@article {8501,
	title = {{Androgens In Men Study (AIMS): protocol for meta-analyses of individual participant data investigating associations of androgens with health outcomes in men},
	journal = {BMJ Open},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2020},
	month = {05},
	pages = {e034777},
	abstract = {This study aims to clarify the role(s) of endogenous sex hormones to influence health outcomes in men, specifically to define the associations of plasma testosterone with incidence of cardiovascular events, cancer, dementia and mortality risk, and to identify factors predicting testosterone concentrations. Data will be accrued from at least three Australian, two European and four North American population-based cohorts involving approximately 20 000 men.\ Eligible studies include prospective cohort studies with baseline testosterone concentrations measured using mass spectrometry and 5 years of follow-up data on incident cardiovascular events, mortality, cancer diagnoses or deaths, new-onset dementia or decline in cognitive function recorded. Data for men, who were not taking androgens or drugs suppressing testosterone production, metabolism or action; and had no prior orchidectomy, are eligible. Systematic literature searches were conducted from 14 June 2019 to 31 December 2019, with no date range set for searches. Aggregate level data will be sought where individual participant data (IPD) are not available. One-stage IPD random-effects meta-analyses will be performed, using linear mixed models, generalised linear mixed models and either stratified or frailty-augmented Cox regression models. Heterogeneity in estimates from different studies will be quantified and bias investigated using funnel plots. Effect size estimates will be presented in forest plots and non-negligible heterogeneity and bias investigated using subgroup or meta-regression analyses.\ Ethics approvals obtained for each of the participating cohorts state that participants have consented to have their data collected and used for research purposes. The Androgens In Men Study has been assessed as exempt from ethics review by the Human Ethics office at the University of Western Australia (file reference number RA/4/20/5014). Each of the component studies had obtained ethics approvals; please refer to respective component studies for details. Research findings will be disseminated to the scientific and broader community via the publication of four research articles, with each involving a separate set of IPD meta-analyses (articles will investigate different, distinct outcomes), at scientific conferences and meetings of relevant professional societies. Collaborating cohort studies will disseminate findings to study participants and local communities.\ CRD42019139668.},
	author = {Yeap, B. B. and Marriott, R. J. and Adams, R. J. and Antonio, L. and Ballantyne, C. M. and Bhasin, S. and Cawthon, P. M. and Couper, D. J. and Dobs, A. S. and Flicker, L. and Karlsson, M. and Martin, S. A. and Matsumoto, A. M. and Mellstr?m, D. and Norman, P. E. and Ohlsson, C. and Orwoll, E. S. and O{\textquoteright}Neill, T. W. and Shores, M. M. and Travison, T. G. and Vanderschueren, D. and Wittert, G. A. and Wu, F. C. W. and Murray, K.}
}
@article {8453,
	title = {{Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale},
	journal = {Nat Genet},
	volume = {52},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {969{\textendash}983},
