@article {958, title = {The association of alpha-fibrinogen Thr312Ala polymorphism and venous thromboembolism in the LITE study.}, journal = {Thromb Res}, volume = {121}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {1-7}, abstract = {

INTRODUCTION: The alpha-fibrinogen Thr312Ala variant has been shown to influence clot structure through increased factor XIII cross-linking and formation of thicker fibrin fibers. However, the effect of this common variant on risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is unclear. This paper reports the association between the Thr312Ala variant and VTE in the LITE study.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: 506 cases and 1014 controls frequency matched on age, sex, race, and study were drawn from two prospective studies and included in the analysis. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between Thr312Ala and VTE.

RESULTS: In a logistic regression model minimally adjusted for the matching variables, the Thr312Ala TA and AA genotypes were associated with a significantly higher risk of VTE than the TT genotype (TA OR and 95\% confidence interval 1.27 [1.01-1.60], AA OR 1.49 [1.00-2.22]). Associations were similar in analyses of PE and DVT considered separately and across racial and study subgroups. The association between alpha-fibrinogen Thr312Ala and VTE was modified by both BMI and the FXIII Val34Leu variant; the combination of elevated BMI or FXIII Val34Leu with alpha-fibrinogen Thr312Ala conveyed lower odds of VTE than would be expected by an additive or multiplicative model of individual risk factors.

CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that alpha-fibrinogen Thr312Ala is involved in the pathogenesis of VTE and that its action may be modified by other VTE risk factors.

}, keywords = {African Continental Ancestry Group, Aged, Case-Control Studies, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Fibrinogen, Genotype, Humans, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, Mutation, Missense, Polymorphism, Genetic, Venous Thromboembolism}, issn = {0049-3848}, doi = {10.1016/j.thromres.2007.02.008}, author = {Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Cushman, Mary and Tsai, Michael Y and Zhang, Yan and Heckbert, Susan R and Rosamond, Wayne D and Folsom, Aaron R} } @article {6091, title = {Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {44}, year = {2012}, month = {2012 Sep}, pages = {991-1005}, abstract = {

Through genome-wide association meta-analyses of up to 133,010 individuals of European ancestry without diabetes, including individuals newly genotyped using the Metabochip, we have increased the number of confirmed loci influencing glycemic traits to 53, of which 33 also increase type 2 diabetes risk (q < 0.05). Loci influencing fasting insulin concentration showed association with lipid levels and fat distribution, suggesting impact on insulin resistance. Gene-based analyses identified further biologically plausible loci, suggesting that additional loci beyond those reaching genome-wide significance are likely to represent real associations. This conclusion is supported by an excess of directionally consistent and nominally significant signals between discovery and follow-up studies. Functional analysis of these newly discovered loci will further improve our understanding of glycemic control.

}, keywords = {Adult, Animals, Blood Glucose, Fasting, Female, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin, Male, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Mice, Osmolar Concentration, Quantitative Trait Loci}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/ng.2385}, author = {Scott, Robert A and Lagou, Vasiliki and Welch, Ryan P and Wheeler, Eleanor and Montasser, May E and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Strawbridge, Rona J and Rehnberg, Emil and Gustafsson, Stefan and Kanoni, Stavroula and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Yengo, Loic and Lecoeur, C{\'e}cile and Shungin, Dmitry and Sanna, Serena and Sidore, Carlo and Johnson, Paul C D and Jukema, J Wouter and Johnson, Toby and Mahajan, Anubha and Verweij, Niek and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Shah, Sonia and Smith, Albert V and Sennblad, Bengt and Gieger, Christian and Salo, Perttu and Perola, Markus and Timpson, Nicholas J and Evans, David M and Pourcain, Beate St and Wu, Ying and Andrews, Jeanette S and Hui, Jennie and Bielak, Lawrence F and Zhao, Wei and Horikoshi, Momoko and Navarro, Pau and Isaacs, Aaron and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey R and Stirrups, Kathleen and Vitart, Veronique and Hayward, Caroline and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Mihailov, Evelin and Fraser, Ross M and Fall, Tove and Voight, Benjamin F and Raychaudhuri, Soumya and Chen, Han and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Morris, Andrew P and Rayner, Nigel W and Robertson, Neil and Rybin, Denis and Liu, Ching-Ti and Beckmann, Jacques S and Willems, Sara M and Chines, Peter S and Jackson, Anne U and Kang, Hyun Min and Stringham, Heather M and Song, Kijoung and Tanaka, Toshiko and Peden, John F and Goel, Anuj and Hicks, Andrew A and An, Ping and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, Martina and Franco-Cereceda, Anders and Folkersen, Lasse and Marullo, Letizia and Jansen, Hanneke and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Bruinenberg, Marcel and Pankow, James S and North, Kari E and Forouhi, Nita G and Loos, Ruth J F and Edkins, Sarah and Varga, Tibor V and Hallmans, G{\"o}ran and Oksa, Heikki and Antonella, Mulas and Nagaraja, Ramaiah and Trompet, Stella and Ford, Ian and Bakker, Stephan J L and Kong, Augustine and Kumari, Meena and Gigante, Bruna and Herder, Christian and Munroe, Patricia B and Caulfield, Mark and Antti, Jula and Mangino, Massimo and Small, Kerrin and Miljkovic, Iva and Liu, Yongmei and Atalay, Mustafa and Kiess, Wieland and James, Alan L and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Palmer, Colin N A and Doney, Alex S F and Willemsen, Gonneke and Smit, Johannes H and Campbell, Susan and Polasek, Ozren and Bonnycastle, Lori L and Hercberg, Serge and Dimitriou, Maria and Bolton, Jennifer L and Fowkes, Gerard R and Kovacs, Peter and Lindstr{\"o}m, Jaana and Zemunik, Tatijana and Bandinelli, Stefania and Wild, Sarah H and Basart, Hanneke V and Rathmann, Wolfgang and Grallert, Harald and Maerz, Winfried and Kleber, Marcus E and Boehm, Bernhard O and Peters, Annette and Pramstaller, Peter P and Province, Michael A and Borecki, Ingrid B and Hastie, Nicholas D and Rudan, Igor and Campbell, Harry and Watkins, Hugh and Farrall, Martin and Stumvoll, Michael and Ferrucci, Luigi and Waterworth, Dawn M and Bergman, Richard N and Collins, Francis S and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Watanabe, Richard M and de Geus, Eco J C and Penninx, Brenda W and Hofman, Albert and Oostra, Ben A and Psaty, Bruce M and Vollenweider, Peter and Wilson, James F and Wright, Alan F and Hovingh, G Kees and Metspalu, Andres and Uusitupa, Matti and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Kyvik, Kirsten O and Kaprio, Jaakko and Price, Jackie F and Dedoussis, George V and Deloukas, Panos and Meneton, Pierre and Lind, Lars and Boehnke, Michael and Shuldiner, Alan R and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Morris, Andrew D and Toenjes, Anke and Peyser, Patricia A and Beilby, John P and K{\"o}rner, Antje and Kuusisto, Johanna and Laakso, Markku and Bornstein, Stefan R and Schwarz, Peter E H and Lakka, Timo A and Rauramaa, Rainer and Adair, Linda S and Smith, George Davey and Spector, Tim D and Illig, Thomas and de Faire, Ulf and Hamsten, Anders and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Kivimaki, Mika and Hingorani, Aroon and Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M and Saaristo, Timo E and Boomsma, Dorret I and Stefansson, Kari and van der Harst, Pim and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Pedersen, Nancy L and Sattar, Naveed and Harris, Tamara B and Cucca, Francesco and Ripatti, Samuli and Salomaa, Veikko and Mohlke, Karen L and Balkau, Beverley and Froguel, Philippe and Pouta, Anneli and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Wareham, Nicholas J and Bouatia-Naji, Nabila and McCarthy, Mark I and Franks, Paul W and Meigs, James B and Teslovich, Tanya M and Florez, Jose C and Langenberg, Claudia and Ingelsson, Erik and Prokopenko, Inga and Barroso, In{\^e}s} } @article {1378, title = {Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals.}, journal = {PLoS Genet}, volume = {8}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {e1002607}, abstract = {

Circulating levels of adiponectin, a hormone produced predominantly by adipocytes, are highly heritable and are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and other metabolic traits. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 39,883 individuals of European ancestry to identify genes associated with metabolic disease. We identified 8 novel loci associated with adiponectin levels and confirmed 2 previously reported loci (P = 4.5{\texttimes}10(-8)-1.2{\texttimes}10(-43)). Using a novel method to combine data across ethnicities (N = 4,232 African Americans, N = 1,776 Asians, and N = 29,347 Europeans), we identified two additional novel loci. Expression analyses of 436 human adipocyte samples revealed that mRNA levels of 18 genes at candidate regions were associated with adiponectin concentrations after accounting for multiple testing (p<3{\texttimes}10(-4)). We next developed a multi-SNP genotypic risk score to test the association of adiponectin decreasing risk alleles on metabolic traits and diseases using consortia-level meta-analytic data. This risk score was associated with increased risk of T2D (p = 4.3{\texttimes}10(-3), n = 22,044), increased triglycerides (p = 2.6{\texttimes}10(-14), n = 93,440), increased waist-to-hip ratio (p = 1.8{\texttimes}10(-5), n = 77,167), increased glucose two hours post oral glucose tolerance testing (p = 4.4{\texttimes}10(-3), n = 15,234), increased fasting insulin (p = 0.015, n = 48,238), but with lower in HDL-cholesterol concentrations (p = 4.5{\texttimes}10(-13), n = 96,748) and decreased BMI (p = 1.4{\texttimes}10(-4), n = 121,335). These findings identify novel genetic determinants of adiponectin levels, which, taken together, influence risk of T2D and markers of insulin resistance.

