@article {8202, title = {Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration.}, journal = {Nat Commun}, volume = {10}, year = {2019}, month = {2019 Nov 12}, pages = {5121}, abstract = {

Both short and long sleep are associated with an adverse lipid profile, likely through different biological pathways. To elucidate the biology of sleep-associated adverse lipid profile, we conduct multi-ancestry genome-wide sleep-SNP interaction analyses on three lipid traits (HDL-c, LDL-c and triglycerides). In the total study sample (discovery + replication) of 126,926 individuals from 5 different ancestry groups, when considering either long or short total sleep time interactions in joint analyses, we identify 49 previously unreported lipid loci, and 10 additional previously unreported lipid loci in a restricted sample of European-ancestry cohorts. In addition, we identify new gene-sleep interactions for known lipid loci such as LPL and PCSK9. The previously unreported lipid loci have a modest explained variance in lipid levels: most notable, gene-short-sleep interactions explain 4.25\% of the variance in triglyceride level. Collectively, these findings contribute to our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in sleep-associated adverse lipid profiles.

}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-12958-0}, author = {Noordam, Raymond and Bos, Maxime M and Wang, Heming and Winkler, Thomas W and Bentley, Amy R and Kilpel{\"a}inen, Tuomas O and de Vries, Paul S and Sung, Yun Ju and Schwander, Karen and Cade, Brian E and Manning, Alisa and Aschard, Hugues and Brown, Michael R and Chen, Han and Franceschini, Nora and Musani, Solomon K and Richard, Melissa and Vojinovic, Dina and Aslibekyan, Stella and Bartz, Traci M and de Las Fuentes, Lisa and Feitosa, Mary and Horimoto, Andrea R and Ilkov, Marjan and Kho, Minjung and Kraja, Aldi and Li, Changwei and Lim, Elise and Liu, Yongmei and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Rankinen, Tuomo and Tajuddin, Salman M and van der Spek, Ashley and Wang, Zhe and Marten, Jonathan and Laville, Vincent and Alver, Maris and Evangelou, Evangelos and Graff, Maria E and He, Meian and Kuhnel, Brigitte and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Marques-Vidal, Pedro and Nolte, Ilja M and Palmer, Nicholette D and Rauramaa, Rainer and Shu, Xiao-Ou and Snieder, Harold and Weiss, Stefan and Wen, Wanqing and Yanek, Lisa R and Adolfo, Correa and Ballantyne, Christie and Bielak, Larry and Biermasz, Nienke R and Boerwinkle, Eric and Dimou, Niki and Eiriksdottir, Gudny and Gao, Chuan and Gharib, Sina A and Gottlieb, Daniel J and Haba-Rubio, Jos{\'e} and Harris, Tamara B and Heikkinen, Sami and Heinzer, Raphael and Hixson, James E and Homuth, Georg and Ikram, M Arfan and Komulainen, Pirjo and Krieger, Jose E and Lee, Jiwon and Liu, Jingmin and Lohman, Kurt K and Luik, Annemarie I and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Martin, Lisa W and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Milaneschi, Yuri and Nalls, Mike A and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeff and Peters, Annette and Peyser, Patricia and Raitakari, Olli T and Reiner, Alex P and Rensen, Patrick C N and Rice, Treva K and Rich, Stephen S and Roenneberg, Till and Rotter, Jerome I and Schreiner, Pamela J and Shikany, James and Sidney, Stephen S and Sims, Mario and Sitlani, Colleen M and Sofer, Tamar and Strauch, Konstantin and Swertz, Morris A and Taylor, Kent D and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and van Duijn, Cornelia M and V{\"o}lzke, Henry and Waldenberger, Melanie and Wallance, Robert B and van Dijk, Ko Willems and Yu, Caizheng and Zonderman, Alan B and Becker, Diane M and Elliott, Paul and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Gieger, Christian and Grabe, Hans J and Lakka, Timo A and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and North, Kari E and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Vollenweider, Peter and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Wu, Tangchun and Xiang, Yong-Bing and Zheng, Wei and Arnett, Donna K and Bouchard, Claude and Evans, Michele K and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Kardia, Sharon and Kelly, Tanika N and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Loos, Ruth J F and Pereira, Alexandre C and Province, Mike and Psaty, Bruce M and Rotimi, Charles and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Amin, Najaf and Cupples, L Adrienne and Fornage, Myriam and Fox, Ervin F and Guo, Xiuqing and Gauderman, W James and Rice, Kenneth and Kooperberg, Charles and Munroe, Patricia B and Liu, Ching-Ti and Morrison, Alanna C and Rao, Dabeeru C and van Heemst, Diana and Redline, Susan} } @article {9501, title = {Multi-ancestry genome-wide study identifies effector genes and druggable pathways for coronary artery calcification.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {55}, year = {2023}, month = {2023 Oct}, pages = {1651-1664}, abstract = {