	abstract = {Large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies have enabled the analysis of rare variants (RVs) associated with complex phenotypes. Commonly used RV association tests have limited scope to leverage variant functions. We propose STAAR (variant-set test for association using annotation information), a scalable and powerful RV association test method that effectively incorporates both variant categories and multiple complementary annotations using a dynamic weighting scheme. For the latter, we introduce {\textquoteright}annotation principal components{\textquoteright}, multidimensional summaries of in silico variant annotations. STAAR accounts for population structure and relatedness and is scalable for analyzing very large cohort and biobank whole-genome sequencing studies of continuous and dichotomous traits. We applied STAAR to identify RVs associated with four lipid traits in 12,316 discovery and 17,822 replication samples from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program. We discovered and replicated new RV associations, including disruptive missense RVs of NPC1L1 and an intergenic region near APOC1P1 associated with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.},
	author = {Li, X. and Li, Z. and Zhou, H. and Gaynor, S. M. and Liu, Y. and Chen, H. and Sun, R. and Dey, R. and Arnett, D. K. and Aslibekyan, S. and Ballantyne, C. M. and Bielak, L. F. and Blangero, J. and Boerwinkle, E. and Bowden, D. W. and Broome, J. G. and Conomos, M. P. and Correa, A. and Cupples, L. A. and Curran, J. E. and Freedman, B. I. and Guo, X. and Hindy, G. and Irvin, M. R. and Kardia, S. L. R. and Kathiresan, S. and Khan, A. T. and Kooperberg, C. L. and Laurie, C. C. and Liu, X. S. and Mahaney, M. C. and Manichaikul, A. W. and Martin, L. W. and Mathias, R. A. and McGarvey, S. T. and Mitchell, B. D. and Montasser, M. E. and Moore, J. E. and Morrison, A. C. and O{\textquoteright}Connell, J. R. and Palmer, N. D. and Pampana, A. and Peralta, J. M. and Peyser, P. A. and Psaty, B. M. and Redline, S. and Rice, K. M. and Rich, S. S. and Smith, J. A. and Tiwari, H. K. and Tsai, M. Y. and Vasan, R. S. and Wang, F. F. and Weeks, D. E. and Weng, Z. and Wilson, J. G. and Yanek, L. R. and Neale, B. M. and Sunyaev, S. R. and Abecasis, G. R. and Rotter, J. I. and Willer, C. J. and Peloso, G. M. and Natarajan, P. and Lin, X. and Abe, N. and Abecasis, G. R. and Aguet, F. and Albert, C. and Almasy, L. and Alonso, A. and Ament, S. and Anderson, P. and Anugu, P. and Applebaum-Bowden, D. and Ardlie, K. and Arking, D. and Arnett, D. K. and Ashley-Koch, A. and Aslibekyan, S. and Assimes, T. and Auer, P. and Avramopoulos, D. and Barnard, J. and Barnes, K. and Barr, R. G. and Barron-Casella, E. and Barwick, L. and Beaty, T. and Beck, G. and Becker, D. and Becker, L. and Beer, R. and Beitelshees, A. and Benjamin, E. and Benos, T. and Bezerra, M. and Bielak, L. F. and Bis, J. and Blackwell, T. and Blangero, J. and Boerwinkle, E. and Bowden, D. W. and Bowler, R. and Brody, J. and Broeckel, U. and Broome, J. G. and Bunting, K. and Burchard, E. and Bustamante, C. and Buth, E. and Cade, B. and Cardwell, J. and Carey, V. and Carty, C. and Casaburi, R. and Casella, J. and Castaldi, P. and Chaffin, M. and Chang, C. and Chang, Y. C. and Chasman, D. and Chavan, S. and Chen, B. J. and Chen, W. M. and Chen, Y. I. and Cho, M. and Choi, S. H. and Chuang, L. M. and Chung, M. and Chung, R. H. and Clish, C. and Comhair, S. and Conomos, M. P. and Cornell, E. and Correa, A. and Crandall, C. and Crapo, J. and Cupples, L. A. and Curran, J. E. and Curtis, J. and Custer, B. and Damcott, C. and Darbar, D. and Das, S. and David, S. and Davis, C. and Daya, M. and de Andrade, M. and Fuentes, L. L. and DeBaun, M. and Deka, R. and DeMeo, D. and Devine, S. and Duan, Q. and Duggirala, R. and Durda, J. P. and Dutcher, S. and Eaton, C. and Ekunwe, L. and El Boueiz, A. and Ellinor, P. and Emery, L. and Erzurum, S. and Farber, C. and Fingerlin, T. and Flickinger, M. and Fornage, M. and Franceschini, N. and Frazar, C. and Fu, M. and Fullerton, S. M. and Fulton, L. and Gabriel, S. and Gan, W. and Gao, S. and Gao, Y. and Gass, M. and Gelb, B. and Geng, X. P. and Geraci, M. and Germer, S. and Gerszten, R. and