}, keywords = {Adiponectin, African Americans, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Cholesterol, HDL, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Gene Expression, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glucose Tolerance Test, Humans, Insulin Resistance, Male, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio}, issn = {1553-7404}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pgen.1002607}, author = {Dastani, Zari and Hivert, Marie-France and Timpson, Nicholas and Perry, John R B and Yuan, Xin and Scott, Robert A and Henneman, Peter and Heid, Iris M and Kizer, Jorge R and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Fuchsberger, Christian and Tanaka, Toshiko and Morris, Andrew P and Small, Kerrin and Isaacs, Aaron and Beekman, Marian and Coassin, Stefan and Lohman, Kurt and Qi, Lu and Kanoni, Stavroula and Pankow, James S and Uh, Hae-Won and Wu, Ying and Bidulescu, Aurelian and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Greenwood, Celia M T and Ladouceur, Martin and Grimsby, Jonna and Manning, Alisa K and Liu, Ching-Ti and Kooner, Jaspal and Mooser, Vincent E and Vollenweider, Peter and Kapur, Karen A and Chambers, John and Wareham, Nicholas J and Langenberg, Claudia and Frants, Rune and Willems-Vandijk, Ko and Oostra, Ben A and Willems, Sara M and Lamina, Claudia and Winkler, Thomas W and Psaty, Bruce M and Tracy, Russell P and Brody, Jennifer and Chen, Ida and Viikari, Jorma and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Pramstaller, Peter P and Evans, David M and St Pourcain, Beate and Sattar, Naveed and Wood, Andrew R and Bandinelli, Stefania and Carlson, Olga D and Egan, Josephine M and B{\"o}hringer, Stefan and van Heemst, Diana and Kedenko, Lyudmyla and Kristiansson, Kati and Nuotio, Marja-Liisa and Loo, Britt-Marie and Harris, Tamara and Garcia, Melissa and Kanaya, Alka and Haun, Margot and Klopp, Norman and Wichmann, H-Erich and Deloukas, Panos and Katsareli, Efi and Couper, David J and Duncan, Bruce B and Kloppenburg, Margreet and Adair, Linda S and Borja, Judith B and Wilson, James G and Musani, Solomon and Guo, Xiuqing and Johnson, Toby and Semple, Robert and Teslovich, Tanya M and Allison, Matthew A and Redline, Susan and Buxbaum, Sarah G and Mohlke, Karen L and Meulenbelt, Ingrid and Ballantyne, Christie M and Dedoussis, George V and Hu, Frank B and Liu, Yongmei and Paulweber, Bernhard and Spector, Timothy D and Slagboom, P Eline and Ferrucci, Luigi and Jula, Antti and Perola, Markus and Raitakari, Olli and Florez, Jose C and Salomaa, Veikko and Eriksson, Johan G and Frayling, Timothy M and Hicks, Andrew A and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Smith, George Davey and Siscovick, David S and Kronenberg, Florian and van Duijn, Cornelia and Loos, Ruth J F and Waterworth, Dawn M and Meigs, James B and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Richards, J Brent and Voight, Benjamin F and Scott, Laura J and Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur and Dina, Christian and Welch, Ryan P and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Huth, Cornelia and Aulchenko, Yurii S and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and McCulloch, Laura J and Ferreira, Teresa and Grallert, Harald and Amin, Najaf and Wu, Guanming and Willer, Cristen J and Raychaudhuri, Soumya and McCarroll, Steve A and Hofmann, Oliver M and Segr{\`e}, Ayellet V and van Hoek, Mandy and Navarro, Pau and Ardlie, Kristin and Balkau, Beverley and Benediktsson, Rafn and Bennett, Amanda J and Blagieva, Roza and Boerwinkle, Eric and Bonnycastle, Lori L and Bostr{\"o}m, Kristina Bengtsson and Bravenboer, Bert and Bumpstead, Suzannah and Burtt, Noel P and Charpentier, Guillaume and Chines, Peter S and Cornelis, Marilyn and Crawford, Gabe and Doney, Alex S F and Elliott, Katherine S and Elliott, Amanda L and Erdos, Michael R and Fox, Caroline S and Franklin, Christopher S and Ganser, Martha and Gieger, Christian and Grarup, Niels and Green, Todd and Griffin, Simon and Groves, Christopher J and Guiducci, Candace and Hadjadj, Samy and Hassanali, Neelam and Herder, Christian and Isomaa, Bo and Jackson, Anne U and Johnson, Paul R V and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Kao, Wen H L and Kong, Augustine and Kraft, Peter and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lauritzen, Torsten and Li, Man and Lieverse, Aloysius and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Lyssenko, Valeriya and Marre, Michel and Meitinger, Thomas and Midthjell, Kristian and Morken, Mario A and Narisu, Narisu and Nilsson, Peter and Owen, Katharine R and Payne, Felicity and Petersen, Ann-Kristin and Platou, Carl and Proen{\c c}a, Christine and Prokopenko, Inga and Rathmann, Wolfgang and Rayner, N William and Robertson, Neil R and Rocheleau, Ghislain and Roden, Michael and Sampson, Michael J and Saxena, Richa and Shields, Beverley M and Shrader, Peter and Sigurdsson, Gunnar and Spars{\o}, Thomas and Strassburger, Klaus and Stringham, Heather M and Sun, Qi and Swift, Amy J and Thorand, Barbara and Tichet, Jean and Tuomi, Tiinamaija and van Dam, Rob M and van Haeften, Timon W and van Herpt, Thijs and van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V and Walters, G Bragi and Weedon, Michael N and Wijmenga, Cisca and Witteman, Jacqueline and Bergman, Richard N and Cauchi, Stephane and Collins, Francis S and Gloyn, Anna L and Gyllensten, Ulf and Hansen, Torben and Hide, Winston A and Hitman, Graham A and Hofman, Albert and Hunter, David J and Hveem, Kristian and Laakso, Markku and Morris, Andrew D and Palmer, Colin N A and Rudan, Igor and Sijbrands, Eric and Stein, Lincoln D and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Uitterlinden, Andre and Walker, Mark and Watanabe, Richard M and Abecasis, Goncalo R and Boehm, Bernhard O and Campbell, Harry and Daly, Mark J and Hattersley, Andrew T and Pedersen, Oluf and Barroso, In{\^e}s and Groop, Leif and Sladek, Rob and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Wilson, James F and Illig, Thomas and Froguel, Philippe and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Stefansson, Kari and Altshuler, David and Boehnke, Michael and McCarthy, Mark I and Soranzo, Nicole and Wheeler, Eleanor and Glazer, Nicole L and Bouatia-Naji, Nabila and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Randall, Joshua and Elliott, Paul and Rybin, Denis and Dehghan, Abbas and Hottenga, Jouke Jan and Song, Kijoung and Goel, Anuj and Lajunen, Taina and Doney, Alex and Cavalcanti-Proen{\c c}a, Christine and Kumari, Meena and Timpson, Nicholas J and Zabena, Carina and Ingelsson, Erik and An, Ping and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Elliott, Amanda and McCarroll, Steven A and Roccasecca, Rosa Maria and Pattou, Fran{\c c}ois and Sethupathy, Praveen and Ariyurek, Yavuz and Barter, Philip and Beilby, John P and Ben-Shlomo, Yoav and Bergmann, Sven and Bochud, Murielle and Bonnefond, Am{\'e}lie and Borch-Johnsen, Knut and B{\"o}ttcher, Yvonne and Brunner, Eric and Bumpstead, Suzannah J and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Chines, Peter and Clarke, Robert and Coin, Lachlan J M and Cooper, Matthew N and Crisponi, Laura and Day, Ian N M and de Geus, Eco J C and Delplanque, Jerome and Fedson, Annette C and Fischer-Rosinsky, Antje and Forouhi, Nita G and Franzosi, Maria Grazia and Galan, Pilar and Goodarzi, Mark O and Graessler, J{\"u}rgen and Grundy, Scott and Gwilliam, Rhian and Hallmans, G{\"o}ran and Hammond, Naomi and Han, Xijing and Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa and Hayward, Caroline and Heath, Simon C and Hercberg, Serge and Hillman, David R and Hingorani, Aroon D and Hui, Jennie and Hung, Joe and Kaakinen, Marika and Kaprio, Jaakko and Kesaniemi, Y Antero and Kivimaki, Mika and Knight, Beatrice and Koskinen, Seppo and Kovacs, Peter and Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm and Lathrop, G Mark and Lawlor, Debbie A and Le Bacquer, Olivier and Lecoeur, C{\'e}cile and Li, Yun and Mahley, Robert and Mangino, Massimo and Mart{\'\i}nez-Larrad, Mar{\'\i}a Teresa and McAteer, Jarred B and McPherson, Ruth and Meisinger, Christa and Melzer, David and Meyre, David and Mitchell, Braxton D and Mukherjee, Sutapa and Naitza, Silvia and Neville, Matthew J and Orr{\`u}, Marco and Pakyz, Ruth and Paolisso, Giuseppe and Pattaro, Cristian and Pearson, Daniel and Peden, John F and Pedersen, Nancy L and Pfeiffer, Andreas F H and Pichler, Irene and Polasek, Ozren and Posthuma, Danielle and Potter, Simon C and Pouta, Anneli and Province, Michael A and Rayner, Nigel W and Rice, Kenneth and Ripatti, Samuli and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Rolandsson, Olov and Sandbaek, Annelli and Sandhu, Manjinder and Sanna, Serena and Sayer, Avan Aihie and Scheet, Paul and Seedorf, Udo and Sharp, Stephen J and Shields, Beverley and Sigur{\dh}sson, Gunnar and Sijbrands, Eric J G and Silveira, Angela and Simpson, Laila and Singleton, Andrew and Smith, Nicholas L and Sovio, Ulla and Swift, Amy and Syddall, Holly and Syv{\"a}nen, Ann-Christine and T{\"o}njes, Anke and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and van Dijk, Ko Willems and Varma, Dhiraj and Visvikis-Siest, Sophie and Vitart, Veronique and Vogelzangs, Nicole and Waeber, G{\'e}rard and Wagner, Peter J and Walley, Andrew and Ward, Kim L and Watkins, Hugh and Wild, Sarah H and Willemsen, Gonneke and Witteman, Jaqueline C M and Yarnell, John W G and Zelenika, Diana and Zethelius, Bj{\"o}rn and Zhai, Guangju and Zhao, Jing Hua and Zillikens, M Carola and Borecki, Ingrid B and Meneton, Pierre and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Nathan, David M and Williams, Gordon H and Silander, Kaisa and Bornstein, Stefan R and Schwarz, Peter and Spranger, Joachim and Karpe, Fredrik and Shuldiner, Alan R and Cooper, Cyrus and Serrano-R{\'\i}os, Manuel and Lind, Lars and Palmer, Lyle J and Hu, Frank B and Franks, Paul W and Ebrahim, Shah and Marmot, Michael and Kao, W H Linda and Pramstaller, Peter Paul and Wright, Alan F and Stumvoll, Michael and Hamsten, Anders and Buchanan, Thomas A and Valle, Timo T and Rotter, Jerome I and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Boomsma, Dorret I and Cao, Antonio and Scuteri, Angelo and Schlessinger, David and Uda, Manuela and Ruokonen, Aimo and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Peltonen, Leena and Mooser, Vincent and Sladek, Robert and Musunuru, Kiran and Smith, Albert V and Edmondson, Andrew C and Stylianou, Ioannis M and Koseki, Masahiro and Pirruccello, James P and Chasman, Daniel I and Johansen, Christopher T and Fouchier, Sigrid W and Peloso, Gina M and Barbalic, Maja and Ricketts, Sally L and Bis, Joshua C and Feitosa, Mary F and Orho-Melander, Marju and Melander, Olle and Li, Xiaohui and Li, Mingyao and Cho, Yoon Shin and Go, Min Jin and Kim, Young Jin and Lee, Jong-Young and Park, Taesung and Kim, Kyunga and Sim, Xueling and Ong, Rick Twee-Hee and Croteau-Chonka, Damien C and Lange, Leslie A and Smith, Joshua D and Ziegler, Andreas and Zhang, Weihua and Zee, Robert Y L and Whitfield, John B and Thompson, John R and Surakka, Ida and Spector, Tim D and Smit, Johannes H and Sinisalo, Juha and Scott, James and Saharinen, Juha and Sabatti, Chiara and Rose, Lynda M and Roberts, Robert and Rieder, Mark and Parker, Alex N and Par{\'e}, Guillaume and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, Christopher J and Nieminen, Markku S and Nickerson, Deborah A and Montgomery, Grant W and McArdle, Wendy and Masson, David and Martin, Nicholas G and Marroni, Fabio and Lucas, Gavin and Luben, Robert and Lokki, Marja-Liisa and Lettre, Guillaume and Launer, Lenore J and Lakatta, Edward G and Laaksonen, Reijo and Kyvik, Kirsten O and K{\"o}nig, Inke R and Khaw, Kay-Tee and Kaplan, Lee M and Johansson, Asa and Janssens, A Cecile J W and Igl, Wilmar and Hovingh, G Kees and Hengstenberg, Christian and Havulinna, Aki S and Hastie, Nicholas D and Harris, Tamara B and Haritunians, Talin and Hall, Alistair S and Groop, Leif C and Gonzalez, Elena and Freimer, Nelson B and Erdmann, Jeanette and Ejebe, Kenechi G and D{\"o}ring, Angela and Dominiczak, Anna F and Demissie, Serkalem and Deloukas, Panagiotis and de Faire, Ulf and Crawford, Gabriel and Chen, Yii-der I and Caulfield, Mark J and Boekholdt, S Matthijs and Assimes, Themistocles L and Quertermous, Thomas and Seielstad, Mark and Wong, Tien Y and Tai, E-Shyong and Feranil, Alan B and Kuzawa, Christopher W and Taylor, Herman A and Gabriel, Stacey B and Holm, Hilma and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Krauss, Ronald M and Ordovas, Jose M and Munroe, Patricia B and Kooner, Jaspal S and Tall, Alan R and Hegele, Robert A and Kastelein, John J P and Schadt, Eric E and Strachan, David P and Reilly, Muredach P and Samani, Nilesh J and Schunkert, Heribert and Cupples, L Adrienne and Sandhu, Manjinder S and Ridker, Paul M and Rader, Daniel J and Kathiresan, Sekar} } @article {6287, title = {Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci.}, journal = {PLoS Genet}, volume = {9}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {e1003681}, abstract = {

