@article {8554,
	title = {{Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2017},
	month = {04},
	pages = {14977},
	abstract = {Few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) account for environmental exposures, like smoking, potentially impacting the overall trait variance when investigating the genetic contribution to obesity-related traits. Here, we use GWAS data from 51,080 current smokers and 190,178 nonsmokers (87\% European descent) to identify loci influencing BMI and central adiposity, measured as waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio both adjusted for BMI. We identify 23 novel genetic loci, and 9 loci with convincing evidence of gene-smoking interaction (GxSMK) on obesity-related traits. We show consistent direction of effect for all identified loci and significance for 18 novel and for 5 interaction loci in an independent study sample. These loci highlight novel biological functions, including response to oxidative stress, addictive behaviour, and regulatory functions emphasizing the importance of accounting for environment in genetic analyses. Our results suggest that tobacco smoking may alter the genetic susceptibility to overall adiposity and body fat distribution.},
	author = {Justice, A. E. and Winkler, T. W. and Feitosa, M. F. and Graff, M. and Fisher, V. A. and Young, K. and Barata, L. and Deng, X. and Czajkowski, J. and Hadley, D. and Ngwa, J. S. and Ahluwalia, T. S. and Chu, A. Y. and Heard-Costa, N. L. and Lim, E. and Perez, J. and Eicher, J. D. and Kutalik, Z. and Xue, L. and Mahajan, A. and Renstr?m, F. and Wu, J. and Qi, Q. and Ahmad, S. and Alfred, T. and Amin, N. and Bielak, L. F. and Bonnefond, A. and Bragg, J. and Cadby, G. and Chittani, M. and Coggeshall, S. and Corre, T. and Direk, N. and Eriksson, J. and Fischer, K. and Gorski, M. and Neergaard Harder, M. and Horikoshi, M. and Huang, T. and Huffman, J. E. and Jackson, A. U. and Justesen, J. M. and Kanoni, S. and Kinnunen, L. and Kleber, M. E. and Komulainen, P. and Kumari, M. and Lim, U. and Luan, J. and Lyytik?inen, L. P. and Mangino, M. and Manichaikul, A. and Marten, J. and Middelberg, R. P. S. and M?ller-Nurasyid, M. and Navarro, P. and P?russe, L. and Pervjakova, N. and Sarti, C. and Smith, A. V. and Smith, J. A. and Stan??kov?, A. and Strawbridge, R. J. and Stringham, H. M. and Sung, Y. J. and Tanaka, T. and Teumer, A. and Trompet, S. and van der Laan, S. W. and van der Most, P. J. and Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, J. V. and Vedantam, S. L. and Verweij, N. and Vink, J. M. and Vitart, V. and Wu, Y. and Yengo, L. and Zhang, W. and Hua Zhao, J. and Zimmermann, M. E. and Zubair, N. and Abecasis, G. R. and Adair, L. S. and Afaq, S. and Afzal, U. and Bakker, S. J. L. and Bartz, T. M. and Beilby, J. and Bergman, R. N. and Bergmann, S. and Biffar, R. and Blangero, J. and Boerwinkle, E. and Bonnycastle, L. L. and Bottinger, E. and Braga, D. and Buckley, B. M. and Buyske, S. and Campbell, H. and Chambers, J. C. and Collins, F. S. and Curran, J. E. and de Borst, G. J. and de Craen, A. J. M. and de Geus, E. J. C. and Dedoussis, G. and Delgado, G. E. and den Ruijter, H. M. and Eiriksdottir, G. and Eriksson, A. L. and Esko, T. and Faul, J. D. and Ford, I. and Forrester, T. and Gertow, K. and Gigante, B. and Glorioso, N. and Gong, J. and Grallert, H. and Grammer, T. B. and Grarup, N. and Haitjema, S. and Hallmans, G. and Hamsten, A. and Hansen, T. and Harris, T. B. and Hartman, C. A. and Hassinen, M. and Hastie, N. D. and Heath, A. C. and Hernandez, D. and Hindorff, L. and Hocking, L. J. and Hollensted, M. and Holmen, O. L. and Homuth, G. and Jan Hottenga, J. and Huang, J. and Hung, J. and Hutri-K?h?nen, N. and Ingelsson, E. and James, A. L. and Jansson, J. O. and Jarvelin, M. R. and Jhun, M. A. and J?rgensen, M. E. and Juonala, M. and K?h?nen, M. and Karlsson, M. and Koistinen, H. A. and Kolcic, I. and Kolovou, G. and Kooperberg, C. and Kr?mer, B. K. and Kuusisto, J. and Kval?y, K. and Lakka, T. A. and Langenberg, C. and Launer, L. J. and Leander, K. and Lee, N. R. and Lind, L. and Lindgren, C. M. and Linneberg, A. and Lobbens, S. and Loh, M. and Lorentzon, M. and Luben, R. and Lubke, G. and Ludolph-Donislawski, A. and Lupoli, S. and Madden, P. A. F. and M?nnikk?, R. and Marques-Vidal, P. and Martin, N. G. and McKenzie, C. A. and McKnight, B. and Mellstr?m, D. and Menni, C. and Montgomery, G. W. and Musk, A. B. and Narisu, N. and Nauck, M. and Nolte, I. M. and Oldehinkel, A. J. and Olden, M. and Ong, K. K. and Padmanabhan, S. and Peyser, P. A. and Pisinger, C. and Porteous, D. J. and Raitakari, O. T. and Rankinen, T. and Rao, D. C. and Rasmussen-Torvik, L. J. and Rawal, R. and Rice, T. and Ridker, P. M. and