variants and blood levels of 249 proteins, in two separate groups of Europeans. We then used this information to predict protein levels in large genetic studies. In many cases, this second step gives us evidence that high or low levels of a given protein play a role in causing a given disease. Among dozens of high-confidence links, we found new evidence for a causal role of a protein called SHPS1 in schizophrenia, and of another protein (FABP2) in heart disease. Our method takes advantage of information from large numbers of existing genetic studies to prioritize specific proteins as drug targets.
Published: 2020

20. Fine-mapping and cell-specific enrichment at corneal resistance factor loci prioritize candidate causal regulatory variants

Author: Veronique Vitart, Xinyi Jiang, Yatendra Kumar, Wendy A. Bickmore, Nefeli Dellepiane, Thibaud Boutin, and Erola Pairo-Castineira
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Keratoconus, genetic structures, QH301-705.5, Corneal diseases, Quantitative Trait Loci, Medicine (miscellaneous), Genome-wide association study, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-wide association studies, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cornea, Databases, Genetic, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Biology (General), Allele, Alleles, Genetic association, Genetics, Regulation of gene expression, Corneal Diseases, Chromosome Mapping, Computational Biology, Molecular Sequence Annotation, medicine.disease, eye diseases, United Kingdom, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Gene Expression Regulation, Organ Specificity, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Female, sense organs, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Corneal resistance factor (CRF) is altered during corneal diseases progression. Genome-wide-association studies (GWAS) indicated potential CRF and disease genetics overlap. Here, we characterise 135 CRF loci following GWAS in 76029 UK Biobank participants. Enrichment of extra-cellular matrix gene-sets, genetic correlation with corneal thickness (70% (SE = 5%)), reported keratoconus risk variants at 13 loci, all support relevance to corneal stroma biology. Fine-mapping identifies a subset of 55 highly likely causal variants, 91% of which are non-coding. Genomic features enrichments, using all associated variants, also indicate prominent regulatory causal role. We newly established open chromatin landscapes in two widely-used human cornea immortalised cell lines using ATAC-seq. Variants associated with CRF were significantly enriched in regulatory regions from the corneal stroma-derived cell line and enrichment increases to over 5 fold for variants prioritised by fine-mapping-including at GAS7, SMAD3 and COL6A1 loci. Our analysis generates many hypotheses for future functional validation of aetiological mechanisms., Here, the authors report a genome-wide association analysis for corneal resistance factor (CRF), a measure of corneal biomechanical properties relevant to a number of corneal diseases. They identify 135 loci associated with CRF and use fine-mapping and ATAC-seq in human cornea cell lines to identify putative causal variants affecting gene expression.
Published: 2020

21. Genomic evaluation of circulating proteins for drug target characterisation and precision medicine

Author: Tõnu Esko, Lars Wallentin, Andrew D. Bretherick, Adam S. Butterworth, Jesper R. Gådin, Anders Hamsten, Anders Mälarstig, Gunnar Engström, Johan Ärnlöv, Andres Ingason, Céline Fernandez, Jian Yang, Peter M. Nilsson, George Davey-Smith, Weidong Zhang, Agneta Siegbahn, Lasse Folkersen, Thibaud Boutin, Michael V. Holmes, Lars Lind, Julie Lee, Erik Ingelsson, James F. Wilson, Olle Melander, Eric B. Fauman, Lude Franke, Amira Quazi, John Danesh, Ozren Polasek, Niclas Ericsson, Sarah E. Bergen, Mika Ala-Korpela, Andrew J. Schork, Marketa Sjögren, Seung Hoan Choi, Jan Nilsson, Åsa K Hedman, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Bram P. Prins, Daria V. Zhernakova, Yang Wu, Karl Michaëlsson, James E. Peters, Andrew P. Morris, Marju Orho-Melander, Stefan Enroth, Reedik Mägi, Stefan Gustafsson, Mikael Landén, Martin Magnusson, Qin Wang, Steven A. Lubitz, Johan Sundström, Federico De Masi, Jingyuan Fu, Rasmus Wernersson, Thomas Werge, Praveen Surendran, Tom Palmer, Paul W. Franks, Caroline Hayward, Daniel Hvidberg Hansen, Ulf Gyllensten, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Urmo Võsa, Åsa Johansson, Alexandra Zhernakova, Bianca E. Suur, Karen Page, Gustav Smith, Erik Pålsson, Ting Qi, Harm-Jan Westra, Michael W. Nagle, Erin Macdonald-Dunlop, Annique Claringbould, Peter K. Joshi, Sölve Elmståhl, Anettne Kalnapenkis, Yan Chen, Chris Haley, and Jeremy D. Gale
Subjects: Drug, 0303 health sciences, media_common.quotation_subject, Drug target, Disease, Computational biology, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Precision medicine, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, Human health, 0302 clinical medicine, Mendelian randomization, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, media_common
Abstract: Circulating proteins are vital in human health and disease and are frequently used as biomarkers for clinical decision-making or as targets for pharmacological intervention. By mapping and replicating protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) for 90 cardiovascular proteins in over 30,000 individuals, we identified 467 pQTLs for 85 proteins. The pQTLs were used in combination with other sources of information to evaluate known drug targets, and suggest new target candidates or repositioning opportunities, underpinned by a) causality assessment using Mendelian randomization, b) pathway mapping usingtrans-pQTL gene assignments, and c) protein-centric polygenic risk scores enabling matching of plausible target mechanisms to sub-groups of individuals enabling precision medicine.
Published: 2020
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22. Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

Author: Tom Palmer, Lars Lind, George Davey Smith, Ting Qi, Michael W. Nagle, Paul W. Franks, Bram P. Prins, Julie Lee, Jingyuan Fu, Niclas Eriksson, Peter K. Joshi, Chris Haley, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Jeremy D. Gale, Mika Ala-Korpela, Michael V. Holmes, Urmo Võsa, Adam S. Butterworth, Eric B. Fauman, Anette Kalnapenkis, Reedik Mägi, Åsa Johansson, James F. Wilson, Mikael Landén, Gunnar Engström, Johan Ärnlöv, Anders Hamsten, Ozren Polasek, Andres Ingason, Andrew J. Schork, Agneta Siegbahn, Lasse Folkersen, Qin Wang, Andrew P. Morris, Johan Sundström, Daria V. Zhernakova, Olle Melander, Erik Ingelsson, Federico De Masi, Lude Franke, James E. Peters, Alexandra Zhernakova, Seung Hoan Choi, Rasmus Wernersson, Thibaud Boutin, Karl Michaëlsson, Stefan Gustafsson, Bianca E. Suur, Karen Page, Yang Wu, Caroline Hayward, Marketa Sjögren, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Stefan Enroth, Tõnu Esko, Amira Quazi, John Danesh, Anders Mälarstig, Daniel Hvidberg Hansen, Åsa K Hedman, Jan Nilsson, Ulf Gyllensten, Vilmantas Giedraitis, J. Gustav Smith, Martin Magnusson, Marju Orho-Melander, Steven A. Lubitz, Erin Macdonald-Dunlop, Thomas Werge, Praveen Surendran, Yan Chen, Céline Fernandez, Weidong Zhang, Lars Wallentin, Andrew D. Bretherick, Jian Yang, Peter M. Nilsson, Jesper R. Gådin, Annique Claringbould, Sölve Elmståhl, Sarah E Bergen, Harm-Jan Westra, Erik Pålsson, Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Translational Immunology Groningen (TRIGR), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Stem Cell Aging Leukemia and Lymphoma (SALL), United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Folkersen, Lasse [0000-0003-0708-9530], Hansen, Daniel Hvidberg [0000-0003-3285-605X], Wu, Yang [0000-0002-0128-7280], Eriksson, Niclas [0000-0002-2152-4343], Bretherick, Andrew D [0000-0001-9258-3140], Enroth, Stefan [0000-0002-5056-9137], Lee, Julie [0000-0001-6090-6718], Ala-Korpela, Mika [0000-0001-5905-1206], Claringbould, Annique [0000-0002-9201-6557], Davey Smith, George [0000-0002-1407-8314], Fauman, Eric [0000-0002-9739-0249], Fernandez, Celine [0000-0003-1290-4982], Franke, Lude [0000-0002-5159-8802], Franks, Paul W [0000-0002-0520-7604], Giedraitis, Vilmantas [0000-0003-3423-2021], Haley, Chris [0000-0002-9811-0210], Johansson, Åsa [0000-0002-2915-4498], Lubitz, Steven [0000-0002-9599-4866], Palmer, Tom [0000-0003-4655-4511], Macdonald-Dunlop, Erin [0000-0001-6569-6086], Magnusson, Martin [0000-0003-1710-5936], Michaelsson, Karl [0000-0003-2815-1217], Nagle, Michael W [0000-0002-4677-7582], Nilsson, Peter M [0000-0002-5652-8459], Nilsson, Jan [0000-0002-9752-7479], Prins, Bram [0000-0001-5774-034X], Sundström, Johan [0000-0003-2247-8454], Werge, Thomas [0000-0003-1829-0766], Westra, Harm-Jan [0000-0001-7038-567X], Fu, Jingyuan [0000-0001-5578-1236], Esko, Tõnu [0000-0003-1982-6569], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Landen, Mikael [0000-0002-4496-6451], Butterworth, Adam S [0000-0002-6915-9015], Holmes, Michael V [0000-0001-6617-0879], Ingelsson, Erik [0000-0003-2256-6972], Mälarstig, Anders [0000-0003-2608-1358], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and 30387078 - Magnusson, P. Martin
Subjects: Proteomics, Proteome, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Asthma, ATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1, Cardiovascular System, Chromosome Mapping, Drug Delivery Systems, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Humans, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 Protein, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Linkage Disequilibrium, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Quantitative Trait Loci, Receptors, CCR2, Receptors, CCR5, Genome-wide association study, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Chemokine receptor, 0302 clinical medicine, RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST, GWAS, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, 0303 health sciences, Molecular medicine, 3. Good health, Medical genetics, Medical Genetics, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Computational biology, Biology, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Physiology (medical), Mendelian randomization, Internal Medicine, medicine, 030304 developmental biology, Science & Technology, Cell Biology, GENE, ANTIBODY
Abstract: Circulating proteins are vital in human health and disease and are frequently used as biomarkers for clinical decision-making or as targets for pharmacological intervention. Here, we map and replicate protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) for 90 cardiovascular proteins in over 30,000 individuals, resulting in 451 pQTLs for 85 proteins. For each protein, we further perform pathway mapping to obtain trans-pQTL gene and regulatory designations. We substantiate these regulatory findings with orthogonal evidence for trans-pQTLs using mouse knockdown experiments (ABCA1 and TRIB1) and clinical trial results (chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5), with consistent regulation. Finally, we evaluate known drug targets, and suggest new target candidates or repositioning opportunities using Mendelian randomization. This identifies 11 proteins with causal evidence of involvement in human disease that have not previously been targeted, including EGF, IL-16, PAPPA, SPON1, F3, ADM, CASP-8, CHI3L1, CXCL16, GDF15 and MMP-12. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the utility of large-scale mapping of the genetics of the proteome and provide a resource for future precision studies of circulating proteins in human health.
Published: 2020
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23. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction

Author: Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Yalda Jamshidi, Peter K. Joshi, Seung Hoan Choi, Henry J. Lin, Rebecca D. Jackson, Alison D. Murray, May E. Montasser, Veikko Salomaa, Charles Kooperberg, Moritz F. Sinner, Gianfranco Sinagra, Luisa Foco, James G. Wilson, Johan Sundström, Kathleen A. Ryan, Eric A. Whitsel, Bruno H. Stricker, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Ozren Polasek, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Niek Verweij, Pier D. Lambiase, Nathan R. Tucker, Stefan Kääb, Jun Ding, Stefan Weiss, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, David Conen, Lars Lind, Ivana Kolcic, Lu-Chen Weng, J. Wouter Jukema, Kirill V. Tarasov, Xiuqing Guo, Stella Trompet, Patricia B. Munroe, Albert V. Smith, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Andrew Tinker, Antti Jula, J. Gustav Smith, Alexander P. Reiner, Sébastien Thériault, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Vilmundur Gudnason, Mika Kähönen, Massimo Mangino, Raymond Noordam, Joshua C. Bis, Alan R. Shuldiner, Tim D. Spector, Borbala Mifsud, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Emelia J. Benjamin, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, Stephan B. Felix, Peter W. Macfarlane, Lorenz Risch, Uwe Völker, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Julia Ramirez, Morten S. Olesen, Konstantin Strauch, Annette Peters, Aaron Isaacs, Steven A. Lubitz, Eric Boerwinkle, Carolina Roselli, James H. Cartwright, Nathalia M. Araujo, Ruth J. F. Loos, Diane Fatkin, Harry Campbell, Blair H. Smith, Thomas Meitinger, André G. Uitterlinden, Paul L. Huang, Tamara B. Harris, Kathleen F. Kerr, David J. Porteous, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Francesco Cucca, Michiel Rienstra, Davíð O. Arnar, Amanda A. Seyerle, Caroline Hayward, M. Abdullah Said, Catriona L. K. Barnes, Kent D. Taylor, Nona Sotoodehnia, Nina Mononen, Dan M. Roden, Jonathan Marten, Terho Lehtimäki, Dan E. Arking, Anna F. Dominiczak, Jan A. Kors, Olli T. Raitakari, Igor Rudan, Yordi J. van de Vegte, Christopher P. Nelson, Erik Ingelsson, Ulrike Peters, Girish N. Nadkarni, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Edward G. Lakatta, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Bruce M. Psaty, Patrick T. Ellinor, Christian Fuchsberger, Katharina Schramm, Amelia W. Hall, M. Yldau van der Ende, Alvaro Alonso, James F. Wilson, Sheila Ulivi, Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Mary L. Biggs, Marten E. van den Berg, Nilesh J. Samani, Thibaud Boutin, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Honghuang Lin, Kjell Nikus, Helen R. Warren, Arie C. Maan, James J. Cranley, Adolfo Correa, Martin Gögele, Ian Ford, Katri Sääksjärvi, Georg Ehret, Michele Orini, Susan R. Heckbert, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Jie Yao, Maria Pina Concas, Pim van der Harst, Ioanna Ntalla, Jeffrey Haessler, Jerome I. Rotter, Pashupati P. Mishra, Michael J. Cutler, Erwin P. Bottinger, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jennifer A. Brody, Paolo Gasparini, Lenore J. Launer, Andrew P. Morris, Renée de Mutsert, Aki S. Havulinna, James P. Cook, Hilma Holm, Patrick Sulem, Alessandro De Grandi, Cristian Pattaro, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Mark J. Caulfield, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Marcus Dörr, Muhammad B. Riaz, Peter P. Pramstaller, Yong Qian, Anubha Mahajan, Cathy C. Laurie, Kenneth Rice, Mark Chaffin, Kari Stefansson, Andrew A. Hicks, Solmaz Assa, Hao Mei, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Fabiola Del Greco M, Renan P. Souza, Michael Preuss, Adrienne M. Stilp, Barry London, Melanie Waldenberger, Christy L. Avery, Daniel Levy, Michael R. 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H., Hall, A. W., Sveinbjornsson, G., Tucker, N. R., Choi, S. H., Chaffin, M. D., Roselli, C., Barnes, M. R., Mifsud, B., Warren, H. R., Hayward, C., Marten, J., Cranley, J. J., Concas, M. P., Gasparini, P., Boutin, T., Kolcic, I., Polasek, O., Rudan, I., Araujo, N. M., Lima-Costa, M. F., Ribeiro, A. L. P., Souza, R. P., Tarazona-Santos, E., Giedraitis, V., Ingelsson, E., Mahajan, A., Morris, A. P., Del Greco M, F., Foco, L., Gogele, M., Hicks, A. A., Cook, J. P., Lind, L., Lindgren, C. M., Sundstrom, J., Nelson, C. P., Riaz, M. B., Samani, N. J., Sinagra, G., Ulivi, S., Kahonen, M., Mishra, P. P., Mononen, N., Nikus, K., Caulfield, M. J., Dominiczak, A., Padmanabhan, S., Montasser, M. E., O'Connell, J. R., Ryan, K., Shuldiner, A. R., Aeschbacher, S., Conen, D., Risch, L., Theriault, S., Hutri-Kahonen, N., Lehtimaki, T., Lyytikainen, L. -P., Raitakari, O. T., Barnes, C. L. K., Campbell, H., Joshi, P. K., Wilson, J. F., Isaacs, A., Kors, J. A., van Duijn, C. M., Huang, P. L., Gudnason, V., Harris, T. B., Launer, L. J., Smith, A. V., Bottinger, E. P., Loos, R. J. F., Nadkarni, G. N., Preuss, M. H., Correa, A., Mei, H., Wilson, J., Meitinger, T., Muller-Nurasyid, M., Peters, A., Waldenberger, M., Mangino, M., Spector, T. D., Rienstra, M., van de Vegte, Y. J., van der Harst, P., Verweij, N., Kaab, S., Schramm, K., Sinner, M. F., Strauch, K., Cutler, M. J., Fatkin, D., London, B., Olesen, M., Roden, D. M., Benjamin Shoemaker, M., Gustav Smith, J., Biggs, M. L., Bis, J. C., Brody, J. A., Psaty, B. M., Rice, K., Sotoodehnia, N., De Grandi, A., Fuchsberger, C., Pattaro, C., Pramstaller, P. P., Ford, I., Wouter Jukema, J., Macfarlane, P. W., Trompet, S., Dorr, M., Felix, S. B., Volker, U., Weiss, S., Havulinna, A. S., Jula, A., Saaksjarvi, K., Salomaa, V., Guo, X., Heckbert, S. R., Lin, H. J., Rotter, J. I., Taylor, K. D., Yao, J., de Mutsert, R., Maan, A. C., Mook-Kanamori, D. O., Noordam, R., Cucca, F., Ding, J., Lakatta, E. G., Qian, Y., Tarasov, K. V., Levy, D., Lin, H., Newton-Cheh, C. H., Lunetta, K. L., Murray, A. D., Porteous, D. J., Smith, B. H., Stricker, B. H., Uitterlinden, A., van den Berg, M. E., Haessler, J., Jackson, R. D., Kooperberg, C., Peters, U., Reiner, A. P., Whitsel, E. A., Alonso, A., Arking, D. E., Boerwinkle, E., Ehret, G. B., Soliman, E. Z., Avery, C. L., Gogarten, S. M., Kerr, K. F., Laurie, C. C., Seyerle, A. A., Stilp, A., Assa, S., Abdullah Said, M., Yldau van der Ende, M., Lambiase, P. D., Orini, M., Ramirez, J., Van Duijvenboden, S., Arnar, D. O., Gudbjartsson, D. F., Holm, H., Sulem, P., Thorleifsson, G., Thorolfsdottir, R. B., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Benjamin, E. J., Tinker, A., Stefansson, K., Ellinor, P. T., Jamshidi, Y., Lubitz, S. A., Munroe, P. B., Fysiologie, RS: FHML MaCSBio, RS: Carim - B01 Blood proteins & engineering, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, and University of Iceland
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, General Physics and Astronomy, Gene Expression, Genome-wide association study, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Arrhythmias, Genome-wide association studies, CALCINEURIN, Electrocardiography, 0302 clinical medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Multi-ancestry GWAS, ELEMENTS, Medicine, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, Blóðrásarsjúkdómar, lcsh:Science, RISK, DECREASE, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Kardiologi, medicine.diagnostic_test, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Atrial fibrillation, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, 3. Good health, Endophenotype, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Cardiovascular Diseases, Endophenotypes, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Quantitative Trait Loci, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, medicine.symptom, Erfðarannsóknir, Cardiac, Medical Genetics, Human, Bradycardia, medicine.medical_specialty, Science, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION, MUTATIONS, DURATION, CARDIOMYOPATHY, BRADYCARDIA, Population, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Cardiac conduction, PR interval, education, Medicinsk genetik, business.industry, Cardiovascular genetics, General Chemistry, Arfgengi, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, lcsh:Q, business
Abstract: Publisher's version (útgefin grein), The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality. Here we report a multi-ancestry (N = 293,051) genome-wide association meta-analysis for the PR interval, discovering 202 loci of which 141 have not previously been reported. Variants at identified loci increase the percentage of heritability explained, from 33.5% to 62.6%. We observe enrichment for cardiac muscle developmental/contractile and cytoskeletal genes, highlighting key regulation processes for atrioventricular conduction. Additionally, 8 loci not previously reported harbor genes underlying inherited arrhythmic syndromes and/or cardiomyopathies suggesting a role for these genes in cardiovascular pathology in the general population. We show that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease, including distal conduction disease, AF, and atrioventricular pre-excitation. These findings advance our understanding of the polygenic basis of cardiac conduction, and the genetic relationship between PR interval duration and cardiovascular disease., We provide all investigator and study-specific acknowledgements in Supplementary Note 1, and funding sources in Supplementary Note 2.
Published: 2020