Central obesity, measured by waist circumference (WC) or waist-hip ratio (WHR), is a marker of body fat distribution. Although obesity disproportionately affects minority populations, few studies have conducted genome-wide association study (GWAS) of fat distribution among those of predominantly African ancestry (AA). We performed GWAS of WC and WHR, adjusted and unadjusted for BMI, in up to 33,591 and 27,350 AA individuals, respectively. We identified loci associated with fat distribution in AA individuals using meta-analyses of GWA results for WC and WHR (stage 1). Overall, 25 SNPs with single genomic control (GC)-corrected p-values<5.0 {\texttimes} 10(-6) were followed-up (stage 2) in AA with WC and with WHR. Additionally, we interrogated genomic regions of previously identified European ancestry (EA) WHR loci among AA. In joint analysis of association results including both Stage 1 and 2 cohorts, 2 SNPs demonstrated association, rs2075064 at LHX2, p = 2.24{\texttimes}10(-8) for WC-adjusted-for-BMI, and rs6931262 at RREB1, p = 2.48{\texttimes}10(-8) for WHR-adjusted-for-BMI. However, neither signal was genome-wide significant after double GC-correction (LHX2: p = 6.5 {\texttimes} 10(-8); RREB1: p = 5.7 {\texttimes} 10(-8)). Six of fourteen previously reported loci for waist in EA populations were significant (p<0.05 divided by the number of independent SNPs within the region) in AA studied here (TBX15-WARS2, GRB14, ADAMTS9, LY86, RSPO3, ITPR2-SSPN). Further, we observed associations with metabolic traits: rs13389219 at GRB14 associated with HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, and fasting insulin, and rs13060013 at ADAMTS9 with HDL-cholesterol and fasting insulin. Finally, we observed nominal evidence for sexual dimorphism, with stronger results in AA women at the GRB14 locus (p for interaction = 0.02). In conclusion, we identified two suggestive loci associated with fat distribution in AA populations in addition to confirming 6 loci previously identified in populations of EA. These findings reinforce the concept that there are fat distribution loci that are independent of generalized adiposity.

}, keywords = {Adiposity, African Continental Ancestry Group, Body Fat Distribution, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio}, issn = {1553-7404}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pgen.1003681}, author = {Liu, Ching-Ti and Monda, Keri L and Taylor, Kira C and Lange, Leslie and Demerath, Ellen W and Palmas, Walter and Wojczynski, Mary K and Ellis, Jaclyn C and Vitolins, Mara Z and Liu, Simin and Papanicolaou, George J and Irvin, Marguerite R and Xue, Luting and Griffin, Paula J and Nalls, Michael A and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Liu, Jiankang and Li, Guo and Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A and Chen, Wei-Min and Chen, Fang and Henderson, Brian E and Millikan, Robert C and Ambrosone, Christine B and Strom, Sara S and Guo, Xiuqing and Andrews, Jeanette S and Sun, Yan V and Mosley, Thomas H and Yanek, Lisa R and Shriner, Daniel and Haritunians, Talin and Rotter, Jerome I and Speliotes, Elizabeth K and Smith, Megan and Rosenberg, Lynn and Mychaleckyj, Josyf and Nayak, Uma and Spruill, Ida and Garvey, W Timothy and Pettaway, Curtis and Nyante, Sarah and Bandera, Elisa V and Britton, Angela F and Zonderman, Alan B and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Ding, Jingzhong and Lohman, Kurt and Kritchevsky, Stephen B and Zhao, Wei and Peyser, Patricia A and Kardia, Sharon L R and Kabagambe, Edmond and Broeckel, Ulrich and Chen, Guanjie and Zhou, Jie and Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia and Neuhouser, Marian L and Rampersaud, Evadnie and Psaty, Bruce and Kooperberg, Charles and Manson, JoAnn E and Kuller, Lewis H and Ochs-Balcom, Heather M and Johnson, Karen C and Sucheston, Lara and Ordovas, Jose M and Palmer, Julie R and Haiman, Christopher A and McKnight, Barbara and Howard, Barbara V and Becker, Diane M and Bielak, Lawrence F and Liu, Yongmei and Allison, Matthew A and Grant, Struan F A and Burke, Gregory L and Patel, Sanjay R and Schreiner, Pamela J and Borecki, Ingrid B and Evans, Michele K and Taylor, Herman and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Howard, Virginia and Carlson, Christopher S and Rotimi, Charles N and Cushman, Mary and Harris, Tamara B and Reiner, Alexander P and Cupples, L Adrienne and North, Kari E and Fox, Caroline S} } @article {6078, title = {A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {45}, year = {2013}, month = {2013 Jun}, pages = {690-6}, abstract = {

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 36 loci associated with body mass index (BMI), predominantly in populations of European ancestry. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the association of >3.2 million SNPs with BMI in 39,144 men and women of African ancestry and followed up the most significant associations in an additional 32,268 individuals of African ancestry. We identified one new locus at 5q33 (GALNT10, rs7708584, P = 3.4 {\texttimes} 10(-11)) and another at 7p15 when we included data from the GIANT consortium (MIR148A-NFE2L3, rs10261878, P = 1.2 {\texttimes} 10(-10)). We also found suggestive evidence of an association at a third locus at 6q16 in the African-ancestry sample (KLHL32, rs974417, P = 6.9 {\texttimes} 10(-8)). Thirty-two of the 36 previously established BMI variants showed directionally consistent effect estimates in our GWAS (binomial P = 9.7 {\texttimes} 10(-7)), five of which reached genome-wide significance. These findings provide strong support for shared BMI loci across populations, as well as for the utility of studying ancestrally diverse populations.

}, keywords = {African Americans, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/ng.2608}, author = {Monda, Keri L and Chen, Gary K and Taylor, Kira C and Palmer, Cameron and Edwards, Todd L and Lange, Leslie A and Ng, Maggie C Y and Adeyemo, Adebowale A and Allison, Matthew A and Bielak, Lawrence F and Chen, Guanjie and Graff, Mariaelisa and Irvin, Marguerite R and Rhie, Suhn K and Li, Guo and Liu, Yongmei and Liu, Youfang and Lu, Yingchang and Nalls, Michael A and Sun, Yan V and Wojczynski, Mary K and Yanek, Lisa R and Aldrich, Melinda C and Ademola, Adeyinka and Amos, Christopher I and Bandera, Elisa V and Bock, Cathryn H and Britton, Angela and Broeckel, Ulrich and Cai, Quiyin and Caporaso, Neil E and Carlson, Chris S and Carpten, John and Casey, Graham and Chen, Wei-Min and Chen, Fang and Chen, Yii-der I and Chiang, Charleston W K and Coetzee, Gerhard A and Demerath, Ellen and Deming-Halverson, Sandra L and Driver, Ryan W and Dubbert, Patricia and Feitosa, Mary F and Feng, Ye and Freedman, Barry I and Gillanders, Elizabeth M and Gottesman, Omri and Guo, Xiuqing and Haritunians, Talin and Harris, Tamara and Harris, Curtis C and Hennis, Anselm J M and Hernandez, Dena G and McNeill, Lorna H and Howard, Timothy D and Howard, Barbara V and Howard, Virginia J and Johnson, Karen C and Kang, Sun J and Keating, Brendan J and Kolb, Suzanne and Kuller, Lewis H and Kutlar, Abdullah and Langefeld, Carl D and Lettre, Guillaume and Lohman, Kurt and Lotay, Vaneet and Lyon, Helen and Manson, JoAnn E and Maixner, William and Meng, Yan A and Monroe, Kristine R and Morhason-Bello, Imran and Murphy, Adam B and Mychaleckyj, Josyf C and Nadukuru, Rajiv and Nathanson, Katherine L and Nayak, Uma and N{\textquoteright}diaye, Amidou and Nemesure, Barbara and Wu, Suh-Yuh and Leske, M Cristina and Neslund-Dudas, Christine and Neuhouser, Marian and Nyante, Sarah and Ochs-Balcom, Heather and Ogunniyi, Adesola and Ogundiran, Temidayo O and Ojengbede, Oladosu and Olopade, Olufunmilayo I and Palmer, Julie R and Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A and Palmer, Nicholette D and Press, Michael F and Rampersaud, Evandine and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L and Salako, Babatunde and Schadt, Eric E and Schwartz, Ann G and Shriner, Daniel A and Siscovick, David and Smith, Shad B and Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia and Speliotes, Elizabeth K and Spitz, Margaret R and Sucheston, Lara and Taylor, Herman and Tayo, Bamidele O and Tucker, Margaret A and Van Den Berg, David J and Edwards, Digna R Velez and Wang, Zhaoming and Wiencke, John K and Winkler, Thomas W and Witte, John S and Wrensch, Margaret and Wu, Xifeng and Yang, James J and Levin, Albert M and Young, Taylor R and Zakai, Neil A and Cushman, Mary and Zanetti, Krista A and Zhao, Jing Hua and Zhao, Wei and Zheng, Yonglan and Zhou, Jie and Ziegler, Regina G and Zmuda, Joseph M and Fernandes, Jyotika K and Gilkeson, Gary S and Kamen, Diane L and Hunt, Kelly J and Spruill, Ida J and Ambrosone, Christine B and Ambs, Stefan and Arnett, Donna K and Atwood, Larry and Becker, Diane M and Berndt, Sonja I and Bernstein, Leslie and Blot, William J and Borecki, Ingrid B and Bottinger, Erwin P and Bowden, Donald W and Burke, Gregory and Chanock, Stephen J and Cooper, Richard S and Ding, Jingzhong and Duggan, David and Evans, Michele K and Fox, Caroline and Garvey, W Timothy and Bradfield, Jonathan P and Hakonarson, Hakon and Grant, Struan F A and Hsing, Ann and Chu, Lisa and Hu, Jennifer J and Huo, Dezheng and Ingles, Sue A and John, Esther M and Jordan, Joanne M and Kabagambe, Edmond K and Kardia, Sharon L R and Kittles, Rick A and Goodman, Phyllis J and Klein, Eric A and Kolonel, Laurence N and Le Marchand, Lo{\"\i}c and Liu, Simin and McKnight, Barbara and Millikan, Robert C and Mosley, Thomas H and Padhukasahasram, Badri and Williams, L Keoki and Patel, Sanjay R and Peters, Ulrike and Pettaway, Curtis A and Peyser, Patricia A and Psaty, Bruce M and Redline, Susan and Rotimi, Charles N and Rybicki, Benjamin A and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Schreiner, Pamela J and Signorello, Lisa B and Singleton, Andrew B and Stanford, Janet L and Strom, Sara S and Thun, Michael J and Vitolins, Mara and Zheng, Wei and Moore, Jason H and Williams, Scott M and Ketkar, Shamika and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Zonderman, Alan B and Kooperberg, Charles and Papanicolaou, George J and Henderson, Brian E and Reiner, Alex P and Hirschhorn, Joel N and Loos, Ruth J F and North, Kari E and Haiman, Christopher A} } @article {6585, title = {Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.}, journal = {PLoS Genet}, volume = {10}, year = {2014}, month = {2014 Aug}, pages = {e1004517}, abstract = {

