%0 Journal Article %J Genet Epidemiol %D 2016 %T An Empirical Comparison of Joint and Stratified Frameworks for Studying G × E Interactions: Systolic Blood Pressure and Smoking in the CHARGE Gene-Lifestyle Interactions Working Group. %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Manning, Alisa K %A Aschard, Hugues %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Harris, Tamara B %A Smith, Albert V %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Brown, Michael R %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Fornage, Myriam %A Lin, Li-An %A Richard, Melissa %A Bartz, Traci M %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Hayward, Caroline %A Polasek, Ozren %A Marten, Jonathan %A Rudan, Igor %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Province, Michael A %A Deng, Xuan %A Fisher, Virginia A %A Zhou, Yanhua %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Smith, Jennifer %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Smith, Blair H %A Ding, Jingzhong %A Liu, Yongmei %A Lohman, Kurt %A Bouchard, Claude %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Rice, Treva K %A Arnett, Donna %A Schwander, Karen %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Palmas, Walter %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Amin, Najaf %A Franco, Oscar H %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rose, Lynda M %A Kardia, Sharon %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Rice, Kenneth %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Gauderman, W James %A Cupples, L Adrienne %X

Studying gene-environment (G × E) interactions is important, as they extend our knowledge of the genetic architecture of complex traits and may help to identify novel variants not detected via analysis of main effects alone. The main statistical framework for studying G × E interactions uses a single regression model that includes both the genetic main and G × E interaction effects (the "joint" framework). The alternative "stratified" framework combines results from genetic main-effect analyses carried out separately within the exposed and unexposed groups. Although there have been several investigations using theory and simulation, an empirical comparison of the two frameworks is lacking. Here, we compare the two frameworks using results from genome-wide association studies of systolic blood pressure for 3.2 million low frequency and 6.5 million common variants across 20 cohorts of European ancestry, comprising 79,731 individuals. Our cohorts have sample sizes ranging from 456 to 22,983 and include both family-based and population-based samples. In cohort-specific analyses, the two frameworks provided similar inference for population-based cohorts. The agreement was reduced for family-based cohorts. In meta-analyses, agreement between the two frameworks was less than that observed in cohort-specific analyses, despite the increased sample size. In meta-analyses, agreement depended on (1) the minor allele frequency, (2) inclusion of family-based cohorts in meta-analysis, and (3) filtering scheme. The stratified framework appears to approximate the joint framework well only for common variants in population-based cohorts. We conclude that the joint framework is the preferred approach and should be used to control false positives when dealing with low-frequency variants and/or family-based cohorts.

%B Genet Epidemiol %V 40 %P 404-15 %8 2016 Jul %G eng %N 5 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27230302?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1002/gepi.21978 %0 Journal Article %J Genet Epidemiol %D 2016 %T General Framework for Meta-Analysis of Haplotype Association Tests. %A Wang, Shuai %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A An, Ping %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Jensen, Richard A %A Marten, Jonathan %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Meidtner, Karina %A Boeing, Heiner %A Campbell, Archie %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Scott, Robert A %A Yao, Jie %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Province, Michael A %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Hayward, Caroline %A Goodarzi, Mark O %A Meigs, James B %A Dupuis, Josée %X

For complex traits, most associated single nucleotide variants (SNV) discovered to date have a small effect, and detection of association is only possible with large sample sizes. Because of patient confidentiality concerns, it is often not possible to pool genetic data from multiple cohorts, and meta-analysis has emerged as the method of choice to combine results from multiple studies. Many meta-analysis methods are available for single SNV analyses. As new approaches allow the capture of low frequency and rare genetic variation, it is of interest to jointly consider multiple variants to improve power. However, for the analysis of haplotypes formed by multiple SNVs, meta-analysis remains a challenge, because different haplotypes may be observed across studies. We propose a two-stage meta-analysis approach to combine haplotype analysis results. In the first stage, each cohort estimate haplotype effect sizes in a regression framework, accounting for relatedness among observations if appropriate. For the second stage, we use a multivariate generalized least square meta-analysis approach to combine haplotype effect estimates from multiple cohorts. Haplotype-specific association tests and a global test of independence between haplotypes and traits are obtained within our framework. We demonstrate through simulation studies that we control the type-I error rate, and our approach is more powerful than inverse variance weighted meta-analysis of single SNV analysis when haplotype effects are present. We replicate a published haplotype association between fasting glucose-associated locus (G6PC2) and fasting glucose in seven studies from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium and we provide more precise haplotype effect estimates.

%B Genet Epidemiol %V 40 %P 244-52 %8 2016 Apr %G eng %N 3 %R 10.1002/gepi.21959 %0 Journal Article %J Hum Mol Genet %D 2016 %T A meta-analysis of 120 246 individuals identifies 18 new loci for fibrinogen concentration. %A de Vries, Paul S %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Sabater-Lleal, Maria %A Chen, Ming-Huei %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Steri, Maristella %A Tang, Weihong %A Teumer, Alexander %A Marioni, Riccardo E %A Grossmann, Vera %A Hottenga, Jouke J %A Trompet, Stella %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Wang, Jie Jin %A Auer, Paul L %A Attia, John R %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S %A Lahti, Jari %A Venturini, Cristina %A Tanaka, Toshiko %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Joshi, Peter K %A Rocanin-Arjo, Ares %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Navarro, Pau %A Rose, Lynda M %A Oldmeadow, Christopher %A Riess, Helene %A Mazur, Johanna %A Basu, Saonli %A Goel, Anuj %A Yang, Qiong %A Ghanbari, Mohsen %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Rumley, Ann %A Fiorillo, Edoardo %A de Craen, Anton J M %A Grotevendt, Anne %A Scott, Robert %A Taylor, Kent D %A Delgado, Graciela E %A Yao, Jie %A Kifley, Annette %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Qayyum, Rehan %A Lopez, Lorna M %A Berentzen, Tina L %A Räikkönen, Katri %A Mangino, Massimo %A Bandinelli, Stefania %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Wild, Sarah %A Trégouët, David-Alexandre %A Wright, Alan F %A Marten, Jonathan %A Zemunik, Tatijana %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Sennblad, Bengt %A Tofler, Geoffrey %A de Maat, Moniek P M %A de Geus, Eco J C %A Lowe, Gordon D %A Zoledziewska, Magdalena %A Sattar, Naveed %A Binder, Harald %A Völker, Uwe %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Khaw, Kay-Tee %A McKnight, Barbara %A Huang, Jie %A Jenny, Nancy S %A Holliday, Elizabeth G %A Qi, Lihong %A Mcevoy, Mark G %A Becker, Diane M %A Starr, John M %A Sarin, Antti-Pekka %A Hysi, Pirro G %A Hernandez, Dena G %A Jhun, Min A %A Campbell, Harry %A Hamsten, Anders %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A McArdle, Wendy L %A Slagboom, P Eline %A Zeller, Tanja %A Koenig, Wolfgang %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Haritunians, Talin %A Liu, Jingmin %A Palotie, Aarno %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Stott, David J %A Hofman, Albert %A Franco, Oscar H %A Polasek, Ozren %A Rudan, Igor %A Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel %A Wilson, James F %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Ferrucci, Luigi %A Spector, Tim D %A Eriksson, Johan G %A Hansen, Torben %A Deary, Ian J %A Becker, Lewis C %A Scott, Rodney J %A Mitchell, Paul %A März, Winfried %A Wareham, Nick J %A Peters, Annette %A Greinacher, Andreas %A Wild, Philipp S %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Hayward, Caroline %A Cucca, Francesco %A Tracy, Russell %A Watkins, Hugh %A Reiner, Alex P %A Folsom, Aaron R %A Ridker, Paul M %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Smith, Nicholas L %A Strachan, David P %A Dehghan, Abbas %X

Genome-wide association studies have previously identified 23 genetic loci associated with circulating fibrinogen concentration. These studies used HapMap imputation and did not examine the X-chromosome. 1000 Genomes imputation provides better coverage of uncommon variants, and includes indels. We conducted a genome-wide association analysis of 34 studies imputed to the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel and including ∼120 000 participants of European ancestry (95 806 participants with data on the X-chromosome). Approximately 10.7 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms and 1.2 million indels were examined. We identified 41 genome-wide significant fibrinogen loci; of which, 18 were newly identified. There were no genome-wide significant signals on the X-chromosome. The lead variants of five significant loci were indels. We further identified six additional independent signals, including three rare variants, at two previously characterized loci: FGB and IRF1. Together the 41 loci explain 3% of the variance in plasma fibrinogen concentration.