24. An epigenome-wide association study of sex-specific chronological ageing

Author: Ian J. Deary, Andrew M. McIntosh, Peter M. Visscher, Riccardo E. Marioni, Mairead L. Bermingham, Thibaud Boutin, Jian Yang, Anna J. Stevenson, Robert F. Hillary, Kathryn L. Evans, Archie Campbell, Allan F. McRae, Tamir Chandra, Qian Zhang, David J. Porteous, Alison D. Murray, Caroline Hayward, Daniel L. McCartney, Heather C. Whalley, Futao Zhang, Rosie M. Walker, and Stewart W. Morris
Subjects: Adult, Male, Aging, lcsh:QH426-470, Quantitative Trait Loci, lcsh:Medicine, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, X chromosome, Sexual dimorphism, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, Humans, Molecular Biology, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Aged, 030304 developmental biology, X-chromosome, Chromosomes, Human, X, Sex Characteristics, 0303 health sciences, DNA methylation, Research, lcsh:R, Epigenome, Middle Aged, Ageing, lcsh:Genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, CpG site, ageing, sexual dimorphism, Linear Models, Molecular Medicine, CpG Islands, Female, Generation Scotland, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background Advanced age is associated with cognitive and physical decline and is a major risk factor for a multitude of disorders. There is also a gap in life expectancy between males and females. DNA methylation differences have been shown to be associated with both age and sex. Here, we investigate age-by-sex differences in blood-based DNA methylation in an unrelated cohort of 2586 individuals between the ages of 18 and 87 years, with replication in a further 4450 individuals between the ages of 18 and 93 years. Methods Linear regression models were applied, with stringent genome-wide significance thresholds (p −8) used in both the discovery and replication data. A second, highly conservative mixed linear model method that better controls the false-positive rate was also applied, using the same genome-wide significance thresholds. Results Using the linear regression method, 52 autosomal and 597 X-linked CpG sites, mapping to 251 unique genes, replicated with concordant effect size directions in the age-by-sex interaction analysis. The site with the greatest difference mapped to GAGE10, an X-linked gene. Here, DNA methylation levels remained stable across the male adult age range (DNA methylation by age r = 0.02) but decreased across female adult age range (DNA methylation by age r = − 0.61). One site (cg23722529) with a significant age-by-sex interaction also had a quantitative trait locus (rs17321482) that is a genome-wide significant variant for prostate cancer. The mixed linear model method identified 11 CpG sites associated with the age-by-sex interaction. Conclusion The majority of differences in age-associated DNA methylation trajectories between sexes are present on the X chromosome. Several of these differences occur within genes that have been implicated in sexually dimorphic traits.
Published: 2019

25. New insights into the genetics of primary open-angle glaucoma based on meta-analyses of intraocular pressure and optic disc characteristics

Author: Louis R. Pasquale, Jia Yu Koh, Aniket Mishra, Ananth C. Viswanathan, Mani Baskaran, Jie Jin Wang, Jonathan L. Haines, Angela J. Cree, Henriët Springelkamp, Puya Gharahkhani, Seyhan Yazar, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Herma C. van der Linde, Hans G Lemij, Thibaud Boutin, Yik Ying Teo, Stuart MacGregor, Jae H. Kang, Li Zheng, Leonieke M E van Koolwijk, Janey L. Wiggs, Qiao Fan, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Rob Willemsen, René Höhn, Stefan Nickels, Tien Yin Wong, Najaf Amin, Shamira A. Perera, Lisa S. Kearns, Pirro G. Hysi, Roger C. W. Wolfs, Jost B. Jonas, Robert Luben, Tiger Zhou, André G. Uitterlinden, Wanting Zhao, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Wishal D. Ramdas, Cristina Venturini, Caroline C W Klaver, Xueling Sim, Sven J. van der Lee, Tin Aung, Jiemin Liao, Karl J. Lackner, Andrew J. Lotery, Adriana I Iglesias, Albert Hofman, Ben A. Oostra, Fernando Rivadeneira, Paul J. Foster, Eranga N. Vithana, Nomdo M. Jansonius, Jamie E Craig, E. Shyong Tai, Veronique Vitart, Ching-Yu Cheng, Ekaterina Yonova-Doing, Robert Wojciechowski, Chiea Chuen Khor, Kathryn P. Burdon, Anthony P Khawaja, Christopher J Hammond, Jane Gibson, Norbert Pfeiffer, Tanja Zeller, Johannes R. Vingerling, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Ya Xing Wang, Grant W. Montgomery, David A. Mackey, Philipp S. Wild, Paul Mitchell, Terri L. Young, Alex W. Hewitt, Paulus T. V. M. de Jong, Paul G. Sanfilippo, Abhishek Nag, Yih Chung Tham, Christian P. Müller, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, James F. Wilson, Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN), Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Culture, Organization and Management, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Genetics, Neurology, MUMC+: MA UECM Oogartsen ZL (9), MUMC+: MA UECM Oogartsen MUMC (9), RS: FHML non-thematic output, and Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Intraocular pressure, genetic structures, Optic disk, Glaucoma, PROTEIN, Genome-wide association study, IDENTIFIES 5, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Optic neuropathy, Optic Nerve Diseases, PROSTATE, Genetics (clinical), RISK, Association Studies Articles, COMMON VARIANTS, General Medicine, Middle Aged, CANCER, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Optic nerve, Female, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Optic disc, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21, medicine.medical_specialty, Open angle glaucoma, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, Optic Disk, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Tonometry, Ocular, Ophthalmology, Genetics, medicine, Humans, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Molecular Biology, Intraocular Pressure, Homeodomain Proteins, P53, Genome, Human, POPULATION-BASED EPIDEMIOLOGY, Zebrafish Proteins, medicine.disease, eye diseases, 030104 developmental biology, sense organs, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the most common optic neuropathy, is a heritable disease. Siblings of POAG cases have a ten-fold increased risk of developing the disease. Intraocular pressure (IOP) and optic nerve head characteristics are used clinically to predict POAG risk. We conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of IOP and optic disc parameters and validated our findings in multiple sets of POAG cases and controls. Using imputation to the 1000 genomes (1000G) reference set, we identified 9 new genomic regions associated with vertical cup-disc ratio (VCDR) and 1 new region associated with IOP. Additionally, we found 5 novel loci for optic nerve cup area and 6 for disc area. Previously it was assumed that genetic variation influenced POAG either through IOP or via changes to the optic nerve head; here we present evidence that some genomic regions affect both IOP and the disc parameters. We characterized the effect of the novel loci through pathway analysis and found that pathways involved are not entirely distinct as assumed so far. Further, we identified a novel association between CDKN1A and POAG. Using a zebrafish model we show that six6b (associated with POAG and optic nerve head variation) alters the expression of cdkn1a. In summary, we have identified several novel genes influencing the major clinical risk predictors of POAG and showed that genetic variation in CDKN1A is important in POAG risk.
Published: 2017

26. An actionable KCNH2 Long QT Syndrome variant detected by sequence and haplotype analysis in a population research cohort

Author: Veronique Vitart, Shona M. Kerr, Javier Santoyo-Lopez, Caroline Hayward, Alison M. Meynert, Colin A. Semple, Heikki Swan, James F. Wilson, Timothy J. Aitman, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Chris Haley, Mihail Halachev, John Dean, Annukka M. Tuiskula, Thibaud Boutin, Lucija Klaric, HUSLAB, Staff Services, Kimmo Kontula Research Group, University of Helsinki, Department of Medicine, HUS Heart and Lung Center, and University Management
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, ERG1 Potassium Channel, lcsh:Medicine, Cohort Studies, Electrocardiography, 0302 clinical medicine, Genotype, lcsh:Science, Genetics, Sanger sequencing, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, STATEMENT, ORIGIN, Medical genetics, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, GENETIC-VARIATION, Middle Aged, POLICY, Pedigree, 3. Good health, Long QT Syndrome, symbols, Female, CHANNEL MUTATIONS, Population, HERG, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Quantitative trait locus, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, symbols.namesake, Genetic variation, Humans, education, Aged, SPECTRUM, KVLQT1, lcsh:R, Haplotype, 030104 developmental biology, Haplotypes, Scotland, lcsh:Q, Heritable quantitative trait, INFERENCE, 3111 Biomedicine, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: The Viking Health Study Shetland is a population-based research cohort of 2,122 volunteer participants with ancestry from the Shetland Isles in northern Scotland. The high kinship and detailed phenotype data support a range of approaches for associating rare genetic variants, enriched in this isolate population, with quantitative traits and diseases. As an exemplar, the c.1750G > A; p.Gly584Ser variant within the coding sequence of the KCNH2 gene implicated in Long QT Syndrome (LQTS), which occurred once in 500 whole genome sequences from this population, was investigated. Targeted sequencing of the KCNH2 gene in family members of the initial participant confirmed the presence of the sequence variant and identified two further members of the same family pedigree who shared the variant. Investigation of these three related participants for whom single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array genotypes were available allowed a unique shared haplotype of 1.22 Mb to be defined around this locus. Searching across the full cohort for this haplotype uncovered two additional apparently unrelated individuals with no known genealogical connection to the original kindred. All five participants with the defined haplotype were shown to share the rare variant by targeted Sanger sequencing. If this result were verified in a healthcare setting, it would be considered clinically actionable, and has been actioned in relatives ascertained independently through clinical presentation. The General Practitioners of four study participants with the rare variant were alerted to the research findings by letters outlining the phenotype (prolonged electrocardiographic QTc interval). A lack of detectable haplotype sharing between c.1750G > A; p.Gly584Ser chromosomes from previously reported individuals from Finland and those in this study from Shetland suggests that this mutation has arisen more than once in human history. This study showcases the potential value of isolate population-based research resources for genomic medicine. It also illustrates some challenges around communication of actionable findings in research participants in this context.
Published: 2019

27. Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 210 loci underlying cardiac conduction

Author: Lorenz Risch, Igor Rudan, Hilma Holm, Christopher P. Nelson, Jan A. Kors, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Stefan Kääb, Peter W. Macfarlane, Lars Lind, Amanda A. Seyerle, Ozren Polasek, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Xiuqing Guo, Nilesh J. Samani, Bruce M. Psaty, Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Yong Qian, Mary L. Biggs, Antti Jula, Vilmundur Gudnason, Paul L. Huang, Tamara B. Harris, Gianfranco Sinagra, Luisa Foco, Anubha Mahajan, Mika Kähönen, Lu-Chen Weng, Borbala Mifsud, Stefan van Duijvenboden, Terho Lehtimäki, Jennifer A. Brody, Paolo Gasparini, Kathleen A. Ryan, Marten E. van den Berg, James J. Cranley, Eric Boerwinkle, Cathy C. Laurie, Annette Peters, Joshua C. Bis, Raymond Noordam, Andrew P. Morris, Johan Sundström, Lenore J. Launer, Stefan Weiss, Rebecca D. Jackson, Alison D. Murray, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Aki S. Havulinna, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Sheila Ulivi, Renée de Mutsert, Eric A. Whitsel, Adrienne M. Stilp, James P. Cook, Nona Sotoodehnia, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Seung Hoan Choi, Mark J. Caulfield, Sébastien Thériault, Henry J. Lin, Dan M. Roden, J. Wouter Jukema, James F. Wilson, Veikko Salomaa, Honghuang Lin, Andrew A. Hicks, Christy L. Avery, Nina Mononen, Dan E. Arking, Ruth J. F. Loos, Yalda Jamshidi, André G. Uitterlinden, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Andrew Tinker, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Daniel Levy, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Alexander P. Reiner, Bruno H. Stricker, Caroline Hayward, Yordi J. van de Vegte, Ioanna Ntalla, Tim D. Spector, Niek Verweij, Michael R. Barnes, Martin Gögele, Nathan R. Tucker, Arie C. Maan, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Katri Sääksjärvi, Maria Pina Concas, Pim van der Harst, Georg Ehret, Cecilia M. Lindgren, David Conen, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Muhammad B. Riaz, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Amelia W. Hall, Peter P. Pramstaller, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Emelia J. Benjamin, M. Fabiola Del Greco, Thomas Meitinger, Erwin P. Bottinger, Francesco Cucca, Aaron Isaacs, Carolina Roselli, James H. Cartwright, Massimo Mangino, Adolfo Correa, Patrick Sulem, Thibaud Boutin, Michiel Rienstra, Stephan B. Felix, Julia Ramirez, Kathleen F. Kerr, Jonathan Marten, David J. Porteous, Kent D. Taylor, Patrick T. Ellinor, Michele Orini, Susan R. Heckbert, Olli T. Raitakari, Girish N. Nadkarni, Edward G. Lakatta, Anna F. Dominiczak, Jie Yao, Erik Ingelsson, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Katharina Schramm, Jerome I. Rotter, Michael J. Cutler, Pashupati P. Mishra, Diane Fatkin, Marcus Dörr, Ulrike Peters, Solmaz Assa, Christian Fuchsberger, M. Abdullah Said, Catriona L. K. Barnes, Peter K. Joshi, M. Yldau van der Ende, Alvaro Alonso, James G. Wilson, Jun Ding, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Kjell Nikus, Helen R. Warren, Charles Kooperberg, Moritz F. Sinner, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Patricia B. Munroe, Jeffrey Haessler, Albert V. Smith, Alan R. Shuldiner, Morten S. Olesen, Konstantin Strauch, Steven A. Lubitz, J. Gustav Smith, Renan P. Souza, Michael Preuss, Kirill V. Tarasov, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, Barry London, Melanie Waldenberger, Cristian Pattaro, David O. Arnar, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Alessandro De Grandi, Ian Ford, Kenneth Rice, Mark Chaffin, Kari Stefansson, Hao Mei, Uwe Völker, Blair H. Smith, Nathalia M. Araujo, Harry Campbell, Pier D. Lambiase, Stephanie M. Gogarten, May E. Montasser, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Ivana Kolcic, and Stella Trompet
Subjects: 0303 health sciences, medicine.medical_specialty, education.field_of_study, business.industry, Population, Cardiomyopathy, Atrial fibrillation, Genome-wide association study, Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Endophenotype, Cardiac conduction, medicine, Cardiology, PR interval, business, education, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality1,2. We performed multi-ancestry (N=293,051) and European only (N=271,570) genome-wide association (GWAS) meta-analyses for the PR interval, discovering 210 loci of which 149 are novel. Variants at all loci nearly doubled the percentage of heritability explained, from 33.5% to 62.6%. We observed enrichment for genes involved in cardiac muscle development/contraction and the cytoskeleton highlighting key regulation processes for atrioventricular conduction. Additionally, 19 novel loci harbour genes underlying inherited monogenic heart diseases suggesting the role of these genes in cardiovascular pathology in the general population. We showed that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease risk, including distal conduction disease, AF, atrioventricular pre-excitation, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, and coronary heart disease. These findings advance our understanding of the polygenic basis of cardiac conduction, and the genetic relationship between PR interval duration and cardiovascular disease.
Published: 2019