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is more prevalent in African Americans than in Europeans. However, little is known about the genetic risk in African Americans despite the recent identification of more than 70 T2D loci primarily by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry. In order to investigate the genetic architecture of T2D in African Americans, the MEta-analysis of type 2 DIabetes in African Americans (MEDIA) Consortium examined 17 GWAS on T2D comprising 8,284 cases and 15,543 controls in African Americans in stage 1 analysis. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) association analysis was conducted in each study under the additive model after adjustment for age, sex, study site, and principal components. Meta-analysis of approximately 2.6 million genotyped and imputed SNPs in all studies was conducted using an inverse variance-weighted fixed effect model. Replications were performed to follow up 21 loci in up to 6,061 cases and 5,483 controls in African Americans, and 8,130 cases and 38,987 controls of European ancestry. We identified three known loci (TCF7L2, HMGA2 and KCNQ1) and two novel loci (HLA-B and INS-IGF2) at genome-wide significance (4.15 {\texttimes} 10(-94)}, keywords = {African Americans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genome-Wide Association Study, HLA-B27 Antigen, HMGA2 Protein, Humans, KCNQ1 Potassium Channel, Mutant Chimeric Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein}, issn = {1553-7404}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pgen.1004517}, author = {Ng, Maggie C Y and Shriner, Daniel and Chen, Brian H and Li, Jiang and Chen, Wei-Min and Guo, Xiuqing and Liu, Jiankang and Bielinski, Suzette J and Yanek, Lisa R and Nalls, Michael A and Comeau, Mary E and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Jensen, Richard A and Evans, Daniel S and Sun, Yan V and An, Ping and Patel, Sanjay R and Lu, Yingchang and Long, Jirong and Armstrong, Loren L and Wagenknecht, Lynne and Yang, Lingyao and Snively, Beverly M and Palmer, Nicholette D and Mudgal, Poorva and Langefeld, Carl D and Keene, Keith L and Freedman, Barry I and Mychaleckyj, Josyf C and Nayak, Uma and Raffel, Leslie J and Goodarzi, Mark O and Chen, Y-D Ida and Taylor, Herman A and Correa, Adolfo and Sims, Mario and Couper, David and Pankow, James S and Boerwinkle, Eric and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Doumatey, Ayo and Chen, Guanjie and Mathias, Rasika A and Vaidya, Dhananjay and Singleton, Andrew B and Zonderman, Alan B and Igo, Robert P and Sedor, John R and Kabagambe, Edmond K and Siscovick, David S and McKnight, Barbara and Rice, Kenneth and Liu, Yongmei and Hsueh, Wen-Chi and Zhao, Wei and Bielak, Lawrence F and Kraja, Aldi and Province, Michael A and Bottinger, Erwin P and Gottesman, Omri and Cai, Qiuyin and Zheng, Wei and Blot, William J and Lowe, William L and Pacheco, Jennifer A and Crawford, Dana C and Grundberg, Elin and Rich, Stephen S and Hayes, M Geoffrey and Shu, Xiao-Ou and Loos, Ruth J F and Borecki, Ingrid B and Peyser, Patricia A and Cummings, Steven R and Psaty, Bruce M and Fornage, Myriam and Iyengar, Sudha K and Evans, Michele K and Becker, Diane M and Kao, W H Linda and Wilson, James G and Rotter, Jerome I and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Liu, Simin and Rotimi, Charles N and Bowden, Donald W} } @article {6686, title = {Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility.}, journal = {Nat Commun}, volume = {6}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {5897}, abstract = {

Fasting glucose and insulin are intermediate traits for type 2 diabetes. Here we explore the role of coding variation on these traits by analysis of variants on the HumanExome BeadChip in 60,564 non-diabetic individuals and in 16,491 T2D cases and 81,877 controls. We identify a novel association of a low-frequency nonsynonymous SNV in GLP1R (A316T; rs10305492; MAF=1.4\%) with lower FG (β=-0.09{\textpm}0.01 mmol l(-1), P=3.4 {\texttimes} 10(-12)), T2D risk (OR[95\%CI]=0.86[0.76-0.96], P=0.010), early insulin secretion (β=-0.07{\textpm}0.035 pmolinsulin mmolglucose(-1), P=0.048), but higher 2-h glucose (β=0.16{\textpm}0.05 mmol l(-1), P=4.3 {\texttimes} 10(-4)). We identify a gene-based association with FG at G6PC2 (pSKAT=6.8 {\texttimes} 10(-6)) driven by four rare protein-coding SNVs (H177Y, Y207S, R283X and S324P). We identify rs651007 (MAF=20\%) in the first intron of ABO at the putative promoter of an antisense lncRNA, associating with higher FG (β=0.02{\textpm}0.004 mmol l(-1), P=1.3 {\texttimes} 10(-8)). Our approach identifies novel coding variant associations and extends the allelic spectrum of variation underlying diabetes-related quantitative traits and T2D susceptibility.

}, keywords = {African Continental Ancestry Group, Blood Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, European Continental Ancestry Group, Exome, Fasting, Genetic Association Studies, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor, Glucose-6-Phosphatase, Humans, Insulin, Mutation Rate, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide}, issn = {2041-1723}, doi = {10.1038/ncomms6897}, author = {Wessel, Jennifer and Chu, Audrey Y and Willems, Sara M and Wang, Shuai and Yaghootkar, Hanieh and Brody, Jennifer A and Dauriz, Marco and Hivert, Marie-France and Raghavan, Sridharan and Lipovich, Leonard and Hidalgo, Bertha and Fox, Keolu and Huffman, Jennifer E and An, Ping and Lu, Yingchang and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Grarup, Niels and Ehm, Margaret G and Li, Li and Baldridge, Abigail S and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Abrol, Ravinder and Besse, C{\'e}line and Boland, Anne and Bork-Jensen, Jette and Fornage, Myriam and Freitag, Daniel F and Garcia, Melissa E and Guo, Xiuqing and Hara, Kazuo and Isaacs, Aaron and Jakobsdottir, Johanna and Lange, Leslie A and Layton, Jill C and Li, Man and Hua Zhao, Jing and Meidtner, Karina and Morrison, Alanna C and Nalls, Mike A and Peters, Marjolein J and Sabater-Lleal, Maria and Schurmann, Claudia and Silveira, Angela and Smith, Albert V and Southam, Lorraine and Stoiber, Marcus H and Strawbridge, Rona J and Taylor, Kent D and Varga, Tibor V and Allin, Kristine H and Amin, Najaf and Aponte, Jennifer L and Aung, Tin and Barbieri, Caterina and Bihlmeyer, Nathan A and Boehnke, Michael and Bombieri, Cristina and Bowden, Donald W and Burns, Sean M and Chen, Yuning and Chen, Yii-DerI and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Correa, Adolfo and Czajkowski, Jacek and Dehghan, Abbas and Ehret, Georg B and Eiriksdottir, Gudny and Escher, Stefan A and Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni and Fr{\r a}nberg, Mattias and Gambaro, Giovanni and Giulianini, Franco and Goddard, William A and Goel, Anuj and Gottesman, Omri and Grove, Megan L and Gustafsson, Stefan and Hai, Yang and Hallmans, G{\"o}ran and Heo, Jiyoung and Hoffmann, Per and Ikram, Mohammad K and Jensen, Richard A and J{\o}rgensen, Marit E and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Karaleftheri, Maria and Khor, Chiea C and Kirkpatrick, Andrea and Kraja, Aldi T and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lange, Ethan M and Lee, I T and Lee, Wen-Jane and Leong, Aaron and Liao, Jiemin and Liu, Chunyu and Liu, Yongmei and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Linneberg, Allan and Malerba, Giovanni and Mamakou, Vasiliki and Marouli, Eirini and Maruthur, Nisa M and Matchan, Angela and McKean-Cowdin, Roberta and McLeod, Olga and Metcalf, Ginger A and Mohlke, Karen L and Muzny, Donna M and Ntalla, Ioanna and Palmer, Nicholette D and Pasko, Dorota and Peter, Andreas and Rayner, Nigel W and Renstrom, Frida and Rice, Ken and Sala, Cinzia F and Sennblad, Bengt and Serafetinidis, Ioannis and Smith, Jennifer A and Soranzo, Nicole and Speliotes, Elizabeth K and Stahl, Eli A and Stirrups, Kathleen and Tentolouris, Nikos and Thanopoulou, Anastasia and Torres, Mina and Traglia, Michela and Tsafantakis, Emmanouil and Javad, Sundas and Yanek, Lisa R and Zengini, Eleni and Becker, Diane M and Bis, Joshua C and Brown, James B and Cupples, L Adrienne and Hansen, Torben and Ingelsson, Erik and Karter, Andrew J and Lorenzo, Carlos and Mathias, Rasika A and Norris, Jill M and Peloso, Gina M and Sheu, Wayne H-H and Toniolo, Daniela and Vaidya, Dhananjay and Varma, Rohit and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Boeing, Heiner and Bottinger, Erwin P and Dedoussis, George and Deloukas, Panos and Ferrannini, Ele and Franco, Oscar H and Franks, Paul W and Gibbs, Richard A and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Hamsten, Anders and Harris, Tamara B and Hattersley, Andrew T and Hayward, Caroline and Hofman, Albert and Jansson, Jan-H{\r a}kan and Langenberg, Claudia and Launer, Lenore J and Levy, Daniel and Oostra, Ben A and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, Christopher J and O{\textquoteright}Rahilly, Stephen and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Pankow, James S and Polasek, Ozren and Province, Michael A and Rich, Stephen S and Ridker, Paul M and Rudan, Igor and Schulze, Matthias B and Smith, Blair H and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Walker, Mark and Watkins, Hugh and Wong, Tien Y and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Laakso, Markku and Borecki, Ingrid B and Chasman, Daniel I and Pedersen, Oluf and Psaty, Bruce M and Tai, E Shyong and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Wareham, Nicholas J and Waterworth, Dawn M and Boerwinkle, Eric and Kao, W H Linda and Florez, Jose C and Loos, Ruth J F and Wilson, James G and Frayling, Timothy M and Siscovick, David S and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Rotter, Jerome I and Meigs, James B and Scott, Robert A and Goodarzi, Mark O} } @article {7141, title = {Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis and Functional Annotation Illuminates the~Genetic Architecture of Fasting Glucose and Insulin.}, journal = {Am J Hum Genet}, volume = {99}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Jul 7}, pages = {56-75}, abstract = {