Coronary artery calcification (CAC), a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis, predicts future symptomatic coronary artery disease (CAD). Identifying genetic risk factors for CAC may point to new therapeutic avenues for prevention. Currently, there are only four known risk loci for CAC identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in the general population. Here we conducted the largest multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis of CAC to date, which comprised 26,909 individuals of European ancestry and 8,867 individuals of African ancestry. We identified 11 independent risk loci, of which eight were new for CAC and five had not been reported for CAD. These new CAC loci are related to bone mineralization, phosphate catabolism and hormone metabolic pathways. Several new loci harbor candidate causal genes supported by multiple lines of functional evidence and are regulators of smooth muscle cell-mediated calcification ex vivo and in vitro. Together, these findings help refine the genetic architecture of CAC and extend our understanding of the biological and potential druggable pathways underlying CAC.

}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/s41588-023-01518-4}, author = {Kavousi, Maryam and Bos, Maxime M and Barnes, Hanna J and Lino Cardenas, Christian L and Wong, Doris and Lu, Haojie and Hodonsky, Chani J and Landsmeer, Lennart P L and Turner, Adam W and Kho, Minjung and Hasbani, Natalie R and de Vries, Paul S and Bowden, Donald W and Chopade, Sandesh and Deelen, Joris and Benavente, Ernest Diez and Guo, Xiuqing and Hofer, Edith and Hwang, Shih-Jen and Lutz, Sharon M and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Slenders, Lotte and Smith, Albert V and Stanislawski, Maggie A and van Setten, Jessica and Wong, Quenna and Yanek, Lisa R and Becker, Diane M and Beekman, Marian and Budoff, Matthew J and Feitosa, Mary F and Finan, Chris and Hilliard, Austin T and Kardia, Sharon L R and Kovacic, Jason C and Kral, Brian G and Langefeld, Carl D and Launer, Lenore J and Malik, Shaista and Hoesein, Firdaus A A Mohamed and Mokry, Michal and Schmidt, Reinhold and Smith, Jennifer A and Taylor, Kent D and Terry, James G and van der Grond, Jeroen and van Meurs, Joyce and Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn and Xu, Jianzhao and Young, Kendra A and Zilh{\~a}o, Nuno R and Zweiker, Robert and Assimes, Themistocles L and Becker, Lewis C and Bos, Daniel and Carr, J Jeffrey and Cupples, L Adrienne and de Kleijn, Dominique P V and de Winther, Menno and den Ruijter, Hester M and Fornage, Myriam and Freedman, Barry I and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Hingorani, Aroon D and Hokanson, John E and Ikram, M Arfan and I{\v s}gum, Ivana and Jacobs, David R and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Lange, Leslie A and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Pasterkamp, Gerard and Raitakari, Olli T and Schmidt, Helena and Slagboom, P Eline and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Vernooij, Meike W and Bis, Joshua C and Franceschini, Nora and Psaty, Bruce M and Post, Wendy S and Rotter, Jerome I and Bj{\"o}rkegren, Johan L M and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, Christopher J and Bielak, Lawrence F and Peyser, Patricia A and Malhotra, Rajeev and van der Laan, Sander W and Miller, Clint L} } @article {9450, title = {Time-to-Event Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Cardiovascular Disease in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.}, journal = {medRxiv}, year = {2023}, month = {2023 Jul 28}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) confers a two- to three-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the mechanisms underlying increased CVD risk among people with T2D are only partially understood. We hypothesized that a genetic association study among people with T2D at risk for developing incident cardiovascular complications could provide insights into molecular genetic aspects underlying CVD.