28. Proteome-by-phenome Mendelian Randomisation detects 38 proteins with causal roles in human diseases and traits

Author: Veronique Vitart, J Kenneth Baillie, Andrew D. Bretherick, Caroline Hayward, Albert Tenesa, James F. Wilson, Carmen Amador, Harry Campbell, Thibaud Boutin, Igor Rudan, Peter K. Joshi, Chris Haley, Yanni Zeng, Alan F. Wright, David W. Clark, Oriol Canela-Xandri, Chris P. Ponting, Konrad Rawlik, and Pau Navarro
Subjects: symbols.namesake, Drug development, Phosphatase, Proteome, Mendelian inheritance, symbols, Identification (biology), Computational biology, Phenome, Biology, Phenotype, Blood proteins
Abstract: Target identification remains a crucial challenge in drug development. To enable unbiased detection of proteins and pathways that have a causal role in disease pathogenesis or progression, we propose proteome-by-phenome Mendelian Randomisation (P2MR). We first detected genetic variants associated with plasma concentration of 249 proteins. We then used 64 replicated variants in two-sample Mendelian Randomisation to quantify evidence of a causal role for each protein across 846 phenotypes: this yielded 509 robust protein-outcome links. P2MR provides substantial promise for drug target prioritisation. We provide confirmatory evidence for a causal role for the proteins encoded at multiple cardiovascular disease risk loci (FGF5, IL6R, LPL, LTA), and discovered that intestinal fatty acid binding protein (FABP2) contributes to disease pathogenesis. Additionally, we find and replicate evidence for a causal role of tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type substrate 1 (SHPS1; SIRPA) in schizophrenia. Our results provide specific prediction of the effects of changes of plasma protein concentration on complex phenotypes in humans.
Published: 2019

29. Genome-wide association meta-analysis for total thyroid hormone levels in Croatian population

Author: Tatijana Zemunik, Vesela Torlak, Thibaud Boutin, Ozren Polasek, Maja Barbalić, Caroline Hayward, Ivana Gunjača, Vesna Boraska Perica, Antonela Matana, and Ante Punda
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Triiodothyronine/blood, Croatia, Population, Genome-wide association study, Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Independent, 030105 genetics & heredity, Biology, Cohort Studies, Thyroxine/blood, 03 medical and health sciences, Organic Anion Transporters, Sodium-Independent/genetics, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Thyroid hormones, genome-wide association analyses, meta-analysis, transport protein, education, Genetics (clinical), education.field_of_study, Triiodothyronine, Thyroid, Genetic Variation, Blood proteins, Introns, Transport protein, Thyroxine, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Endocrinology, Membrane protein, Female, Hormone, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Thyroid hormones (THs) are key regulators of cellular growth, development, and metabolism. The thyroid gland secretes two THs, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), into the plasma where they are almost all bound reversibly to plasma proteins. Free forms of THs are metabolically active, however, they represent a very small fraction of total TH levels. No genome-wide studies have been performed to date on total TH levels, comprising of protein-bound and free forms of THs. To detect genetic variants associated with total TH levels, we carried out the first GWAS meta-analysis of total T4 levels in 1121 individuals from two Croatian cohorts (Split and Korcula). We also performed GWAS analyses of total T3 levels in 577 individuals and T3/T4 ratio in 571 individuals from the Split cohort. The top association in GWAS meta-analysis of total T4 was detected for an intronic variant within SLC22A9 gene (rs12282281, P = 4.00 × 10-7). Within the same region, a genome-wide significant variant (rs11822642, P = 2.50 × 10-8) for the T3/T4 ratio was identified. SLC22A9 encodes for an organic anion transporter protein expressed predominantly in the liver and belongs to the superfamily of solute carriers (SLC), a large group of transport membrane proteins. The transport of THs across the plasma membrane in peripheral tissues is facilitated by the membrane proteins, and all TH transport proteins known to date belong to the same SLC superfamily as SLC22A9. These results suggest a potential role for SLC22A9 as a novel transporter protein of THs.
Published: 2019

30. Genetic Variants in the

Author: Antonela, Matana, Marijana, Popović, Thibaud, Boutin, Vesela, Torlak, Dubravka, Brdar, Ivana, Gunjača, Ivana, Kolčić, Vesna, Boraska Perica, Ante, Punda, Igor, Rudan, Ozren, Polašek, Maja, Barbalić, Caroline, Hayward, and Tatijana, Zemunik
Subjects: Adult, Male, Genotype, Genetic Variation, Middle Aged, Thyroid Function Tests, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Thyroglobulin, Sialyltransferases, Antigens, CD, Humans, Female, Aged, Genome-Wide Association Study
Published: 2019

31. SNPs associated withHHIPexpression have differential effects on lung function in males and females

Author: Peter D. Sly, Re Foong, Ozren Polasek, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Ian P. Hall, Graham L. Hall, Tobin, Pirro G. Hysi, Teemu Palviainen, Mika Kähönen, Veronique Vitart, Louise V. Wain, Carl A. Melbourne, Don D. Sin, Anna L. Guyatt, Henry Völzke, Ca Wang, Katherine A. Fawcett, David J. Porteous, John M. Starr, Claudia Langenberg, Igor Rudan, Ke Hao, Stefan Weiss, Terho Lehtimäki, Kirsi H. Pietiläinen, David M. Evans, Ian J. Deary, Jian'an Luan, James F. Wilson, David P. Strachan, Taina Rantanen, Catherine John, Nicola Pirastu, O T Raitakari, Berge M van den, Karina Patasova, Claudia Flexeder, Medea Imboden, Thibaud Boutin, Mangino Massimo, Archie Campbell, Lucija Klaric, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Nick Shrine, Sebastian May-Wilson, Beate Stubbe, Ralf Ewert, Dirk Keidel, Sarah E. Harris, Tim D. Spector, Ma'en Obeidat, John Henderson, Cosetta Minelli, Moksnes, Raquel Granell, Blair H. Smith, Arnulf Langhammer, Craig E. Pennell, Nicholas J. Wareham, Caroline Hayward, Ben Michael Brumpton, Yohan Bossé, Peter K. Joshi, Susan M. Ring, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Cristen J. Willer, Kristian Hveem, Deborah Jarvis, J Kaprio, Laura Portas, and Anne Richmond
Subjects: Spirometry, 0303 health sciences, COPD, medicine.medical_specialty, Lung, medicine.diagnostic_test, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, medicine.disease, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine.anatomical_structure, Endocrinology, 030228 respiratory system, Internal medicine, medicine, SNP, Allele, Beta (finance), Lung function, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: Adult lung function is highly heritable and 279 genetic loci were recently reported as associated with spirometry-based measures of lung function. Though lung development and function differ between males and females throughout life, there has been no genome-wide study to identify genetic variants with differential effects on lung function in males and females. Here, we present the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on four lung function traits in 303,612 participants from the UK Biobank. We detected five SNPs showing genome-wide significant (P−8) interactions with sex on lung function, as well as 21 suggestively significant interactions (P−6). The strongest sex interaction signal came from rs7697189 at 4:145436894 on forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) (P = 3.15 × 10−15), and was replicated (P = 0.016) in 75,696 individuals in the SpiroMeta consortium. Sex-stratified analyses demonstrated that the minor (C) allele of rs7697189 increased lung function to a greater extent in males than females (untransformed FEV1β = 0.028 [SE 0.0022] litres in males vs β = 0.009 [SE 0.0014] litres in females), and this effect was not accounted for by differential effects on height, smoking or age at puberty. This SNP resides upstream of the gene encoding hedgehog-interacting protein (HHIP) and has previously been reported for association with lung function andHHIPexpression in lung tissue. In our analyses, whileHHIPexpression in lung tissue was significantly different between the sexes with females having higher expression (most significant probeset P=6.90 × 10−6) after adjusting for age and smoking, rs7697189 did not demonstrate sex differential effects on expression. Establishing the mechanism by whichHHIPSNPs have different effects on lung function in males and females will be important for our understanding of lung health and diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in both sexes.
Published: 2019

32. Insight into the genetic aetiology of retinal detachment by combining small clinical and large population-based datasets

Author: Caroline Hayward, David A. Hinds, Thibaud Boutin, Vitart, Susan Campbell, Campbell A, Aman Chandra, David G. Charteris, Mitry D, and Priyanka Nandakumar
Subjects: Retina, medicine.medical_specialty, education.field_of_study, genetic structures, business.industry, Population, Glaucoma, Retinal detachment, Retinal, medicine.disease, Biobank, eye diseases, chemistry.chemical_compound, medicine.anatomical_structure, chemistry, Ophthalmology, medicine, Etiology, business, education, Genetic association
Abstract: Idiopathic retinal detachment is a serious common condition, but genetic studies to date have been hampered by the small size of the assembled cohorts. Genetic correlations between retinal detachment and high myopia or cataract operation were high, respectively 0.46 (SE=0.08) and 0.44 (SE=0.07), in the UK Biobank dataset and in line with known epidemiological associations. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies using UK Biobank retinal detachment cases (N=3977) and two cohorts, each comprising ∼1000 rhegmatogenous retinal detachment patients, uncovered 11 genome-wide significant association signals, near or withinZC3H11B, BMP3, COL22A1, DLG5, PLCE1, EFEMP2, TYR, FAT3, TRIM29, COL2A1andLOXL1.Replication in the 23andMe dataset, where retinal detachment is self-reported by participants, firmly establishes association at six lociFAT3, COL22A1, TYR, BMP3, ZC3H11BandPLCE1.The former two seem to particularly impact on retinal detachment, the latter three shed light on shared aetiologies with cataract, myopia and glaucoma.Author SummaryRetinal detachments are common conditions that may lead to permanent severe sight reduction or blindness; they are a major cause of emergency eye surgery. The most common type of retinal detachment follows a break in the retina and is thought to be in part genetically determined but little is known about the contributing individual genetic risk variants. The condition prevalence increases with age and with common eye conditions such as myopia, cataract or glaucoma. We showed that the retinal detachment cases derived from self-report or hospitalisation records in the large UK Biobank dataset show very similar characteristics to samples of carefully clinically evaluated retinal detachment with break cases and therefore could be used to perform genetic analysis of the condition. Association studies require large sample of cases and by pooling Biobank and clinical cases, this study identifies 11 novel significant associations, six of which were further replicated in an independent population-based dataset (23andMe). Two of the replicated findings seem to specifically underline retinal detachment risk while three others highlight shared genetic risk with myopia, cataract and/or glaucoma, paving the way to better understanding of these conditions and of their overlap.
Published: 2019
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33. Genetic variants in the ST6GAL1 gene are associated with thyroglobulin plasma level in healthy individuals

Author: Maja Barbalić, Tatijana Zemunik, Igor Rudan, Caroline Hayward, Ozren Polasek, Marijana Popović, Ante Punda, Ivana Gunjača, Thibaud Boutin, Dubravka Brdar, Vesela Torlak, Ivana Kolcic, Vesna Boraska Perica, and Antonela Matana
Subjects: endocrine system, medicine.medical_specialty, endocrine system diseases, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, medicine.medical_treatment, Thyroid, Genetic variants, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Genome-wide association study, Plasma levels, Biology, genome-wide association study, thyroglobulin, thyroid, ST6GAL1, Twin study, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Endocrinology, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Healthy individuals, Internal medicine, medicine, Thyroglobulin, Gene
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Thyroglobulin (Tg) is a 660 kDa iodoglycoprotein that serves as a scaffold for thyroid hormone synthesis. Although a twin study showed that variability of serum Tg levels has a substantial genetic basis, no genome-wide association study (GWAS) of serum/plasma Tg levels has been performed to date. The aim of this study was to identify genetic variants associated with plasma Tg levels among healthy individuals.METHODS: We conducted a GWAS on two Croatian cohorts and performed a combined analysis. The analyses included 1094 individuals. A total of 7,597,379 variants, imputed using the 1000 Genomes reference panel, were analyzed for association. GWAS was performed under an additive model, controlling for age, sex, and relatedness within each data set. Combined analysis was conducted using the inverse-variance fixed-effects method.RESULTS: Sixteen variants located on chromosome 3, within the ST6GAL1 gene, reached genome-wide significance. The lead SNP was rs4012172 (P=1.29×〖10〗^(-10)), which explained 3.19% of the variance in Tg levels. ST6GAL1 belongs to the sialyltransferase protein family which has a fundamental role in the synthesis of specific sialylated structures on various glycoproteins, including Tg. It is known that only immature Tg (poorly sialylated or desialylated) can be transferred to the bloodstream.CONCLUSIONS: We identified a highly biologically plausible locus that could have a role in the regulation of plasma Tg levels in healthy individuals.
Published: 2019

34. Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

Author: Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, J M Gaziano, Harst Pvd., Derek Klarin, K A Birdwell, Josh C. Denny, Martin Farrall, Thibaud Boutin, Najim Lahrouchi, Nabi Shah, Scott M. Damrauer, Cecilia P. Chung, Neil Poulter, Herzig K-H., E E Siew, John Concato, Yan V. Sun, Sara M. Willems, Louise V. Wain, Philip S. Tsao, Massimo Mangino, Wei W-Q., Ioanna Ntalla, Brian S. Mautz, David Schlessinger, Daniel I. Chasman, Branwen J. Hennig, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Michael E. Matheny, Palmer Cna., Caroline Hayward, Zhao J-H., Eleftheria Zeggini, Paul Elliott, C M Lindgren, Praveen Surendran, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Jacob M. Keaton, Chengxiang Qiu, Claudia Langenberg, Christopher Oldmeadow, Stéphanie Debette, D.R. Velez Edwards, Evangelos Evangelou, Howson Jmm., Adriana M. Hung, Yaomin Xu, Nicholas J. Wareham, James P. Cook, Scott L. DuVall, Peter Almgren, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Sébastien Thériault, Helen R. Warren, Jian'an Luan, Ching-Ti Liu, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Michael Boehnke, Peter S. Sever, Ruifang Li-Gao, Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, Robert A. Scott, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Mark J. Caulfield, Jarvelin M-R., Tim D. Spector, Todd L. Edwards, Elena V. Feofanova, Francesco Cucca, Jihwan Park, Savita Karthikeyan, J C Smith, Wilson Pwf., Markku Laakso, Ayush Giri, Christianne L. Roumie, Rojesh Shrestha, Claudia P. Cabrera, Kelly Cho, Laura J. Scott, Elvis A. Akwo, Yu Wang, Tom G. Richardson, Patricia B. Munroe, Eric S. Torstenson, Katalin Susztak, John Attia, Bruce M. Psaty, Aldi T. Kraja, Olle Melander, Nicholas J. Timpson, George Dedoussis, Paul M. Ridker, Niek Verweij, David Conen, Philippe Amouyel, Otis D. Wilson, Nuno Sepúlveda, Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Cardiology, ACS - Heart failure & arrhythmias, Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Zhao, Jing Hua [0000-0003-4930-3582], Surendran, Praveen [0000-0002-4911-6077], Karthikeyan, Savita [0000-0002-4798-5746], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Howson, Joanna [0000-0001-7618-0050], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Male, LOCI, Gene Expression, Physiology, Blood Pressure, Genome-wide association study, IDENTIFIES 8, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Ethnicity, PARTITIONING HERITABILITY, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, Kidney, Blood Pressure-International Consortium of Exome Chip Studies, Million Veteran Program, PULSE PRESSURE, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Middle Aged, Up-Regulation, 3. Good health, Pulse pressure, Kidney Tubules, medicine.anatomical_structure, VINTAGE, International Consortium for Blood Pressure, AUTOSOMAL-DOMINANT HYPERTENSION, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Understanding Society Scientific Group, Adolescent, Diastole, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Science & Technology, 06 Biological Sciences, GLOBAL BURDEN, MEAN ARTERIAL, GENE, Blood pressure, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, SOLUBLE GUANYLYL CYCLASE, Transcriptome, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology
Abstract: International audience; In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure homeostasis. We discovered 208 novel common blood pressure SNPs and 53 rare variants in genome-wide association studies of systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure in up to 776,078 participants from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) and collaborating studies, with analysis of the blood pressure clinical phenome in MVP. Our transcriptome-wide association study detected 4,043 blood pressure associations with genetically predicted gene expression of 840 genes in 45 tissues, and mouse renal single-cell RNA sequencing identified upregulated blood pressure genes in kidney tubule cells.
Published: 2019

