@article {8454,
	title = {{Genome-Wide Association Study Meta-Analysis of Stroke in 22 000 Individuals of African Descent Identifies Novel Associations With Stroke},
	journal = {Stroke},
	volume = {51},
	year = {2020},
	month = {Aug},
	pages = {2454{\textendash}2463},
	abstract = {Stroke is a complex disease with multiple genetic and environmental risk factors. Blacks endure a nearly 2-fold greater risk of stroke and are 2{\~A}{\textemdash} to 3{\~A}{\textemdash} more likely to die from stroke than European Americans.\ The COMPASS (Consortium of Minority Population Genome-Wide Association Studies of Stroke) has conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of stroke in >22 000 individuals of African ancestry (3734 cases, 18 317 controls) from 13 cohorts.\ In meta-analyses, we identified one single nucleotide polymorphism (rs55931441) near the HNF1A gene that reached genome-wide significance (P=4.62{\~A}{\textemdash}10-8) and an additional 29 variants with suggestive evidence of association (P<1{\~A}{\textemdash}10-6), representing 24 unique loci. For validation, a look-up analysis for a 100 kb region flanking the COMPASS single nucleotide polymorphism was performed in SiGN (Stroke Genetics Network) Europeans, SiGN Hispanics, and METASTROKE (Europeans). Using a stringent Bonferroni correction P value of 2.08{\~A}{\textemdash}10-3 (0.05/24 unique loci), we were able to validate associations at the HNF1A locus in both SiGN (P=8.18{\~A}{\textemdash}10-4) and METASTROKE (P=1.72{\~A}{\textemdash}10-3) European populations. Overall, 16 of 24 loci showed evidence for validation across multiple populations. Previous studies have reported associations between variants in the HNF1A gene and lipids, C-reactive protein, and risk of coronary artery disease and stroke. Suggestive associations with variants in the SFXN4 and TMEM108 genes represent potential novel ischemic stroke loci.\ These findings represent the most thorough investigation of genetic determinants of stroke in individuals of African descent, to date.},
	author = {Keene, K. L. and Hyacinth, H. I. and Bis, J. C. and Kittner, S. J. and Mitchell, B. D. and Cheng, Y. C. and Pare, G. and Chong, M. and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, M. and Meschia, J. F. and Chen, W. M. and Sale, M. M. and Rich, S. S. and Nalls, M. A. and Zonderman, A. B. and Evans, M. K. and Wilson, J. G. and Correa, A. and Markus, H. S. and Traylor, M. and Lewis, C. M. and Carty, C. L. and Reiner, A. and Haessler, J. and Langefeld, C. D. and Gottesman, R. and Mosley, T. H. and Woo, D. and Yaffe, K. and Liu, Y. and Longstreth, W. T. and Psaty, B. M. and Kooperberg, C. and Lange, L. A. and Sacco, R. and Rundek, T. and Lee, J. M. and Cruchaga, C. and Furie, K. L. and Arnett, D. K. and Benavente, O. R. and Grewal, R. P. and Peddareddygari, L. R. and Dichgans, M. and Malik, R. and Worrall, B. B. and Fornage, M.}
}
@article {8925,
	title = {{The genomics of heart failure: design and rationale of the HERMES consortium},
	journal = {ESC Heart Fail},
	year = {2021},
	month = {Sep},
	abstract = {The HERMES (HEart failure Molecular Epidemiology for Therapeutic targetS) consortium aims to identify the genomic and molecular basis of heart failure.\ under an additive genetic model.\ HERMES is a global collaboration aiming to (i) identify the genetic determinants of heart failure; (ii) generate insights into the causal pathways leading to heart failure and enable genetic approaches to target prioritization; and (iii) develop genomic tools for disease stratification and risk prediction.},
	author = {Lumbers, R. T. and Shah, S. and Lin, H. and Czuba, T. and Henry, A. and Swerdlow, D. I. and Malarstig, A. and Andersson, C. and Verweij, N. and Holmes, M. V. and {\"A}rnl{\"o}v, J. and Svensson, P. and Hemingway, H. and Sallah, N. and Almgren, P. and Aragam, K. G. and Asselin, G. and Backman, J. D. and Biggs, M. L. and Bloom, H. L. and Boersma, E. and Brandimarto, J. and Brown, M. R. and Brunner-La Rocca, H. P. and Carey, D. J. and Chaffin, M. D. and Chasman, D. I. and Chazara, O. and Chen, X. and Chen, X. and Chung, J. H. and Chutkow, W. and Cleland, J. G. F. and Cook, J. P. and de Denus, S. and Dehghan, A. and Delgado, G. E. and Denaxas, S. and Doney, A. S. and D{\"o}rr, M. and Dudley, S. C. and Engstr{\"o}m, G. and Esko, T. and Fatemifar, G. and Felix, S. B. and Finan, C. and Ford, I. and Fougerousse, F. and Fouodjio, R. and Ghanbari, M. and Ghasemi, S. and Giedraitis, V. and Giulianini, F. and Gottdiener, J. S. and Gross, S. and Gu{\dh}bjartsson, D. F. and Gui, H. and Gutmann, R. and Haggerty, C. M. and van der