%B Hum Mol Genet %V 25 %P 358-70 %8 2016 Jan 15 %G eng %N 2 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26561523?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1093/hmg/ddv454 %0 Journal Article %J J Med Genet %D 2016 %T Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels. %A van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M %A Sabo, Aniko %A Bis, Joshua C %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Manichaikul, Ani %A Smith, Albert V %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Demissie, Serkalem %A Joshi, Peter K %A Duan, Qing %A Marten, Jonathan %A van Klinken, Jan B %A Surakka, Ida %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Zhang, Weihua %A Mbarek, Hamdi %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Trompet, Stella %A Verweij, Niek %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A Deelen, Joris %A van der Most, Peter J %A van der Laan, Sander W %A Arking, Dan E %A Morrison, Alanna %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Franco, Oscar H %A Hofman, Albert %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Sijbrands, Eric J %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Mychaleckyj, Josyf C %A Campbell, Archie %A Hocking, Lynne J %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Rice, Kenneth M %A White, Charles C %A Harris, Tamara %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Campbell, Harry %A Lange, Leslie A %A Rudan, Igor %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Navarro, Pau %A Zemunik, Tatijana %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Kooner, Angad S %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Scott, William R %A Tan, Sian-Tsung %A de Geus, Eco J %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Ford, Ian %A Gansevoort, Ron T %A Segura-Lepe, Marcelo P %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Viikari, Jorma S %A Nikus, Kjell %A Forrester, Terrence %A McKenzie, Colin A %A de Craen, Anton J M %A de Ruijter, Hester M %A Pasterkamp, Gerard %A Snieder, Harold %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Slagboom, P Eline %A Cooper, Richard S %A Kähönen, Mika %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Elliott, Paul %A van der Harst, Pim %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Chambers, John C %A Swertz, Morris %A Ripatti, Samuli %A Willems van Dijk, Ko %A Vitart, Veronique %A Polasek, Ozren %A Hayward, Caroline %A Wilson, James G %A Wilson, James F %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Rich, Stephen S %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %X

BACKGROUND: So far, more than 170 loci have been associated with circulating lipid levels through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations are largely driven by common variants, their function is often not known, and many are likely to be markers for the causal variants. In this study we aimed to identify more new rare and low-frequency functional variants associated with circulating lipid levels.

METHODS: We used the 1000 Genomes Project as a reference panel for the imputations of GWAS data from ∼60 000 individuals in the discovery stage and ∼90 000 samples in the replication stage.

RESULTS: Our study resulted in the identification of five new associations with circulating lipid levels at four loci. All four loci are within genes that can be linked biologically to lipid metabolism. One of the variants, rs116843064, is a damaging missense variant within the ANGPTL4 gene.

CONCLUSIONS: This study illustrates that GWAS with high-scale imputation may still help us unravel the biological mechanism behind circulating lipid levels.

%B J Med Genet %V 53 %P 441-9 %8 2016 Jul %G eng %N 7 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27036123?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103439 %0 Journal Article %J Hum Mol Genet %D 2017 %T Discovery of novel heart rate-associated loci using the Exome Chip. %A van den Berg, Marten E %A Warren, Helen R %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Verweij, Niek %A Mifsud, Borbala %A Haessler, Jeffrey %A Bihlmeyer, Nathan A %A Fu, Yi-Ping %A Weiss, Stefan %A Lin, Henry J %A Grarup, Niels %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Pistis, Giorgio %A Shah, Nabi %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Lin, Honghuang %A Mei, Hao %A Smith, Albert V %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Hall, Leanne M %A van Setten, Jessica %A Trompet, Stella %A Prins, Bram P %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Radmanesh, Farid %A Marten, Jonathan %A Entwistle, Aiman %A Kors, Jan A %A Silva, Claudia T %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Bis, Joshua C %A de Boer, Rudolf %A de Haan, Hugoline G %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Dedoussis, George %A Dominiczak, Anna F %A Doney, Alex S F %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Eppinga, Ruben N %A Felix, Stephan B %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hagemeijer, Yanick %A Hansen, Torben %A Harris, Tamara B %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Huang, Paul L %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kanters, Jørgen K %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Launer, Lenore J %A Li, Man %A Yao, Jie %A Linneberg, Allan %A Liu, Simin %A Macfarlane, Peter W %A Mangino, Massimo %A Morris, Andrew D %A Mulas, Antonella %A Murray, Alison D %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Orrù, Marco %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Peters, Annette %A Porteous, David J %A Poulter, Neil %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Qi, Lihong %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Roselli, Carolina %A Rudan, Igor %A Sattar, Naveed %A Sever, Peter %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Spector, Timothy D %A Stanton, Alice V %A Stirrups, Kathleen E %A Taylor, Kent D %A Tobin, Martin D %A Uitterlinden, Andre %A Vaartjes, Ilonca %A Hoes, Arno W %A van der Meer, Peter %A Völker, Uwe %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Xie, Zhijun %A Zoledziewska, Magdalena %A Tinker, Andrew %A Polasek, Ozren %A Rosand, Jonathan %A Jamshidi, Yalda %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Wouter Jukema, J %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Wilson, James %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Kääb, Stefan %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Sanna, Serena %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Deloukas, Panos %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Dörr, Marcus %A O'Donnell, Chris J %A Hayward, Caroline %A Arking, Dan E %A Kooperberg, Charles %A van der Harst, Pim %A Eijgelsheim, Mark %A Stricker, Bruno H %A Munroe, Patricia B %X

Background Resting heart rate is a heritable trait, and an increase in heart rate is associated with increased mortality risk. GWAS analyses have found loci associated with resting heart rate, at the time of our study these loci explained 0.9% of the variation.Aim To discover new genetic loci associated with heart rate from Exome Chip meta-analyses.Methods Heart rate was measured from either elecrtrocardiograms or pulse recordings. We meta-analysed heart rate association results from 104,452 European-ancestry individuals from 30 cohorts, genotyped using the Exome Chip. Twenty-four variants were selected for follow-up in an independent dataset (UK Biobank, N = 134,251). Conditional and gene-based testing was undertaken, and variants were investigated with bioinformatics methods.Results We discovered five novel heart rate loci, and one new independent low-frequency non-synonymous variant in an established heart rate locus (KIAA1755). Lead variants in four of the novel loci are non-synonymous variants in the genes C10orf71, DALDR3, TESK2, SEC31B. The variant at SEC31B is significantly associated with SEC31B expression in heart and tibial nerve tissue. Further candidate genes were detected from long range regulatory chromatin interactions in heart tissue (SCD, SLF2, MAPK8). We observed significant enrichment in DNase I hypersensitive sites in fetal heart and lung. Moreover, enrichment was seen for the first time in human neuronal progenitor cells (derived from embryonic stem cells) and fetal muscle samples by including our novel variants.Conclusion Our findings advance the knowledge of the genetic architecture of heart rate, and indicate new candidate genes for follow-up functional studies.