35. Common and Rare Coding Genetic Variation Underlying the Electrocardiographic PR Interval

Author: Tamara B. Harris, Niels Grarup, Marcus Dörr, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Torben Hansen, Lu-Chen Weng, Honghuang Lin, Thibaud Boutin, Joshua C. Bis, Farid Radmanesh, Jie Yao, Nilesh J. Samani, Ozren Polašek, Massimo Mangino, Charles Kooperberg, Vilmundur Gudnason, Stephan B. Felix, Bruno H. Stricker, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer, Jette Bork-Jensen, Dan E. Arking, J. Marten, Mika Kähönen, Kenneth Rice, Nona Sotoodehnia, Heather Jameson, Henry J. Lin, Jørgen K. Kanters, Jared W. Magnani, Mark Eijgelsheim, Hao Mei, Tim D. Spector, Oluf Pedersen, Allan Linneberg, G. Homuth, Chengping Wen, Olli T. Raitakari, Blair H. Smith, Marco V Perez, Melanie Waldenberger, Bram P. Prins, James G. Wilson, Xiuqing Guo, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Peter van der Meer, Stefan Weiss, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Colleen M. Sitlani, Alvaro Alonso, Leanne M. Hall, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jessica van Setten, Helen R. Warren, Kent D. Taylor, Niek Verweij, Man Li, Moritz F. Sinner, Igor Rudan, Christopher P. Nelson, Emelia J. Benjamin, William J. Hucker, Marten E. van den Berg, Alan Hanley, Jerome I. Rotter, D. O. Mook-Kanamori, Susan R. Heckbert, Bruce M. Psaty, Caroline Hayward, Yalda Jamshidi, Patrick T. Ellinor, John M. C. Connell, Patricia B. Munroe, Lenore J. Launer, Stefan Kääb, Uwe Völker, Ruifang Li-Gao, Jan A. Kors, Annette Peters, J. Wouter Jukema, Jeffrey Haessler, Aaron Isaacs, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Rudolf A. de Boer, Konstantin Strauch, Albert V. Smith, Jonathan Rosand, Steven A. Lubitz, F. Rivadeneira, Nathan R. Tucker, Michiel L. Bots, Zhijun Xie, Jennifer A. Brody, Stella Trompet, Thomas Meitinger, André G. Uitterlinden, Pim van der Harst, Paul L. Huang, Henry Völzke, Terho Lehtimäki, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Restoring Organ Function by Means of Regenerative Medicine (REGENERATE), Epidemiology, Medical Informatics, Clinical Chemistry, Medical Biochemistry, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, ACS - Diabetes & metabolism, AII - Infectious diseases, AGEM - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, AGEM - Inborn errors of metabolism, Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Intensive Care Medicine, Experimental Immunology, Radiotherapy, Graduate School, Cardiology, Biochemie, RS: CARIM - R1.01 - Blood proteins & engineering, RS: CARIM - R1.06 - Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics of cardiovascular diseases, and RS: FHML MaCSBio
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, SCN10A, Heart morphogenesis, Quantitative Trait Loci, LOCI, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, atrioventricular node, SUSCEPTIBILITY, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, VARIANTS, Atrioventricular Node, Genetic Loci, Genome-wide Association Study, Article, genome-wide, 03 medical and health sciences, Electrocardiography, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetic variation, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, PR interval, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, SCN5A GENE, Aged, Genetic association, Genetics, genome-wide association study, HERITABILITY, MUTATIONS, Genetic Variation, genetic loci, General Medicine, Middle Aged, ta3121, Heritability, DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY, 030104 developmental biology, LONG QT SYNDROME, CONDUCTION, ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION, Female, QRS DURATION, SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
Abstract: Background: Electrical conduction from the cardiac sinoatrial node to the ventricles is critical for normal heart function. Genome-wide association studies have identified more than a dozen common genetic loci that are associated with PR interval. However, it is unclear whether rare and low-frequency variants also contribute to PR interval heritability. Methods: We performed large-scale meta-analyses of the PR interval that included 83 367 participants of European ancestry and 9436 of African ancestry. We examined both common and rare variants associated with the PR interval. Results: We identified 31 genetic loci that were significantly associated with PR interval after Bonferroni correction ( P −6 ), including 11 novel loci that have not been reported previously. Many of these loci are involved in heart morphogenesis. In gene-based analysis, we found that multiple rare variants at MYH6 ( P =5.9×10 −11 ) and SCN5A ( P =1.1×10 −7 ) were associated with PR interval. SCN5A locus also was implicated in the common variant analysis, whereas MYH6 was a novel locus. Conclusions: We identified common variants at 11 novel loci and rare variants within 2 gene regions that were significantly associated with PR interval. Our findings provide novel insights to the current understanding of atrioventricular conduction, which is critical for cardiac activity and an important determinant of health.
Published: 2018

36. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies novel loci associated with parathyroid hormone level

Author: Ivana Kolcic, Maja Barbalić, Thibaud Boutin, Marijana Popović, Ozren Polasek, Tatijana Zemunik, Dubravka Brdar, Ivana Gunjača, Caroline Hayward, Ante Punda, Antonela Matana, Vesela Torlak, and Vesna Boraska Perica
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, CHRONIC KIDNEY-DISEASE, Male, BIOCHEMICAL-CHARACTERIZATION, Parathyroid hormone, Genome-wide association study, Genome, 0302 clinical medicine, HEIGHT, lcsh:QD415-436, VITAMIN-D, Genome-wide association analysis, Meta-analysis, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, education.field_of_study, GTP-BINDING PROTEINS, Middle Aged, Molecular Medicine, Female, BONE-MINERAL DENSITY, Research Article, Adult, Croatia, Population, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Biology, METABOLISM, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, CALCIUM, lcsh:Biochemistry, 03 medical and health sciences, SNP, Humans, HYPERPARATHYROIDISM, 1000 Genomes Project, education, Molecular Biology, Gene, Aged, lcsh:RM1-950, GENE, 030104 developmental biology, Chromosome 4, lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Background Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is one of the principal regulators of calcium homeostasis. Although serum PTH level is mostly accounted by genetic factors, genetic background underlying PTH level is insufficiently known. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify novel genetic variants associated with PTH levels. Methods We performed GWAS meta-analysis within two genetically isolated Croatian populations followed by replication analysis in a Croatian mainland population and we also combined results across all three analyzed populations. The analyses included 2596 individuals. A total of 7,411,206 variants, imputed using the 1000 Genomes reference panel, were analysed for the association. In addition, a sex-specific GWAS meta-analyses were performed. Results Polymorphisms with the lowest P-values were located on chromosome 4 approximately 84 kb of the 5′ of RASGEF1B gene. The most significant SNP was rs11099476 (P = 1.15 × 10−8). Sex-specific analysis identified genome-wide significant association of the variant rs77178854, located within DPP10 gene in females only (P = 2.21 × 10− 9). There were no genome-wide significant findings in the meta-analysis of males. Conclusions We identified two biologically plausible novel loci associated with PTH levels, providing us with further insights into the genetics of this complex trait. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s10020-018-0018-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2018

37. Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

Author: Olle Melander, Niek Verweij, Uwe Völker, Morris A. Swertz, Seppo Koskinen, David Conen, Lars Lind, Rossella Sorice, Philippe Amouyel, Andres Metspalu, David J. Stott, Marty Larson, Francis S. Collins, Ozren Polasek, Paul F. O'Reilly, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Evangelos Evangelou, Pekka Jousilahti, Michela Traglia, Tineka Blake, John Attia, Bruce M. Psaty, Massimo Mangino, Alison Pattie, Marco Brumat, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Daniel I. Chasman, Tõnu Esko, Wei-Yu Lin, Rodney J. Scott, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Guillaume Paré, Adriana M. Hung, Marina Evangelou, Quang Tri Nguyen, Markus Perola, Kenneth Rice, Yong Qian, Antonietta Robino, Anne U. Jackson, Ian J. Deary, Mika Kähönen, Cristina Menni, Veronique Vitart, Igor Rudan, Ganesh Chauhan, Aravinda Chakravarti, Jennifer E. Huffman, John M. Starr, Anubha Mahajan, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Peter Almgren, Yuri Milaneschi, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Roby Joehanes, Christopher P. Nelson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Peter J. van der Most, Annette Peters, Paul M. Ridker, Michael Boehnke, Joris Deelen, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Neil Poulter, Renée de Mutsert, Rick Jansen, Fu Liang Ng, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Ilja M. Nolte, Meixia Ren, Gail Davies, John M. C. Connell, Jian'an Luan, Todd L. Edwards, Benjamin Lehne, K. Witkowska, Lili Milani, Stéphanie Debette, Georgios Ntritsos, Claudia P. Cabrera, Paolo Gasparini, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Kelly Cho, Robert A. Scott, Veikko Salomaa, Niki Dimou, David C. Liewald, Pim van der Harst, Teemu J. Niiranen, Denis C. Shields, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Andrew P. Morris, Murielle Bochud, Helena Schmidt, Bernard Keavney, Christopher Oldmeadow, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Louise V. Wain, Reedik Mägi, Christian Gieger, Caterina Barbieri, Aki S. Havulinna, Fabiola Del Greco M, Dragana Vuckovic, Alan F. Wright, J. Wouter Jukema, Reinhold Schmidt, Marcus Dörr, Franco Giulianini, Evan Tzanis, Erwin P. Bottinger, David Mosen-Ansorena, Ruth J. F. Loos, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Nutile, Alice Stanton, Jun Ding, Yingchang Lu, Roberto Elosua, Walter Palmas, James F. Wilson, Edith Hofer, Giorgia Girotto, Bram P. Prins, Anna Morgan, Anuj Goel, Edward G. Lakatta, Alex S. F. Doney, Najaf Amin, Lenore J. Launer, Siim Sõber, Nicholas J. Wareham, Adam S. Butterworth, Ilaria Gandin, Xiuqing Guo, Kent D. Taylor, Andrew D. Morris, Paul Knekt, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Joshua C. Bis, Archie Campbell, Raha Pazoki, Hugh Watkins, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Yan V. Sun, Lynda M. Rose, Jaspal S. Kooner, Maciej Tomaszewski, Massimiliano Cocca, Claudia Langenberg, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J. C. de Geus, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ahmad Vaez, Albert Hofman, Kristin L. Ayers, Sara M. Willems, Germaine C. Verwoert, Christophe Tzourio, Martin Farrall, Albert V. Smith, Joanna M. M. Howson, Daniela Toniolo, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Antti Jula, Stefan Enroth, Ruifang Li-Gao, Nabi Shah, Weihua Zhang, Paul Elliott, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Tatijana Zemunik, Shih-Jen Hwang, Helen R. Warren, Peter J. Munson, He Gao, Ivana Kolcic, Peter S. Braund, Tamara B. Harris, Raymond Noordam, Stella Trompet, Markku Laakso, Peter K. Joshi, Zoltán Kutalik, Sébastien Thériault, Åsa Johansson, Rainer Rettig, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, John Danesh, Anders Hamsten, Mark J. Caulfield, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Praveen Surendran, Peter S. Sever, David S. Siscovick, Terho Lehtimäki, Priyanka Nandakumar, Aarno Palotie, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Chiara Batini, Nick Shrine, Harold Snieder, Cumhur Y Demirkale, Teresa Ferreira, André G. Uitterlinden, Sekar Kathiresan, Mattias Frånberg, Lorna M. Lopez, J. Michael Gaziano, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Maris Laan, Samuli Ripatti, John C. Chambers, Martin H. de Borst, Johan Sundström, Alan J. Gow, Caroline Hayward, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Ibrahim Karaman, Georg Ehret, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Mike A. Nalls, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Daniela Ruggiero, Erik Ingelsson, Colin N. A. Palmer, Alan James, Elin Org, Kati Kristiansson, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Joanne Knight, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Jerome I. Rotter, Yasaman Saba, Daniel Levy, Li Lin, Janina S. Ried, Michael R. Barnes, Harriëtte Riese, Andrew D. Johnson, David P. Strachan, Martin D. Tobin, Lorenz Risch, Rona J. Strawbridge, Jing Hua Zhao, Vilmundur Gudnason, Borbala Mifsud, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Ben A. Oostra, Dan E. Arking, Andrew A. Hicks, Peter Vollenweider, Thibaud Boutin, Philip S. Tsao, Jie Yao, Ayush Giri, Marina Ciullo, Morris J. Brown, Alanna C. Morrison, Kay-Tee Khaw, Francesco Cucca, Jonathan Marten, Olli T. Raitakari, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Jaume Marrugat, Tim D. Spector, Heather J. Cordell, Nilesh J. Samani, Simon Thom, Sarah E. Harris, UNIVERSITY OF OULU, Commission of the European Communities, Home Office, Action on Hearing Loss, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding, National Institute for Health Research, British Heart Foundation, Medical Research Council (MRC), UK DRI Ltd, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Biological Psychology, APH - Mental Health, APH - Methodology, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Personalized Medicine, Ehret, Georg Benedikt, Lin, Li, Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Evangelou, Evangelo, Warren, Helen R, Mosen-Ansorena, David, Mifsud, Borbala, Pazoki, Raha, Gao, He, Ntritsos, Georgio, Dimou, Niki, Cabrera, Claudia P, Karaman, Ibrahim, Ng, Fu Liang, Evangelou, Marina, Witkowska, Katarzyna, Tzanis, Evan, Hellwege, Jacklyn N, Giri, Ayush, Velez Edwards, Digna R, Sun, Yan V, Cho, Kelly, Gaziano, J Michael, Wilson, Peter W F, Tsao, Philip S, Kovesdy, Csaba P, Esko, Tonu, Mägi, Reedik, Milani, Lili, Almgren, Peter, Boutin, Thibaud, Debette, Stéphanie, Ding, Jun, Giulianini, Franco, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Jackson, Anne U, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Wei-Yu, Luan, Jian'An, Mangino, Massimo, Oldmeadow, Christopher, Prins, Bram Peter, Qian, Yong, Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan, Shah, Nabi, Surendran, Praveen, Thériault, Sébastien, Verweij, Niek, Willems, Sara M, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Amouyel, Philippe, Connell, John, de Mutsert, Renée, Doney, Alex S F, Farrall, Martin, Menni, Cristina, Morris, Andrew D, Noordam, Raymond, Paré, Guillaume, Poulter, Neil R, Shields, Denis C, Stanton, Alice, Thom, Simon, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Ayers, Kristin L, Barbieri, Caterina M, Batini, Chiara, Bis, Joshua C, Blake, Tineka, Bochud, Murielle, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bottinger, Erwin P, Braund, Peter S, Brumat, Marco, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chambers, John C, Chauhan, Ganesh, Ciullo, Marina, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Franci, Cordell, Heather J, Davies, Gail, Borst, Martin H de, Geus, Eco J de, Deary, Ian J, Deelen, Jori, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf, Dörr, Marcu, Ehret, Georg B, Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut, Ferreira, Teresa, Frånberg, Mattia, Franco, Oscar H, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmanta, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Goel, Anuj, Gow, Alan J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hamsten, Ander, Harris, Tamara B, Harris, Sarah E, Hartman, Catharina A, Havulinna, Aki S, Hicks, Andrew A, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Ingelsson, Erik, James, Alan, Jansen, Rick, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Joehanes, Roby, Johansson, Åsa, Johnson, Andrew D, Joshi, Peter K, Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J Wouter, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kathiresan, Sekar, Keavney, Bernard D, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Knekt, Paul, Knight, Joanne, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Jaspal S, Koskinen, Seppo, Kristiansson, Kati, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laan, Mari, Larson, Marty, Launer, Lenore J, Lehne, Benjamin, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liewald, David C M, Lind, Lar, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Liu, Yongmei, Loos, Ruth J F, Lopez, Lorna M, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto, Marrugat, Jaume, Marten, Jonathan, Milaneschi, Yuri, Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Munson, Peter J, Nalls, Mike A, Nandakumar, Priyanka, Nelson, Christopher P, Niiranen, Teemu, Nolte, Ilja M, Nutile, Teresa, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Oostra, Ben A, O'Reilly, Paul F, Org, Elin, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmas, Walter, Palotie, Aarno, Pattie, Alison, Penninx, Brenda W J H, Perola, Marku, Peters, Annette, Polasek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P, Nguyen, Quang Tri, Raitakari, Olli T, Ren, Meixia, Rettig, Rainer, Rice, Kenneth, Ridker, Paul M, Ried, Janina S, Riese, Harriëtte, Ripatti, Samuli, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda M, Rotter, Jerome I, Rudan, Igor, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia F, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J, Sarin, Antti-Pekka, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Shrine, Nick, Siscovick, David, Smith, Albert V, Snieder, Harold, Sõber, Siim, Sorice, Rossella, Starr, John M, Stott, David J, Strachan, David P, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sundström, Johan, Swertz, Morris A, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Tobin, Martin D, Tomaszewski, Maciej, Toniolo, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Trompet, Stella, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tzourio, Christophe, Uitterlinden, André G, Vaez, Ahmad, van der Most, Peter J, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verwoert, Germaine C, Vitart, Veronique, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Vuckovic, Dragana, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F, Wright, Alan F, Yao, Jie, Zemunik, Tatijana, Zhang, Weihua, Attia, John R, Butterworth, Adam S, Chasman, Daniel I, Conen, David, Cucca, Francesco, Danesh, John, Hayward, Caroline, Howson, Joanna M M, Laakso, Markku, Lakatta, Edward G, Langenberg, Claudia, Melander, Olle, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Palmer, Colin N A, Risch, Lorenz, Scott, Robert A, Scott, Rodney J, Sever, Peter, Spector, Tim D, van der Harst, Pim, Wareham, Nicholas J, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Levy, Daniel, Munroe, Patricia B, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Brown, Morris J, Metspalu, Andre, Hung, Adriana M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Edwards, Todd L, Psaty, Bruce M, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Barnes, Michael R, Wain, Louise V, Elliott, Paul, Caulfield, Mark J, Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), VU University medical center, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, APH - Digital Health, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Research Programme of Molecular Medicine, Research Programs Unit, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Samuli Olli Ripatti / Principal Investigator, Biostatistics Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Complex Disease Genetics, and Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Population/methods, Genome Informatics, Blood Pressure, Genome-wide association study, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE RISK, UK BIOBANK, HYPERTENSION, VARIANTS, METAANALYSIS, COMMON, HEALTH, RARE, HYPERALDOSTERONISM, Disease, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology/genetics, Risk Factors, 80 and over, GWAS, Cells, Cultured, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, ddc:616, Genetics & Heredity, Aged, 80 and over, Cultured, medicine.diagnostic_test, CARDIOVASCULAR RISK, Genetic analysis, Million Veteran Program, Genetics, Population/methods, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, PREVALENCE, 3. Good health, Pulse pressure, VINTAGE, Cardiovascular Diseases, Blood pressure, Medical genetics, Female, Medical Genetics, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Genetic Testing/methods, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Blood Pressure/genetics, Cells, Quantitative Trait Loci, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Medicine [Science], Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Polymorphism, HEALTHY, Life Style, Medicinsk genetik, Aged, Genetic testing, Genetic association, Science & Technology, Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology, 06 Biological Sciences, Genetic architecture, Genetics, Population, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, 3111 Biomedicine, Hypertension/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology
Abstract: High blood pressure is a highly heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure) to date in over 1 million people of European ancestry. We identify 535 novel blood pressure loci that not only offer new biological insights into blood pressure regulation but also highlight shared genetic architecture between blood pressure and lifestyle exposures. Our findings identify new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation with potential for improved cardiovascular disease prevention in the future. NMRC (Natl Medical Research Council, S’pore) MOH (Min. of Health, S’pore)
Published: 2018

