@article {7686, title = {A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure.}, journal = {Am J Hum Genet}, volume = {102}, year = {2018}, month = {2018 Mar 01}, pages = {375-400}, abstract = {

Genome-wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene-smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals. Stage 1 analysis examined \~{}18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow-up analysis of promising variants in 480,178 additional individuals from five ancestries. We identified 15 loci that were genome-wide significant (p < 5~{\texttimes} 10) in stage 1 and formally replicated in stage 2. A combined stage 1 and 2 meta-analysis identified 66 additional genome-wide significant loci (13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African, and trans-ancestry, respectively). A total of 56 known BP loci were also identified by our results (p < 5~{\texttimes} 10). Of the newly identified loci, ten showed significant interaction with smoking status, but none of them were replicated in stage 2. Several loci were identified in African ancestry, highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with cardiometabolic and addiction traits. They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function (CDKN1B, BCAR1-CFDP1, PXDN, EEA1), ciliopathies (SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L), telomere maintenance (TNKS, PINX1, AKTIP), and central dopaminergic signaling (MSRA, EBF2).

}, issn = {1537-6605}, doi = {10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.01.015}, author = {Sung, Yun J and Winkler, Thomas W and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and Bentley, Amy R and Brown, Michael R and Kraja, Aldi T and Schwander, Karen and Ntalla, Ioanna and Guo, Xiuqing and Franceschini, Nora and Lu, Yingchang and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Sim, Xueling and Vojinovic, Dina and Marten, Jonathan and Musani, Solomon K and Li, Changwei and Feitosa, Mary F and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and Richard, Melissa A and Noordam, Raymond and Aslibekyan, Stella and Aschard, Hugues and Bartz, Traci M and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Liu, Yongmei and Manning, Alisa K and Rankinen, Tuomo and Smith, Albert Vernon and Tajuddin, Salman M and Tayo, Bamidele O and Warren, Helen R and Zhao, Wei and Zhou, Yanhua and Matoba, Nana and Sofer, Tamar and Alver, Maris and Amini, Marzyeh and Boissel, Mathilde and Chai, Jin Fang and Chen, Xu and Divers, Jasmin and Gandin, Ilaria and Gao, Chuan and Giulianini, Franco and Goel, Anuj and Harris, Sarah E and Hartwig, Fernando Pires and Horimoto, Andrea R V R and Hsu, Fang-Chi and Jackson, Anne U and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Leander, Karin and Lee, Wen-Jane and Lin, Keng-Hung and {\textquoteright}an Luan, Jian and McKenzie, Colin A and Meian, He and Nelson, Christopher P and Rauramaa, Rainer and Schupf, Nicole and Scott, Robert A and Sheu, Wayne H H and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and van der Most, Peter J and Varga, Tibor V and Wang, Heming and Wang, Yajuan and Ware, Erin B and Weiss, Stefan and Wen, Wanqing and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhang, Weihua and Zhao, Jing Hua and Afaq, Saima and Alfred, Tamuno and Amin, Najaf and Arking, Dan and Aung, Tin and Barr, R Graham and Bielak, Lawrence F and Boerwinkle, Eric and Bottinger, Erwin P and Braund, Peter S and Brody, Jennifer A and Broeckel, Ulrich and Cabrera, Claudia P and Cade, Brian and Caizheng, Yu and Campbell, Archie and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Chauhan, Ganesh and Christensen, Kaare and Cocca, Massimiliano and Collins, Francis S and Connell, John M and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and de Silva, H Janaka and Debette, Stephanie and D{\"o}rr, Marcus and Duan, Qing and Eaton, Charles B and Ehret, Georg and Evangelou, Evangelos and Faul, Jessica D and Fisher, Virginia A and Forouhi, Nita G and Franco, Oscar H and Friedlander, Yechiel and Gao, He and Gigante, Bruna and Graff, Misa and Gu, C Charles and Gu, Dongfeng and Gupta, Preeti and Hagenaars, Saskia P and Harris, Tamara B and He, Jiang and Heikkinen, Sami and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hirata, Makoto and Hofman, Albert and Howard, Barbara V and Hunt, Steven and Irvin, Marguerite R and Jia, Yucheng and Joehanes, Roby and Justice, Anne E and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Kaufman, Joel and Kerrison, Nicola D and Khor, Chiea Chuen and Koh, Woon-Puay and Koistinen, Heikki A and Komulainen, Pirjo and Kooperberg, Charles and Krieger, Jose E and Kubo, Michiaki and Kuusisto, Johanna and Langefeld, Carl D and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lewis, Cora E and Li, Yize and Lim, Sing Hui and Lin, Shiow and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Jianjun