%B Hum Mol Genet %8 2017 Apr 03 %G eng %R 10.1093/hmg/ddx113 %0 Journal Article %J Hypertension %D 2017 %T Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney. %A Wain, Louise V %A Vaez, Ahmad %A Jansen, Rick %A Joehanes, Roby %A van der Most, Peter J %A Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut %A O'Reilly, Paul F %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Warren, Helen R %A Rose, Lynda M %A Verwoert, Germaine C %A Hottenga, Jouke-Jan %A Strawbridge, Rona J %A Esko, Tõnu %A Arking, Dan E %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Trompet, Stella %A Shrine, Nick %A Teumer, Alexander %A Ried, Janina S %A Bis, Joshua C %A Smith, Albert V %A Amin, Najaf %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Hofer, Edith %A Joshi, Peter K %A Kristiansson, Kati %A Traglia, Michela %A Havulinna, Aki S %A Goel, Anuj %A Nalls, Mike A %A Sõber, Siim %A Vuckovic, Dragana %A Luan, Jian'an %A del Greco M, Fabiola %A Ayers, Kristin L %A Marrugat, Jaume %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Lopez, Lorna M %A Niiranen, Teemu %A Enroth, Stefan %A Jackson, Anne U %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Zhang, Weihua %A Marten, Jonathan %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Harris, Sarah E %A Zemunik, Tatijana %A Lu, Yingchang %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Shah, Nabi %A de Borst, Martin H %A Mangino, Massimo %A Prins, Bram P %A Campbell, Archie %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Chauhan, Ganesh %A Oldmeadow, Christopher %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Abedi, Maryam %A Barbieri, Caterina M %A Barnes, Michael R %A Batini, Chiara %A Beilby, John %A Blake, Tineka %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Braund, Peter S %A Brown, Morris %A Brumat, Marco %A Campbell, Harry %A Chambers, John C %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Collins, Francis %A Connell, John %A Cordell, Heather J %A Damman, Jeffrey J %A Davies, Gail %A de Geus, Eco J %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Deelen, Joris %A Demirkale, Yusuf %A Doney, Alex S F %A Dörr, Marcus %A Farrall, Martin %A Ferreira, Teresa %A Frånberg, Mattias %A Gao, He %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gieger, Christian %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gow, Alan J %A Hamsten, Anders %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hofman, Albert %A Holliday, Elizabeth G %A Hui, Jennie %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Johansson, Asa %A Johnson, Andrew D %A Jousilahti, Pekka %A Jula, Antti %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kathiresan, Sekar %A Khaw, Kay-Tee %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Koskinen, Seppo %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Larson, Marty %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Liewald, David C M %A Lin, Li %A Lind, Lars %A Mach, François %A Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto %A Menni, Cristina %A Mifsud, Borbala %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Morgan, Anna %A Morris, Andrew D %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Munson, Peter J %A Nandakumar, Priyanka %A Nguyen, Quang Tri %A Nutile, Teresa %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Oostra, Ben A %A Org, Elin %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palotie, Aarno %A Paré, Guillaume %A Pattie, Alison %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Poulter, Neil %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Ren, Meixia %A Rice, Kenneth %A Ridker, Paul M %A Riese, Harriëtte %A Ripatti, Samuli %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Saba, Yasaman %A Saint Pierre, Aude %A Sala, Cinzia F %A Sarin, Antti-Pekka %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Scott, Rodney %A Seelen, Marc A %A Shields, Denis C %A Siscovick, David %A Sorice, Rossella %A Stanton, Alice %A Stott, David J %A Sundström, Johan %A Swertz, Morris %A Taylor, Kent D %A Thom, Simon %A Tzoulaki, Ioanna %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Völker, Uwe %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Wild, Sarah %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Wright, Alan F %A Yao, Jie %A Thériault, Sébastien %A Conen, David %A Attia, John %A Sever, Peter %A Debette, Stephanie %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Spector, Tim D %A van der Harst, Pim %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Vergnaud, Anne-Claire %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Polasek, Ozren %A Starr, John M %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Hayward, Caroline %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Lindgren, Cecila M %A Vitart, Veronique %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Gyllensten, Ulf %A Knekt, Paul %A Deary, Ian J %A Ciullo, Marina %A Elosua, Roberto %A Keavney, Bernard D %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Scott, Robert A %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Laan, Maris %A Liu, Yongmei %A Watkins, Hugh %A Hartman, Catharina A %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Perola, Markus %A Wilson, James F %A Schmidt, Helena %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Peters, Annette %A Rettig, Rainer %A James, Alan %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Strachan, David P %A Palmas, Walter %A Metspalu, Andres %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Franco, Oscar H %A Bochud, Murielle %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Elliott, Paul %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chakravarti, Aravinda %A Knight, Joanne %A Morris, Andrew P %A Levy, Daniel %A Tobin, Martin D %A Snieder, Harold %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Ehret, Georg B %X

Elevated blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a substantial genetic contribution. Genetic variation influencing blood pressure has the potential to identify new pharmacological targets for the treatment of hypertension. To discover additional novel blood pressure loci, we used 1000 Genomes Project-based imputation in 150 134 European ancestry individuals and sought significant evidence for independent replication in a further 228 245 individuals. We report 6 new signals of association in or near HSPB7, TNXB, LRP12, LOC283335, SEPT9, and AKT2, and provide new replication evidence for a further 2 signals in EBF2 and NFKBIA Combining large whole-blood gene expression resources totaling 12 607 individuals, we investigated all novel and previously reported signals and identified 48 genes with evidence for involvement in blood pressure regulation that are significant in multiple resources. Three novel kidney-specific signals were also detected. These robustly implicated genes may provide new leads for therapeutic innovation.

%B Hypertension %8 2017 Jul 24 %G eng %R 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.117.09438 %0 Journal Article %J Circ Genom Precis Med %D 2018 %T Common and Rare Coding Genetic Variation Underlying the Electrocardiographic PR Interval. %A Lin, Honghuang %A van Setten, Jessica %A Smith, Albert V %A Bihlmeyer, Nathan A %A Warren, Helen R %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Radmanesh, Farid %A Hall, Leanne %A Grarup, Niels %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Boutin, Thibaud %A Verweij, Niek %A Lin, Henry J %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A van den Berg, Marten E %A Marten, Jonathan %A Weiss, Stefan %A Prins, Bram P %A Haessler, Jeffrey %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Mei, Hao %A Harris, Tamara B %A Launer, Lenore J %A Li, Man %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Connell, John M %A Huang, Paul L %A Weng, Lu-Chen %A Jameson, Heather S %A Hucker, William %A Hanley, Alan %A Tucker, Nathan R %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Bis, Joshua C %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Kors, Jan A %A Xie, Zhijun %A Wen, Chengping %A Magnani, Jared W %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Kanters, Jørgen K %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Peters, Annette %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Linneberg, Allan %A Rudan, Igor %A de Boer, Rudolf A %A van der Meer, Peter %A Yao, Jie %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Taylor, Kent D %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Trompet, Stella %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Uitterlinden, Andre %A Eijgelsheim, Mark %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Smith, Blair H %A Völzke, Henry %A Felix, Stephan B %A Homuth, Georg %A Völker, Uwe %A Mangino, Massimo %A Spector, Timothy D %A Bots, Michiel L %A Perez, Marco %A Kähönen, Mika %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Arking, Dan E %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Psaty, Bruce M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Benjamin, Emelia J %A Rosand, Jonathan %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Hansen, Torben %A Kääb, Stefan %A Polasek, Ozren %A van der Harst, Pim %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Stricker, Bruno H %A Hayward, Caroline %A Dörr, Marcus %A Jamshidi, Yalda %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Wilson, James G %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Isaacs, Aaron %X

BACKGROUND: Electrical conduction from the cardiac sinoatrial node to the ventricles is critical for normal heart function. Genome-wide association studies have identified more than a dozen common genetic loci that are associated with PR interval. However, it is unclear whether rare and low-frequency variants also contribute to PR interval heritability.

METHODS: We performed large-scale meta-analyses of the PR interval that included 83 367 participants of European ancestry and 9436 of African ancestry. We examined both common and rare variants associated with the PR interval.

RESULTS: We identified 31 genetic loci that were significantly associated with PR interval after Bonferroni correction (<1.2×10), including 11 novel loci that have not been reported previously. Many of these loci are involved in heart morphogenesis. In gene-based analysis, we found that multiple rare variants at (=5.9×10) and (=1.1×10) were associated with PR interval. locus also was implicated in the common variant analysis, whereas was a novel locus.

CONCLUSIONS: We identified common variants at 11 novel loci and rare variants within 2 gene regions that were significantly associated with PR interval. Our findings provide novel insights to the current understanding of atrioventricular conduction, which is critical for cardiac activity and an important determinant of health.

%B Circ Genom Precis Med %V 11 %P e002037 %8 2018 May %G eng %N 5 %R 10.1161/CIRCGEN.117.002037 %0 Journal Article %J Genome Biol %D 2018 %T Exome-chip meta-analysis identifies novel loci associated with cardiac conduction, including ADAMTS6. %A Prins, Bram P %A Mead, Timothy J %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Sveinbjornsson, Gardar %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Bihlmeyer, Nathan A %A van den Berg, Marten %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Cappellani, Stefania %A Van Duijvenboden, Stefan %A Klena, Nikolai T %A Gabriel, George C %A Liu, Xiaoqin %A Gulec, Cagri %A Grarup, Niels %A Haessler, Jeffrey %A Hall, Leanne M %A Iorio, Annamaria %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lin, Honghuang %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Marten, Jonathan %A Mei, Hao %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Orini, Michele %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Radmanesh, Farid %A Ramirez, Julia %A Robino, Antonietta %A Schwartz, Molly %A van Setten, Jessica %A Smith, Albert V %A Verweij, Niek %A Warren, Helen R %A Weiss, Stefan %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Arnar, David O %A Bots, Michiel L %A de Boer, Rudolf A %A Dominiczak, Anna F %A Eijgelsheim, Mark %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Felix, Stephan B %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hayward, Caroline %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Huang, Paul L %A Jukema, J W %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kors, Jan A %A Lambiase, Pier D %A Launer, Lenore J %A Li, Man %A Linneberg, Allan %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Perez, Marco %A Peters, Annette %A Polasek, Ozren %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Spector, Tim D %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Tinker, Andrew %A Trompet, Stella %A Uitterlinden, Andre %A Vaartjes, Ilonca %A van der Meer, Peter %A Völker, Uwe %A Völzke, Henry %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wilson, James G %A Xie, Zhijun %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Dörr, Marcus %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hansen, Torben %A Kääb, Stefan %A Kanters, Jørgen K %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lin, Henry J %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Conti, Francesco J %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher H %A Rosand, Jonathan %A Rudan, Igor %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sinagra, Gianfranco %A Smith, Blair H %A Holm, Hilma %A Stricker, Bruno H %A Ulivi, Sheila %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A Apte, Suneel S %A van der Harst, Pim %A Stefansson, Kari %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Arking, Dan E %A Lo, Cecilia W %A Jamshidi, Yalda %X

BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies conducted on QRS duration, an electrocardiographic measurement associated with heart failure and sudden cardiac death, have led to novel biological insights into cardiac function. However, the variants identified fall predominantly in non-coding regions and their underlying mechanisms remain unclear.