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

Author: Nicholas G. Martin, René Höhn, Paul Mitchell, Gavin Band, Pamela Whittaker, Michelle Ricketts, Pirro G. Hysi, Jenefer M. Blackwell, Grant W. Montgomery, Elena Rochtchina, Manfred E. Beutel, Richard A. Mills, Anna Rautanen, Alagurevathi Jayakumar, Colin Freeman, Stephen Sawcer, Stuart MacGregor, Irene Schmidtmann, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Nicholas W. Wood, Sayoko E. Moroi, Jonathan L. Haines, Aniket Mishra, Ananth C. Viswanathan, Jie Jin Wang, Donald L. Budenz, Seyhan Yazar, Janey L. Wiggs, Garrett Hellenthal, Kathryn P. Burdon, Jerome I. Rotter, Jamie E Craig, Puya Gharahkhani, Juan P. Casas, R. Rand Allingham, Jost B. Jonas, Ozren Polasek, Julia E. Richards, Sarah Edkins, Rodney J. Scott, Abhishek Nag, Tanja Zeller, Rhian Gwilliam, Chris C. A. Spencer, David S. Friedman, Adriana I Iglesias, Radhi Ravindrarajah, Kent D. Taylor, Caroline Hayward, Eleni Giannoulatou, David A. Mackey, Michael A. Hauser, Paul J. Foster, Emma Gray, Audrey Duncanson, Yih Chung Tham, Murray H. Brilliant, Ching-Yu Cheng, William K. Scott, Robert N. Weinreb, Hugh S. Markus, Xueling Sim, David S. Siscovick, Matti Pirinen, John H. Fingert, Yelena Bykhovskaya, Louis R. Pasquale, Peter Donnelly, Donald J. Zack, Kuldev Singh, Cordelia Langford, Zhan Su, Céline Bellenguez, Joel S. Schuman, Peter Kraft, Christopher G. Mathew, Hannah Blackburn, Sara Widaa, Yuan Shi, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, André G. Uitterlinden, Naomi Hammond, Panos Deloukas, Richard K. Lee, Robert Plomin, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Jae H. Kang, John Attia, Yutao Liu, Simon C. Potter, Jennifer Liddle, Matthew Gillman, Alex W. Hewitt, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, James F. Wilson, Tien Yin Wong, Elvira Bramon, Janusz Jankowski, Henriët Springelkamp, Sarah E. Hunt, Anthony P Khawaja, Veronique Vitart, Xiaohui Li, Pieter W.M. Bonnemaijer, Damjan Vukcevic, Paul R. Lichter, Aiden Corvin, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Matthew Waller, Caroline C W Klaver, Douglas E. Gaasterland, Terry Gaasterland, Norbert Pfeiffer, Douglas Vollrath, Anthony Realini, Eranga N. Vithana, Gadi Wollstein, Thibaud Boutin, Owen T. McCann, Paul A. Weston, Lisa S. Kearns, Inês Barroso, Richard G. Pearson, Christopher J Hammond, Colin N. A. Palmer, Michael Inouye, Chiea Chuen Khor, Stephanie Loomis, Sandra E Staffieri, Yaron S. Rabinowitz, Richard C. Trembath, Tin Aung, William G. Christen, Paul N. Baird, Jing Xie, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Serge Dronov, Arthur J. Sit, Colin E. Willoughby, Kang Zhang, Matthew A. Brown, Suzannah Bumpstead, Amy Strange, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Clinical Genetics, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Internal Medicine, Experimental Immunology, Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Iglesias, Adriana I [0000-0001-5532-764X], Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Bailey, Jessica N Cooke [0000-0002-4001-8702], Li, Xiaohui [0000-0002-5037-3572], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Haines, Jonathan L [0000-0002-4351-4728], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Bonnemaijer, Pieter [0000-0001-5154-6765], Staffieri, Sandra E [0000-0003-3131-9359], Jonas, Jost B [0000-0003-2972-5227], Kang, Jae H [0000-0003-4812-0557], Wilson, James F [0000-0001-5751-9178], Foster, Paul J [0000-0002-4755-177X], Hysi, Pirro G [0000-0001-5752-2510], Hewitt, Alex W [0000-0002-5123-5999], Khor, Chiea Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Pasquale, Louis R [0000-0002-5835-3496], Montgomery, Grant W [0000-0002-4140-8139], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], Hammond, Christopher J [0000-0002-3227-2620], Wiggs, Janey L [0000-0003-1890-3278], Burdon, Kathryn P [0000-0001-8217-1249], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Lumican, Candidate gene, genetic structures, Fibrillin-1, Gene Expression, General Physics and Astronomy, Glaucoma, Genome-wide association study, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Corneal Diseases, Marfan Syndrome, Cornea, ADAMTS Proteins, 0302 clinical medicine, Myopia, lcsh:Science, Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Eye Diseases, Hereditary, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Proteoglycans, Decorin, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Keratoconus, Science, Quantitative Trait Loci, 610 Medicine & health, Biology, Quantitative trait locus, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Transforming Growth Factor beta2, 03 medical and health sciences, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Asian People, medicine, Humans, CHROMATIN STATES, GENE-EXPRESSION, RISK-FACTOR, MUTATIONS, LUMICAN, MOUSE, KERATOCONUS, DECORIN, POLYMORPHISMS, HERITABILITY, [SDV.MHEP.OS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Sensory Organs, Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, [SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], Genome, Human, General Chemistry, medicine.disease, eye diseases, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, lcsh:Q, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, sense organs, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait associated with complex eye diseases such as keratoconus and glaucoma. We perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis of CCT and identify 19 novel regions. In addition to adding support for known connective tissue-related pathways, pathway analyses uncover previously unreported gene sets. Remarkably, >20% of the CCT-loci are near or within Mendelian disorder genes. These included FBN1, ADAMTS2 and TGFB2 which associate with connective tissue disorders (Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos and Loeys-Dietz syndromes), and the LUM-DCN-KERA gene complex involved in myopia, corneal dystrophies and cornea plana. Using index CCT-increasing variants, we find a significant inverse correlation in effect sizes between CCT and keratoconus (r = −0.62, P = 5.30 × 10−5) but not between CCT and primary open-angle glaucoma (r = −0.17, P = 0.2). Our findings provide evidence for shared genetic influences between CCT and keratoconus, and implicate candidate genes acting in collagen and extracellular matrix regulation.
Published: 2018

39. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies novel gender specific loci associated with thyroid antibodies level in Croatians

Author: Ivana Kolcic, Antonela Matana, Vesela Torlak, Ante Punda, Thibaud Boutin, Tatijana Zemunik, Vesna Boraska Perica, Caroline Hayward, Dubravka Brdar, Maja Barbalić, Ozren Polasek, Ivana Gunjača, and Marijana Popović
Subjects: 0106 biological sciences, Adult, Male, Croatia, medicine.medical_treatment, Locus (genetics), Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, Biology, 01 natural sciences, Iodide Peroxidase, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate, Thyroglobulin, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, Thyroid peroxidase, Genetics, medicine, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, Autoantibodies, 0303 health sciences, Thyroid, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Autoantibody, Thyroiditis, Autoimmune, Membrane Proteins, Middle Aged, Anti-thyroid autoantibodies, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Immunology, biology.protein, Female, 010606 plant biology & botany
Abstract: Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) are multifactorial endocrine diseases most frequently accompanied by Tg and TPO autoantibodies. Both antibodies have a higher prevalence in females and act under a strong genetic influence. To identify novel variants underlying thyroid antibody levels, we performed GWAS meta-analysis on the plasma levels of TgAb and TPOAb in three Croatian cohorts, as well as gender specific GWAS and a bivariate analysis. No significant association was detected with the level of TgAb and TPOAb in the meta-analysis of GWAS or bivariate results for all individuals. The bivariate analysis in females only revealed a genome-wide significant association for the locus near GRIN3A (rs4457391, P = 7.76 × 10−9). The same locus had borderline association with TPOAb levels in females (rs1935377, P = 8.58 × 10−8). In conclusion, we identified a novel gender specific locus associated with TgAb and TPOAb levels. Our findings provide a novel insight into genetic and gender differences associated with thyroid antibodies.
Published: 2017

40. Genetic analysis of over one million people identifies 535 novel loci for blood pressure

Author: Lorenz Risch, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Nguyen Quang Tri, Rona J. Strawbridge, Alan F. Wright, Francesco Cucca, Evan Tzanis, Caterina Barbieri, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Louise V. Wain, Jonathan Marten, James F. Wilson, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Reedik Mägi, Olli T. Raitakari, Peter W.F. Wilson, Joris Deelen, Morris Brown, Anna Morgan, Nabi Shah, Weihua Zhang, Ganesh Chauhan, Gail Davies, Peter S. Braund, Bram P. Prins, Alison Pattie, Marcus Dörr, Zoltán Kutalik, Marco Brumat, Franco Giulianini, Rainer Rettig, Uwe Völker, Georgios Ntritsos, Teresa Nutile, Todd L. Edwards, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Jaume Marrugat, Evangelos Evangelou, Nilesh J. Samani, Pekka Jousilahti, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Francis S. Collins, Tim D. Spector, Simon Thom, Sarah E. Harris, Heather J. Cordell, Helen R. Warren, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Seppo Koskinen, Paul F. O'Reilly, Aravinda Chakravarti, Joshua C. Bis, Archie Campbell, Bernard Keavney, Sébastien Thériault, Gonneke Willemsen, Lynda M. Rose, Massimiliano Cocca, Jennifer E. Huffman, Meixia Ren, Massimo Mangino, Markus Perola, Joanna M. M. Howson, David Mosen-Ansorena, Harriëtte Riese, Martin Farrall, Albert V. Smith, Lenore J. Launer, Marina Ciullo, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Veikko Salomaa, Ilaria Gandin, Kent D. Taylor, Peter S. Sever, Markku Laakso, André G. Uitterlinden, Yan V. Sun, Raymond Noordam, Renée de Mutsert, Alan L. James, Jing Hua Zhao, Stefan Enroth, Andrew D. Morris, David S. Siscovick, Andrew D. Johnson, Igor Rudan, Tõnu Esko, Jun Ding, David P. Strachan, Martin D. Tobin, Christopher P. Nelson, Daniela Toniolo, J. Wouter Jukema, Vilmundur Gudnason, Borbala Mifsud, Marty Larson, Andrew A. Hicks, Adriana M. Hung, Antonietta Robino, Ruifang Li-Gao, Paul Elliott, Anne U. Jackson, Michela Traglia, Martin H. de Borst, Germaine C. Verwoert, Rheinhold Schmidt, Fabiola M Del Greco, Åsa Johansson, Anders Hamsten, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Mark J. Caulfield, Cumhur Y Demirkale, John M. C. Connell, Jian'an Luan, K. Witkowska, Georg Ehret, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Claudia Langenberg, J. Michael Gaziano, Peter K. Joshi, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Maris Laan, Nick Shrine, Peter J. van der Most, Michael Boehnke, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Samuli Ripatti, Ben A. Oostra, Robert A. Scott, Lingchan Lu, Edward G. Lakatta, Yasaman Saba, Daniel Levy, Li Lin, Harold Schneider, Alex S. F. Doney, Michael R. Barnes, Najaf Amin, Hugh Watkins, Paul M. Ridker, Janina S Reid, Ayush Giri, Sekar Kathiresan, Lorna M. Lopez, Mike A. Nalls, Marina Evangelou, Erik Ingelsson, Lili Milani, Alice Stanton, Ozren Polasek, Sara M. Willems, Colin N. A. Palmer, Stéphanie Debette, Dan E. Arking, Helena Schmidt, Paul Knekt, John M. Starr, Yong Qian, Cristina Menni, Yuri Milaneschi, Christophe Tzourio, Tamara B. Harris, Kristin L. Ayers, Peter Vollenweider, Paolo Gasparini, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Rodney J. Scott, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Anubha Mahajan, Peter Almgren, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Teemu J. Niiranen, Mika Kähönen, Shih-Jen Hwang, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Edith Hofer, Priyanka Nandakumar, Peter J. Munson, Rick Jansen, Andrew P. Morris, Walter Palmas, Ilja M. Nolte, Siim Sõber, Thibaud Boutin, Ahmad Vaez, Albert Hofman, He Gao, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Neil Poulter, Alan J. Gow, Caroline Hayward, Nicholas J. Wareham, Elin Org, Philip S. Tsao, Claudia P. Cabrera, Aki S. Havulinna, Dragana Vuckovic, Kelly Cho, Jie Yao, Lars Lind, Jerome I. Rotter, David J. Stott, Ivana Kolcic, Wei-Yu Lin, Tatijana Zemunik, Tineka Blake, Kenneth Rice, Veronique Vitart, Alanna C. Morrison, Kay-Tee Khaw, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Guillaume Paré, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Giorgia Girotto, Chiara Batini, Niki Dimou, Stella Trompet, John Danesh, Annette Peters, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Joanne Knight, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Morris A. Swertz, Jaspal S. Kooner, Niek Verweij, Ibrahim Karaman, Murielle Bochud, Christian Gieger, Ruth J. F. Loos, Daniella Ruggiero, Arno Palotie, David Conen, Raha Pazoki, Denis C. Shields, Rossella Sorice, Philippe Amouyel, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Andres Metspalu, John Attia, Bruce M. Psaty, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, Daniel I. Chasman, Ollie Melander, John C. Chambers, Roby Joehanes, Eleftheria Zeggini, Johan Sundström, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Benjamin Lehne, Kati Kristiansson, Christopher Oldmeadow, Eco J. C. de Geus, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Anuj Goel, Adam S. Butterworth, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Xiuqing Guo, Antti Jula, Praveen Surendran, Terho Lehtimäki, Mattias Frånberg, Teresa Ferreira, Ian J. Deary, David C. Liewald, Pim van der Harst, Erwin P. Bottinger, Roberto Elosua, and Fu Liang Ng
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Diastole, Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biology, Precision medicine, Genetic analysis, 3. Good health, Pulse pressure, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Blood pressure, Disease prevention, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association
Abstract: High blood pressure is the foremost heritable global risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits to date (systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure) in over one million people of European ancestry. We identify 535 novel blood pressure loci that not only offer new biological insights into blood pressure regulation but also reveal shared loci influencing lifestyle exposures. Our findings offer the potential for a precision medicine strategy for future cardiovascular disease prevention.
Published: 2017