and Liu, Jingmin and Liu, Kiang and Liu, Yeheng and Loh, Marie and Lohman, Kurt K and Long, Jirong and Louie, Tin and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Mahajan, Anubha and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milani, Lili and Momozawa, Yukihide and Morris, Andrew P and Mosley, Thomas H and Munson, Peter and Murray, Alison D and Nalls, Mike A and Nasri, Ubaydah and Norris, Jill M and North, Kari and Ogunniyi, Adesola and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Palmas, Walter R and Palmer, Nicholette D and Pankow, James S and Pedersen, Nancy L and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia A and Polasek, Ozren and Raitakari, Olli T and Renstrom, Frida and Rice, Treva K and Ridker, Paul M and Robino, Antonietta and Robinson, Jennifer G and Rose, Lynda M and Rudan, Igor and Sabanayagam, Charumathi and Salako, Babatunde L and Sandow, Kevin and Schmidt, Carsten O and Schreiner, Pamela J and Scott, William R and Seshadri, Sudha and Sever, Peter and Sitlani, Colleen M and Smith, Jennifer A and Snieder, Harold and Starr, John M and Strauch, Konstantin and Tang, Hua and Taylor, Kent D and Teo, Yik Ying and Tham, Yih Chung and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wang, Lihua and Wang, Ya X and Wei, Wen Bin and Williams, Christine and Wilson, Gregory and Wojczynski, Mary K and Yao, Jie and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Boehnke, Michael and Bowden, Donald W and Chambers, John C and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and de Faire, Ulf and Deary, Ian J and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Farrall, Martin and Forrester, Terrence and Franks, Paul W and Freedman, Barry I and Froguel, Philippe and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Horta, Bernardo Lessa and Hung, Yi-Jen and Jonas, Jost B and Kato, Norihiro and Kooner, Jaspal S and Laakso, Markku and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Liang, Kae-Woei and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Newman, Anne B and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Pereira, Alexandre C and Redline, Susan and Rettig, Rainer and Samani, Nilesh J and Scott, James and Shu, Xiao-Ou and van der Harst, Pim and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and Wu, Tangchun and Zheng, Wei and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Laurie, Cathy C and Bouchard, Claude and Cooper, Richard S and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Kardia, Sharon L R and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Levy, Daniel and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeff R and Psaty, Bruce M and van Dam, Rob M and Sims, Mario and Arnett, Donna K and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Kelly, Tanika N and Fox, Ervin R and Hayward, Caroline and Fornage, Myriam and Rotimi, Charles N and Province, Michael A and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Tai, E Shyong and Wong, Tien Yin and Loos, Ruth J F and Reiner, Alex P and Rotter, Jerome I and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Bierut, Laura J and Gauderman, W James and Caulfield, Mark J and Elliott, Paul and Rice, Kenneth and Munroe, Patricia B and Morrison, Alanna C and Cupples, L Adrienne and Rao, Dabeeru C and Chasman, Daniel I} } @article {7792, title = {Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries.}, journal = {PLoS One}, volume = {13}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {e0198166}, abstract = {

Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify additional BP loci and contribute to the understanding of alcohol-related BP regulation. We conducted a large two-stage investigation incorporating joint testing of main genetic effects and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-alcohol consumption interactions. In Stage 1, genome-wide discovery meta-analyses in ≈131K individuals across several ancestry groups yielded 3,514 SNVs (245 loci) with suggestive evidence of association (P < 1.0 x 10-5). In Stage 2, these SNVs were tested for independent external replication in ≈440K individuals across multiple ancestries. We identified and replicated (at Bonferroni correction threshold) five novel BP loci (380 SNVs in 21 genes) and 49 previously reported BP loci (2,159 SNVs in 109 genes) in European ancestry, and in multi-ancestry meta-analyses (P < 5.0 x 10-8). For African ancestry samples, we detected 18 potentially novel BP loci (P < 5.0 x 10-8) in Stage 1 that warrant further replication. Additionally, correlated meta-analysis identified eight novel BP loci (11 genes). Several genes in these loci (e.g., PINX1, GATA4, BLK, FTO and GABBR2) have been previously reported to be associated with alcohol consumption. These findings provide insights into the role of alcohol consumption in the genetic architecture of hypertension.