RESULTS: Here, we identify putative functional coding variation associated with changes in the QRS interval duration by combining Illumina HumanExome BeadChip genotype data from 77,898 participants of European ancestry and 7695 of African descent in our discovery cohort, followed by replication in 111,874 individuals of European ancestry from the UK Biobank and deCODE cohorts. We identify ten novel loci, seven within coding regions, including ADAMTS6, significantly associated with QRS duration in gene-based analyses. ADAMTS6 encodes a secreted metalloprotease of currently unknown function. In vitro validation analysis shows that the QRS-associated variants lead to impaired ADAMTS6 secretion and loss-of function analysis in mice demonstrates a previously unappreciated role for ADAMTS6 in connexin 43 gap junction expression, which is essential for myocardial conduction.

CONCLUSIONS: Our approach identifies novel coding and non-coding variants underlying ventricular depolarization and provides a possible mechanism for the ADAMTS6-associated conduction changes.

%B Genome Biol %V 19 %P 87 %8 2018 07 17 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1186/s13059-018-1457-6 %0 Journal Article %J Circ Genom Precis Med %D 2018 %T ExomeChip-Wide Analysis of 95 626 Individuals Identifies 10 Novel Loci Associated With QT and JT Intervals. %A Bihlmeyer, Nathan A %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Smith, Albert Vernon %A Warren, Helen R %A Lin, Honghuang %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Marten, Jonathan %A Radmanesh, Farid %A Hall, Leanne M %A Grarup, Niels %A Mei, Hao %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Verweij, Niek %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Yao, Jie %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A van den Berg, Marten %A Weiss, Stefan %A Prins, Bram P %A van Setten, Jessica %A Haessler, Jeffrey %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Li, Man %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Bis, Joshua C %A Austin, Tom %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Harrris, Tamara B %A Launer, Lenore J %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Dominiczak, Anna %A Huang, Paul L %A Xie, Zhijun %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Kors, Jan A %A Campbell, Archie %A Murray, Alison D %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Tobin, Martin D %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Hansen, Torben %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Linneberg, Allan %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Peters, Annette %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Perz, Siegfried %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Rudan, Igor %A de Boer, Rudolf A %A van der Meer, Peter %A Lin, Henry J %A Taylor, Kent D %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Trompet, Stella %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Maan, Arie C %A Stricker, Bruno H C %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Uitterlinden, Andre %A Völker, Uwe %A Homuth, Georg %A Völzke, Henry %A Felix, Stephan B %A Mangino, Massimo %A Spector, Timothy D %A Bots, Michiel L %A Perez, Marco %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Kähönen, Mika %A Mononen, Nina %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Lubitz, Steven A %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher H %A Hayward, Caroline %A Rosand, Jonathan %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Kanters, Jørgen K %A Wilson, James G %A Kääb, Stefan %A Polasek, Ozren %A van der Harst, Pim %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Eijgelsheim, Mark %A Dörr, Marcus %A Jamshidi, Yalda %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Arking, Dan E %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %X

BACKGROUND: QT interval, measured through a standard ECG, captures the time it takes for the cardiac ventricles to depolarize and repolarize. JT interval is the component of the QT interval that reflects ventricular repolarization alone. Prolonged QT interval has been linked to higher risk of sudden cardiac arrest.

METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed an ExomeChip-wide analysis for both QT and JT intervals, including 209 449 variants, both common and rare, in 17 341 genes from the Illumina Infinium HumanExome BeadChip. We identified 10 loci that modulate QT and JT interval duration that have not been previously reported in the literature using single-variant statistical models in a meta-analysis of 95 626 individuals from 23 cohorts (comprised 83 884 European ancestry individuals, 9610 blacks, 1382 Hispanics, and 750 Asians). This brings the total number of ventricular repolarization associated loci to 45. In addition, our approach of using coding variants has highlighted the role of 17 specific genes for involvement in ventricular repolarization, 7 of which are in novel loci.

CONCLUSIONS: Our analyses show a role for myocyte internal structure and interconnections in modulating QT interval duration, adding to previous known roles of potassium, sodium, and calcium ion regulation, as well as autonomic control. We anticipate that these discoveries will open new paths to the goal of making novel remedies for the prevention of lethal ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrest.

%B Circ Genom Precis Med %V 11 %P e001758 %8 2018 Jan %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1161/CIRCGEN.117.001758 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits. %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Warren, Helen R %A Mosen-Ansorena, David %A Mifsud, Borbala %A Pazoki, Raha %A Gao, He %A Ntritsos, Georgios %A Dimou, Niki %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Karaman, Ibrahim %A Ng, Fu Liang %A Evangelou, Marina %A Witkowska, Katarzyna %A Tzanis, Evan %A Hellwege, Jacklyn N %A Giri, Ayush %A Velez Edwards, Digna R %A Sun, Yan V %A Cho, Kelly %A Gaziano, J Michael %A Wilson, Peter W F %A Tsao, Philip S %A Kovesdy, Csaba P %A Esko, Tõnu %A Mägi, Reedik %A Milani, Lili %A Almgren, Peter %A Boutin, Thibaud %A Debette, Stephanie %A Ding, Jun %A Giulianini, Franco %A Holliday, Elizabeth G %A Jackson, Anne U %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lin, Wei-Yu %A Luan, Jian'an %A Mangino, Massimo %A Oldmeadow, Christopher %A Prins, Bram Peter %A Qian, Yong %A Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan %A Shah, Nabi %A Surendran, Praveen %A Thériault, Sébastien %A Verweij, Niek %A Willems, Sara M %A Zhao, Jing-Hua %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Connell, John %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Doney, Alex S F %A Farrall, Martin %A Menni, Cristina %A Morris, Andrew D %A Noordam, Raymond %A Paré, Guillaume %A Poulter, Neil R %A Shields, Denis C %A Stanton, Alice %A Thom, Simon %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Amin, Najaf %A Arking, Dan E %A Ayers, Kristin L %A Barbieri, Caterina M %A Batini, Chiara %A Bis, Joshua C %A Blake, Tineka %A Bochud, Murielle %A Boehnke, Michael %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Braund, Peter S %A Brumat, Marco %A Campbell, Archie %A Campbell, Harry %A Chakravarti, Aravinda %A Chambers, John C %A Chauhan, Ganesh %A Ciullo, Marina %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Collins, Francis %A Cordell, Heather J %A Davies, Gail %A Borst, Martin H de %A Geus, Eco J de %A Deary, Ian J %A Deelen, Joris %A del Greco M, Fabiola %A Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf %A Dörr, Marcus %A Ehret, Georg B %A Elosua, Roberto %A Enroth, Stefan %A Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut %A Ferreira, Teresa %A Frånberg, Mattias %A Franco, Oscar H %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gieger, Christian %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Goel, Anuj %A Gow, Alan J %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Gyllensten, Ulf %A Hamsten, Anders %A Harris, Tamara B %A Harris, Sarah E %A Hartman, Catharina A %A Havulinna, Aki S %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Hofer, Edith %A Hofman, Albert %A Hottenga, Jouke-Jan %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Ingelsson, Erik %A James, Alan %A Jansen, Rick %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Joehanes, Roby %A Johansson, Asa %A Johnson, Andrew D %A Joshi, Peter K %A Jousilahti, Pekka %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Jula, Antti %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kathiresan, Sekar %A Keavney, Bernard D %A Khaw, Kay-Tee %A Knekt, Paul %A Knight, Joanne %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Koskinen, Seppo %A Kristiansson, Kati %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Laan, Maris %A Larson, Marty %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Liewald, David C M %A Lin, Li %A Lind, Lars %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Liu, Yongmei %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Lopez, Lorna M %A Lu, Yingchang %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto %A Marrugat, Jaume %A Marten, Jonathan %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Morgan, Anna %A Morris, Andrew P %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Munson, Peter J %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nandakumar, Priyanka %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Niiranen, Teemu %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Nutile, Teresa %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Oostra, Ben A %A O'Reilly, Paul F %A Org, Elin %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmas, Walter %A Palotie, Aarno %A Pattie, Alison %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Perola, Markus %A Peters, Annette %A Polasek, Ozren %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Nguyen, Quang Tri %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Ren, Meixia %A Rettig, Rainer %A Rice, Kenneth %A Ridker, Paul M %A Ried, Janina S %A Riese, Harriëtte %A Ripatti, Samuli %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rose, Lynda M %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Saba, Yasaman %A Sala, Cinzia F %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sarin, Antti-Pekka %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Schmidt, Helena %A Shrine, Nick %A Siscovick, David %A Smith, Albert V %A Snieder, Harold %A Sõber, Siim %A Sorice, Rossella %A Starr, John M %A Stott, David J %A Strachan, David P %A Strawbridge, Rona J %A Sundström, Johan %A Swertz, Morris A %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teumer, Alexander %A Tobin, Martin D %A Tomaszewski, Maciej %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Traglia, Michela %A Trompet, Stella %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vaez, Ahmad %A van der Most, Peter J %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Vergnaud, Anne-Claire %A Verwoert, Germaine C %A Vitart, Veronique %A Völker, Uwe %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Vuckovic, Dragana %A Watkins, Hugh %A Wild, Sarah H %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Wilson, James F %A Wright, Alan F %A Yao, Jie %A Zemunik, Tatijana %A Zhang, Weihua %A Attia, John R %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Conen, David %A Cucca, Francesco %A Danesh, John %A Hayward, Caroline %A Howson, Joanna M M %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakatta, Edward G %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Melander, Olle %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Risch, Lorenz %A Scott, Robert A %A Scott, Rodney J %A Sever, Peter %A Spector, Tim D %A van der Harst, Pim %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Levy, Daniel %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher %A Brown, Morris J %A Metspalu, Andres %A Hung, Adriana M %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Edwards, Todd L %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Tzoulaki, Ioanna %A Barnes, Michael R %A Wain, Louise V %A Elliott, Paul %A Caulfield, Mark J %X

