@article {8566,
	title = {{Gene-gene Interaction Analyses for Atrial Fibrillation},
	journal = {Sci Rep},
	volume = {6},
	year = {2016},
	month = {11},
	pages = {35371},
	abstract = {{Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heritable disease that affects more than thirty million individuals worldwide. Extensive efforts have been devoted to the study of genetic determinants of AF. The objective of our study is to examine the effect of gene-gene interaction on AF susceptibility. We performed a large-scale association analysis of gene-gene interactions with AF in 8,173 AF cases, and 65,237 AF-free referents collected from 15 studies for discovery. We examined putative interactions between genome-wide SNPs and 17 known AF-related SNPs. The top interactions were then tested for association in an independent cohort for replication, which included more than 2,363 AF cases and 114,746 AF-free referents. One interaction, between rs7164883 at the HCN4 locus and rs4980345 at the SLC28A1 locus, was found to be significantly associated with AF in the discovery cohorts (interaction OR = 1.44, 95\% CI: 1.27-1.65},
	author = {Lin, H. and Mueller-Nurasyid, M. and Smith, A. V. and Arking, D. E. and Barnard, J. and Bartz, T. M. and Lunetta, K. L. and Lohman, K. and Kleber, M. E. and Lubitz, S. A. and Geelhoed, B. and Trompet, S. and Niemeijer, M. N. and Kacprowski, T. and Chasman, D. I. and Klarin, D. and Sinner, M. F. and Waldenberger, M. and Meitinger, T. and Harris, T. B. and Launer, L. J. and Soliman, E. Z. and Chen, L. Y. and Smith, J. D. and Van Wagoner, D. R. and Rotter, J. I. and Psaty, B. M. and Xie, Z. and Hendricks, A. E. and Ding, J. and Delgado, G. E. and Verweij, N. and van der Harst, P. and Macfarlane, P. W. and Ford, I. and Hofman, A. and Uitterlinden, A. and Heeringa, J. and Franco, O. H. and Kors, J. A. and Weiss, S. and V?lzke, H. and Rose, L. M. and Natarajan, P. and Kathiresan, S. and K??b, S. and Gudnason, V. and Alonso, A. and Chung, M. K. and Heckbert, S. R. and Benjamin, E. J. and Liu, Y. and M?rz, W. and Rienstra, M. and Jukema, J. W. and Stricker, B. H. and D?rr, M. and Albert, C. M. and Ellinor, P. T.}
}
@article {8452,
	title = {{Genetic Determinants of Electrocardiographic P-wave Duration and Relation to Atrial Fibrillation},
	journal = {Circ Genom Precis Med},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Aug},
	abstract = {Background - The P-wave duration (PWD) is an electrocardiographic (ECG) measurement that represents cardiac conduction in the atria. Shortened or prolonged PWD is associated with atrial fibrillation (AF). We used exome chip data to examine the associations between common and rare variants with PWD. Methods - Fifteen studies comprising 64,440 individuals (56,943 European, 5,681 African, 1,186 Hispanic, 630 Asian), and  230,000 variants were used to examine associations with maximum PWD across the 12-lead ECG. Meta-analyses summarized association results for common variants; gene-based burden and SKAT tests examined low-frequency variant-PWD associations. Additionally, we examined the associations between PWD loci and AF using previous AF GWAS. Results - We identified 21 common and low-frequency genetic loci (14 novel) associated with maximum PWD, including several AF loci (TTN, CAND2, SCN10A, PITX2, CAV1, SYNPO2L, SOX5, TBX5, MYH6, RPL3L). The top variants at known sarcomere genes (TTN, MYH6) were associated with longer PWD and increased AF risk. However, top variants at other loci (e.g., PITX2 and SCN10A) were associated with longer PWD but lower AF risk. Conclusions - Our results highlight multiple novel genetic loci associated with PWD, and underscore the shared mechanisms of atrial conduction and AF. Prolonged PWD may be an endophenotype for several different genetic mechanisms of AF.},
	author = {Weng, L. C. and Hall, A. W. and Choi, S. H. and Jurgens, S. J. and Haessler, J. and Bihlmeyer, N. A. and Grarup, N. and Lin, H. and Teumer, A. and Li-Gao, R. and Yao, J. and Guo, X. and Brody, J. A. and M?ller-Nurasyid, M. and Schramm, K. and Verweij, N. and van den Berg, M. E. and van Setten, J. and Isaacs, A. and Ram?rez, J. and Warren, H. R. and Padmanabhan, S. and Kors, J. A. and de Boer, R. A. and van der Meer, P. and Sinner, M. F. and Waldenberger, M. and Psaty, B. M. and Taylor, K. D. and V?lker, U. and Kanters, J. K. and Li, M. and Alonso, A. and Perez, M. V. and Vaartjes, I. and Bots, M. L. and Huang, P. L. and Heckbert, S. R. and Lin, H. J. and Kornej, J. and Munroe, P. B. and van Duijn, C. M. and Asselbergs, F. W. and Stricker, B. H. and van der Harst, P. and K??b, S. and Peters, A. and Sotoodehnia, N. and Rotter, J. I. and Mook-Kanamori, D. O. and D?rr, M. and Felix, S. B. and Linneberg, A. and Hansen, T. and Arking, D. E. and Kooperberg, C. and Benjamin, E. J. and Lunetta, K. L. and Ellinor, P. T. and Lubitz, S. A.}