}, issn = {1932-6203}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0198166}, author = {Feitosa, Mary F and Kraja, Aldi T and Chasman, Daniel I and Sung, Yun J and Winkler, Thomas W and Ntalla, Ioanna and Guo, Xiuqing and Franceschini, Nora and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Sim, Xueling and Vojinovic, Dina and Marten, Jonathan and Musani, Solomon K and Li, Changwei and Bentley, Amy R and Brown, Michael R and Schwander, Karen and Richard, Melissa A and Noordam, Raymond and Aschard, Hugues and Bartz, Traci M and Bielak, Lawrence F and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Fisher, Virginia and Hartwig, Fernando P and Horimoto, Andrea R V R and Lohman, Kurt K and Manning, Alisa K and Rankinen, Tuomo and Smith, Albert V and Tajuddin, Salman M and Wojczynski, Mary K and Alver, Maris and Boissel, Mathilde and Cai, Qiuyin and Campbell, Archie and Chai, Jin Fang and Chen, Xu and Divers, Jasmin and Gao, Chuan and Goel, Anuj and Hagemeijer, Yanick and Harris, Sarah E and He, Meian and Hsu, Fang-Chi and Jackson, Anne U and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Komulainen, Pirjo and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Laguzzi, Federica and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Matoba, Nana and Nolte, Ilja M and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Riaz, Muhammad and Rueedi, Rico and Robino, Antonietta and Said, M Abdullah and Scott, Robert A and Sofer, Tamar and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Tayo, Bamidele O and van der Most, Peter J and Varga, Tibor V and Vitart, Veronique and Wang, Yajuan and Ware, Erin B and Warren, Helen R and Weiss, Stefan and Wen, Wanqing and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhang, Weihua and Zhao, Jing Hua and Afaq, Saima and Amin, Najaf and Amini, Marzyeh and Arking, Dan E and Aung, Tin and Boerwinkle, Eric and Borecki, Ingrid and Broeckel, Ulrich and Brown, Morris and Brumat, Marco and Burke, Gregory L and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Charumathi, Sabanayagam and Ida Chen, Yii-Der and Connell, John M and Correa, Adolfo and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and de Silva, H Janaka and Deng, Xuan and Ding, Jingzhong and Duan, Qing and Eaton, Charles B and Ehret, Georg and Eppinga, Ruben N and Evangelou, Evangelos and Faul, Jessica D and Felix, Stephan B and Forouhi, Nita G and Forrester, Terrence and Franco, Oscar H and Friedlander, Yechiel and Gandin, Ilaria and Gao, He and Ghanbari, Mohsen and Gigante, Bruna and Gu, C Charles and Gu, Dongfeng and Hagenaars, Saskia P and Hallmans, G{\"o}ran and Harris, Tamara B and He, Jiang and Heikkinen, Sami and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hirata, Makoto and Howard, Barbara V and Ikram, M Arfan and John, Ulrich and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Khor, Chiea Chuen and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and Koh, Woon-Puay and Krieger, Jose E and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Kubo, Michiaki and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langefeld, Carl D and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lewis, Cora E and Li, Yize and Lin, Shiow and Liu, Jianjun and Liu, Jingmin and Loh, Marie and Louie, Tin and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and McKenzie, Colin A and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milaneschi, Yuri and Milani, Lili and Mohlke, Karen L and Momozawa, Yukihide and Nalls, Mike A and Nelson, Christopher P and Sotoodehnia, Nona and Norris, Jill M and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeff R and Palmer, Nicholette D and Perls, Thomas and Pedersen, Nancy L and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia A and Poulter, Neil and Raffel, Leslie J and Raitakari, Olli T and Roll, Kathryn and Rose, Lynda M and Rosendaal, Frits R and Rotter, Jerome I and Schmidt, Carsten O and Schreiner, Pamela J and Schupf, Nicole and Scott, William R and Sever, Peter S and Shi, Yuan and Sidney, Stephen and Sims, Mario and Sitlani, Colleen M and Smith, Jennifer A and Snieder, Harold and Starr, John M and Strauch, Konstantin and Stringham, Heather M and Tan, Nicholas Y Q and Tang, Hua and Taylor, Kent D and Teo, Yik Ying and Tham, Yih Chung and Turner, Stephen T and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Vollenweider, Peter and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wang, Lihua and Wang, Ya Xing and Wei, Wen Bin and Williams, Christine and Yao, Jie and Yu, Caizheng and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zhao, Wei and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Boehnke, Michael and Bowden, Donald W and Chambers, John C and Deary, Ian J and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Farrall, Martin and Franks, Paul W and Freedman, Barry I and Froguel, Philippe and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Jonas, Jost Bruno and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kato, Norihiro and Kooner, Jaspal S and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Laakso, Markku and Laurie, Cathy C and Leander, Karin and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Study, Lifelines Cohort and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Polasek, Ozren and Porteous, David J and Rauramaa, Rainer and Samani, Nilesh J and Scott, James and Shu, Xiao-Ou and van der Harst, Pim and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and Wu, Tangchun and Zheng, Wei and Bouchard, Claude and Christensen, Kaare and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Horta, Bernardo L and Kardia, Sharon L R and Liu, Yongmei and Pereira, Alexandre C and Psaty, Bruce M and Ridker, Paul M and van Dam, Rob M and Gauderman, W James and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Fornage, Myriam and Rotimi, Charles N and Cupples, L Adrienne and Kelly, Tanika N and Fox, Ervin R and Hayward, Caroline and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Tai, E Shyong and Wong, Tien Yin and Kooperberg, Charles and Palmas, Walter and Rice, Kenneth and Morrison, Alanna C and Elliott, Paul and Caulfield, Mark J and Munroe, Patricia B and Rao, Dabeeru C and Province, Michael A and Levy, Daniel} } @article {8198, title = {Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes.}, journal = {Nat Commun}, volume = {10}, year = {2019}, month = {2019 Oct 31}, pages = {4957}, abstract = {

In many species, the offspring of related parents suffer reduced reproductive success, a phenomenon known as inbreeding depression. In humans, the importance of this effect has remained unclear, partly because reproduction between close relatives is both rare and frequently associated with confounding social factors. Here, using genomic inbreeding coefficients (F) for >1.4 million individuals, we show that F is significantly associated (p < 0.0005) with apparently deleterious changes in 32 out of 100 traits analysed. These changes are associated with runs of homozygosity (ROH), but not with common variant homozygosity, suggesting that genetic variants associated with inbreeding depression are predominantly rare. The effect on fertility is striking: F equivalent to the offspring of first cousins is associated with a 55\% decrease [95\% CI 44-66\%] in the odds of having children. Finally, the effects of F are confirmed within full-sibling pairs, where the variation in F is independent of all environmental confounding.