High blood pressure is a highly heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure) to date in over 1 million people of European ancestry. We identify 535 novel blood pressure loci that not only offer new biological insights into blood pressure regulation but also highlight shared genetic architecture between blood pressure and lifestyle exposures. Our findings identify new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation with potential for improved cardiovascular disease prevention in the future.

%B Nat Genet %V 50 %P 1412-1425 %8 2018 Oct %G eng %N 10 %R 10.1038/s41588-018-0205-x %0 Journal Article %J Circulation %D 2018 %T Genome-Wide Association Trans-Ethnic Meta-Analyses Identifies Novel Associations Regulating Coagulation Factor VIII and von Willebrand Factor Plasma Levels. %A Sabater-Lleal, Maria %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A de Vries, Paul S %A Marten, Jonathan %A Mastrangelo, Michael A %A Song, Ci %A Pankratz, Nathan %A Ward-Caviness, Cavin K %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Trompet, Stella %A Delgado, Graciela E %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Bartz, Traci M %A Martinez-Perez, Angel %A Germain, Marine %A de Haan, Hugoline G %A Ozel, Ayse B %A Polasek, Ozren %A Smith, Albert V %A Eicher, John D %A Reiner, Alex P %A Tang, Weihong %A Davies, Neil M %A Stott, David J %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Tofler, Geoffrey H %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A de Maat, Moniek P M %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Welsh, Paul %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Chen, Ming-Huei %A Vaidya, Dhananjay %A Soria, José Manuel %A Suchon, Pierre %A van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid %A Desch, Karl C %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Joshi, Peter K %A Launer, Lenore J %A Harris, Tamara B %A Campbell, Harry %A Rudan, Igor %A Becker, Diane M %A Li, Jun Z %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Hofman, Albert %A Franco, Oscar H %A Cushman, Mary %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel %A McKnight, Barbara %A Chong, Michael R %A Fernandez-Cadenas, Israel %A Rosand, Jonathan %A Lindgren, Arne %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Wilson, James F %A Hayward, Caroline %A Ginsburg, David %A Fornage, Myriam %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Souto, Juan Carlos %A Becker, Lewis C %A Jenny, Nancy S %A März, Winfried %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Trégouët, David-Alexandre %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Johnson, Andrew D %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Strachan, David P %A Lowenstein, Charles J %A Smith, Nicholas L %X

BACKGROUND: Factor VIII (FVIII) and its carrier protein von Willebrand factor (VWF) are associated with risk of arterial and venous thrombosis and with hemorrhagic disorders. We aimed to identify and functionally test novel genetic associations regulating plasma FVIII and VWF.

METHODS: We meta-analyzed genome-wide association results from 46,354 individuals of European, African, East Asian, and Hispanic ancestry. All studies performed linear regression analysis using an additive genetic model and associated approximately 35 million imputed variants with natural-log transformed phenotype levels. In vitro gene silencing in cultured endothelial cells was performed for candidate genes to provide additional evidence on association and function. Two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were applied to test the causal role of FVIII and VWF plasma levels on the risk of arterial and venous thrombotic events.

RESULTS: We identified 13 novel genome-wide significant (p≤2.5x10) associations; 7 with FVIII levels ( FCHO2/TMEM171/TNPO1, HLA, SOX17/RP1, LINC00583/NFIB, RAB5C-KAT2A, RPL3/TAB1/SYNGR1, and ARSA) and 11 with VWF levels ( PDHB/PXK/KCTD6, SLC39A8, FCHO2/TMEM171/TNPO1, HLA, GIMAP7/GIMAP4, OR13C5/NIPSNAP, DAB2IP, C2CD4B, RAB5C-KAT2A, TAB1/SYNGR1, and ARSA), beyond 10 previously reported associations with these phenotypes. Functional validation provided further evidence of association for all loci on VWF except ARSA and DAB2IP. MR suggested causal effects of plasma FVIII activity levels on venous thrombosis and coronary artery disease risk and plasma VWF levels on ischemic stroke risk.

CONCLUSIONS: The meta-analysis identified 13 novel genetic loci regulating FVIII and VWF plasma levels, 10 of which we validated functionally. We provide some evidence for a causal role of these proteins in thrombotic events.