}
@article {9186,
	title = {{Genetic analyses of the electrocardiographic QT interval and its components identify additional loci and pathways},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2022},
	month = {09},
	pages = {5144},
	abstract = {250,000 individuals) we identify 177, 156 and 121 independent loci for QT, JT and QRS, respectively, including a male-specific X-chromosome locus. Using gene-based rare-variant methods, we identify associations with Mendelian disease genes. Enrichments are observed in established pathways for QT and JT, and previously unreported genes indicated in insulin-receptor signalling and cardiac energy metabolism. In contrast for QRS, connective tissue components and processes for cell growth and extracellular matrix interactions are significantly enriched. We demonstrate polygenic risk score associations with atrial fibrillation, conduction disease and sudden cardiac death. Prioritization of druggable genes highlight potential therapeutic targets for arrhythmia. Together, these results substantially advance our understanding of the genetic architecture of ventricular depolarization and repolarization.},
	author = {Young, W. J. and Lahrouchi, N. and Isaacs, A. and Duong, T. and Foco, L. and Ahmed, F. and Brody, J. A. and Salman, R. and Noordam, R. and Benjamins, J. W. and Haessler, J. and Lyytik{\"a}inen, L. P. and Repetto, L. and Concas, M. P. and van den Berg, M. E. and Weiss, S. and Baldassari, A. R. and Bartz, T. M. and Cook, J. P. and Evans, D. S. and Freudling, R. and Hines, O. and Isaksen, J. L. and Lin, H. and Mei, H. and Moscati, A. and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, M. and Nursyifa, C. and Qian, Y. and Richmond, A. and Roselli, C. and Ryan, K. A. and Tarazona-Santos, E. and Th{\'e}riault, S. and van Duijvenboden, S. and Warren, H. R. and Yao, J. and Raza, D. and Aeschbacher, S. and Ahlberg, G. and Alonso, A. and Andreasen, L. and Bis, J. C. and Boerwinkle, E. and Campbell, A. and Catamo, E. and Cocca, M. and Cutler, M. J. and Darbar, D. and De Grandi, A. and De Luca, A. and Ding, J. and Ellervik, C. and Ellinor, P. T. and Felix, S. B. and Froguel, P. and Fuchsberger, C. and G{\"o}gele, M. and Graff, C. and Graff, M. and Guo, X. and Hansen, T. and Heckbert, S. R. and Huang, P. L. and Huikuri, H. V. and Hutri-K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, N. and Ikram, M. A. and Jackson, R. D. and Junttila, J. and Kavousi, M. and Kors, J. A. and Leal, T. P. and Lemaitre, R. N. and Lin, H. J. and Lind, L. and Linneberg, A. and Liu, S. and Macfarlane, P. W. and Mangino, M. and Meitinger, T. and Mezzavilla, M. and Mishra, P. P. and Mitchell, R. N. and Mononen, N. and Montasser, M. E. and Morrison, A. C. and Nauck, M. and Nauffal, V. and Navarro, P. and Nikus, K. and Pare, G. and Patton, K. K. and Pelliccione, G. and Pittman, A. and Porteous, D. J. and Pramstaller, P. P. and Preuss, M. H. and Raitakari, O. T. and Reiner, A. P. and Ribeiro, A. L. P. and Rice, K. M. and Risch, L. and Schlessinger, D. and Schotten, U. and Schurmann, C. and Shen, X. and Shoemaker, M. B. and Sinagra, G. and Sinner, M. F. and Soliman, E. Z. and Stoll, M. and Strauch, K. and Tarasov, K. and Taylor, K. D. and Tinker, A. and Trompet, S. and Uitterlinden, A. and V{\"o}lker, U. and V{\"o}lzke, H. and Waldenberger, M. and Weng, L. C. and Whitsel, E. A. and Wilson, J. G. and Avery, C. L. and Conen, D. and Correa, A. and Cucca, F. and D{\"o}rr, M. and Gharib, S. A. and Girotto, G. and Grarup, N. and Hayward, C. and Jamshidi, Y. and Jarvelin, M. R. and Jukema, J. W. and K{\"a}{\"a}b, S. and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, M. and Kanters, J. K. and Kooperberg, C. and Lehtim{\"a}ki, T. and Lima-Costa, M. F. and Liu, Y. and Loos, R. J. F. and Lubitz, S. A. and Mook-Kanamori, D. O. and Morris, A. P. and O{\textquoteright}Connell, J. R. and Olesen, M. S. and Orini, M. and Padmanabhan, S. and Pattaro, C. and Peters, A. and Psaty, B. M. and Rotter, J. I. and Stricker, B. and van der Harst, P. and van Duijn, C. M. and Verweij, N. and Wilson, J. F. and Arking, D. E. and Ramirez, J. and Lambiase, P. D. and Sotoodehnia, N. and Mifsud, B. and Newton-Cheh, C. and Munroe, P. B.}
}