}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-12283-6}, author = {Clark, David W and Okada, Yukinori and Moore, Kristjan H S and Mason, Dan and Pirastu, Nicola and Gandin, Ilaria and Mattsson, Hannele and Barnes, Catriona L K and Lin, Kuang and Zhao, Jing Hua and Deelen, Patrick and Rohde, Rebecca and Schurmann, Claudia and Guo, Xiuqing and Giulianini, Franco and Zhang, Weihua and Medina-G{\'o}mez, Carolina and Karlsson, Robert and Bao, Yanchun and Bartz, Traci M and Baumbach, Clemens and Biino, Ginevra and Bixley, Matthew J and Brumat, Marco and Chai, Jin-Fang and Corre, Tanguy and Cousminer, Diana L and Dekker, Annelot M and Eccles, David A and van Eijk, Kristel R and Fuchsberger, Christian and Gao, He and Germain, Marine and Gordon, Scott D and de Haan, Hugoline G and Harris, Sarah E and Hofer, Edith and Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia and Igartua, Catherine and Jansen, Iris E and Jia, Yucheng and Kacprowski, Tim and Karlsson, Torgny and Kleber, Marcus E and Li, Shengchao Alfred and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Mahajan, Anubha and Matsuda, Koichi and Meidtner, Karina and Meng, Weihua and Montasser, May E and van der Most, Peter J and Munz, Matthias and Nutile, Teresa and Palviainen, Teemu and Prasad, Gauri and Prasad, Rashmi B and Priyanka, Tallapragada Divya Sri and Rizzi, Federica and Salvi, Erika and Sapkota, Bishwa R and Shriner, Daniel and Skotte, Line and Smart, Melissa C and Smith, Albert Vernon and van der Spek, Ashley and Spracklen, Cassandra N and Strawbridge, Rona J and Tajuddin, Salman M and Trompet, Stella and Turman, Constance and Verweij, Niek and Viberti, Clara and Wang, Lihua and Warren, Helen R and Wootton, Robyn E and Yanek, Lisa R and Yao, Jie and Yousri, Noha A and Zhao, Wei and Adeyemo, Adebowale A and Afaq, Saima and Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos Alberto and Akiyama, Masato and Albert, Matthew L and Allison, Matthew A and Alver, Maris and Aung, Tin and Azizi, Fereidoun and Bentley, Amy R and Boeing, Heiner and Boerwinkle, Eric and Borja, Judith B and de 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Tamara B and Hedayati, Mehdi and van Heel, David A and Hirata, Makoto and H{\"o}fer, Imo and Hsiung, Chao Agnes and Huang, Jinyan and Hung, Yi-Jen and Ikram, M Arfan and Jagadeesan, Anuradha and Jousilahti, Pekka and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kanai, Masahiro and Kerrison, Nicola D and Kessler, Thorsten and Khaw, Kay-Tee and Khor, Chiea Chuen and de Kleijn, Dominique P V and Koh, Woon-Puay and Kolcic, Ivana and Kraft, Peter and Kr{\"a}mer, Bernhard K and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Kuusisto, Johanna and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lawlor, Deborah A and Lee, I-Te and Lee, Wen-Jane and Lerch, Markus M and Li, Liming and Liu, Jianjun and Loh, Marie and London, Stephanie J and Loomis, Stephanie and Lu, Yingchang and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Manichaikul, Ani W and Manunta, Paolo and M{\'a}sson, G{\'\i}sli and Matoba, Nana and Mei, Xue W and Meisinger, Christa and Meitinger, Thomas and Mezzavilla, Massimo and Milani, Lili and Millwood, Iona Y and Momozawa, Yukihide and Moore, Amy and Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel and Moreno-Macias, Hortensia and Mori, Trevor A and Morrison, Alanna C and Muka, Taulant and Murakami, Yoshinori and Murray, Alison D and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and Mychaleckyj, Josyf C and Nalls, Mike A and Nauck, Matthias and Neville, Matt J and Nolte, Ilja M and Ong, Ken K and Orozco, Lorena and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and P{\'a}lsson, Gunnar and Pankow, James S and Pattaro, Cristian and Pattie, Alison and Polasek, Ozren and Poulter, Neil and Pramstaller, Peter P and Quintana-Murci, Lluis and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri and Ralhan, Sarju and Rao, Dabeeru C and van Rheenen, Wouter and Rich, Stephen S and Ridker, Paul M and Rietveld, Cornelius A and Robino, Antonietta and van Rooij, Frank J A and Ruggiero, Daniela and Saba, Yasaman and Sabanayagam, Charumathi and Sabater-Lleal, Maria and Sala, Cinzia Felicita and Salomaa, Veikko and Sandow, Kevin and Schmidt, Helena and Scott, Laura J and Scott, William R and Sedaghati-Khayat, Bahareh and Sennblad, Bengt and van Setten, Jessica and Sever, Peter J and Sheu, Wayne H-H and Shi, Yuan and Shrestha, Smeeta and Shukla, Sharvari Rahul and Sigurdsson, Jon K and Sikka, Timo Tonis and Singh, Jai Rup and Smith, Blair H and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Stanton, Alice and Starr, John M and Stefansdottir, Lilja and Straker, Leon and Sulem, Patrick and Sveinbjornsson, Gardar and Swertz, Morris A and Taylor, Adele M and Taylor, Kent D and Terzikhan, Natalie and Tham, Yih-Chung