41. Genome-wide meta-analyses of stratified depression in Generation Scotland and UK Biobank

Author: Ian J. Deary, Yanni Zeng, Aleix Arnau-Soler, Andrew M. McIntosh, Lynsey S. Hall, Jude Gibson, Caroline Hayward, Generation Scotland, Mark Adams, David J. Porteous, Chris Haley, Ana Maria Fernandez-Pujals, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Thibaud Boutin, Eleanor M. Wigmore, Gail Davies, David M. Howard, Pippa A. Thomson, and Toni-Kim Clarke
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Genome-wide association study, Biology, Heritability, medicine.disease, Neuroticism, Genetic correlation, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Sample size determination, mental disorders, Multiple comparisons problem, medicine, Major depressive disorder, Bipolar disorder, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: Few replicable genetic associations for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) have been identified. However recent studies of depression have identified common risk variants by using either a broader phenotype definition in very large samples, or by reducing the phenotypic and ancestral heterogeneity of MDD cases. Here, a range of genetic analyses were applied to data from two large British cohorts, Generation Scotland and UK Biobank, to ascertain whether it is more informative to maximize the sample size by using data from all available cases and controls, or to use a refined subset of the data - stratifying by MDD recurrence or sex. Meta-analysis of GWAS data in males from these two studies yielded one genome-wide significant locus on 3p22.3. Three associated genes within this region (CRTAP, GLB1, and TMPPE) were significantly associated in subsequent gene-based tests. Meta-analyzed MDD, recurrent MDD and female MDD were each genetically correlated with 6 of 200 health-correlated traits, namely neuroticism, depressive symptoms, subjective well-being, MDD, a cross-disorder phenotype and Bipolar Disorder. Meta-analyzed male MDD showed no statistically significant correlations with these traits after correction for multiple testing. Whilst stratified GWAS analysis revealed a genome-wide significant locus for male MDD, the lack of independent replication, the equivalent SNP-based heritability estimates and the consistent pattern of genetic correlation with other health-related traits suggests that phenotypic stratification in currently available sample sizes is currently weakly justified. Based upon existing studies and our findings, the strategy of maximizing sample sizes is likely to provide the greater gain.
Published: 2017

42. Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

Author: Emmi Tikkanen, Pascal Guénel, Rico Rueedi, Hamdi Mbarek, Gerardo Heiss, Hilary K. Finucane, Jing Hua Zhao, Peter K. Joshi, Mark I. McCarthy, Frank B. Hu, Stephen J. Chanock, Manjeet K. Bolla, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Vilmundur Gudnason, Chunyan He, Aarno Palotie, Reedik Mägi, Joe Dennis, Nicholas G. Martin, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Elisabeth Widen, Caroline Hayward, Penelope A. Lind, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Ayellet V. Segrè, Fergus J. Couch, Massimo Mangino, Melissa C. Southey, Immaculata De Vivo, Yongmei Liu, Ute Hamann, Angela Cox, Maartje J. Hooning, Iffat Rahman, Mitul Shah, Eric Boerwinkle, Matthias W. Beckmann, Catharina A. Hartman, Tanguy Corre, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Thérèse Truong, Anna Marie Mulligan, Caterina Barbieri, Robert Winqvist, Lili Milani, Cristina Menni, Frits R. Rosendaal, Pau Navarro, Christian Gieger, Ken K. Ong, Stig E. Bojesen, Susan M. Ring, Marjanka K. Schmidt, George McMahon, Deborah J. Thompson, Robert Karlsson, Nicholas J. Timpson, M. Arfan Ikram, Alexander Teumer, Jingmei Li, Christa Meisinger, Diana L. Cousminer, Doris Stöckl, Heli Nevanlinna, Teresa Nutile, Tim D. Spector, Eva Albrecht, Murielle Bochud, Linda Broer, Felix R. Day, Sven Bergmann, Renée de Mutsert, Nicholas J. Wareham, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Marzyeh Amini, Elisabeth Altmaier, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Peter Vollenweider, Douglas F. Easton, Tamara B. Harris, Ellen A. Nohr, Paul D.P. Pharoah, David J. Porteous, Jenny A. Visser, Ilja M. Nolte, Genevieve Lachance, Thomas Meitinger, Archie Campbell, Thomas Brüning, Graham G. Giles, Johan G. Eriksson, Nancy L. Pedersen, George Davey Smith, Gonneke Willemsen, Joanne M. Murabito, Francesco Cucca, Daniel I. Chasman, Eleonora Porcu, Nora Franceschini, Thibaud Boutin, Ulla Sovio, Roger L. Milne, Annette Peters, Lisette Stolk, Paul M. Ridker, Claudia Langenberg, Patrick Sulem, Toshiko Tanaka, Marike Gabrielson, Judith S. Brand, Unnur Thorsteindottir, Alison M. Dunning, Marina Ciullo, Julie E. Buring, Harold Snieder, Lude Franke, Meir J. Stampfer, Po-Ru Loh, Julian Peto, Ellen W. Demerath, Sheila Ulivi, Ivana Kolcic, Maristella Steri, Jouke J. Hottenga, Amanda B. Spurdle, Tõnu Esko, Katherine S. Pollard, Eulalia Catamo, Anneli Pouta, Kyriaki Michailidou, Dieter Flesch-Janys, James F. Wilson, Kamila Czene, Sean Whalen, Diether Lambrechts, Abhishek Sarkar, Laura Crisponi, Jonathan Tyrer, Antonietta Robino, Sara Lindström, Harald Grallert, Stefania Lenarduzzi, Peter Kraft, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Lavinia Paternoster, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Mike A. Nalls, Per Hall, Joyce Y. Tung, Cinzia Sala, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Ayush Giri, Hiltrud Brauch, André G. Uitterlinden, Alkes L. Price, Tracy A. O'Mara, Lynda M. Rose, John L. Hopper, David A. Hinds, Katherine S. Ruth, Arto Mannermaa, Uwe Völker, Rossella Sorice, Zoltán Kutalik, Debbie A Lawlor, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Anna Murray, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Hae Kyung Im, Dale R. Nyholt, Lenore J. Launer, Andres Metspalu, Irene L. Andrulis, Konstantin Strauch, Albert V. Smith, Daniela Toniolo, Eco J. C. de Geus, Jenny Chang-Claude, Marek Zygmunt, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Peter Devilee, Henry Völzke, Daniela Ruggiero, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, John R. B. Perry, Javier Benitez, Grant W. Montgomery, David J. Hunter, David Karasik, Luigi Ferrucci, Emily Hallberg, Stefania Bandinelli, Hermann Brenner, Raymond Noordam, Sarah E. Medland, Peter A. Fasching, Qin Wang, Ilaria Gandin, Manolis Kellis, Hannes Helgason, Igor Rudan, Paolo Radice, Michela Traglia, Jian'an Luan, Robert A. Scott, Brumat Marco, Veronique Vitart, Kari Stefansson, Katharina E. Schraut, Ko Willems van Dijk, Ozren Polasek, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Natalia Perjakova, Joop S.E. Laven, Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Stem Cell Aging Leukemia and Lymphoma (SALL), Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET), Biological Psychology, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Personalized Medicine, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Mental Health, APH - Methodology, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity, Day, Felix R., Thompson, Deborah J., Helgason, Hanne, Chasman, Daniel I., Finucane, Hilary, Sulem, Patrick, Ruth, Katherine S., Whalen, Sean, Sarkar, Abhishek K., Albrecht, Eva, Altmaier, Elisabeth, Amini, Marzyeh, Barbieri, CATERINA MARIA, Boutin, Thibaud, Campbell, Archie, Demerath, Ellen, Giri, Ayush, He, Chunyan, Hottenga, Jouke J., Karlsson, Robert, Kolcic, Ivana, Loh, Po Ru, Lunetta, Kathryn L., Mangino, Massimo, Brumat, Marco, Mcmahon, George, Medland, Sarah E., Nolte, Ilja M., Noordam, Raymond, Nutile, Teresa, Paternoster, Lavinia, Perjakova, Natalia, Porcu, Eleonora, Rose, Lynda M., Schraut, Katharina E., Segrã¨, Ayellet V., Smith, Albert V., Stolk, Lisette, Teumer, Alexander, Andrulis, Irene L., Bandinelli, Stefania, Beckmann, Matthias W., Benitez, Javier, Bergmann, Sven, Bochud, Murielle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bojesen, Stig E., Bolla, Manjeet K., Brand, Judith S., Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Broer, Linda, Brã¼ning, Thoma, Buring, Julie E., Campbell, Harry, Catamo, Eulalia, Chanock, Stephen, Chenevix Trench, Georgia, Corre, Tanguy, Couch, Fergus J., Cousminer, Diana L., Cox, Angela, Crisponi, Laura, Czene, Kamila, Davey Smith, George, De Geus, Eco J. C. N., De Mutsert, Renã©e, De Vivo, Immaculata, Dennis, Joe, Devilee, Peter, Dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M., Eriksson, Johan G., Fasching, Peter A., FernÃ¡ndez Rhodes, Lindsay, Ferrucci, Luigi, Flesch Janys, Dieter, Franke, Lude, Gabrielson, Marike, Gandin, Ilaria, Giles, Graham G., Grallert, Harald, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Guã©nel, Pascal, Hall, Per, Hallberg, Emily, Hamann, Ute, Harris, Tamara B., Hartman, Catharina A., Heiss, Gerardo, Hooning, Maartje J., Hopper, John L., Hu, Frank, Hunter, David J., Ikram, M. Arfan, Im, Hae Kyung, Jã¤rvelin, Marjo Riitta, Joshi, Peter K., Karasik, David, Kellis, Manoli, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lachance, Genevieve, Lambrechts, Diether, Langenberg, Claudia, Launer, Lenore J., Laven, Joop S. E., Lenarduzzi, Stefania, Li, Jingmei, Lind, Penelope A., Lindstrom, Sara, Liu, Yongmei, Luan, Jian'An, Mã¤gi, Reedik, Mannermaa, Arto, Mbarek, Hamdi, Mccarthy, Mark I., Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thoma, Menni, Cristina, Metspalu, Andre, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Milani, Lili, Milne, Roger L., Montgomery, Grant W., Mulligan, Anna M., Nalls, Mike A., Navarro, Pau, Nevanlinna, Heli, Nyholt, Dale R., Oldehinkel, Albertine J., O'Mara, Tracy A., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palotie, Aarno, Pedersen, Nancy, Peters, Annette, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Pouta, Anneli, Radice, Paolo, Rahman, Iffat, Ring, Susan M., Robino, Antonietta, Rosendaal, Frits R., Rudan, Igor, Rueedi, Rico, Ruggiero, Daniela, Sala, Cinzia F., Schmidt, Marjanka K., Scott, Robert A., Shah, Mitul, Sorice, Rossella, Southey, Melissa C., Sovio, Ulla, Stampfer, Meir, Steri, Maristella, Strauch, Konstantin, Tanaka, Toshiko, Tikkanen, Emmi, Timpson, Nicholas J., Traglia, Michela, Truong, Thã©rã¨se, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Uitterlinden, AndrÃ© G., Edwards, Digna R. Velez, Vitart, Veronique, Vã¶lker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Wang, Qin, Widen, Elisabeth, Van Dijk, Ko Willem, Willemsen, Gonneke, Winqvist, Robert, Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H. R., Zhao, Jing Hua, Zoledziewska, Magdalena, Zygmunt, Marek, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z., Boomsma, Dorret I., Ciullo, Marina, Cucca, Francesco, Esko, Tãµnu, Franceschini, Nora, Gieger, Christian, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hayward, Caroline, Kraft, Peter, Lawlor, Debbie A., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Martin, Nicholas G., Mook Kanamori, Dennis O., Nohr, Ellen A., Polasek, Ozren, Porteous, David, Price, Alkes L., Ridker, Paul M., Snieder, Harold, Spector, Tim D., Stã¶ckl, Dori, Toniolo, Daniela, Ulivi, Sheila, Visser, Jenny A., Vã¶lzke, Henry, Wareham, Nicholas J., Wilson, James F., LifeLines Cohort, Study, Interact, Consortium, Kconfab/aocs, Investigator, Endometrial Cancer Association, Consortium, Ovarian Cancer Association, Consortium, Practical, Consortium, Spurdle, Amanda B., Thorsteindottir, Unnur, Pollard, Katherine S., Easton, Douglas F., Tung, Joyce Y., Chang Claude, Jenny, Hinds, David, Murray, Anna, Murabito, Joanne M., Stefansson, Kari, Ong, Ken K., Perry, John R. B., Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC other, Medical Oncology, Epidemiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Day, Felix [0000-0003-3789-7651], Thompson, Deborah [0000-0003-1465-5799], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Dunning, Alison [0000-0001-6651-7166], Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Pharoah, Paul [0000-0001-8494-732X], Sovio, Ulla [0000-0002-0799-1105], Tyrer, Jonathan [0000-0003-3724-4757], Zhao, Jing Hua [0000-0003-4930-3582], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Perry, John [0000-0001-6483-3771], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, cancer risk, Menarche/genetics, Bioinformatics, GWAS, menarche, puberty, Body Mass Index, Risk Factors, Neoplasms, Databases, Genetic, WIDE ASSOCIATION, Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium, Ribonucleoproteins/genetics, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Age Factors, Genetics GWAS menarche, reproductive disorders, Neoplasms/genetics, 3. Good health, Ribonucleoproteins, Menarche, MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, GROWTH, Female, TRAITS, Population variance, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics, Adolescent, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, kConFab/AOCS Investigators, Quantitative Trait Loci, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, METABOLISM, INHERITANCE, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, PRACTICAL consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Genomic Imprinting, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Mendelian randomization, REGRESSION, medicine, Journal Article, Humans, cancer, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 1000 Genomes Project, Membrane Proteins/genetics, METAANALYSIS, Puberty, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Cancer, InterAct Consortium, Heritability, medicine.disease, BODY-MASS INDEX, 030104 developmental biology, genome-wide association studies, Puberty/genetics, LifeLines Cohort Study, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: The timing of puberty is a highly polygenic childhood trait that is epidemiologically associated with various adult diseases. Using 1000 Genomes Project-imputed genotype data in up to similar to 370,000 women, we identify 389 independent signals (P
Published: 2017

43. Publisher Correction: Parent of origin genetic effects on methylation in humans are common and influence complex trait variation

Author: Rosie M. Walker, Stewart W. Morris, Kathryn L. Evans, Caroline Hayward, Charley Xia, Ian J. Deary, James F. Wilson, Albert Tenesa, Yanni Zeng, Andrew D. Bretherick, Konrad Rawlik, Riccardo E. Marioni, Chris Haley, Carmen Amador, Thibaud Boutin, David W. Clark, Reka Nagy, David J. Porteous, Duncan Sproul, Andrew M. McIntosh, Pau Navarro, Oriol Canela-Xandri, and Archie Campbell
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, General Chemistry, Methylation, Biology, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Variation (linguistics), Evolutionary biology, Trait, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, lcsh:Q, lcsh:Science, Genomic imprinting
Abstract: In the original version of this Article, the legend in the upper panel of Figure 2 incorrectly read ‘paternal imprinting’ and should have read ‘maternal imprinting’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.
Published: 2019