Ghosh, A. and Gibbs, R. and Gignoux, C. and Gladwin, M. and Glahn, D. and Gogarten, S. and Gong, D. W. and Goring, H. and Graw, S. and Grine, D. and Gu, C. C. and Guan, Y. and Guo, X. and Gupta, N. and Haessler, J. and Hall, M. and Harris, D. and Hawley, N. L. and He, J. and Heckbert, S. and Hernandez, R. and Herrington, D. and Hersh, C. and Hidalgo, B. and Hixson, J. and Hobbs, B. and Hokanson, J. and Hong, E. and Hoth, K. and Hsiung, C. A. and Hung, Y. J. and Huston, H. and Hwu, C. M. and Irvin, M. R. and Jackson, R. and Jain, D. and Jaquish, C. and Jhun, M. A. and Johnsen, J. and Johnson, A. and Johnson, C. and Johnston, R. and Jones, K. and Kang, H. M. and Kaplan, R. and Kardia, S. L. R. and Kathiresan, S. and Kelly, S. and Kenny, E. and Kessler, M. and Khan, A. T. and Kim, W. and Kinney, G. and Konkle, B. and Kooperberg, C. L. and Kramer, H. and Lange, C. and Lange, E. and Lange, L. and Laurie, C. C. and Laurie, C. and LeBoff, M. and Lee, J. and Lee, S. S. and Lee, W. J. and LeFaive, J. and Levine, D. and Levy, D. and Lewis, J. and Li, X. and Li, Y. and Lin, H. and Lin, H. and Lin, K. H. and Lin, X. and Liu, S. and Liu, Y. and Liu, Y. and Loos, R. J. F. and Lubitz, S. and Lunetta, K. and Luo, J. and Mahaney, M. C. and Make, B. and Manichaikul, A. W. and Manson, J. and Margolin, L. and Martin, L. W. and Mathai, S. and Mathias, R. A. and May, S. and McArdle, P. and McDonald, M. L. and McFarland, S. and McGarvey, S. T. and McGoldrick, D. and McHugh, C. and Mei, H. and Mestroni, L. and Meyers, D. A. and Mikulla, J. and Min, N. and Minear, M. and Minster, R. L. and Mitchell, B. D. and Moll, M. and Montasser, M. E. and Montgomery, C. and Moscati, A. and Musani, S. and Mwasongwe, S. and Mychaleckyj, J. C. and Nadkarni, G. and Naik, R. and Naseri, T. and Natarajan, P. and Nekhai, S. and Nelson, S. C. and Neltner, B. and Nickerson, D. and North, K. and O{\textquoteright}Connell, J. R. and O{\textquoteright}Connor, T. and Ochs-Balcom, H. and Paik, D. and Palmer, N. D. and Pankow, J. and Papanicolaou, G. and Parsa, A. and Peralta, J. M. and Perez, M. and Perry, J. and Peters, U. and Peyser, P. A. and Phillips, L. S. and Pollin, T. and Post, W. and Becker, J. P. and Boorgula, M. P. and Preuss, M. and Psaty, B. M. and Qasba, P. and Qiao, D. and Qin, Z. and Rafaels, N. and Raffield, L. and Vasan, R. S. and Rao, D. C. and Rasmussen-Torvik, L. and Ratan, A. and Redline, S. and Reed, R. and Regan, E. and Reiner, A. and Reupena, M. S. and Rice, K. M. and Rich, S. S. and Roden, D. and Roselli, C. and Rotter, J. I. and Ruczinski, I. and Russell, P. and Ruuska, S. and Ryan, K. and Sabino, E. C. and Saleheen, D. and Salimi, S. and Salzberg, S. and Sandow, K. and Sankaran, V. G. and Scheller, C. and Schmidt, E. and Schwander, K. and Schwartz, D. and Sciurba, F. and Seidman, C. and Seidman, J. and Sheehan, V. and Sherman, S. L. and Shetty, A. and Shetty, A. and Sheu, W. H. and Shoemaker, M. B. and Silver, B. and Silverman, E. and Smith, J. A. and Smith, J. and Smith, N. and Smith, T. and Smoller, S. and Snively, B. and Snyder, M. and Sofer, T. and Sotoodehnia, N. and Stilp, A. M. and Storm, G. and Streeten, E. and Su, J. L. and Sung, Y. J. and Sylvia, J. and Szpiro, A. and Sztalryd, C. and Taliun, D. and Tang, H. and Taub, M. and Taylor, K. D. and Taylor, M. and Taylor, S. and Telen, M. and Thornton, T. A. and Threlkeld, M. and Tinker, L. and Tirschwell, D. and Tishkoff, S. and Tiwari, H. K. and Tong, C. and Tracy, R. and Tsai, M. Y. and Vaidya, D. and Van Den Berg, D. and VandeHaar, P. and Vrieze, S. and Walker, T. and Wallace, R. and Walts, A. and Wang, F. F. and Wang, H. and Watson, K. and Weeks, D. E. and Weir, B. and Weiss, S. and Weng, L. C. and Wessel, J. and Willer, C. J. and Williams, K. and Williams, L. K. and Wilson, C. and Wilson, J. G. and Wong, Q. and Wu, J. and Xu, H. and