Knowledge of the genetic basis of the type 2 diabetes (T2D)-related quantitative traits fasting glucose (FG) and insulin (FI) in African ancestry (AA) individuals has been limited. In non-diabetic subjects of AA (n = 20,209) and European ancestry (EA; n = 57,292), we performed trans-ethnic (AA+EA) fine-mapping of 54 established EA FG or FI loci with detailed functional annotation, assessed their relevance in AA individuals, and sought previously undescribed loci through trans-ethnic (AA+EA) meta-analysis. We narrowed credible sets of variants driving association signals for 22/54 EA-associated loci; 18/22 credible sets overlapped with active islet-specific enhancers or transcription factor (TF) binding sites, and 21/22 contained at least one TF motif. Of the 54 EA-associated loci, 23 were shared between EA and AA. Replication with an additional 10,096 AA individuals identified two previously undescribed FI loci, chrX FAM133A (rs213676) and chr5 PELO (rs6450057). Trans-ethnic analyses with regulatory annotation illuminate the genetic architecture of glycemic traits and suggest gene regulation as a target to advance precision medicine for T2D. Our approach to utilize state-of-the-art functional annotation and implement trans-ethnic association analysis for discovery and fine-mapping offers a framework for further follow-up and characterization of GWAS signals of complex trait loci.

}, issn = {1537-6605}, doi = {10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.05.006}, author = {Liu, Ching-Ti and Raghavan, Sridharan and Maruthur, Nisa and Kabagambe, Edmond Kato and Hong, Jaeyoung and Ng, Maggie C Y and Hivert, Marie-France and Lu, Yingchang and An, Ping and Bentley, Amy R and Drolet, Anne M and Gaulton, Kyle J and Guo, Xiuqing and Armstrong, Loren L and Irvin, Marguerite R and Li, Man and Lipovich, Leonard and Rybin, Denis V and Taylor, Kent D and Agyemang, Charles and Palmer, Nicholette D and Cade, Brian E and Chen, Wei-Min and Dauriz, Marco and Delaney, Joseph A C and Edwards, Todd L and Evans, Daniel S and Evans, Michele K and Lange, Leslie A and Leong, Aaron and Liu, Jingmin and Liu, Yongmei and Nayak, Uma and Patel, Sanjay R and Porneala, Bianca C and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Snijder, Marieke B and Stallings, Sarah C and Tanaka, Toshiko and Yanek, Lisa R and Zhao, Wei and Becker, Diane M and Bielak, Lawrence F and Biggs, Mary L and Bottinger, Erwin P and Bowden, Donald W and Chen, Guanjie and Correa, Adolfo and Couper, David J and Crawford, Dana C and Cushman, Mary and Eicher, John D and Fornage, Myriam and Franceschini, Nora and Fu, Yi-Ping and Goodarzi, Mark O and Gottesman, Omri and Hara, Kazuo and Harris, Tamara B and Jensen, Richard A and Johnson, Andrew D and Jhun, Min A and Karter, Andrew J and Keller, Margaux F and Kho, Abel N and Kizer, Jorge R and Krauss, Ronald M and Langefeld, Carl D and Li, Xiaohui and Liang, Jingling and Liu, Simin and Lowe, William L and Mosley, Thomas H and North, Kari E and Pacheco, Jennifer A and Peyser, Patricia A and Patrick, Alan L and Rice, Kenneth M and Selvin, Elizabeth and Sims, Mario and Smith, Jennifer A and Tajuddin, Salman M and Vaidya, Dhananjay and Wren, Mary P and Yao, Jie and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Ziegler, Julie T and Zmuda, Joseph M and Zonderman, Alan B and Zwinderman, Aeilko H and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Boerwinkle, Eric and Ferrucci, Luigi and Hayes, M Geoffrey and Kardia, Sharon L R and Miljkovic, Iva and Pankow, James S and Rotimi, Charles N and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Wagenknecht, Lynne E and Arnett, Donna K and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Nalls, Michael A and Province, Michael A and Kao, W H Linda and Siscovick, David S and Psaty, Bruce M and Wilson, James G and Loos, Ruth J F and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Rich, Stephen S and Florez, Jose C and Rotter, Jerome I and Morris, Andrew P and Meigs, James B} } @article {7566, title = {Discovery and replication of SNP-SNP interactions for quantitative lipid traits in over 60,000 individuals.}, journal = {BioData Min}, volume = {10}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {25}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND: The genetic etiology of human lipid quantitative traits is not fully elucidated, and interactions between variants may play a role. We performed a gene-centric interaction study for four different lipid traits: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), total cholesterol (TC), and triglycerides (TG).

RESULTS: Our analysis consisted of a discovery phase using a merged dataset of five different cohorts (n~=~12,853 to n~=~16,849 depending on lipid phenotype) and a replication phase with ten independent cohorts totaling up to 36,938 additional samples. Filters are often applied before interaction testing to correct for the burden of testing all pairwise interactions. We used two different filters: 1. A filter that tested only single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with a main effect of p~<~0.001 in a previous association study. 2. A filter that only tested interactions identified by Biofilter 2.0. Pairwise models that reached an interaction significance level of p~<~0.001 in the discovery dataset were tested for replication. We identified thirteen SNP-SNP models that were significant in more than one replication cohort after accounting for multiple testing.

CONCLUSIONS: These results may reveal novel insights into the genetic etiology of lipid levels. Furthermore, we developed a pipeline to perform a computationally efficient interaction analysis with multi-cohort replication.

}, issn = {1756-0381}, doi = {10.1186/s13040-017-0145-5}, author = {Holzinger, Emily R and Verma, Shefali S and Moore, Carrie B and Hall, Molly and De, Rishika and Gilbert-Diamond, Diane and Lanktree, Matthew B and Pankratz, Nathan and Amuzu, Antoinette and Burt, Amber and Dale, Caroline and Dudek, Scott and Furlong, Clement E and Gaunt, Tom R and Kim, Daniel Seung and Riess, Helene and Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh and Tragante, Vinicius and van Iperen, Erik P A and Brautbar, Ariel and Carrell, David S and Crosslin, David R and Jarvik, Gail P and Kuivaniemi, Helena and Kullo, Iftikhar J and Larson, Eric B and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Tromp, Gerard and Baumert, Jens and Cruickshanks, Karen J and Farrall, Martin and Hingorani, Aroon D and Hovingh, G K and Kleber, Marcus E and Klein, Barbara E and Klein, Ronald and Koenig, Wolfgang and Lange, Leslie A and Mӓrz, Winfried and North, Kari E and Charlotte Onland-Moret, N and Reiner, Alex P and Talmud, Philippa J and van der Schouw, Yvonne T and Wilson, James G and Kivimaki, Mika and Kumari, Meena and Moore, Jason H and Drenos, Fotios and Asselbergs, Folkert W and Keating, Brendan J and Ritchie, Marylyn D} } @article {8511, title = {Genome-wide meta-analysis of SNP and antihypertensive medication interactions on left ventricular traits in African Americans.}, journal = {Mol Genet Genomic Med}, volume = {7}, year = {2019}, month = {2019 10}, pages = {e00788}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND: Left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy affects up to 43\% of African Americans (AAs). Antihypertensive treatment reduces LV mass (LVM). However, interindividual variation in LV traits in response to antihypertensive treatments exists. We hypothesized that genetic variants may modify the association of antihypertensive treatment class with LV traits measured by echocardiography.

METHODS: We evaluated the main effects of the three most common antihypertensive treatments for AAs as well as the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-by-drug interaction on LVM and relative wall thickness (RWT) in 2,068 participants across five community-based cohorts. Treatments included thiazide diuretics (TDs), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-Is), and dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers (dCCBs) and were compared in a pairwise manner. We performed fixed effects inverse variance weighted meta-analyses of main effects of drugs and 2.5~million SNP-by-drug interaction estimates.

RESULTS: We observed that dCCBs versus TDs were associated with higher LVM after adjusting for covariates (p~=~0.001). We report three SNPs at a single locus on chromosome 20 that modified the association between RWT and treatment when comparing dCCBs to ACE-Is with consistent effects across cohorts (smallest p~=~4.7~{\texttimes}~10 , minor allele frequency range 0.09-0.12). This locus has been linked to LV hypertrophy in a previous study. A marginally significant locus in BICD1 (rs326641) was validated in an external population.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study identified one locus having genome-wide significant SNP-by-drug interaction effect on RWT among dCCB users in comparison to ACE-I users. Upon additional validation in future studies, our findings can enhance the precision of medical approaches in hypertension treatment.

}, keywords = {African Americans, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors, Antihypertensive Agents, Calcium Channel Blockers, Humans, Observational Studies as Topic, Pharmacogenomic Variants, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left}, issn = {2324-9269}, doi = {10.1002/mgg3.788}, author = {Do, Anh N and Zhao, Wei and Baldridge, Abigail S and Raffield, Laura M and Wiggins, Kerri L and Shah, Sanjiv J and Aslibekyan, Stella and Tiwari, Hemant K and Limdi, Nita and Zhi, Degui and Sitlani, Colleen M and Taylor, Kent D and Psaty, Bruce M and Sotoodehnia, Nona and Brody, Jennifer A and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Lloyd-Jones, Donald and Lange, Leslie A and Wilson, James G and Smith, Jennifer A and Kardia, Sharon L R and Mosley, Thomas H and Vasan, Ramachandran S and Arnett, Donna K and Irvin, Marguerite R} } @article {8705, title = {Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry.}, journal = {Am J Hum Genet}, volume = {108}, year = {2021}, month = {2021 Apr 01}, pages = {564-582}, abstract = {

Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC). We additionally combined our African ancestry meta-analysis results with published European genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. In the African ancestry analyses, we identified three novel loci (SLC4A3, NCOA2, ECD/FAM149B1) in sex-combined results and two loci (CRB1, KLF6) in women only. In the African plus European sex-combined GWAS, we identified an additional three novel loci (RCCD1, G6PC3, CEP95) which were equally driven by AAAGC and European results. Among 39 genome-wide significant signals at known loci, conditioning index SNPs from European studies identified 20 secondary signals. Two of the 20 new secondary signals and none of the 8 novel loci had minor allele frequencies (MAF) < 5\%. Of 802 known European height signals, 643 displayed directionally consistent associations with height, of which 205 were nominally significant (p < 0.05) in the African ancestry sex-combined sample. Furthermore, 148 of 241 loci contained <=20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99\% of the posterior probability of driving the associations. In summary, trans-ethnic meta-analyses revealed novel signals and further improved fine-mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between African and European ancestry populations.