and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Tillander, Annika and Tracy, Russell P and Tusi{\'e}-Luna, Teresa and Tzoulaki, Ioanna and Vaccargiu, Simona and Vangipurapu, Jagadish and Veldink, Jan H and Vitart, Veronique and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Vuoksimaa, Eero and Wakil, Salma M and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wander, Gurpreet S and Wang, Ya Xing and Wareham, Nicholas J and Wild, Sarah and Yajnik, Chittaranjan S and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zeng, Lingyao and Zhang, Liang and Zhou, Jie and Amin, Najaf and Asselbergs, Folkert W and Bakker, Stephan J L and Becker, Diane M and Lehne, Benjamin and Bennett, David A and van den Berg, Leonard H and Berndt, Sonja I and Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan and Bielak, Lawrence F and Bochud, Murielle and Boehnke, Mike and Bouchard, Claude and Bradfield, Jonathan P and Brody, Jennifer A and Campbell, Archie and Carmi, Shai and Caulfield, Mark J and Cesarini, David and Chambers, John C and Chandak, Giriraj Ratan and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Ciullo, Marina and Cornelis, Marilyn and Cusi, Daniele and Smith, George Davey and Deary, Ian J and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Ellinghaus, David and Erdmann, Jeanette and Eriksson, Johan G and Evangelou, Evangelos and Evans, Michele K and Faul, Jessica D and Feenstra, Bjarke and Feitosa, Mary and Foisy, Sylvain and Franke, Andre and Friedlander, Yechiel and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Gonzalez, Clicerio and Goyette, Philippe and Grant, Struan F A and Griffiths, Lyn R and Groop, Leif and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Gyllensten, Ulf and Hakonarson, Hakon and Hamsten, Anders and van der Harst, Pim and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hicks, Andrew A and Hochner, Hagit and Huikuri, Heikki and Hunt, Steven C and Jaddoe, Vincent W V and De Jager, Philip L and Johannesson, Magnus and Johansson, Asa and Jonas, Jost B and Jukema, J Wouter and Junttila, Juhani and Kaprio, Jaakko and Kardia, Sharon L R and Karpe, Fredrik and Kumari, Meena and Laakso, Markku and van der Laan, Sander W and Lahti, Jari and Laudes, Matthias and Lea, Rodney A and Lieb, Wolfgang and Lumley, Thomas and Martin, Nicholas G and M{\"a}rz, Winfried and Matullo, Giuseppe and McCarthy, Mark I and Medland, Sarah E and Merriman, Tony R and Metspalu, Andres and Meyer, Brian F and Mohlke, Karen L and Montgomery, Grant W and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis and Munroe, Patricia B and North, Kari E and Nyholt, Dale R and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffery R and Ober, Carole and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Palmas, Walter and Palmer, Colin and Pasterkamp, Gerard G and Patin, Etienne and Pennell, Craig E and Perusse, Louis and Peyser, Patricia A and Pirastu, Mario and Polderman, Tinca J C and Porteous, David J and Posthuma, Danielle and Psaty, Bruce M and Rioux, John D and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Rotimi, Charles and Rotter, Jerome I and Rudan, Igor and den Ruijter, Hester M and Sanghera, Dharambir K and Sattar, Naveed and Schmidt, Reinhold and Schulze, Matthias B and Schunkert, Heribert and Scott, Robert A and Shuldiner, Alan R and Sim, Xueling and Small, Neil and Smith, Jennifer A and Sotoodehnia, Nona and Tai, E-Shyong and Teumer, Alexander and Timpson, Nicholas J and Toniolo, Daniela and Tr{\'e}gou{\"e}t, David-Alexandre and Tuomi, Tiinamaija and Vollenweider, Peter and Wang, Carol A and Weir, David R and Whitfield, John B and Wijmenga, Cisca and Wong, Tien-Yin and Wright, John and Yang, Jingyun and Yu, Lei and Zemel, Babette S and Zonderman, Alan B and Perola, Markus and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Kooner, Jaspal S and Chasman, Daniel I and Loos, Ruth J F and Franceschini, Nora and Franke, Lude and Haley, Chris S and Hayward, Caroline and Walters, Robin G and Perry, John R B and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Helgason, Agnar and Stefansson, Kari and Joshi, Peter K and Kubo, Michiaki and Wilson, James F} } @article {7970, title = {Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions.}, journal = {Am J Epidemiol}, year = {2019}, month = {2019 Jan 29}, abstract = {