44. THE IDENTIFICATION OF HETEROGENEOUS GENETIC SUBGROUPS FOR MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

Author: Jude Gibson, Ian J. Deary, Thibaud Boutin, Andrew M. McIntosh, Mark Adams, David J. Porteous, Yanni Zeng, Jonathan D. Hafferty, Eleanor M. Wigmore, David M. Howard, Pippa A. Thomson, Heather C. Whalley, Toni Clarke, and Chris Haley
Subjects: Pharmacology, business.industry, Heritability, medicine.disease, behavioral disciplines and activities, Biobank, Genetic architecture, 030227 psychiatry, 03 medical and health sciences, Psychiatry and Mental health, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurology, mental disorders, Risk allele, Trait, Medicine, Major depressive disorder, Pharmacology (medical), Identification (biology), Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Biological Psychiatry, Depression (differential diagnoses), Clinical psychology
Abstract: Background Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide with an estimated heritability of 37%. MDD is clinically heterogeneous and has frequently been shown to be comorbid with a variety of other conditions. Both of these factors have potentially confounded previous attempts to elucidate MDD's genetic architecture. To investigate causal heterogeneity within MDD we sought to identify genetic subgroups associated with other traits within MDD cases. Methods We examined two cohorts comprising of unrelated individuals, Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS; n=6,946) and UK Biobank (n=25,035), for evidence of heterogeneous genetic sub-groups within MDD cases. Within GS:SFHS, a diagnosis of MDD was made by trained researchers using the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. UK Biobank participants completed a touchscreen assessment of depressive symptoms and previous treatments from which a probable diagnosis of MDD was determined. We obtained risk alleles for a total of 34 traits and used the software package Buhmbox to determine whether there was a sharing of risk alleles associated with each trait and a subgroup within our MDD cases. Results There was evidence (P Discussion As far as we are aware, ours is the first study to identify the existence of genetic subgroup heterogeneity within MDD. In our study, the strongest evidence of genetic subgroups within MDD cases were for blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Our study has provided replicable evidence of subgroup heterogeneity within MDD for a number of traits underlining the potential of using genomic data to develop stratified approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of depression.
Published: 2019

45. Publisher Correction: Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

Author: Aravinda Chakravarti, Jennifer E. Huffman, Meixia Ren, Veikko Salomaa, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Johan Sundström, Alan L. James, Joris Deelen, Raha Pazoki, Michela Traglia, Tõnu Esko, Seppo Koskinen, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Daniel I. Chasman, Paul F. O'Reilly, Roby Joehanes, Paul M. Ridker, G. Abecasis, Lars Lind, Dragana Vuckovic, Yingchang Lu, Antonietta Robino, Anders Hamsten, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Caterina Barbieri, Anne U. Jackson, Anna Morgan, Claudia Langenberg, Peter S. Braund, Rainer Rettig, Murielle Bochud, Vilmundur Gudnason, Eleftheria Zeggini, David J. Stott, Joop Jukema, Nick Shrine, Jun Ding, Olle Melander, Massimo Mangino, Borbala Mifsud, Frank H. Collins, Liewald Dcm., Tineka Blake, Peter K. Joshi, Yan V. Sun, Aarno Palotie, Maciej Tomaszewski, Jarvelin M-R., Kati Kristiansson, L. J. Launer, Sara M. Willems, Ian J. Deary, Christophe Tzourio, Alan J. Gow, Caroline Hayward, Guillaume Paré, Christopher Oldmeadow, John M. Starr, Paul Elliott, Morris A. Swertz, C M van Duijn, Sekar Kathiresan, Lorna M. Lopez, Neil R Poulter, Mike A. Nalls, Erik Ingelsson, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Giorgia Girotto, Ben A. Oostra, Markus Perola, Paul Knekt, Lyytikäinen L-P., T.B. Harris, J. C. Bis, Harriëtte Riese, J. Marrugat, Samuli Ripatti, Howson Jmm., Archie Campbell, C M Lindgren, Adam S. Butterworth, Xiuqing Guo, Lin W-Y., Priyanka Nandakumar, David Mosen-Ansorena, Alison Pattie, Marco Brumat, Annette Peters, Georgios Ntritsos, Ivana Kolcic, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Joanne Knight, Stella Trompet, K. Witkowska, Hottenga J-J., Tim D. Spector, Maris Laan, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Bram P. Prins, Loos Rjf., M. H. de Borst, Antti Jula, Lynda M. Rose, Massimiliano Cocca, Daniela Toniolo, Igor Rudan, P. J. van der Most, Fu Liang Ng, Heather J. Cordell, Walter Palmas, John Danesh, John Attia, Dan E. Arking, Ganesh Chauhan, C Gieger, P. van der Harst, Penninx Bwjh., Kristin L. Ayers, Germaine C. Verwoert, Bruce M. Psaty, Jaspal S. Kooner, Ruifang Li-Gao, Benjamin Lehne, Khaw K-T., Sandosh Padmanabhan, Franco Giulianini, Erwin P. Bottinger, Roberto Elosua, Christopher P. Nelson, Ozren Polasek, D.R. Velez Edwards, Martin Farrall, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Peter Vollenweider, Uwe Völker, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Åsa Johansson, Helen R. Warren, Evan Tzanis, Albert V. Smith, Hwang S-J., Teresa Ferreira, E.J.C. de Geus, Evangelos Evangelou, Niek Verweij, R. J. Scott, Pekka Jousilahti, Elin Org, Stefan Enroth, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Andrew D. Johnson, David Conen, James F. Wilson, Edward G. Lakatta, Anuj Goel, Raymond Noordam, Najaf Amin, David P. Strachan, Martin D. Tobin, Francesco Cucca, Doney Asf., Todd L. Edwards, Jerome I. Rotter, Mika Kähönen, Hugh Watkins, Rossella Sorice, John M. C. Connell, David S. Siscovick, Sébastien Thériault, Jian'an Luan, Marty Larson, Philippe Amouyel, A C Morrison, Louise V. Wain, Reedik Mägi, Jonathan Marten, Thibaud Boutin, Nabi Shah, Weihua Zhang, Palmer Cna., Daniela Ruggiero, Zhao J-H., Olli T. Raitakari, Bernard Keavney, Peter S. Sever, Philip S. Tsao, Jie Yao, André G. Uitterlinden, Marina Evangelou, Zoltán Kutalik, Robert A. Scott, Helena Schmidt, J. Tuomilehto, Nilesh J. Samani, Quang Tri Nguyen, John Michael Gaziano, Georg Ehret, Praveen Surendran, Terho Lehtimäki, Mark J. Caulfield, Denis C. Shields, Rick Jansen, Sarin A-P., Alice Stanton, Mattias Frånberg, Cumhur Y Demirkale, Stéphanie Debette, Paolo Gasparini, Ilaria Gandin, Simon Thom, Kent D. Taylor, Andrew D. Morris, Claudia P. Cabrera, Teemu J. Niiranen, Nicholas J. Wareham, Andrew P. Morris, Yasaman Saba, Daniel Levy, Aki S. Havulinna, Kelly Cho, Sarah E. Harris, Li Lin, Janina S. Ried, Michael R. Barnes, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, Vergnaud A-C., Lorenz Risch, Rona J. Strawbridge, Y. Milaneschi, John C. Chambers, Yong Qian, Cristina Menni, Anubha Mahajan, Peter Almgren, Gary Davies, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Elizabeth G. Holliday, A. Metspalu, Ilja M. Nolte, Peter J. Munson, He Gao, Marcus Dörr, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Teresa Nutile, Wilson Pwf., Gonneke Willemsen, Markku Laakso, Chiara Batini, Harold Snieder, Ibrahim Karaman, Adriana M. Hung, Reinhold Schmidt, R. de Mutsert, Michael Boehnke, Lili Milani, Alan F. Wright, Edith Hofer, Siim Sõber, Ahmad Vaez, Albert Hofman, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Tatijana Zemunik, Kenneth Rice, Veronique Vitart, Marina Ciullo, Niki Dimou, Morris J. Brown, Crysovalanto Mamasoula, A.M. Erzurumluoglu, Andrew A. Hicks, Ayush Giri, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Home Office, UNIVERSITY OF OULU, Commission of the European Communities, Medical Research Council (MRC), Action on Hearing Loss, British Heart Foundation, National Institute for Health Research, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding, and UK DRI Ltd
Subjects: Genetics & Heredity, 0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Science & Technology, computer.internet_protocol, Million Veteran Program, Genome-wide association study, Computational biology, 06 Biological Sciences, Biology, Genetic analysis, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Genetics, Genome informatics, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, computer, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, XML, Developmental Biology
Abstract: In the version of this article originally published, the name of author Martin H. de Borst was coded incorrectly in the XML. The error has now been corrected in the HTML version of the paper.
Published: 2018

46. Genomic analyses for age at menarche identify 389 independent signals and indicate BMI-independent effects of puberty timing on cancer susceptibility

Author: Nora Franceschini, Rico Rueedi, Gerardo Heiss, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Marike Gabrielson, Henry Völzke, Daniela Ruggiero, Judith S. Brand, Stig E. Bojesen, Iffat Rahman, Fergus J. Couch, Patrick Sulem, Harold Snieder, Jenny Chang-Claude, Caterina Barbieri, Ute Hamann, Hinds D, Pascal Guénel, Amanda B. Spurdle, Paul M. Ridker, Ulla Sovio, Roger L. Milne, Hamdi Mbarek, H Brenner, Hilary K. Finucane, Maristella Steri, Lude Franke, Emmi Tikkanen, Ivana Kolcic, Vitart, Ken K. Ong, Alison M. Dunning, Aarno Palotie, Caroline Hayward, Jouke J. Hottenga, Abhishek Sarkar, Stefania Lenarduzzi, Nicholas G. Martin, Katharina E. Schraut, Eva Albrecht, Hiltrud Brauch, Lisette Stolk, Joop S.E. Laven, Penelope A. Lind, Ilaria Gandin, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Ellen A. Nohr, Tanguy Corre, Jing Hua Zhao, N J Timpson, Jenny A. Visser, Harald Grallert, P. A. Fasching, Susan M. Ring, Stöckl D, Grant W. Montgomery, Marzyeh Amini, Velez Edwards Dr, Thomas Meitinger, Qinghua Wang, David Karasik, Daniel I. Chasman, Nicholas J. Wareham, Alexander Teumer, Mellissa C. Southey, Kathryn L. Lunetta, S. E. Medland, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Maartje J. Hooning, Lili Milani, D Lambrechts, Ozren Polasek, Po-Ru Loh, James F. Wilson, Campbell A, Julian Peto, Ellen W. Demerath, Christian Gieger, de Geus Ej, Cox A, Javier Benítez, Mitul Shah, Eric Boerwinkle, Matthias W. Beckmann, Thorsteindottir U, Julie E. Buring, De Vivo I, Hannes Helgason, Paolo Radice, Tracy A. O'Mara, L. J. Launer, D. F. Gudbjartsson, Frits R. Rosendaal, C.A. Hartman, Stefania Bandinelli, Felix R. Day, Lynda M. Rose, van Dijk Kw, Natalia Perjakova, Anneli Pouta, Igor Rudan, Sven Bergmann, Kamila Czene, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Pau Navarro, Sean Whalen, Heli Nevanlinna, Teresa Nutile, Diana L. Cousminer, Albert V. Smith, Massimo Mangino, Uwe Völker, Michela Traglia, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Ayush Giri, Linda Broer, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Peter Vollenweider, Jian'an Luan, Nancy L. Pedersen, Irene L. Andrulis, Reedik Mägi, Robert Winqvist, Gonneke Willemsen, John L. Hopper, Gudnason, Marjanka K. Schmidt, David G. Hunter, Robert A. Scott, T.B. Harris, Joanne M. Murabito, David J. Porteous, Harry Campbell, Eleonora Porcu, D.I. Boomsma, Thibaud Boutin, M. A. Ikram, Doug Easton, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Meir J. Stampfer, Katherine S. Pollard, Eulalia Catamo, Tõnu Esko, M-R Jarvelin, Laura Crisponi, Claudia Langenberg, Marek Zygmunt, Antonietta Robino, Emily Hallberg, Manjeet K. Bolla, Ruth Ks, Bruce H W Wolffenbuttel, Lavinia Paternoster, Tyrer Jp, P. Kraft, George Davey-Smith, Robert Karlsson, Graham G. Giles, Jingmei Li, Pharoah Pd, Segrè Av, Marina Ciullo, Perry, Brumat Marco, Peter K. Joshi, Chunyan He, Sara Lindström, Joe Dennis, Thérèse Truong, Yongmei Liu, Anna Marie Mulligan, Mike A. Nalls, Cinzia Sala, K. Stefansson, Murray A, Debbie A Lawlor, Tung Jy, Deborah J. Thompson, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Daniela Toniolo, Luigi Ferrucci, Peter Devilee, S. Chanock, Cristina Menni, George McMahon, Murielle Bochud, A. Metspalu, Tomohiro Tanaka, E. Widen, Hae Kyung Im, Dale R. Nyholt, Ilja M. Nolte, Thomas Brüning, Christina Meisinger, Annette Peters, Kyriaki Michailidou, Per Hall, Rossella Sorice, Genevieve Lachance, Johan G. Eriksson, Francesco Cucca, A.G. Uitterlinden, Z. Kutalik, Mark I. McCarthy, Frank B. Hu, Konstantin Strauch, Tim D. Spector, Elisabeth Altmaier, S. Ulivi, Alkes L. Price, Arto Mannermaa, Raymond Noordam, and de Mutsert R
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Genotype, Menarche, Trait, Cancer susceptibility, Genomics, Biology, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: The timing of puberty is a highly polygenic childhood trait that is epidemiologically associated with various adult diseases. Here, we analyse 1000-Genome reference panel imputed genotype data on up to ~370,000 women and identify 389 independent signals (all P−8) for age at menarche, a notable milestone in female pubertal development. In Icelandic data from deCODE, these signals explain ~7.4% of the population variance in age at menarche, corresponding to one quarter of the estimated heritability. We implicate over 250 genes via coding variation or associated gene expression, and demonstrate enrichment across genes active in neural tissues. We identify multiple rare variants near the imprinted genes MKRN3 and DLK1 that exhibit large effects on menarche only when paternally inherited. Disproportionate effects of variants on early or late puberty timing are observed: single variant and heritability estimates are larger for early than late puberty timing in females. The opposite pattern is seen in males, with larger estimates for late than early puberty timing. Mendelian randomization analyses indicate causal inverse associations, independent of BMI, between puberty timing and risks for breast and endometrial cancers in women, and prostate cancer in men. In aggregate, our findings reveal new complexity in the genetic regulation of puberty timing and support new causal links with adult cancer risks.
Published: 2016
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47. When do myopia genes have their effect? Comparison of genetic risks between children and adults

Author: Paul J. Foster, J. Willem L. Tideman, Thibaud Boutin, Cathy Williams, Seang-Mei Saw, David A. Mackey, Jan Roelof Polling, Yi Lu, Mingguang He, Caroline C W Klaver, René Höhn, Anthony P Khawaja, Aslihan Gerhold-Ay, Stefan Nickels, Qiao Fan, Stuart MacGregor, Munemitsu Yoshikawa, Goran Benčić, Veronique Vitart, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Seyhan Yazar, Kenji Yamashiro, Xiaobo Guo, Jeremy A. Guggenheim, Tanja Zeller, Epidemiology, and Ophthalmology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Biometry, Adolescent, Genotype, Epidemiology, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genome-wide association study, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Connexins, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Internal medicine, medicine, Myopia, SNP, Humans, Allele, Young adult, 610 Medicine & health, Child, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Genetic association, Genetics, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Population study, Female, RE, Laminin, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext Previous studies have identified many genetic loci for refractive error and myopia. We aimed to investigate the effect of these loci on ocular biometry as a function of age in children, adolescents, and adults. The study population consisted of three age groups identified from the international CREAM consortium: 5,490 individuals aged 25 years. All participants had undergone standard ophthalmic examination including measurements of axial length (AL) and corneal radius (CR). We examined the lead SNP at all 39 currently known genetic loci for refractive error identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), as well as a combined genetic risk score (GRS). The beta coefficient for association between SNP genotype or GRS versus AL/CR was compared across the three age groups, adjusting for age, sex, and principal components. Analyses were Bonferroni-corrected. In the age group
Published: 2016

48. Long-term evolution of transposable elements

Author: Arnaud Le Rouzic, Thibaud Boutin, and Pierre Capy
Subjects: Male, Transposable element, Mutation, Multidisciplinary, Models, Genetic, Genetic Drift, Genetic Variation, Population genetics, Biological Sciences, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Genome, Noncoding DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Genetic drift, Evolutionary biology, Molecular evolution, DNA Transposable Elements, medicine, Humans, Female, Coevolution
Abstract: Transposable elements are often considered parasitic DNA sequences, able to invade the genome of their host thanks to their self-replicating ability. This colonization process has been extensively studied, both theoretically and experimentally, but their long-term coevolution with the genomes is still poorly understood. In this work, we aim to challenge previous population genetics models by considering features of transposable elements as quantitative, rather than discrete, variables. We also describe more realistic transposable element dynamics by accounting for the variability of the insertion effect, from deleterious to adaptive, as well as mutations leading to a loss of transposition activity and to nonautonomous copies. Individual-based simulations of the behavior of a transposable-element family over several thousand generations show different ways in which active or inactive copies can be maintained for a very long time. Results reveal an unexpected impact of genetic drift on the “junk DNA” content of the genome and strongly question the likelihood of the sustainable long-term stable transposition-selection equilibrium on which numerous previous works were based.
Published: 2007

49. Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

Author: Lynne J. Hocking, Caterina Barbieri, Jenny Chang-Claude, David Karasik, Dieter Flesch-Janys, James F. Wilson, Mark S. Goldberg, Henry Voelzke, Archie Campbell, Stig E. Bojesen, David R. Weir, Ailith Pirie, Megan L. Grove, Melissa Wellons, Georg Homuth, Corrado Masciullo, Jennifer A. Brody, Hermann Brenner, Paolo Gasparini, Andrew D. Johnson, Patrick Neven, Graham G. Giles, Peter Kraft, André G. Uitterlinden, Wei Zheng, Alkes L. Price, Anja Rudolph, Arto Mannermaa, Nicholas G. Martin, Christopher A. Haiman, Massimo Mangino, Melissa C. Southey, Daniela Ruggiero, Toshiko Tanaka, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Julie E. Buring, John R. B. Perry, Robert Winqvist, Laufey Tryggvadottir, Angela Cox, Serena Sanna, Nicola Pirastu, Anna Jakubowska, Paul D.P. Pharoah, David J. Porteous, Dragana Vuckovic, Andrea D. Coviello, Giorgia Girotto, Sara Lindstroem, Patrick Sulem, Astrid Petersmann, Xin Li, Maartje J. Hooning, Lili Milani, Sven Bergmann, Marek Zygmunt, Javier Benitez, Vilmundur Gudnason, Fernando Rivadeneira, Volker Arndt, Marina Ciullo, Caroline Hayward, Sheila Ulivi, Janet E. Olson, Hoda Anton-Culver, Maria Kabisch, Sara Margolin, Vessela N. Kristensen, Patrick F. McArdle, Tanguy Corre, Nora Franceschini, Veli-Matti Kosma, Hiltrud Brauch, Roger L. Milne, Eric Boerwinkle, Matthias W. Beckmann, Charles Kooperberg, Qin Wang, Jessica D. Faul, Stephen J. Chanock, Alexander Teumer, Mark O. Goodarzi, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, R Maegi, Paul M. Ridker, Antonis C. Antoniou, Ozren Polasek, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Barbara McKnight, Melissa E. Garcia, Manjeet K. Bolla, Alanna C. Morrison, Paolo Radice, Xiuqing Guo, Lude L. Franke, Michela Traglia, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Heli Nevanlinna, Teresa Nutile, Cinzia Sala, Pascal Guénel, Jennifer E. Huffman, Stephen T. Turner, Anna Murray, Carl Blomqvist, Margaux F. Keller, Samuel E. Jones, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Ivana Kolcic, Anne B. Newman, Jan Lubinski, Albert Hofman, Isabel dos-Santos-Silva, Hilary K. Finucane, Anne Lise Børresen-Dale, Alexander P. Reiner, Tim D. Spector, Gonneke Willemsen, John D. Eicher, Douglas F. Easton, Claudia Langenberg, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Natalia Bogdanova, Alison M. Dunning, Giorgio Pistis, Tõnu Esko, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Martina Mueller-Nurasyid, Eleonora Porcu, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Leslie J. Raffel, Laura Crisponi, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Jerome I. Rotter, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Antonietta Robino, Katri Pylkaes, Ken K. Ong, Thibaud Boutin, Elinor J. Sawyer, Daniel I. Chasman, Brian E. Henderson, Frank B. Hu, Leslie Bernstein, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Tamara B. Harris, Dorret I. Boomsma, Katherine S. Ruth, Jie Yao, Keith Humphreys, Jennifer A. Smith, Elisabeth Altmaier, Ulrike Peters, Doris Stoeckl, Eva Albrecht, Tatijana Zemunik, Jenny A. Visser, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Diego Vozzi, Thilo Doerk, J. Ross Chapman, Irene L. Andrulis, Joanne M. Murabito, Alan F. Wright, Lisette Stolk, Jonathan Marten, Alice M. Arnold, Paolo Peterlongo, Harry Campbell, Natalia Pervjakova, Jingmei Li, Jennifer Kriebel, Alicia Beeghly-Fadiel, Immaculata De Vivo, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Kari Stefansson, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Evelin Mihailov, Chunyan He, Joe Dennis, Nicholas J. Wareham, Yongmei Liu, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Lynda M. Rose, Felix R. Day, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Albert V. Smith, David J. Hunter, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Christian Gieger, Konstantin Strauch, Igor Rudan, Jacques Simard, Jian'an Luan, Robert A. Scott, Kyriaki Michailidou, Bruce M. Psaty, Per Hall, Suzette J. Bielinski, Rita K. Schmutzler, Julian Peto, Ellen W. Demerath, Ursula M. Schick, Rossella Sorice, Wei Zhao, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Andres Metspalu, Jonine D. Figueroa, Julia A. Knight, Barbara Burwinkel, Thomas Bruening, Judith Manz, Anna González-Neira, Ilaria Gandin, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Kent D. Taylor, Amanda E. Toland, Deborah J. Thompson, Alfons Meindl, Caroline M. Seynaeve, Benjamin M. Neale, Fergus J. Couch, Mike A. Nalls, Ute Hamann, Kamila Czene, John L. Hopper, Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel, Grant W. Montgomery, Hatef Darabi, Daniela Toniolo, Jinyan Huang, Peter Devilee, Cathy E. Elks, David Schlessinger, Luigi Ferrucci, Frank Schmidt, Peter A. Fasching, Diether Lambrechts, Najaf Amin, Day, Felix R, Ruth, Katherine S, Thompson, Deborah J, Lunetta, Kathryn L, Pervjakova, Natalia, Chasman, Daniel I, Stolk, Lisette, Finucane, Hilary K, Sulem, Patrick, Bulik Sullivan, Brendan, Esko, Tõnu, Johnson, Andrew D, Elks, Cathy E, Franceschini, Nora, He, Chunyan, Altmaier, Elisabeth, Brody, Jennifer A, Franke, Lude L, Huffman, Jennifer E, Keller, Margaux F, Mcardle, Patrick F, Nutile, Teresa, Porcu, Eleonora, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda M, Schick, Ursula M, Smith, Jennifer A, Teumer, Alexander, Traglia, Michela, Vuckovic, Dragana, Yao, Jie, Zhao, Wei, Albrecht, Eva, Amin, Najaf, Corre, Tanguy, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Mangino, Massimo, Smith, Albert V, Tanaka, Toshiko, Abecasis, Gonçalo R, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton Culver, Hoda, Antoniou, Antonis C, Arndt, Volker, Arnold, Alice M, Barbieri, CATERINA MARIA, Beckmann, Matthias W, Beeghly Fadiel, Alicia, Benitez, Javier, Bernstein, Leslie, Bielinski, Suzette J, Blomqvist, Carl, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bolla, Manjeet K, Borresen Dale, Anne Lise, Boutin, Thibaud S, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann, Brüning, Thoma, Burwinkel, Barbara, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chanock, Stephen J, Chapman, J. Ro, Chen, Yii Der Ida, Chenevix Trench, Georgia, Couch, Fergus J, Coviello, Andrea D, Cox, Angela, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, De Vivo, Immaculata, Demerath, Ellen W, Dennis, Joe, Devilee, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Dunning, Alison M, Eicher, John D, Fasching, Peter A, Faul, Jessica D, Figueroa, Jonine, Flesch Janys, Dieter, Gandin, Ilaria, Garcia, Melissa E, García Closas, Montserrat, Giles, Graham G, Girotto, Giorgia, Goldberg, Mark S, González Neira, Anna, Goodarzi, Mark O, Grove, Megan L, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Guénel, Pascal, Guo, Xiuqing, Haiman, Christopher A, Hall, Per, Hamann, Ute, Henderson, Brian E, Hocking, Lynne J, Hofman, Albert, Homuth, Georg, Hooning, Maartje J, Hopper, John L, Hu, Frank B, Huang, Jinyan, Humphreys, Keith, Hunter, David J, Jakubowska, Anna, Jones, Samuel E, Kabisch, Maria, Karasik, David, Knight, Julia A, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooperberg, Charle, Kosma, Veli Matti, Kriebel, Jennifer, Kristensen, Vessela, Lambrechts, Diether, Langenberg, Claudia, Li, Jingmei, Li, Xin, Lindström, Sara, Liu, Yongmei, Luan, Jian'An, Lubinski, Jan, Mägi, Reedik, Mannermaa, Arto, Manz, Judith, Margolin, Sara, Marten, Jonathan, Martin, Nicholas G, Masciullo, Corrado, Meindl, Alfon, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Mihailov, Evelin, Milani, Lili, Milne, Roger L, Müller Nurasyid, Martina, Nalls, Michael, Neale, Benjamin M, Nevanlinna, Heli, Neven, Patrick, Newman, Anne B, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Olson, Janet E, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Peterlongo, Paolo, Peters, Ulrike, Petersmann, Astrid, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D. P, Pirastu, Nicola, Pirie, Ailith, Pistis, Giorgio, Polasek, Ozren, Porteous, David, Psaty, Bruce M, Pylkäs, Katri, Radice, Paolo, Raffel, Leslie J, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rudan, Igor, Rudolph, Anja, Ruggiero, Daniela, Sala, Cinzia F, Sanna, Serena, Sawyer, Elinor J, Schlessinger, David, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Schmidt, Frank, Schmutzler, Rita K, Schoemaker, Minouk J, Scott, Robert A, Seynaeve, Caroline M, Simard, Jacque, Sorice, Rossella, Southey, Melissa C, Stöckl, Dori, Strauch, Konstantin, Swerdlow, Anthony, Taylor, Kent D, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Toland, Amanda E, Tomlinson, Ian, Truong, Thérèse, Tryggvadottir, Laufey, Turner, Stephen T, Vozzi, Diego, Wang, Qin, Wellons, Melissa, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F, Winqvist, Robert, Wolffenbuttel, Bruce B. H. R, Wright, Alan F, Yannoukakos, Drakouli, Zemunik, Tatijana, Zheng, Wei, Zygmunt, Marek, Bergmann, Sven, Boomsma, Dorret I, Buring, Julie E, Ferrucci, Luigi, Montgomery, Grant W, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Spector, Tim D, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z, Ciullo, Marina, Crisponi, Laura, Easton, Douglas F, Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Harris, Tamara B, Hayward, Caroline, Kardia, Sharon L. R, Kraft, Peter, Mcknight, Barbara, Metspalu, Andre, Morrison, Alanna C, Reiner, Alex P, Ridker, Paul M, Rotter, Jerome I, Toniolo, Daniela, Uitterlinden, André G, Ulivi, Sheila, Völzke, Henry, Wareham, Nicholas J, Weir, David R, Yerges Armstrong, Laura M, Price, Alkes L, Stefansson, Kari, Visser, Jenny A, Ong, Ken K, Chang Claude, Jenny, Murabito, Joanne M, Perry, John R. B, Murray, Anna, Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Medical Oncology, Clinical Genetics, Biological Psychology, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Neurobiology of Mental Health, EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes, PRACTICAL Consortium, kConFab Investigators, AOCS Investigators, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, LifeLines Cohort Study, Generation, Scotland, Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Stem Cell Aging Leukemia and Lymphoma (SALL), and Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET)
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Aging, DNA Repair, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, BLOOD-PRESSURE, Disease, CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY, Bioinformatics, HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION, PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE, Genotype, BRCA2 MUTATION CARRIERS, WIDE ASSOCIATION, Gene Regulatory Networks, NATURAL MENOPAUSE, Genetics, education.field_of_study, menopause, DDR, BODY-MASS INDEX, CELL-TYPES, BRCA1 Protein, Reproduction, BRCA1-mediated DNA repair, Age Factors, Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Medicine, Genomics, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Menopause, Phenotype, Female, medicine.symptom, Signal Transduction, Delayed puberty, Adult, DNA repair, Population, Hypothalamus, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Breast Neoplasms, Biology, Lower risk, DDR, Article, Breast cancer, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Mendelian randomization, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, education, Genetic association, Models, Genetic, business.industry, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, Aging/genetics, BRCA1 Protein/genetics, Breast Neoplasms/genetics, Gene Regulatory Networks/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Genomics/methods, Hypothalamus/metabolism, Menopause/genetics, Reproduction/genetics, Signal Transduction/genetics, business, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Menopause timing has a major impact on infertility and risk of disease. Younger age at natural (nonsurgical) menopause (ANM) is associated with a higher risk of osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes and a lower risk of breast cancer. Late menopause is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer. It is well known that the age at which women go through menopause is partly determined by genes, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Genome-wide association studies have identified 18 common genetic variants associated with ANM. These variants explain less than 5% of the variation in ANM compared with the 21% explained by all common variants on genome-wide association study arrays. This genome-wide association study was the collaborative effort of researchers from 177 institutions worldwide. The study was designed to investigate genetic variants associated with timing of menopause among a population of approximately 70,000 women of European ancestry. A dual strategy was used to identify both common and, for the first time, low-frequency coding variants associated with ANM. The causal relationship between ANM and breast cancer was investigated using a Mendelian randomization approach. Combined analysis identified 1208 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of a total of approximately 2.6 million that reached the genome-wide significance threshold for association with ANM. Forty-four regions with common variants were identified; among these 44 loci were 2 rare low-frequency missense alleles of large effect. A majority of ANM SNPs were enriched in DNA damage response (DDR) genes, including the first common coding variant in BRCA1 associated with any complex trait. Mendelian randomization analyses supported a causal relationship between delayed ANM and breast cancer risk; there was approximately 6% increase in risk per year; P = 3 × 10-14); increased risk with delayed menopause appeared to be mediated primarily by prolonged sex hormone exposure in a woman’s lifetime, not DDR mechanisms. This is the first study to confirm the link between early and late menopause and breast cancer risk using genetic information. Age at natural menopause genetic variants influence breast cancer risk primarily through variation in menopause timing. Although carrying higher numbers of ANM-increasing variants and enrichment in DDR genes are associated with a modest increase in breast cancer risk, the major mechanism for increased risk appears to be prolonged estrogen and/or progesterone exposure due to delayed menopause.
Published: 2015

50. Characterisation of an inflammation-related epigenetic score and its association with cognitive ability

Author: Caroline Hayward, Thibaud Boutin, Rosie M. Walker, Archie Campbell, Barry W. McColl, Anna J. Stevenson, Tara L. Spires-Jones, Mairead L. Bermingham, Allan F. McRae, Ian J. Deary, Stewart W. Morris, Andrew M. McIntosh, Kathryn L. Evans, Riccardo E. Marioni, Daniel L. McCartney, and Robert F. Hillary
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Epigenomics, Male, Oncology, Aging, Longitudinal study, Comorbidity, Systemic inflammation, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, cognitive ability, Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive decline, Genetics (clinical), Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, DNA methylation, biology, Cognitive ability, Cognition, Middle Aged, Homogeneous, Cohort, Epigenetics, Female, medicine.symptom, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Inflammation, C-reactive protein, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Dementia, Humans, Cognitive Dysfunction, Association (psychology), Molecular Biology, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, epigenetics, business.industry, Research, Reproducibility of Results, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Cross-Sectional Studies, Scotland, inflammation, biology.protein, business, Biomarkers, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Background Chronic systemic inflammation has been associated with incident dementia, but its association with age-related cognitive decline is less clear. The acute responses of many inflammatory biomarkers mean they may provide an unreliable picture of the chronicity of inflammation. Recently, a large-scale epigenome-wide association study identified DNA methylation correlates of C-reactive protein (CRP)—a widely used acute-phase inflammatory biomarker. DNA methylation is thought to be relatively stable in the short term, marking it as a potentially useful signature of exposure. Methods We utilise a DNA methylation-based score for CRP and investigate its trajectories with age, and associations with cognitive ability in comparison with serum CRP and a genetic CRP score in a longitudinal study of older adults (n = 889) and a large, cross-sectional cohort (n = 7028). Results We identified no homogeneous trajectories of serum CRP with age across the cohorts, whereas the epigenetic CRP score was consistently found to increase with age (standardised β = 0.07 and 0.01) and to do so more rapidly in males compared to females. Additionally, the epigenetic CRP score had higher test-retest reliability compared to serum CRP, indicating its enhanced temporal stability. Higher serum CRP was not found to be associated with poorer cognitive ability (standardised β = − 0.08 and − 0.05); however, a consistent negative association was identified between cognitive ability and the epigenetic CRP score in both cohorts (standardised β = − 0.15 and − 0.08). Conclusions An epigenetic proxy of CRP may provide a more reliable signature of chronic inflammation, allowing for more accurate stratification of individuals, and thus clearer inference of associations with incident health outcomes.
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