}, issn = {1537-6605}, doi = {10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.02.011}, author = {Graff, Mariaelisa and Justice, Anne E and Young, Kristin L and Marouli, Eirini and Zhang, Xinruo and Fine, Rebecca S and Lim, Elise and Buchanan, Victoria and Rand, Kristin and Feitosa, Mary F and Wojczynski, Mary K and Yanek, Lisa R and Shao, Yaming and Rohde, Rebecca and Adeyemo, Adebowale A and Aldrich, Melinda C and Allison, Matthew A and Ambrosone, Christine B and Ambs, Stefan and Amos, Christopher and Arnett, Donna K and Atwood, Larry and Bandera, Elisa V and Bartz, Traci and Becker, Diane M and Berndt, Sonja I and Bernstein, Leslie and Bielak, Lawrence F and Blot, William J and Bottinger, Erwin P and Bowden, Donald W and Bradfield, Jonathan P and Brody, Jennifer A and Broeckel, Ulrich and Burke, Gregory and Cade, Brian E and Cai, Qiuyin and Caporaso, Neil and Carlson, Chris and Carpten, John and Casey, Graham and Chanock, Stephen J and Chen, Guanjie and Chen, Minhui and Chen, Yii-der I and Chen, Wei-Min and Chesi, Alessandra and Chiang, Charleston W K and Chu, Lisa and Coetzee, Gerry A and Conti, David V and Cooper, Richard S and Cushman, Mary and Demerath, Ellen and Deming, Sandra L and Dimitrov, Latchezar and Ding, Jingzhong and Diver, W Ryan and Duan, Qing and Evans, Michele K and Falusi, Adeyinka G and Faul, Jessica D and Fornage, Myriam and Fox, Caroline and Freedman, Barry I and Garcia, Melissa and Gillanders, Elizabeth M and Goodman, Phyllis and Gottesman, Omri and Grant, Struan F A and Guo, Xiuqing and Hakonarson, Hakon and Haritunians, Talin and Harris, Tamara B and Harris, Curtis C and Henderson, Brian E and Hennis, Anselm and Hernandez, Dena G and Hirschhorn, Joel N and McNeill, Lorna Haughton and Howard, Timothy D and Howard, Barbara and Hsing, Ann W and Hsu, Yu-Han H and Hu, Jennifer J and Huff, Chad D and Huo, Dezheng and Ingles, Sue A and Irvin, Marguerite R and John, Esther M and Johnson, Karen C and Jordan, Joanne M and Kabagambe, Edmond K and Kang, Sun J and Kardia, Sharon L and Keating, Brendan J and Kittles, Rick A and Klein, Eric A and Kolb, Suzanne and Kolonel, Laurence N and Kooperberg, Charles and Kuller, Lewis and Kutlar, Abdullah and Lange, Leslie and Langefeld, Carl D and Le Marchand, Lo{\"\i}c and Leonard, Hampton and Lettre, Guillaume and Levin, Albert M and Li, Yun and Li, Jin and Liu, Yongmei and Liu, Youfang and Liu, Simin and Lohman, Kurt and Lotay, Vaneet and Lu, Yingchang and Maixner, William and Manson, JoAnn E and McKnight, Barbara and Meng, Yan and Monda, Keri L and Monroe, Kris and Moore, Jason H and Mosley, Thomas H and Mudgal, Poorva and Murphy, Adam B and Nadukuru, Rajiv and Nalls, Mike A and Nathanson, Katherine L and Nayak, Uma and N{\textquoteright}diaye, Amidou and Nemesure, Barbara and Neslund-Dudas, Christine and Neuhouser, Marian L and Nyante, Sarah and Ochs-Balcom, Heather and Ogundiran, Temidayo O and Ogunniyi, Adesola and Ojengbede, Oladosu and Okut, Hayrettin and Olopade, Olufunmilayo I and Olshan, Andrew and Padhukasahasram, Badri and Palmer, Julie and Palmer, Cameron D and Palmer, Nicholette D and Papanicolaou, George and Patel, Sanjay R and Pettaway, Curtis A and Peyser, Patricia A and Press, Michael F and Rao, D C and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Redline, Susan and Reiner, Alex P and Rhie, Suhn K and Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L and Rotimi, Charles N and Rotter, Jerome I and Ruiz-Narvaez, Edward A and Rybicki, Benjamin A and Salako, Babatunde and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Sanderson, Maureen and Schadt, Eric and Schreiner, Pamela J and Schurmann, Claudia and Schwartz, Ann G and Shriner, Daniel A and Signorello, Lisa B and Singleton, Andrew B and Siscovick, David S and Smith, Jennifer A and Smith, Shad and Speliotes, Elizabeth and Spitz, Margaret and Stanford, Janet L and Stevens, Victoria L and Stram, Alex and Strom, Sara S and Sucheston, Lara and Sun, Yan V and Tajuddin, Salman M and Taylor, Herman and Taylor, Kira and Tayo, Bamidele O and Thun, Michael J and Tucker, Margaret A and Vaidya, Dhananjay and Van Den Berg, David J and Vedantam, Sailaja and Vitolins, Mara and Wang, Zhaoming and Ware, Erin B and Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia and Weir, David R and Wiencke, John K and Williams, Scott M and Williams, L Keoki and Wilson, James G and Witte, John S and Wrensch, Margaret and Wu, Xifeng and Yao, Jie and Zakai, Neil and Zanetti, Krista and Zemel, Babette S and Zhao, Wei and Zhao, Jing Hua and Zheng, Wei and Zhi, Degui and Zhou, Jie and Zhu, Xiaofeng and Ziegler, Regina G and Zmuda, Joe and Zonderman, Alan B and Psaty, Bruce M and Borecki, Ingrid B and Cupples, L Adrienne and Liu, Ching-Ti and Haiman, Christopher A and Loos, Ruth and Ng, Maggie C Y and North, Kari E} } @article {9104, title = {Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {54}, year = {2022}, month = {2022 May}, pages = {560-572}, abstract = {

We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9\% non-European descent) through the Diabetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies (DIAMANTE) Consortium. Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identified 237 loci attaining stringent genome-wide significance (P < 5 {\texttimes} 10), which were delineated to 338 distinct association signals. Fine-mapping of these signals was enhanced by the increased sample size and expanded population diversity of the multi-ancestry meta-analysis, which localized 54.4\% of T2D associations to a single variant with >50\% posterior probability. This improved fine-mapping enabled systematic assessment of candidate causal genes and molecular mechanisms through which T2D associations are mediated, laying the foundations for functional investigations. Multi-ancestry genetic risk scores enhanced transferability of T2D prediction across diverse populations. Our study provides a step toward more effective clinical translation of T2D GWAS to improve global health for all, irrespective of genetic background.