Yanek, L. R. and Yang, I. and Yang, R. and Zaghloul, N. and Zekavat, M. and Zhang, Y. and Zhao, S. X. and Zhao, W. and Zhi, D. and Zhou, X. and Zhu, X. and Zody, M. and Zoellner, S. and Abdalla, M. and Abecasis, G. R. and Arnett, D. K. and Aslibekyan, S. and Assimes, T. and Atkinson, E. and Ballantyne, C. M. and Beitelshees, A. and Bielak, L. F. and Bis, J. and Bodea, C. and Boerwinkle, E. and Bowden, D. W. and Brody, J. and Cade, B. and Carlson, J. and Chang, I. S. and Chen, Y. I. and Chun, S. and Chung, R. H. and Conomos, M. P. and Correa, A. and Cupples, L. A. and Damcott, C. and de Vries, P. and Do, R. and Elliott, A. and Fu, M. and Ganna, A. and Gong, D. W. and Graham, S. and Haas, M. and Haring, B. and He, J. and Heckbert, S. and Himes, B. and Hixson, J. and Irvin, M. R. and Jain, D. and Jarvik, G. and Jhun, M. A. and Jiang, J. and Jun, G. and Kalyani, R. and Kardia, S. L. R. and Kathiresan, S. and Khera, A. and Klarin, D. and Kooperberg, C. L. and Kral, B. and Lange, L. and Laurie, C. C. and Laurie, C. and Lemaitre, R. and Li, Z. and Li, X. and Lin, X. and Mahaney, M. C. and Manichaikul, A. W. and Martin, L. W. and Mathias, R. A. and Mathur, R. and McGarvey, S. T. and McHugh, C. and McLenithan, J. and Mikulla, J. and Mitchell, B. D. and Montasser, M. E. and Moran, A. and Morrison, A. C. and Nakao, T. and Natarajan, P. and Nickerson, D. and North, K. and O{\textquoteright}Connell, J. R. and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, C. and Palmer, N. D. and Pampana, A. and Patel, A. and Peloso, G. M. and Perry, J. and Peters, U. and Peyser, P. A. and Pirruccello, J. and Pollin, T. and Preuss, M. and Psaty, B. M. and Rao, D. C. and Redline, S. and Reed, R. and Reiner, A. and Rich, S. S. and Rosenthal, S. and Rotter, J. I. and Schoenberg, J. and Selvaraj, M. S. and Sheu, W. H. and Smith, J. A. and Sofer, T. and Stilp, A. M. and Sunyaev, S. R. and Surakka, I. and Sztalryd, C. and Tang, H. and Taylor, K. D. and Tsai, M. Y. and Uddin, M. M. and Urbut, S. and Verbanck, M. and Von Holle, A. and Wang, H. and Wang, F. F. and Wiggins, K. and Willer, C. J. and Wilson, J. G. and Wolford, B. and Xu, H. and Yanek, L. R. and Zaghloul, N. and Zekavat, M. and Zhang, J.}
}
@article {8657,
	title = {{Genome-Wide Association Study of Circulating Interleukin 6 Levels Identifies Novel Loci},
	journal = {Hum Mol Genet},
	year = {2021},
	month = {Jan},
	abstract = {Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional cytokine with both pro- and anti-inflammatory properties with a heritability estimate of up to 61\%. The circulating levels of IL-6 in blood have been associated with an increased risk of complex disease pathogenesis. We conducted a two-staged, discovery, and replication meta genome-wide association study (GWAS) of circulating serum IL-6 levels comprising up to 67 428 (ndiscovery = 52 654 and nreplication = 14 774) individuals of European ancestry. The inverse variance fixed-effects based discovery meta-analysis, followed by replication led to the identification of two independent loci, IL1F10/IL1RN rs6734238 on Chromosome (Chr) 2q14, (pcombined = 1.8 {\texttimes} 10-11), HLA-DRB1/DRB5 rs660895 on Chr6p21 (pcombined = 1.5 {\texttimes} 10-10) in the combined meta-analyses of all samples. We also replicated the IL6R rs4537545 locus on Chr1q21 (pcombined = 1.2 {\texttimes} 10-122). Our study identifies novel loci for circulating IL-6 levels uncovering new immunological and inflammatory pathways that may influence IL-6 pathobiology.},