An individual{\textquoteright}s lipid profile is influenced by genetic variants and alcohol consumption, but the contribution of interactions between these exposures has not been studied. We therefore incorporated gene-alcohol interactions into a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides. We included 45 studies in Stage 1 (genome-wide discovery) and 66 studies in Stage 2 (focused follow-up), for a total of 394,584 individuals from five ancestry groups. Genetic main and interaction effects were jointly assessed by a 2 degrees of freedom (DF) test, and a 1 DF test was used to assess the interaction effects alone. Variants at 495 loci were at least suggestively associated (P~<~1~{\texttimes}~10-6) with lipid levels in Stage 1 and were evaluated in Stage 2, followed by combined analyses of Stage 1 and Stage 2. In the combined analysis of Stage 1 and Stage 2, 147 independent loci were associated with lipid levels at P~<~5~{\texttimes}~10-8 using 2 DF tests, of which 18 were novel. No genome-wide significant associations were found testing the interaction effect alone. The novel loci included several genes (PCSK5, VEGFB, and A1CF) with a putative role in lipid metabolism based on existing evidence from cellular and experimental models.

}, issn = {1476-6256}, doi = {10.1093/aje/kwz005}, author = {de Vries, Paul S and Brown, Michael R and Bentley, Amy R and Sung, Yun J and Winkler, Thomas W and Ntalla, Ioanna and Schwander, Karen and Kraja, Aldi T and Guo, Xiuqing and Franceschini, Nora and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Sim, Xueling and Vojinovic, Dina and Huffman, Jennifer E and Musani, Solomon K and Li, Changwei and Feitosa, Mary F and Richard, Melissa A and Noordam, Raymond and Aschard, Hugues and Bartz, Traci M and Bielak, Lawrence F and Deng, Xuan and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Lohman, Kurt K and Manning, Alisa K and Rankinen, Tuomo and Smith, Albert V and Tajuddin, Salman M and Evangelou, Evangelos and Graff, Mariaelisa and Alver, Maris and Boissel, Mathilde and Chai, Jin Fang and Chen, Xu and Divers, Jasmin and Gandin, Ilaria and Gao, Chuan and Goel, Anuj and Hagemeijer, Yanick and Harris, Sarah E and Hartwig, Fernando P and He, Meian and Horimoto, Andrea R V R and Hsu, Fang-Chi and Jackson, Anne U and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Komulainen, Pirjo and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Laguzzi, Federica and Lee, Joseph H and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Matoba, Nana and Nolte, Ilja M and Pietzner, Maik and Riaz, Muhammad and Said, M Abdullah and Scott, Robert A and Sofer, Tamar and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Tayo, Bamidele O and van der Most, Peter J and Varga, Tibor V and Wang, Yajuan and Ware, Erin B and Wen, Wanqing and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhang, Weihua and Zhao, Jing Hua and Afaq, Saima and Amin, Najaf and Amini, Marzyeh and Arking, Dan E and Aung, Tin and Ballantyne, Christie and Boerwinkle, Eric and Broeckel, Ulrich and Campbell, Archie and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Charumathi, Sabanayagam and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Connell, John M and de Faire, Ulf and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and de Silva, H Janaka and Ding, Jingzhong and Dominiczak, Anna F and Duan, Qing and Eaton, Charles B and Eppinga, Ruben N and Faul, Jessica D and Fisher, Virginia and Forrester, Terrence and Franco, Oscar H and Friedlander, Yechiel and Ghanbari, Mohsen and Giulianini, Franco and Grabe, Hans J and Grove, Megan L and Gu, C Charles and Harris, Tamara B and Heikkinen, Sami and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hirata, Makoto and Hixson, James E and Howard, Barbara V and Ikram, M Arfan and Jacobs, David R and Johnson, Craig and Jonas, Jost Bruno and Kammerer, Candace M and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Khor, Chiea Chuen and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and Koh, Woon-Puay and Koistinen, Heikki A and Kolcic, Ivana and Kooperberg, Charles and Krieger, Jose E and Kritchevsky, Steve B and Kubo, Michiaki and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langefeld, Carl D and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lemaitre, Rozenn N and Li, Yize and Liang, Jingjing and Liu, Jianjun and Liu, Kiang and Loh, Marie and Louie, Tin and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Manichaikul, Ani W and McKenzie, Colin A and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milaneschi, Yuri and Milani, Lili and Mohlke, Karen L and Mosley, Thomas H and Mukamal, Kenneth J and Nalls, Mike A and Nauck, Matthias and Nelson, Christopher P and Sotoodehnia, Nona and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeff R and Palmer, Nicholette D and Pazoki, Raha and Pedersen, Nancy L and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia A and Polasek, Ozren and Poulter, Neil and Raffel, Leslie J and Raitakari, Olli T and Reiner, Alex P and Rice, Treva K and Rich, Stephen S and Robino, Antonietta and Robinson, Jennifer G and Rose, Lynda M and Rudan, Igor and Schmidt, Carsten O and Schreiner, Pamela J and Scott, William R and Sever, Peter and Shi, Yuan and Sidney, Stephen and Sims, Mario and Smith, Blair H and Smith, Jennifer A and Snieder, Harold and Starr, John M and Strauch, Konstantin