METHODS: From 16 studies of the Cohorts for Heart \& Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium, we conducted a multi-ancestry time-to-event genome-wide association study (GWAS) for incident CVD among people with T2D using Cox proportional hazards models. Incident CVD was defined based on a composite of coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke, and cardiovascular death that occurred at least one year after the diagnosis of T2D. Cohort-level estimated effect sizes were combined using inverse variance weighted fixed effects meta-analysis. We also tested 204 known CAD variants for association with incident CVD among patients with T2D.

RESULTS: A total of 49,230 participants with T2D were included in the analyses (31,118 European ancestries and 18,112 non-European ancestries) which consisted of 8,956 incident CVD cases over a range of mean follow-up duration between 3.2 and 33.7 years (event rate 18.2\%). We identified three novel, distinct genetic loci for incident CVD among individuals with T2D that reached the threshold for genome-wide significance ( <5.0{\texttimes}10 ): rs147138607 (intergenic variant between and ) with a hazard ratio (HR) 1.23, 95\% confidence interval (CI) 1.15 - 1.32, =3.6{\texttimes}10 , rs11444867 (intergenic variant near ) with HR 1.89, 95\% CI 1.52 - 2.35, =9.9{\texttimes}10 , and rs335407 (intergenic variant between and ) HR 1.25, 95\% CI 1.16 - 1.35, =1.5{\texttimes}10 . Among 204 known CAD loci, 32 were associated with incident CVD in people with T2D with <0.05, and 5 were significant after Bonferroni correction ( <0.00024, 0.05/204). A polygenic score of these 204 variants was significantly associated with incident CVD with HR 1.14 (95\% CI 1.12 - 1.16) per 1 standard deviation increase ( =1.0{\texttimes}10 ).

CONCLUSIONS: The data point to novel and known genomic regions associated with incident CVD among individuals with T2D.

CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE: We conducted a large-scale multi-ancestry time-to-event GWAS to identify genetic variants associated with CVD among people with T2D. Three variants were significantly associated with incident CVD in people with T2D: rs147138607 (intergenic variant between and ), rs11444867 (intergenic variant near ), and rs335407 (intergenic variant between and ). A polygenic score composed of known CAD variants identified in the general population was significantly associated with the risk of CVD in people with T2D. There are genetic risk factors specific to T2D that could at least partially explain the excess risk of CVD in people with T2D.In addition, we show that people with T2D have enrichment of known CAD association signals which could also explain the excess risk of CVD.

}, doi = {10.1101/2023.07.25.23293180}, author = {Kwak, Soo Heon and Hernandez-Cancela, Ryan B and DiCorpo, Daniel A and Condon, David E and Merino, Jordi and Wu, Peitao and Brody, Jennifer A and Yao, Jie and Guo, Xiuqing and Ahmadizar, Fariba and Meyer, Mariah and Sincan, Murat and Mercader, Josep M and Lee, Sujin and Haessler, Jeffrey and Vy, Ha My T and Lin, Zhaotong and Armstrong, Nicole D and Gu, Shaopeng and Tsao, Noah L and Lange, Leslie A and Wang, Ningyuan and Wiggins, Kerri L and Trompet, Stella and Liu, Simin and Loos, Ruth J F and Judy, Renae and Schroeder, Philip H and Hasbani, Natalie R and Bos, Maxime M and Morrison, Alanna C and Jackson, Rebecca D and Reiner, Alexander P and Manson, JoAnn E and Chaudhary, Ninad S and Carmichael, Lynn K and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Taylor, Kent D and Ghanbari, Mohsen and van Meurs, Joyce and Pitsillides, Achilleas N and Psaty, Bruce M and Noordam, Raymond and Do, Ron and Park, Kyong Soo and Jukema, J Wouter and Kavousi, Maryam and Correa, Adolfo and Rich, Stephen S and Damrauer, Scott M and Hajek, Catherine and Cho, Nam H and Irvin, Marguerite R and Pankow, James S and Nadkarni, Girish N and Sladek, Robert and Goodarzi, Mark O and Florez, Jose C and Chasman, Daniel I and Heckbert, Susan R and Kooperberg, Charles and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Malhotra, Rajeev and de Vries, Paul S and Liu, Ching-Ti and Rotter, Jerome I and Meigs, James B} }