Harst, P. and Hedman, {\r A}. K. and Helgadottir, A. and Hillege, H. and Hyde, C. L. and Jacob, J. and Jukema, J. W. and Kamanu, F. and Kardys, I. and Kavousi, M. and Khaw, K. T. and Kleber, M. E. and K{\o}ber, L. and Koekemoer, A. and Kraus, B. and Kuchenbaecker, K. and Langenberg, C. and Lind, L. and Lindgren, C. M. and London, B. and Lotta, L. A. and Lovering, R. C. and Luan, J. and Magnusson, P. and Mahajan, A. and Mann, D. and Margulies, K. B. and Marston, N. A. and M{\"a}rz, W. and McMurray, J. J. V. and Melander, O. and Melloni, G. and Mordi, I. R. and Morley, M. P. and Morris, A. D. and Morris, A. P. and Morrison, A. C. and Nagle, M. W. and Nelson, C. P. and Newton-Cheh, C. and Niessner, A. and Niiranen, T. and Nowak, C. and O{\textquoteright}Donoghue, M. L. and Owens, A. T. and Palmer, C. N. A. and Pare, G. and Perola, M. and Perreault, L. L. and Portilla-Fernandez, E. and Psaty, B. M. and Rice, K. M. and Ridker, P. M. and Romaine, S. P. R. and Roselli, C. and Rotter, J. I. and Ruff, C. T. and Sabatine, M. S. and Salo, P. and Salomaa, V. and van Setten, J. and Shalaby, A. A. and Smelser, D. T. and Smith, N. L. and Stefansson, K. and Stender, S. and Stott, D. J. and Sveinbjornsson, G. and Tammesoo, M. L. and Tardif, J. C. and Taylor, K. D. and Teder-Laving, M. and Teumer, A. and Thorgeirsson, G. and Thorsteinsdottir, U. and Torp-Pedersen, C. and Trompet, S. and Tuckwell, D. and Tyl, B. and Uitterlinden, A. G. and Vaura, F. and Veluchamy, A. and Visscher, P. M. and V{\"o}lker, U. and Voors, A. A. and Wang, X. and Wareham, N. J. and Weeke, P. E. and Weiss, R. and White, H. D. and Wiggins, K. L. and Xing, H. and Yang, J. and Yang, Y. and Yerges-Armstrong, L. M. and Yu, B. and Zannad, F. and Zhao, F. and Wilk, J. B. and Holm, H. and Sattar, N. and Lubitz, S. A. and Lanfear, D. E. and Shah, S. and Dunn, M. E. and Wells, Q. S. and Asselbergs, F. W. and Hingorani, A. D. and Dub{\'e}, M. P. and Samani, N. J. and Lang, C. C. and Cappola, T. P. and Ellinor, P. T. and Vasan, R. S. and Smith, J. G.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {9103,
	title = {{Genome-wide studies reveal factors associated with circulating uromodulin and its relationships to complex diseases},
	journal = {JCI Insight},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2022},
	month = {05},
	abstract = {Uromodulin (UMOD) is a major risk gene for monogenic and complex forms of kidney disease. The encoded kidney-specific protein uromodulin is highly abundant in urine and related to chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and pathogen defense. To gain insights into potential systemic roles, we performed genome-wide screens of circulating uromodulin using complementary antibody-based and aptamer-based assays. We detected 3 and 10 distinct significant loci, respectively. Integration of antibody-based results at the UMOD locus with functional genomics data (RNA-Seq, ATAC-Seq, Hi-C) of primary human kidney tissue highlighted an upstream variant with differential accessibility and transcription in uromodulin-synthesizing kidney cells as underlying the observed cis effect. Shared association patterns with complex traits, including chronic kidney disease and blood pressure, placed the PRKAG2 locus in the same pathway as UMOD. Experimental validation of the third antibody-based locus, B4GALNT2, showed that the p.Cys466Arg variant of the encoded N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase had a loss-of-function effect leading to higher serum uromodulin levels. Aptamer-based results pointed to enzymes writing glycan marks present on uromodulin and to their receptors in the circulation, suggesting that this assay permits investigating uromodulin{\textquoteright}s complex glycosylation rather than its quantitative levels. Overall, our study provides insights into circulating uromodulin and its emerging functions.},
	author = {Li, Y. and Cheng, Y. and Consolato, F. and Schiano, G. and Chong, M. R. and Pietzner, M. and Nguyen, N. Q. H. and Scherer, N. and Biggs, M. L. and Kleber, M. E. and Haug, S. and G{\"o}{\c c}men, B. and Pigeyre, M. and Sekula, P. and Steinbrenner, I. and Schlosser, P. and Joseph, C. B. and Brody, J. A. and Grams, M. E. and Hayward, C. and Schultheiss, U. T. and Kr{\"a}mer, B. K. and Kronenberg, F. and Peters, A. and Seissler, J. and Steubl, D. and Then, C. and Wuttke, M. and M{\"a}rz, W. and Eckardt, K. U. and Gieger, C. and Boerwinkle, E. and Psaty, B. M. and Coresh, J. and Oefner, P. J. and Pare, G. and Langenberg, C. and Scherberich, J. E. and Yu, B. and Akilesh, S. and Devuyst, O. and Rampoldi, L. and K{\"o}ttgen, A.}
}