}, keywords = {Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Ethnicity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/s41588-022-01058-3}, author = {Mahajan, Anubha and Spracklen, Cassandra N and Zhang, Weihua and Ng, Maggie C Y and Petty, Lauren E and Kitajima, Hidetoshi and Yu, Grace Z and R{\"u}eger, Sina and Speidel, Leo and Kim, Young Jin and Horikoshi, Momoko and Mercader, Josep M and Taliun, Daniel and Moon, Sanghoon and Kwak, Soo-Heon and Robertson, Neil R and Rayner, Nigel W and Loh, Marie and Kim, Bong-Jo and Chiou, Joshua and Miguel-Escalada, Irene and Della Briotta Parolo, Pietro and Lin, Kuang and Bragg, Fiona and Preuss, Michael H and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Nano, Jana and Guo, Xiuqing and Lamri, Amel and Nakatochi, Masahiro and Scott, Robert A and Lee, Jung-Jin and Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia and Graff, Mariaelisa and Chai, Jin-Fang and Parra, Esteban J and Yao, Jie and Bielak, Lawrence F and Tabara, Yasuharu and Hai, Yang and Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur and Cook, James P and Kals, Mart and Grarup, Niels and Schmidt, Ellen M and Pan, Ian and Sofer, Tamar and Wuttke, Matthias and Sarnowski, Chloe and Gieger, Christian and Nousome, Darryl and Trompet, Stella and Long, Jirong and Sun, Meng and Tong, Lin and Chen, Wei-Min and Ahmad, Meraj and Noordam, Raymond and Lim, Victor J Y and Tam, Claudia H T and Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie and Chen, Chien-Hsiun and Raffield, Laura M and Lecoeur, C{\'e}cile and Prins, Bram Peter and Nicolas, Aude and Yanek, Lisa R and Chen, Guanjie and Jensen, Richard A and Tajuddin, Salman and Kabagambe, Edmond K and An, Ping and Xiang, Anny H and Choi, Hyeok Sun and Cade, Brian E and Tan, Jingyi and Flanagan, Jack and Abaitua, Fernando and Adair, Linda S and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A and Akiyama, Masato and Anand, Sonia S and Bertoni, Alain and Bian, Zheng and Bork-Jensen, Jette and Brandslund, Ivan and Brody, Jennifer A and Brummett, Chad M and Buchanan, Thomas A and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chan, Juliana C N and Chang, Li-Ching and Chee, Miao-Li and Chen, Ji and Chen, Shyh-Huei and Chen, Yuan-Tsong and Chen, Zhengming and Chuang, Lee-Ming and Cushman, Mary and Das, Swapan K and de Silva, H Janaka and Dedoussis, George and Dimitrov, Latchezar and Doumatey, Ayo P and Du, Shufa and Duan, Qing and Eckardt, Kai-Uwe and Emery, Leslie S and Evans, Daniel S and Evans, Michele K and Fischer, Krista and Floyd, James S and Ford, Ian and Fornage, Myriam and Franco, Oscar H and Frayling, Timothy M and Freedman, Barry I and Fuchsberger, Christian and Genter, Pauline and Gerstein, Hertzel C and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gonz{\'a}lez-Villalpando, Clicerio and Gonzalez-Villalpando, Maria Elena and Goodarzi, Mark O and Gordon-Larsen, Penny and Gorkin, David and Gross, Myron and Guo, Yu and Hackinger, Sophie and Han, Sohee and Hattersley, Andrew T and Herder, Christian and Howard, Annie-Green and Hsueh, Willa and Huang, Mengna and Huang, Wei and Hung, Yi-Jen and Hwang, Mi Yeong and Hwu, Chii-Min and Ichihara, Sahoko and Ikram, Mohammad Arfan and Ingelsson, Martin and Islam, Md Tariqul and Isono, Masato and Jang, Hye-Mi and Jasmine, Farzana and Jiang, Guozhi and Jonas, Jost B and J{\o}rgensen, Marit E and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Kamatani, Yoichiro and Kandeel, Fouad R and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Kaur, Varinderpal and Kawaguchi, Takahisa and Keaton, Jacob M and Kho, Abel N and Khor, Chiea-Chuen and Kibriya, Muhammad G and Kim, Duk-Hwan and Kohara, Katsuhiko and Kriebel, Jennifer and Kronenberg, Florian and Kuusisto, Johanna and L{\"a}ll, Kristi and Lange, Leslie A and Lee, Myung-Shik and Lee, Nanette R and Leong, Aaron and Li, Liming and Li, Yun and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Ligthart, Symen and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Linneberg, Allan and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Jianjun and Locke, Adam E and Louie, Tin and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Luk, Andrea O and Luo, Xi and Lv, Jun and Lyssenko, Valeriya and Mamakou, Vasiliki and Mani, K Radha and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Morris, Andrew D and Nadkarni, Girish N and Nadler, Jerry L and Nalls, Michael A and Nayak, Uma and Nongmaithem, Suraj S and Ntalla, Ioanna and Okada, Yukinori and Orozco, Lorena and Patel, Sanjay R and Pereira, Mark A and Peters, Annette and Pirie, Fraser J and Porneala, Bianca and Prasad, Gauri and Preissl, Sebastian and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Reiner, Alexander P and Roden, Michael and Rohde, Rebecca and Roll, Kathryn and Sabanayagam, Charumathi and Sander, Maike and Sandow, Kevin and Sattar, Naveed and Sch{\"o}nherr, Sebastian and Schurmann, Claudia and Shahriar, Mohammad and Shi, Jinxiu and Shin, Dong Mun and Shriner, Daniel and Smith, Jennifer A and So, Wing Yee and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Stilp, Adrienne M and Strauch, Konstantin and Suzuki, Ken and Takahashi, Atsushi and Taylor, Kent D and Thorand, Barbara and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Tomlinson, Brian and Torres, Jason M and Tsai, Fuu-Jen and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Tusi{\'e}-Luna, Teresa and Udler, Miriam S and Valladares-Salgado, Adan and van Dam, Rob M and van Klinken, Jan B and Varma, Rohit and Vujkovic, Marijana and Wacher-Rodarte, Niels and Wheeler, Eleanor and Whitsel, Eric A and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and van Dijk, Ko Willems and Witte, Daniel R and Yajnik, Chittaranjan S and Yamamoto, Ken and Yamauchi, Toshimasa and Yengo, Loic and Yoon, Kyungheon and Yu, Canqing and Yuan, Jian-Min and Yusuf, Salim and Zhang, Liang and Zheng, Wei and Raffel, Leslie J and Igase, Michiya and Ipp, Eli and Redline, Susan and Cho, Yoon Shin and Lind, Lars and Province, Michael A and Hanis, Craig L and Peyser, Patricia A and Ingelsson, Erik and Zonderman, Alan B and Psaty, Bruce M and Wang, Ya-Xing and Rotimi, Charles N and Becker, Diane M and Matsuda, Fumihiko and Liu, Yongmei and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Yokota, Mitsuhiro and Rich, Stephen S and Kooperberg, Charles and Pankow, James S and Engert, James C and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Froguel, Philippe and Wilson, James G and Sheu, Wayne H H and Kardia, Sharon L R and Wu, Jer-Yuarn and Hayes, M Geoffrey and Ma, Ronald C W and Wong, Tien-Yin and Groop, Leif and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Chandak, Giriraj R and Collins, Francis S and Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan and Par{\'e}, Guillaume and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Ahsan, Habibul and Motala, Ayesha A and Shu, Xiao-Ou and Park, Kyong-Soo and Jukema, J Wouter and Cruz, Miguel and McKean-Cowdin, Roberta and Grallert, Harald and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Bottinger, Erwin P and Dehghan, Abbas and Tai, E-Shyong and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Kato, Norihiro and Laakso, Markku and K{\"o}ttgen, Anna and Koh, Woon-Puay and Palmer, Colin N A and Liu, Simin and Abecasis, Goncalo and Kooner, Jaspal S and Loos, Ruth J F and North, Kari E and Haiman, Christopher A and Florez, Jose C and Saleheen, Danish and Hansen, Torben and Pedersen, Oluf and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Langenberg, Claudia and Wareham, Nicholas J and Maeda, Shiro and Kadowaki, Takashi and Lee, Juyoung and Millwood, Iona Y and Walters, Robin G and Stefansson, Kari and Myers, Simon R and Ferrer, Jorge and Gaulton, Kyle J and Meigs, James B and Mohlke, Karen L and Gloyn, Anna L and Bowden, Donald W and Below, Jennifer E and Chambers, John C and Sim, Xueling and Boehnke, Michael and Rotter, Jerome I and McCarthy, Mark I and Morris, Andrew P} } @article {9158, title = {Whole genome sequence association analysis of fasting glucose and fasting insulin levels in diverse cohorts from the NHLBI TOPMed program.}, journal = {Commun Biol}, volume = {5}, year = {2022}, month = {2022 07 28}, pages = {756}, abstract = {

The genetic determinants of fasting glucose (FG) and fasting insulin (FI) have been studied mostly through genome arrays, resulting in over 100 associated variants. We extended this work with high-coverage whole genome sequencing analyses from fifteen cohorts in NHLBI{\textquoteright}s Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. Over 23,000 non-diabetic individuals from five race-ethnicities/populations (African, Asian, European, Hispanic and Samoan) were included. Eight variants were significantly associated with FG or FI across previously identified regions MTNR1B, G6PC2, GCK, GCKR and FOXA2. We additionally characterize suggestive associations with FG or FI near previously identified SLC30A8, TCF7L2, and ADCY5 regions as well as APOB, PTPRT, and ROBO1. Functional annotation resources including the Diabetes Epigenome Atlas were compiled for each signal (chromatin states, annotation principal components, and others) to elucidate variant-to-function hypotheses. We provide a catalog of nucleotide-resolution genomic variation spanning intergenic and intronic regions creating a foundation for future sequencing-based investigations of glycemic traits.

}, keywords = {Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Fasting, Glucose, Humans, Insulin, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.), Nerve Tissue Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Precision Medicine, Receptors, Immunologic, United States}, issn = {2399-3642}, doi = {10.1038/s42003-022-03702-4}, author = {DiCorpo, Daniel and Gaynor, Sheila M and Russell, Emily M and Westerman, Kenneth E and Raffield, Laura M and Majarian, Timothy D and Wu, Peitao and Sarnowski, Chloe and Highland, Heather M and Jackson, Anne and Hasbani, Natalie R and de Vries, Paul S and Brody, Jennifer A and Hidalgo, Bertha and Guo, Xiuqing and Perry, James A and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey R and Lent, Samantha and Montasser, May E and Cade, Brian E and Jain, Deepti and Wang, Heming and D{\textquoteright}Oliveira Albanus, Ricardo and Varshney, Arushi and Yanek, Lisa R and Lange, Leslie and Palmer, Nicholette D and Almeida, Marcio and Peralta, Juan M and Aslibekyan, Stella and Baldridge, Abigail S and Bertoni, Alain G and Bielak, Lawrence F and Chen, Chung-Shiuan and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Choi, Won Jung and Goodarzi, Mark O and Floyd, James S and Irvin, Marguerite R and Kalyani, Rita R and Kelly, Tanika N and Lee, Seonwook and Liu, Ching-Ti and Loesch, Douglas and Manson, JoAnn E and Minster, Ryan L and Naseri, Take and Pankow, James S and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Reiner, Alexander P and Reupena, Muagututi{\textquoteright}a Sefuiva and Selvin, Elizabeth and Smith, Jennifer A and Weeks, Daniel E and Xu, Huichun and Yao, Jie and Zhao, Wei and Parker, Stephen and Alonso, Alvaro and Arnett, Donna K and Blangero, John and Boerwinkle, Eric and Correa, Adolfo and Cupples, L Adrienne and Curran, Joanne E and Duggirala, Ravindranath and He, Jiang and Heckbert, Susan R and Kardia, Sharon L R and Kim, Ryan W and Kooperberg, Charles and Liu, Simin and Mathias, Rasika A and McGarvey, Stephen T and Mitchell, Braxton D and Morrison, Alanna C and Peyser, Patricia A and Psaty, Bruce M and Redline, Susan and Shuldiner, Alan R and Taylor, Kent D and Vasan, Ramachandran S and Viaud-Martinez, Karine A and Florez, Jose C and Wilson, James G and Sladek, Robert and Rich, Stephen S and Rotter, Jerome I and Lin, Xihong and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Meigs, James B and Wessel, Jennifer and Manning, Alisa K} } @article {9385, title = {Multi-ancestry genome-wide study in >2.5 million individuals reveals heterogeneity in mechanistic pathways of type 2 diabetes and complications.}, journal = {medRxiv}, year = {2023}, month = {2023 Mar 31}, abstract = {

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes. To characterise the genetic contribution to these processes across ancestry groups, we aggregate genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from 2,535,601 individuals (39.7\% non-European ancestry), including 428,452 T2D cases. We identify 1,289 independent association signals at genome-wide significance (P<5{\texttimes}10 ) that map to 611 loci, of which 145 loci are previously unreported. We define eight non-overlapping clusters of T2D signals characterised by distinct profiles of cardiometabolic trait associations. These clusters are differentially enriched for cell-type specific regions of open chromatin, including pancreatic islets, adipocytes, endothelial, and enteroendocrine cells. We build cluster-specific partitioned genetic risk scores (GRS) in an additional 137,559 individuals of diverse ancestry, including 10,159 T2D cases, and test their association with T2D-related vascular outcomes. Cluster-specific partitioned GRS are more strongly associated with coronary artery disease and end-stage diabetic nephropathy than an overall T2D GRS across ancestry groups, highlighting the importance of obesity-related processes in the development of vascular outcomes. Our findings demonstrate the value of integrating multi-ancestry GWAS with single-cell epigenomics to disentangle the aetiological heterogeneity driving the development and progression of T2D, which may offer a route to optimise global access to genetically-informed diabetes care.