%B Circulation %8 2018 Nov 20 %G eng %R 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.034532 %0 Journal Article %J Am J Hum Genet %D 2018 %T A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure. %A Sung, Yun J %A Winkler, Thomas W %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Bentley, Amy R %A Brown, Michael R %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Schwander, Karen %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Franceschini, Nora %A Lu, Yingchang %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Sim, Xueling %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Marten, Jonathan %A Musani, Solomon K %A Li, Changwei %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Richard, Melissa A %A Noordam, Raymond %A Aslibekyan, Stella %A Aschard, Hugues %A Bartz, Traci M %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Liu, Yongmei %A Manning, Alisa K %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Smith, Albert Vernon %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A Warren, Helen R %A Zhao, Wei %A Zhou, Yanhua %A Matoba, Nana %A Sofer, Tamar %A Alver, Maris %A Amini, Marzyeh %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Chai, Jin Fang %A Chen, Xu %A Divers, Jasmin %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Gao, Chuan %A Giulianini, Franco %A Goel, Anuj %A Harris, Sarah E %A Hartwig, Fernando Pires %A Horimoto, Andrea R V R %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Jackson, Anne U %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kasturiratne, Anuradhani %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Leander, Karin %A Lee, Wen-Jane %A Lin, Keng-Hung %A 'an Luan, Jian %A McKenzie, Colin A %A Meian, He %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Schupf, Nicole %A Scott, Robert A %A Sheu, Wayne H H %A Stančáková, Alena %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A van der Most, Peter J %A Varga, Tibor V %A Wang, Heming %A Wang, Yajuan %A Ware, Erin B %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Afaq, Saima %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Amin, Najaf %A Arking, Dan %A Aung, Tin %A Barr, R Graham %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Braund, Peter S %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Broeckel, Ulrich %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Cade, Brian %A Caizheng, Yu %A Campbell, Archie %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chakravarti, Aravinda %A Chauhan, Ganesh %A Christensen, Kaare %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Collins, Francis S %A Connell, John M %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Silva, H Janaka %A Debette, Stephanie %A Dörr, Marcus %A Duan, Qing %A Eaton, Charles B %A Ehret, Georg %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fisher, Virginia A %A Forouhi, Nita G %A Franco, Oscar H %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Gao, He %A Gigante, Bruna %A Graff, Misa %A Gu, C Charles %A Gu, Dongfeng %A Gupta, Preeti %A Hagenaars, Saskia P %A Harris, Tamara B %A He, Jiang %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hirata, Makoto %A Hofman, Albert %A Howard, Barbara V %A Hunt, Steven %A Irvin, Marguerite R %A Jia, Yucheng %A Joehanes, Roby %A Justice, Anne E %A Katsuya, Tomohiro %A Kaufman, Joel %A Kerrison, Nicola D %A Khor, Chiea Chuen %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Koistinen, Heikki A %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Krieger, Jose E %A Kubo, Michiaki %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Lewis, Cora E %A Li, Yize %A Lim, Sing Hui %A Lin, Shiow %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Jianjun %A Liu, Jingmin %A Liu, Kiang %A Liu, Yeheng %A Loh, Marie %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Long, Jirong %A Louie, Tin %A Mägi, Reedik %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milani, Lili %A Momozawa, Yukihide %A Morris, Andrew P %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Munson, Peter %A Murray, Alison D %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nasri, Ubaydah %A Norris, Jill M %A North, Kari %A Ogunniyi, Adesola %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmas, Walter R %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pankow, James S %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Peters, Annette %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Polasek, Ozren %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rice, Treva K %A Ridker, Paul M %A Robino, Antonietta %A Robinson, Jennifer G %A Rose, Lynda M %A Rudan, Igor %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Salako, Babatunde L %A Sandow, Kevin %A Schmidt, Carsten O %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Scott, William R %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Sever, Peter %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Snieder, Harold %A Starr, John M %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Tang, Hua %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teo, Yik Ying %A Tham, Yih Chung %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Lihua %A Wang, Ya X %A Wei, Wen Bin %A Williams, Christine %A Wilson, Gregory %A Wojczynski, Mary K %A Yao, Jie %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bowden, Donald W %A Chambers, John C %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A de Faire, Ulf %A Deary, Ian J %A Esko, Tõnu %A Farrall, Martin %A Forrester, Terrence %A Franks, Paul W %A Freedman, Barry I %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gieger, Christian %A Horta, Bernardo Lessa %A Hung, Yi-Jen %A Jonas, Jost B %A Kato, Norihiro %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Laakso, Markku %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Liang, Kae-Woei %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Newman, Anne B %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Redline, Susan %A Rettig, Rainer %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Scott, James %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A van der Harst, Pim %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Watkins, Hugh %A Weir, David R %A Wickremasinghe, Ananda R %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Laurie, Cathy C %A Bouchard, Claude %A Cooper, Richard S %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Levy, Daniel %A O'Connell, Jeff R %A Psaty, Bruce M %A van Dam, Rob M %A Sims, Mario %A Arnett, Donna K %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Fox, Ervin R %A Hayward, Caroline %A Fornage, Myriam %A Rotimi, Charles N %A Province, Michael A %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Tai, E Shyong %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Reiner, Alex P %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Bierut, Laura J %A Gauderman, W James %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Elliott, Paul %A Rice, Kenneth %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Chasman, Daniel I %X

Genome-wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene-smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals. Stage 1 analysis examined ∼18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow-up analysis of promising variants in 480,178 additional individuals from five ancestries. We identified 15 loci that were genome-wide significant (p < 5 × 10) in stage 1 and formally replicated in stage 2. A combined stage 1 and 2 meta-analysis identified 66 additional genome-wide significant loci (13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African, and trans-ancestry, respectively). A total of 56 known BP loci were also identified by our results (p < 5 × 10). Of the newly identified loci, ten showed significant interaction with smoking status, but none of them were replicated in stage 2. Several loci were identified in African ancestry, highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with cardiometabolic and addiction traits. They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function (CDKN1B, BCAR1-CFDP1, PXDN, EEA1), ciliopathies (SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L), telomere maintenance (TNKS, PINX1, AKTIP), and central dopaminergic signaling (MSRA, EBF2).

%B Am J Hum Genet %V 102 %P 375-400 %8 2018 Mar 01 %G eng %N 3 %R 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.01.015 %0 Journal Article %J Wellcome Open Res %D 2018 %T Meta-analysis of exome array data identifies six novel genetic loci for lung function. %A Jackson, Victoria E %A Latourelle, Jeanne C %A Wain, Louise V %A Smith, Albert V %A Grove, Megan L %A Bartz, Traci M %A Obeidat, Ma'en %A Province, Michael A %A Gao, Wei %A Qaiser, Beenish %A Porteous, David J %A Cassano, Patricia A %A Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S %A Grarup, Niels %A Li, Jin %A Altmaier, Elisabeth %A Marten, Jonathan %A Harris, Sarah E %A Manichaikul, Ani %A Pottinger, Tess D %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lind-Thomsen, Allan %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Lahousse, Lies %A Imboden, Medea %A Teumer, Alexander %A Prins, Bram %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Franceschini, Nora %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Bossé, Yohan %A Timens, Wim %A Kraja, Aldi %A Loukola, Anu %A Tang, Wenbo %A Liu, Yongmei %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Justesen, Johanne M %A Linneberg, Allan %A Lange, Leslie A %A Rawal, Rajesh %A Karrasch, Stefan %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Smith, Blair H %A Davies, Gail %A Burkart, Kristin M %A Mychaleckyj, Josyf C %A Bonten, Tobias N %A Enroth, Stefan %A Lind, Lars %A Brusselle, Guy G %A Kumar, Ashish %A Stubbe, Beate %A Kähönen, Mika %A Wyss, Annah B %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Hao, Ke %A Rantanen, Taina %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Lohman, Kurt %A Skaaby, Tea %A Pisinger, Charlotta %A Hansen, Torben %A Schulz, Holger %A Polasek, Ozren %A Campbell, Archie %A Starr, John M %A Rich, Stephen S %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Johansson, Asa %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Weiss, Stefan %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A North, Kari E %A Gharib, Sina A %A Sin, Don D %A Taylor, Kent D %A O'Connor, George T %A Kaprio, Jaakko %A Harris, Tamara B %A Pederson, Oluf %A Vestergaard, Henrik %A Wilson, James G %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Hayward, Caroline %A Kerr, Shona %A Deary, Ian J %A Barr, R Graham %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Gyllensten, Ulf %A Morris, Andrew P %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Probst-Hensch, Nicole %A Gläser, Sven %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Strachan, David P %A Dupuis, Josée %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Hall, Ian P %A Tobin, Martin D %A London, Stephanie J %X

Over 90 regions of the genome have been associated with lung function to date, many of which have also been implicated in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We carried out meta-analyses of exome array data and three lung function measures: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV ), forced vital capacity (FVC) and the ratio of FEV to FVC (FEV /FVC). These analyses by the SpiroMeta and CHARGE consortia included 60,749 individuals of European ancestry from 23 studies, and 7,721 individuals of African Ancestry from 5 studies in the discovery stage, with follow-up in up to 111,556 independent individuals. We identified significant (P<2·8x10 ) associations with six SNPs: a nonsynonymous variant in , which is predicted to be damaging, three intronic SNPs ( and ) and two intergenic SNPs near to and Expression quantitative trait loci analyses found evidence for regulation of gene expression at three signals and implicated several genes, including and . Further interrogation of these loci could provide greater understanding of the determinants of lung function and pulmonary disease.