and Tan, Nicholas and Taylor, Kent D and Teo, Yik Ying and Tham, Yih Chung and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and van Heemst, Diana and Vuckovic, Dragana and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wang, Lihua and Wang, Yujie and Wang, Zhe and Wei, Wen Bin and Williams, Christine and Wilson, Gregory and Wojczynski, Mary K and Yao, Jie and Yu, Bing and Yu, Caizheng and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zhao, Wei and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Boehnke, Michael and Bowden, Donald W and Chambers, John C and Deary, Ian J and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Farrall, Martin and Franks, Paul W and Freedman, Barry I and Froguel, Philippe and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Horta, Bernardo L and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kato, Norihiro and Kooner, Jaspal S and Laakso, Markku and Leander, Karin and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Penninx, Brenda and Pereira, Alexandre C and Rauramaa, Rainer and Samani, Nilesh J and Scott, James and Shu, Xiao-Ou and van der Harst, Pim and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wang, Ya Xing and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and Zheng, Wei and Elliott, Paul and North, Kari E and Bouchard, Claude and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Yongmei and Psaty, Bruce M and Ridker, Paul M and van Dam, Rob M and Kardia, Sharon L R and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Rotimi, Charles N and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Fornage, Myriam and Kelly, Tanika N and Fox, Ervin R and Hayward, Caroline and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Tai, E Shyong and Wong, Tien Yin and Liu, Jingmin and Rotter, Jerome I and Gauderman, W James and Province, Michael A and Munroe, Patricia B and Rice, Kenneth and Chasman, Daniel I and Cupples, L Adrienne and Rao, Dabeeru C and Morrison, Alanna C} } @article {8005, title = {Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {51}, year = {2019}, month = {2019 Apr}, pages = {636-648}, abstract = {

The concentrations of high- and low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides are influenced by smoking, but it is unknown whether genetic associations with lipids may be modified by smoking. We conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study in 133,805 individuals with follow-up in an additional 253,467 individuals. Combined meta-analyses identified 13 new loci associated with lipids, some of which were detected only because association differed by smoking status. Additionally, we demonstrate the importance of including diverse populations, particularly in studies of interactions with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences by ancestry may contribute to novel findings.

}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/s41588-019-0378-y}, author = {Bentley, Amy R and Sung, Yun J and Brown, Michael R and Winkler, Thomas W and Kraja, Aldi T and Ntalla, Ioanna and Schwander, Karen and Chasman, Daniel I and Lim, Elise and Deng, Xuan and Guo, Xiuqing and Liu, Jingmin and Lu, Yingchang and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Sim, Xueling and Vojinovic, Dina and Huffman, Jennifer E and Musani, Solomon K and Li, Changwei and Feitosa, Mary F and Richard, Melissa A and Noordam, Raymond and Baker, Jenna and Chen, Guanjie and Aschard, Hugues and Bartz, Traci M and Ding, Jingzhong and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Manning, Alisa K and Rankinen, Tuomo and Smith, Albert V and Tajuddin, Salman M and Zhao, Wei and Graff, Mariaelisa and Alver, Maris and Boissel, Mathilde and Chai, Jin Fang and Chen, Xu and Divers, Jasmin and Evangelou, Evangelos and Gao, Chuan and Goel, Anuj and Hagemeijer, Yanick and Harris, Sarah E and Hartwig, Fernando P and He, Meian and Horimoto, Andrea R V R and Hsu, Fang-Chi and Hung, Yi-Jen and Jackson, Anne U and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Komulainen, Pirjo and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Leander, Karin and Lin, Keng-Hung and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Matoba, Nana and Nolte, Ilja M and Pietzner, Maik and Prins, Bram and Riaz, Muhammad and Robino, Antonietta and Said, M Abdullah and Schupf, Nicole and Scott, Robert A and Sofer, Tamar and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Tayo, Bamidele O and van der Most, Peter J and Varga, Tibor V and Wang, Tzung-Dau and Wang, Yajuan and Ware, Erin B and Wen, Wanqing and Xiang, Yong-Bing and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhang, Weihua and Zhao, Jing Hua and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Afaq, Saima and Amin, Najaf and Amini, Marzyeh and Arking, Dan E and Arzumanyan, Zorayr and Aung, Tin and Ballantyne, Christie