Rose, L. M. and Bien, S. A. and Rudan, I. and Sanna, S. and Sarzynski, M. A. and Sattar, N. and Savonen, K. and Schlessinger, D. and Scholtens, S. and Schurmann, C. and Scott, R. A. and Sennblad, B. and Siemelink, M. A. and Silbernagel, G. and Slagboom, P. E. and Snieder, H. and Staessen, J. A. and Stott, D. J. and Swertz, M. A. and Swift, A. J. and Taylor, K. D. and Tayo, B. O. and Thorand, B. and Thuillier, D. and Tuomilehto, J. and Uitterlinden, A. G. and Vandenput, L. and Vohl, M. C. and V?lzke, H. and Vonk, J. M. and Waeber, G. and Waldenberger, M. and Westendorp, R. G. J. and Wild, S. and Willemsen, G. and Wolffenbuttel, B. H. R. and Wong, A. and Wright, A. F. and Zhao, W. and Zillikens, M. C. and Baldassarre, D. and Balkau, B. and Bandinelli, S. and B?ger, C. A. and Boomsma, D. I. and Bouchard, C. and Bruinenberg, M. and Chasman, D. I. and Chen, Y. D. and Chines, P. S. and Cooper, R. S. and Cucca, F. and Cusi, D. and Faire, U. and Ferrucci, L. and Franks, P. W. and Froguel, P. and Gordon-Larsen, P. and Grabe, H. J. and Gudnason, V. and Haiman, C. A. and Hayward, C. and Hveem, K. and Johnson, A. D. and Wouter Jukema, J. and Kardia, S. L. R. and Kivimaki, M. and Kooner, J. S. and Kuh, D. and Laakso, M. and Lehtim?ki, T. and Marchand, L. L. and M?rz, W. and McCarthy, M. I. and Metspalu, A. and Morris, A. P. and Ohlsson, C. and Palmer, L. J. and Pasterkamp, G. and Pedersen, O. and Peters, A. and Peters, U. and Polasek, O. and Psaty, B. M. and Qi, L. and Rauramaa, R. and Smith, B. H. and S?rensen, T. I. A. and Strauch, K. and Tiemeier, H. and Tremoli, E. and van der Harst, P. and Vestergaard, H. and Vollenweider, P. and Wareham, N. J. and Weir, D. R. and Whitfield, J. B. and Wilson, J. F. and Tyrrell, J. and Frayling, T. M. and Barroso, I. and Boehnke, M. and Deloukas, P. and Fox, C. S. and Hirschhorn, J. N. and Hunter, D. J. and Spector, T. D. and Strachan, D. P. and van Duijn, C. M. and Heid, I. M. and Mohlke, K. L. and Marchini, J. and Loos, R. J. F. and Kilpel?inen, T. O. and Liu, C. T. and Borecki, I. B. and North, K. E. and Cupples, L. A.}
}
@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. 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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 {8781,
	title = {{A multi-ethnic epigenome-wide association study of leukocyte DNA methylation and blood lipids},
	journal = {Nat Commun},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2021},
	month = {06},
	pages = {3987},
	abstract = {10.1038/s41467-021-23899-yHere we examine the association between DNA methylation in circulating leukocytes and blood lipids in a multi-ethnic sample of 16,265 subjects. We identify 148, 35, and 4 novel associations among Europeans, African Americans, and Hispanics, respectively, and an additional 186 novel associations through a trans-ethnic meta-analysis. We observe a high concordance in the direction of effects across racial/ethnic groups, a high correlation of effect sizes between high-density lipoprotein and triglycerides, a modest overlap of associations with epigenome-wide association studies of other cardio-metabolic traits, and a largely non-overlap with lipid loci identified to date through genome-wide association studies. Thirty CpGs reached significance in at least 2 racial/ethnic groups including 7 that showed association with the expression of an annotated gene. CpGs annotated to CPT1A showed evidence of being influenced by triglycerides levels. DNA methylation levels of circulating leukocytes show robust and consistent association with blood lipid levels across multiple racial/ethnic groups.},
	author = {Jhun, M. A. and Mendelson, M. and Wilson, R. and Gondalia, R. and Joehanes, R. and Salfati, E. and Zhao, X. and Braun, K. V. E. and Do, A. N. and Hedman, {\r A}. K. and Zhang, T. and Carnero-Montoro, E. and Shen, J. and Bartz, T. M. and Brody, J. A. and Montasser, M. E. and O{\textquoteright}Connell, J. R. and Yao, C. and Xia, R. and Boerwinkle, E. and Grove, M. and Guan, W. and Liliane, P. and Singmann, P. and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, M. and Meitinger, T. and Gieger, C. and Peters, A. and Zhao, W. and Ware, E. B. and Smith, J. A. and Dhana, K. and van Meurs, J. and Uitterlinden, A. and Ikram, M. A. and Ghanbari, M. and Zhi, D. and Gustafsson, S. and Lind, L. and Li, S. and Sun, D. and Spector, T. D. and Chen, Y. I. and Damcott, C. and Shuldiner, A. R. and Absher, D. M. and Horvath, S. and Tsao, P. S. and Kardia, S. and Psaty, B. M. and Sotoodehnia, N. and Bell, J. T. and Ingelsson, E. and Chen, W. and Dehghan, A. and Arnett, D. K. and Waldenberger, M. and Hou, L. and Whitsel, E. A. and Baccarelli, A. and Levy, D. and Fornage, M. and Irvin, M. R. and Assimes, T. L.}
}