	author = {Ahluwalia, T. S. and Prins, B. P. and Abdollahi, M. and Armstrong, N. J. and Aslibekyan, S. and Bain, L. and Jefferis, B. and Baumert, J. and Beekman, M. and Ben-Shlomo, Y. and Bis, J. C. and Mitchell, B. D. and de Geus, E. and Delgado, G. E. and Marek, D. and Eriksson, J. and Kajantie, E. and Kanoni, S. and Kemp, J. P. and Lu, C. and Marioni, R. E. and McLachlan, S. and Milaneschi, Y. and Nolte, I. M. and Petrelis, A. M. and Porcu, E. and Sabater-Lleal, M. and Naderi, E. and Sepp{\"a}l{\"a}, I. and Shah, T. and Singhal, G. and Standl, M. and Teumer, A. and Thalamuthu, A. and Thiering, E. and Trompet, S. and Ballantyne, C. M. and Benjamin, E. J. and Casas, J. P. and Toben, C. and Dedoussis, G. and Deelen, J. and Durda, P. and Engmann, J. and Feitosa, M. F. and Grallert, H. and Hammarstedt, A. and Harris, S. E. and Homuth, G. and Hottenga, J. J. and Jalkanen, S. and Jamshidi, Y. and Jawahar, M. C. and Jess, T. and Kivimaki, M. and Kleber, M. E. and Lahti, J. and Liu, Y. and Marques-Vidal, P. and Mellstr{\"o}m, D. and Mooijaart, S. P. and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, M. and Penninx, B. and Revez, J. A. and Rossing, P. and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, K. and Sattar, N. and Scharnagl, H. and Sennblad, B. and Silveira, A. and Pourcain, B. S. and Timpson, N. J. and Trollor, J. and van Dongen, J. and van Heemst, D. and Visvikis-Siest, S. and Vollenweider, P. and V{\"o}lker, U. and Waldenberger, M. and Willemsen, G. and Zabaneh, D. and Morris, R. W. and Arnett, D. K. and Baune, B. T. and Boomsma, D. I. and Chang, Y. C. and Deary, I. J. and Deloukas, P. and Eriksson, J. G. and Evans, D. M. and Ferreira, M. A. and Gaunt, T. and Gudnason, V. and Hamsten, A. and Heinrich, J. and Hingorani, A. and Humphries, S. E. and Jukema, J. W. and Koeing, W. and Kumari, M. and Kutalik, Z. and Lawlor, D. A. and Lehtim{\"a}ki, T. and M{\"a}rz, W. and Mather, K. and Naitza, S. and Nauck, M. and Ohlsson, C. and Price, J. F. and Raitakari, O. and Rice, K. and Sachdev, P. S. and Slagboom, E. and S{\o}rensen, T. I. A. and Spector, T. and Stacey, D. and Stathopoulou, M. G. and Tanaka, T. and Wannamethee, S. G. and Whincup, P. and Rotter, J. I. and Dehghan, A. and Boerwinkle, E. and Psaty, B. M. and Snieder, H. and Alizadeh, B. Z.}
}
@article {9181,
	title = {{Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential, DNA methylation, and risk for coronary artery disease},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2022},
	month = {Sep},
	pages = {5350},
	abstract = {Age-related changes to the genome-wide DNA methylation (DNAm) pattern observed in blood are well-documented. Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), characterized by the age-related acquisition and expansion of leukemogenic mutations in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), is associated with blood cancer and coronary artery disease (CAD). Epigenetic regulators DNMT3A and TET2 are the two most frequently mutated CHIP genes. Here, we present results from an epigenome-wide association study for CHIP in 582 Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) participants, with replication in 2655 Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study participants. We show that DNMT3A and TET2 CHIP have distinct and directionally opposing genome-wide DNAm association patterns consistent with their regulatory roles, albeit both promoting self-renewal of HSCs. Mendelian randomization analyses indicate that a subset of DNAm alterations associated with these two leading CHIP genes may promote the risk for CAD.},
	author = {Uddin, M. D. M. and Nguyen, N. Q. H. and Yu, B. and Brody, J. A. and Pampana, A. and Nakao, T. and Fornage, M. and Bressler, J. and Sotoodehnia, N. and Weinstock, J. S. and Honigberg, M. C. and Nachun, D. and Bhattacharya, R. and Griffin, G. K. and Chander, V. and Gibbs, R. A. and Rotter, J. I. and Liu, C. and Baccarelli, A. A. and Chasman, D. I. and Whitsel, E. A. and Kiel, D. P. and Murabito, J. M. and Boerwinkle, E. and Ebert, B. L. and Jaiswal, S. and Floyd, J. S. and Bick, A. G. and Ballantyne, C. M. and Psaty, B. M. and Natarajan, P. and Conneely, K. N.}
}