and Barr, R Graham and Bielak, Lawrence F and Boerwinkle, Eric and Bottinger, Erwin P and Broeckel, Ulrich and Brown, Morris and Cade, Brian E and Campbell, Archie and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Charumathi, Sabanayagam and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Christensen, Kaare and Concas, Maria Pina and Connell, John M and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and de Silva, H Janaka and de Vries, Paul S and Doumatey, Ayo and Duan, Qing and Eaton, Charles B and Eppinga, Ruben N and Faul, Jessica D and Floyd, James S and Forouhi, Nita G and Forrester, Terrence and Friedlander, Yechiel and Gandin, Ilaria and Gao, He and Ghanbari, Mohsen and Gharib, Sina A and Gigante, Bruna and Giulianini, Franco and Grabe, Hans J and Gu, C Charles and Harris, Tamara B and Heikkinen, Sami and Heng, Chew-Kiat and Hirata, Makoto and Hixson, James E and Ikram, M Arfan and Jia, Yucheng and Joehanes, Roby and Johnson, Craig and Jonas, Jost Bruno and Justice, Anne E and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Khor, Chiea Chuen and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and Koh, Woon-Puay and Kolcic, Ivana and Kooperberg, Charles and Krieger, Jose E and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Kubo, Michiaki and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langefeld, Carl D and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lewis, Cora E and Li, Yize and Liang, Jingjing and Lin, Shiow and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Jianjun and Liu, Kiang and Loh, Marie and Lohman, Kurt K and Louie, Tin and Luzzi, Anna and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Mahajan, Anubha and Manichaikul, Ani W and McKenzie, Colin A and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milaneschi, Yuri and Milani, Lili and Mohlke, Karen L and Momozawa, Yukihide and Morris, Andrew P and Murray, Alison D and Nalls, Mike A and Nauck, Matthias and Nelson, Christopher P and North, Kari E and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey R and Palmer, Nicholette D and Papanicolau, George J and Pedersen, Nancy L and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia A and Polasek, Ozren and Poulter, Neil and Raitakari, Olli T and Reiner, Alex P and Renstrom, Frida and Rice, Treva K and Rich, Stephen S and Robinson, Jennifer G and Rose, Lynda M and Rosendaal, Frits R and Rudan, Igor and Schmidt, Carsten O and Schreiner, Pamela J and Scott, William R and Sever, Peter and Shi, Yuan and Sidney, Stephen and Sims, Mario and Smith, Jennifer A and Snieder, Harold and Starr, John M and Strauch, Konstantin and Stringham, Heather M and Tan, Nicholas Y Q and Tang, Hua and Taylor, Kent D and Teo, Yik Ying and Tham, Yih Chung and Tiemeier, Henning and Turner, Stephen T and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and van Heemst, Diana and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wang, Heming and Wang, Lan and Wang, Lihua and Wei, Wen Bin and Williams, Christine A and Wilson, Gregory and Wojczynski, Mary K and Yao, Jie and Young, Kristin and Yu, Caizheng and Yuan, Jian-Min and Zhou, Jie and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Boehnke, Michael and Bowden, Donald W and Chambers, John C and Cooper, Richard S and de Faire, Ulf and Deary, Ian J and Elliott, Paul and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Farrall, Martin and Franks, Paul W and Freedman, Barry I and Froguel, Philippe and Gasparini, Paolo and Gieger, Christian and Horta, Bernardo L and Juang, Jyh-Ming Jimmy and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kammerer, Candace M and Kato, Norihiro and Kooner, Jaspal S and Laakso, Markku and Laurie, Cathy C and Lee, I-Te and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Pereira, Alexandre C and Rauramaa, Rainer and Redline, Susan and Samani, Nilesh J and Scott, James and Shu, Xiao-Ou and van der Harst, Pim and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wang, Jun-Sing and Wang, Ya Xing and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and Wu, Tangchun and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Zheng, Wei and Bouchard, Claude and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Kardia, Sharon L R and Liu, Yongmei and Psaty, Bruce M and Ridker, Paul M and van Dam, Rob M and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Fornage, Myriam and Province, Michael A and Kelly, Tanika N and Fox, Ervin R and Hayward, Caroline and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Tai, E Shyong and Wong, Tien Yin and Loos, Ruth J F and Franceschini, Nora and Rotter, Jerome I and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Bierut, Laura J and Gauderman, W James and Rice, Kenneth and Munroe, Patricia B and Morrison, Alanna C and Rao, Dabeeru C and Rotimi, Charles N and Cupples, L Adrienne} }