%B Wellcome Open Res %V 3 %P 4 %8 2018 %G eng %R 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.12583.3 %0 Journal Article %J PLoS One %D 2018 %T Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries. %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Sung, Yun J %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Franceschini, Nora %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Sim, Xueling %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Marten, Jonathan %A Musani, Solomon K %A Li, Changwei %A Bentley, Amy R %A Brown, Michael R %A Schwander, Karen %A Richard, Melissa A %A Noordam, Raymond %A Aschard, Hugues %A Bartz, Traci M %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Fisher, Virginia %A Hartwig, Fernando P %A Horimoto, Andrea R V R %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Manning, Alisa K %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Smith, Albert V %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Wojczynski, Mary K %A Alver, Maris %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Cai, Qiuyin %A Campbell, Archie %A Chai, Jin Fang %A Chen, Xu %A Divers, Jasmin %A Gao, Chuan %A Goel, Anuj %A Hagemeijer, Yanick %A Harris, Sarah E %A He, Meian %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Jackson, Anne U %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kasturiratne, Anuradhani %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Laguzzi, Federica %A Luan, Jian'an %A Matoba, Nana %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Riaz, Muhammad %A Rueedi, Rico %A Robino, Antonietta %A Said, M Abdullah %A Scott, Robert A %A Sofer, Tamar %A Stančáková, Alena %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A van der Most, Peter J %A Varga, Tibor V %A Vitart, Veronique %A Wang, Yajuan %A Ware, Erin B %A Warren, Helen R %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Afaq, Saima %A Amin, Najaf %A Amini, Marzyeh %A Arking, Dan E %A Aung, Tin %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Borecki, Ingrid %A Broeckel, Ulrich %A Brown, Morris %A Brumat, Marco %A Burke, Gregory L %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chakravarti, Aravinda %A Charumathi, Sabanayagam %A Ida Chen, Yii-Der %A Connell, John M %A Correa, Adolfo %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Silva, H Janaka %A Deng, Xuan %A Ding, Jingzhong %A Duan, Qing %A Eaton, Charles B %A Ehret, Georg %A Eppinga, Ruben N %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Faul, Jessica D %A Felix, Stephan B %A Forouhi, Nita G %A Forrester, Terrence %A Franco, Oscar H %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Gao, He %A Ghanbari, Mohsen %A Gigante, Bruna %A Gu, C Charles %A Gu, Dongfeng %A Hagenaars, Saskia P %A Hallmans, Göran %A Harris, Tamara B %A He, Jiang %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hirata, Makoto %A Howard, Barbara V %A Ikram, M Arfan %A John, Ulrich %A Katsuya, Tomohiro %A Khor, Chiea Chuen %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Krieger, Jose E %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Kubo, Michiaki %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Lakka, Timo A %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Lewis, Cora E %A Li, Yize %A Lin, Shiow %A Liu, Jianjun %A Liu, Jingmin %A Loh, Marie %A Louie, Tin %A Mägi, Reedik %A McKenzie, Colin A %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Milani, Lili %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Momozawa, Yukihide %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A Norris, Jill M %A O'Connell, Jeff R %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Perls, Thomas %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Peters, Annette %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Poulter, Neil %A Raffel, Leslie J %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Roll, Kathryn %A Rose, Lynda M %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Schmidt, Carsten O %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Schupf, Nicole %A Scott, William R %A Sever, Peter S %A Shi, Yuan %A Sidney, Stephen %A Sims, Mario %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Snieder, Harold %A Starr, John M %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Tan, Nicholas Y Q %A Tang, Hua %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teo, Yik Ying %A Tham, Yih Chung %A Turner, Stephen T %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Lihua %A Wang, Ya Xing %A Wei, Wen Bin %A Williams, Christine %A Yao, Jie %A Yu, Caizheng %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zhao, Wei %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bowden, Donald W %A Chambers, John C %A Deary, Ian J %A Esko, Tõnu %A Farrall, Martin %A Franks, Paul W %A Freedman, Barry I %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gieger, Christian %A Jonas, Jost Bruno %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Kato, Norihiro %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Laakso, Markku %A Laurie, Cathy C %A Leander, Karin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Study, Lifelines Cohort %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Scott, James %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A van der Harst, Pim %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Watkins, Hugh %A Weir, David R %A Wickremasinghe, Ananda R %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Bouchard, Claude %A Christensen, Kaare %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Liu, Yongmei %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Ridker, Paul M %A van Dam, Rob M %A Gauderman, W James %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Fornage, Myriam %A Rotimi, Charles N %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Fox, Ervin R %A Hayward, Caroline %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Tai, E Shyong %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Palmas, Walter %A Rice, Kenneth %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Elliott, Paul %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Province, Michael A %A Levy, Daniel %X

Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify additional BP loci and contribute to the understanding of alcohol-related BP regulation. We conducted a large two-stage investigation incorporating joint testing of main genetic effects and single nucleotide variant (SNV)-alcohol consumption interactions. In Stage 1, genome-wide discovery meta-analyses in ≈131K individuals across several ancestry groups yielded 3,514 SNVs (245 loci) with suggestive evidence of association (P < 1.0 x 10-5). In Stage 2, these SNVs were tested for independent external replication in ≈440K individuals across multiple ancestries. We identified and replicated (at Bonferroni correction threshold) five novel BP loci (380 SNVs in 21 genes) and 49 previously reported BP loci (2,159 SNVs in 109 genes) in European ancestry, and in multi-ancestry meta-analyses (P < 5.0 x 10-8). For African ancestry samples, we detected 18 potentially novel BP loci (P < 5.0 x 10-8) in Stage 1 that warrant further replication. Additionally, correlated meta-analysis identified eight novel BP loci (11 genes). Several genes in these loci (e.g., PINX1, GATA4, BLK, FTO and GABBR2) have been previously reported to be associated with alcohol consumption. These findings provide insights into the role of alcohol consumption in the genetic architecture of hypertension.

%B PLoS One %V 13 %P e0198166 %8 2018 %G eng %N 6 %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0198166 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes. %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Wessel, Jennifer %A Willems, Sara M %A Zhao, Wei %A Robertson, Neil R %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Gan, Wei %A Kitajima, Hidetoshi %A Taliun, Daniel %A Rayner, N William %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Lu, Yingchang %A Li, Man %A Jensen, Richard A %A Hu, Yao %A Huo, Shaofeng %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Zhang, Weihua %A Cook, James P %A Prins, Bram Peter %A Flannick, Jason %A Grarup, Niels %A Trubetskoy, Vassily Vladimirovich %A Kravic, Jasmina %A Kim, Young Jin %A Rybin, Denis V %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Meidtner, Karina %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Varga, Tibor V %A Marten, Jonathan %A Li, Jin %A Smith, Albert Vernon %A An, Ping %A Ligthart, Symen %A Gustafsson, Stefan %A Malerba, Giovanni %A Demirkan, Ayse %A Tajes, Juan Fernandez %A Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur %A Wuttke, Matthias %A Lecoeur, Cécile %A Preuss, Michael %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Graff, Marielisa %A Highland, Heather M %A Justice, Anne E %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Marouli, Eirini %A Peloso, Gina Marie %A Warren, Helen R %A Afaq, Saima %A Afzal, Shoaib %A Ahlqvist, Emma %A Almgren, Peter %A Amin, Najaf %A Bang, Lia B %A Bertoni, Alain G %A Bombieri, Cristina %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Burtt, Noel P %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Cho, Yoon Shin %A Christensen, Cramer %A Eastwood, Sophie V %A Eckardt, Kai-Uwe %A Fischer, Krista %A Gambaro, Giovanni %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Grove, Megan L %A de Haan, Hugoline G %A Hackinger, Sophie %A Hai, Yang %A Han, Sohee %A Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne %A Hivert, Marie-France %A Isomaa, Bo %A Jäger, Susanne %A Jørgensen, Marit E %A Jørgensen, Torben %A Käräjämäki, AnneMari %A Kim, Bong-Jo %A Kim, Sung Soo %A Koistinen, Heikki A %A Kovacs, Peter %A Kriebel, Jennifer %A Kronenberg, Florian %A Läll, Kristi %A Lange, Leslie A %A Lee, Jung-Jin %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Li, Huaixing %A Lin, Keng-Hung %A Linneberg, Allan %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Jun %A Loh, Marie %A Mägi, Reedik %A Mamakou, Vasiliki %A McKean-Cowdin, Roberta %A Nadkarni, Girish %A Neville, Matt %A Nielsen, Sune F %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Rathmann, Wolfgang %A Rice, Kenneth %A Rich, Stephen S %A Rode, Line %A Rolandsson, Olov %A Schönherr, Sebastian %A Selvin, Elizabeth %A Small, Kerrin S %A Stančáková, Alena %A Surendran, Praveen %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teslovich, Tanya M %A Thorand, Barbara %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Tin, Adrienne %A Tönjes, Anke %A Varbo, Anette %A Witte, Daniel R %A Wood, Andrew R %A Yajnik, Pranav %A Yao, Jie %A Yengo, Loic %A Young, Robin %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Boeing, Heiner %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Collins, Francis S %A Dedoussis, George %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Deloukas, Panos %A Ferrario, Marco M %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Florez, Jose C %A Frossard, Philippe %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Harris, Tamara B %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Howson, Joanna M M %A Ingelsson, Martin %A Kathiresan, Sekar %A Kee, Frank %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Männistö, Satu %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Melander, Olle %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Moitry, Marie %A Morris, Andrew D %A Murray, Alison D %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Owen, Katharine R %A Perola, Markus %A Peters, Annette %A Province, Michael A %A Rasheed, Asif %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rivadineira, Fernando %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Rosengren, Anders H %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Sheu, Wayne H-H %A Sladek, Rob %A Smith, Blair H %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Varma, Rohit %A Willer, Cristen J %A Blüher, Matthias %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Chambers, John Campbell %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Danesh, John %A van Duijn, Cornelia %A Dupuis, Josée %A Franco, Oscar H %A Franks, Paul W %A Froguel, Philippe %A Grallert, Harald %A Groop, Leif %A Han, Bok-Ghee %A Hansen, Torben %A Hattersley, Andrew T %A Hayward, Caroline %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Kooner, Jaspal Singh %A Köttgen, Anna %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Laakso, Markku %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Liu, Yongmei %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Marchini, Jonathan %A Metspalu, Andres %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis %A Nordestgaard, Børge G %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Pankow, James S %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Sattar, Naveed %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Soranzo, Nicole %A Spector, Timothy D %A Stefansson, Kari %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Tuomi, Tiinamaija %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Wilson, James G %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Scott, Robert A %A Barroso, Inês %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Goodarzi, Mark O %A Meigs, James B %A Boehnke, Michael %A Saleheen, Danish %A Morris, Andrew P %A Rotter, Jerome I %A McCarthy, Mark I %X