}, doi = {10.1101/2023.03.31.23287839}, author = {Suzuki, Ken and Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos and Southam, Lorraine and Taylor, Henry J and Yin, Xianyong and Lorenz, Kim M and Mandla, Ravi and Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia and Rayner, Nigel W and Bocher, Ozvan and Ana Luiza de, S V Arruda and Sonehara, Kyuto and Namba, Shinichi and Lee, Simon S K and Preuss, Michael H and Petty, Lauren E and Schroeder, Philip and Vanderwerff, Brett and Kals, Mart and Bragg, Fiona and Lin, Kuang and Guo, Xiuqing and Zhang, Weihua and Yao, Jie and Kim, Young Jin and Graff, Mariaelisa and Takeuchi, Fumihiko and Nano, Jana and Lamri, Amel and Nakatochi, Masahiro and Moon, Sanghoon and Scott, Robert A and Cook, James P and Lee, Jung-Jin and Pan, Ian and Taliun, Daniel and Parra, Esteban J and Chai, Jin-Fang and Bielak, Lawrence F and Tabara, Yasuharu and Hai, Yang and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Grarup, Niels and Sofer, Tamar and Wuttke, Matthias and Sarnowski, Chloe and Gieger, Christian and Nousome, Darryl and Trompet, Stella and Kwak, Soo-Heon and Long, Jirong and Sun, Meng and Tong, Lin and Chen, Wei-Min and Nongmaithem, Suraj S and Noordam, Raymond and Lim, Victor J Y and Tam, Claudia H T and Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie and Chen, Chien-Hsiun and Raffield, Laura M and Prins, Bram Peter and Nicolas, Aude and Yanek, Lisa R and Chen, Guanjie and Brody, Jennifer A and Kabagambe, Edmond and An, Ping and Xiang, Anny H and Choi, Hyeok Sun and Cade, Brian E and Tan, Jingyi and Alaine Broadaway, K and Williamson, Alice and Kamali, Zoha and Cui, Jinrui and Adair, Linda S and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A and Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S and Anand, Sonia S and Bertoni, Alain and Bork-Jensen, Jette and Brandslund, Ivan and Buchanan, Thomas A and Burant, Charles F and Butterworth, Adam S and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chan, Juliana C N and Chang, Li-Ching and Chee, Miao-Li and Chen, Ji and Chen, Shyh-Huei and Chen, Yuan-Tsong and Chen, Zhengming and Chuang, Lee-Ming and Cushman, Mary and Danesh, John and Das, Swapan K and Janaka de Silva, H and Dedoussis, George and Dimitrov, Latchezar and Doumatey, Ayo P and Du, Shufa and Duan, Qing and Eckardt, Kai-Uwe and Emery, Leslie S and Evans, Daniel S and Evans, Michele K and Fischer, Krista and Floyd, James S and Ford, Ian and Franco, Oscar H and Frayling, Timothy M and Freedman, Barry I and Genter, Pauline and Gerstein, Hertzel C and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gonz{\'a}lez-Villalpando, Clicerio and Gonzalez-Villalpando, Maria Elena and Gordon-Larsen, Penny and Gross, Myron and Guare, Lindsay A and Hackinger, Sophie and Han, Sohee and Hattersley, Andrew T and Herder, Christian and Horikoshi, Momoko and Howard, Annie-Green and Hsueh, Willa and Huang, Mengna and Huang, Wei and Hung, Yi-Jen and Hwang, Mi Yeong and Hwu, Chii-Min and Ichihara, Sahoko and Ikram, Mohammad Arfan and Ingelsson, Martin and Islam, Md Tariqul and Isono, Masato and Jang, Hye-Mi and Jasmine, Farzana and Jiang, Guozhi and Jonas, Jost B and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Kandeel, Fouad R and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Kaur, Varinderpal and Kawaguchi, Takahisa and Keaton, Jacob M and Kho, Abel N and Khor, Chiea-Chuen and Kibriya, Muhammad G and Kim, Duk-Hwan and Kronenberg, Florian and Kuusisto, Johanna and L{\"a}ll, Kristi and Lange, Leslie A and Lee, Kyung Min and Lee, Myung-Shik and Lee, Nanette R and Leong, Aaron and Li, Liming and Li, Yun and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Lithgart, Symen and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Linneberg, Allan and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Jianjun and Locke, Adam E and Louie, Tin and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Luk, Andrea O and Luo, Xi and Lv, Jun and Lynch, Julie A and Lyssenko, Valeriya and Maeda, Shiro and Mamakou, Vasiliki and Mansuri, Sohail Rafik and Matsuda, Koichi and Meitinger, Thomas and Metspalu, Andres and Mo, Huan and Morris, Andrew D and Nadler, Jerry L and Nalls, Michael A and Nayak, Uma and Ntalla, Ioanna and Okada, Yukinori and Orozco, Lorena and Patel, Sanjay R and Patil, Snehal and Pei, Pei and Pereira, Mark A and Peters, Annette and Pirie, Fraser J and Polikowsky, Hannah G and Porneala, Bianca and Prasad, Gauri and Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J and Reiner, Alexander P and Roden, Michael and Rohde, Rebecca and Roll, Katheryn and Sabanayagam, Charumathi and Sandow, Kevin and Sankareswaran, Alagu and Sattar, Naveed and Sch{\"o}nherr, Sebastian and Shahriar, Mohammad and Shen, Botong and Shi, Jinxiu and Shin, Dong Mun and Shojima, Nobuhiro and Smith, Jennifer A and So, Wing Yee and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur and Stilp, Adrienne M and Strauch, Konstantin and Taylor, Kent D and Thorand, Barbara and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Tomlinson, Brian and Tran, Tam C and Tsai, Fuu-Jen and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Tusi{\'e}-Luna, Teresa and Udler, Miriam S and Valladares-Salgado, Adan and van Dam, Rob M and van Klinken, Jan B and Varma, Rohit and Wacher-Rodarte, Niels and Wheeler, Eleanor and Wickremasinghe, Ananda R and van Dijk, Ko Willems and Witte, Daniel R and Yajnik, Chittaranjan S and Yamamoto, Ken and Yamamoto, Kenichi and Yoon, Kyungheon and Yu, Canqing and Yuan, Jian-Min and Yusuf, Salim and Zawistowski, Matthew and Zhang, Liang and Zheng, Wei and Project, Biobank Japan and BioBank, Penn Medicine and Center, Regeneron Genetics and Consortium, eMERGE and Raffel, Leslie J and Igase, Michiya and Ipp, Eli and Redline, Susan and Cho, Yoon Shin and Lind, Lars and Province, Michael A and Fornage, Myriam and Hanis, Craig L and Ingelsson, Erik and Zonderman, Alan B and Psaty, Bruce M and Wang, Ya-Xing and Rotimi, Charles N and Becker, Diane M and Matsuda, Fumihiko and Liu, Yongmei and Yokota, Mitsuhiro and Kardia, Sharon L R and Peyser, Patricia A and Pankow, James S and Engert, James C and Bonnefond, Am{\'e}lie and Froguel, Philippe and Wilson, James G and Sheu, Wayne H H and Wu, Jer-Yuarn and Geoffrey Hayes, M and Ma, Ronald C W and Wong, Tien-Yin and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Tuomi, Tiinamaija and Chandak, Giriraj R and Collins, Francis S and Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan and Par{\'e}, Guillaume and Sale, Mich{\`e}le M and Ahsan, Habibul and Motala, Ayesha A and Shu, Xiao-Ou and Park, Kyong-Soo and Jukema, J Wouter and Cruz, Miguel and Chen, Yii-Der Ida and Rich, Stephen S and McKean-Cowdin, Roberta and Grallert, Harald and Cheng, Ching-Yu and Ghanbari, Mohsen and Tai, E-Shyong and Dupuis, Jos{\'e}e and Kato, Norihiro and Laakso, Markku and K{\"o}ttgen, Anna and Koh, Woon-Puay and Bowden, Donald W and Palmer, Colin N A and Kooner, Jaspal S and Kooperberg, Charles and Liu, Simin and North, Kari E and Saleheen, Danish and Hansen, Torben and Pedersen, Oluf and Wareham, Nicholas J and Lee, Juyoung and Kim, Bong-Jo and Millwood, Iona Y and Walters, Robin G and Stefansson, Kari and Goodarzi, Mark O and Mohlke, Karen L and Langenberg, Claudia and Haiman, Christopher A and Loos, Ruth J F and Florez, Jose C and Rader, Daniel J and Ritchie, Marylyn D and Z{\"o}llner, Sebastian and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Denny, Joshua C and Yamauchi, Toshimasa and Kadowaki, Takashi and Chambers, John C and Ng, Maggie C Y and Sim, Xueling and Below, Jennifer E and Tsao, Philip S and Chang, Kyong-Mi and McCarthy, Mark I and Meigs, James B and Mahajan, Anubha and Spracklen, Cassandra N and Mercader, Josep M and Boehnke, Michael and Rotter, Jerome I and Vujkovic, Marijana and Voight, Benjamin F and Morris, Andrew P and Zeggini, Eleftheria} } @article {9619, title = {Genetic drivers of heterogeneity in type 2 diabetes pathophysiology.}, journal = {Nature}, year = {2024}, month = {2024 Feb 19}, abstract = {

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes and molecular mechanisms that are often specific to cell type. Here, to characterize the genetic contribution to these processes across ancestry groups, we aggregate genome-wide association study data from 2,535,601 individuals (39.7\% not of European ancestry), including 428,452 cases of T2D. We identify 1,289 independent association signals at genome-wide significance (P < 5 {\texttimes} 10) that map to 611 loci, of which 145 loci are, to our knowledge, previously unreported. We define eight non-overlapping clusters of T2D signals that are characterized by distinct profiles of cardiometabolic trait associations. These clusters are differentially enriched for cell-type-specific regions of open chromatin, including pancreatic islets, adipocytes, endothelial cells and enteroendocrine cells. We build cluster-specific partitioned polygenic scores in a further 279,552 individuals of diverse ancestry, including 30,288 cases of T2D, and test their association with T2D-related vascular outcomes. Cluster-specific partitioned polygenic scores are associated with coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and end-stage diabetic nephropathy across ancestry groups, highlighting the importance of obesity-related processes in the development of vascular outcomes. Our findings show the value of integrating multi-ancestry genome-wide association study data with single-cell epigenomics to disentangle the aetiological heterogeneity that drives the development and progression of T2D. This might offer a route to optimize global access to genetically informed diabetes care.

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Sarnowski, Chloe and Gieger, Christian and Nousome, Darryl and Trompet, Stella and Kwak, Soo-Heon and Long, Jirong and Sun, Meng and Tong, Lin and Chen, Wei-Min and Nongmaithem, Suraj S and Noordam, Raymond and Lim, Victor J Y and Tam, Claudia H T and Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie and Chen, Chien-Hsiun and Raffield, Laura M and Prins, Bram Peter and Nicolas, Aude and Yanek, Lisa R and Chen, Guanjie and Brody, Jennifer A and Kabagambe, Edmond and An, Ping and Xiang, Anny H and Choi, Hyeok Sun and Cade, Brian E and Tan, Jingyi and Broadaway, K Alaine and Williamson, Alice and Kamali, Zoha and Cui, Jinrui and Thangam, Manonanthini and Adair, Linda S and Adeyemo, Adebowale and Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A and Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S and Anand, Sonia S and Bertoni, Alain and Bork-Jensen, Jette and Brandslund, Ivan and Buchanan, Thomas A and Burant, Charles F and Butterworth, Adam S and Canouil, Micka{\"e}l and Chan, Juliana C N and Chang, Li-Ching and Chee, Miao-Li and Chen, Ji and Chen, Shyh-Huei and 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Masato and Jang, Hye-Mi and Jasmine, Farzana and Jiang, Guozhi and Jonas, Jost B and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Kamanu, Frederick K and Kandeel, Fouad R and Kasturiratne, Anuradhani and Katsuya, Tomohiro and Kaur, Varinderpal and Kawaguchi, Takahisa and Keaton, Jacob M and Kho, Abel N and Khor, Chiea-Chuen and Kibriya, Muhammad G and Kim, Duk-Hwan and Kronenberg, Florian and Kuusisto, Johanna and L{\"a}ll, Kristi and Lange, Leslie A and Lee, Kyung Min and Lee, Myung-Shik and Lee, Nanette R and Leong, Aaron and Li, Liming and Li, Yun and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Ligthart, Symen and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Linneberg, Allan and Liu, Ching-Ti and Liu, Jianjun and Locke, Adam E and Louie, Tin and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Luk, Andrea O and Luo, Xi and Lv, Jun and Lynch, Julie A and Lyssenko, Valeriya and Maeda, Shiro and Mamakou, Vasiliki and Mansuri, Sohail Rafik and Matsuda, Koichi and Meitinger, Thomas and Melander, Olle and Metspalu, Andres and Mo, Huan and Morris, Andrew D and Moura, 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