We aggregated coding variant data for 81,412 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,832 controls of diverse ancestry, identifying 40 coding variant association signals (P < 2.2 × 10); of these, 16 map outside known risk-associated loci. We make two important observations. First, only five of these signals are driven by low-frequency variants: even for these, effect sizes are modest (odds ratio ≤1.29). Second, when we used large-scale genome-wide association data to fine-map the associated variants in their regional context, accounting for the global enrichment of complex trait associations in coding sequence, compelling evidence for coding variant causality was obtained for only 16 signals. At 13 others, the associated coding variants clearly represent 'false leads' with potential to generate erroneous mechanistic inference. Coding variant associations offer a direct route to biological insight for complex diseases and identification of validated therapeutic targets; however, appropriate mechanistic inference requires careful specification of their causal contribution to disease predisposition.

%B Nat Genet %V 50 %P 559-571 %8 2018 Apr %G eng %N 4 %R 10.1038/s41588-018-0084-1 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2019 %T A catalog of genetic loci associated with kidney function from analyses of a million individuals. %A Wuttke, Matthias %A Li, Yong %A Li, Man %A Sieber, Karsten B %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Gorski, Mathias %A Tin, Adrienne %A Wang, Lihua %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Hoppmann, Anselm %A Kirsten, Holger %A Giri, Ayush %A Chai, Jin-Fang %A Sveinbjornsson, Gardar %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A Nutile, Teresa %A Fuchsberger, Christian %A Marten, Jonathan %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Ghasemi, Sahar %A Xu, Yizhe %A Horn, Katrin %A Noce, Damia %A van der Most, Peter J %A Sedaghat, Sanaz %A Yu, Zhi %A Akiyama, Masato %A Afaq, Saima %A Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S %A Almgren, Peter %A Amin, Najaf %A Arnlöv, Johan %A Bakker, Stephan J L %A Bansal, Nisha %A Baptista, Daniela %A Bergmann, Sven %A Biggs, Mary L %A Biino, Ginevra %A Boehnke, Michael %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Boutin, Thibaud S %A Brenner, Hermann %A Brumat, Marco %A Burkhardt, Ralph %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Campana, Eric %A Campbell, Archie %A Campbell, Harry %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Carroll, Robert J %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Chambers, John C %A Chee, Miao-Ling %A Chee, Miao-Li %A Chen, Xu %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Cheng, Yurong %A Christensen, Kaare %A Cifkova, Renata %A Ciullo, Marina %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Cook, James P %A Coresh, Josef %A Corre, Tanguy %A Sala, Cinzia Felicita %A Cusi, Daniele %A Danesh, John %A Daw, E Warwick %A de Borst, Martin H %A De Grandi, Alessandro %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Vries, Aiko P J %A Degenhardt, Frauke %A Delgado, Graciela %A Demirkan, Ayse %A Di Angelantonio, Emanuele %A Dittrich, Katalin %A Divers, Jasmin %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Eckardt, Kai-Uwe %A Ehret, Georg %A Elliott, Paul %A Endlich, Karlhans %A Evans, Michele K %A Felix, Janine F %A Foo, Valencia Hui Xian %A Franco, Oscar H %A Franke, Andre %A Freedman, Barry I %A Freitag-Wolf, Sandra %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gansevoort, Ron T %A Gao, He %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gaziano, J Michael %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gieger, Christian %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gögele, Martin %A Gordon, Scott D %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Haller, Toomas %A Hamet, Pavel %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hartman, Catharina A %A Hayward, Caroline %A Hellwege, Jacklyn N %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Hofer, Edith %A Huang, Wei %A Hutri-Kähönen, Nina %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Indridason, Olafur S %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Ising, Marcus %A Jaddoe, Vincent W V %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Jonas, Jost B %A Joshi, Peter K %A Josyula, Navya Shilpa %A Jung, Bettina %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Kammerer, Candace M %A Kanai, Masahiro %A Kastarinen, Mika %A Kerr, Shona M %A Khor, Chiea-Chuen %A Kiess, Wieland %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Koenig, Wolfgang %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Körner, Antje %A Kovacs, Peter %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Krajcoviechova, Alena %A Kramer, Holly %A Krämer, Bernhard K %A Kronenberg, Florian %A Kubo, Michiaki %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Kuokkanen, Mikko %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A La Bianca, Martina %A Laakso, Markku %A Lange, Leslie A %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Lee, Jeannette Jen-Mai %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lieb, Wolfgang %A Lim, Su-Chi %A Lind, Lars %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Liu, Jun %A Liu, Jianjun %A Loeffler, Markus %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Lucae, Susanne %A Lukas, Mary Ann %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Mägi, Reedik %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Martins, Jade %A März, Winfried %A Mascalzoni, Deborah %A Matsuda, Koichi %A Meisinger, Christa %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Melander, Olle %A Metspalu, Andres %A Mikaelsdottir, Evgenia K %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Miliku, Kozeta %A Mishra, Pashupati P %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Mononen, Nina %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Mychaleckyj, Josyf C %A Nadkarni, Girish N %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nauck, Matthias %A Nikus, Kjell %A Ning, Boting %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Noordam, Raymond %A O'Connell, Jeffrey %A O'Donoghue, Michelle L %A Olafsson, Isleifur %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Ouwehand, Willem H %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Palsson, Runolfur %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Perls, Thomas %A Perola, Markus %A Pirastu, Mario %A Pirastu, Nicola %A Pistis, Giorgio %A Podgornaia, Anna I %A Polasek, Ozren %A Ponte, Belen %A Porteous, David J %A Poulain, Tanja %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Preuss, Michael H %A Prins, Bram P %A Province, Michael A %A Rabelink, Ton J %A Raffield, Laura M %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Rettig, Rainer %A Rheinberger, Myriam %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Rizzi, Federica %A Roberts, David J %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rossing, Peter %A Rudan, Igor %A Rueedi, Rico %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Ryan, Kathleen A %A Saba, Yasaman %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Salvi, Erika %A Saum, Kai-Uwe %A Schmidt, Helena %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Schöttker, Ben %A Schulz, Christina-Alexandra %A Schupf, Nicole %A Shaffer, Christian M %A Shi, Yuan %A Smith, Albert V %A Smith, Blair H %A Soranzo, Nicole %A Spracklen, Cassandra N %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Svensson, Per O %A Szymczak, Silke %A Tai, E-Shyong %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Tan, Nicholas Y Q %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teren, Andrej %A Tham, Yih-Chung %A Thiery, Joachim %A Thio, Chris H L %A Thomsen, Hauke %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Tönjes, Anke %A Tremblay, Johanne %A Tzoulaki, Ioanna %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vaccargiu, Simona %A van Dam, Rob M %A van der Harst, Pim %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Velez Edward, Digna R %A Verweij, Niek %A Vogelezang, Suzanne %A Völker, Uwe %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Waeber, Gérard %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wallentin, Lars %A Wang, Ya Xing %A Wang, Chaolong %A Waterworth, Dawn M %A Bin Wei, Wen %A White, Harvey %A Whitfield, John B %A Wild, Sarah H %A Wilson, James F %A Wojczynski, Mary K %A Wong, Charlene %A Wong, Tien-Yin %A Xu, Liang %A Yang, Qiong %A Yasuda, Masayuki %A Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Bochud, Murielle %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Vitart, Veronique %A Wilson, James G %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Parsa, Afshin %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Ho, Kevin %A Morris, Andrew P %A Devuyst, Olivier %A Akilesh, Shreeram %A Pendergrass, Sarah A %A Sim, Xueling %A Böger, Carsten A %A Okada, Yukinori %A Edwards, Todd L %A Snieder, Harold %A Stefansson, Kari %A Hung, Adriana M %A Heid, Iris M %A Scholz, Markus %A Teumer, Alexander %A Köttgen, Anna %A Pattaro, Cristian %K Chromosome Mapping %K European Continental Ancestry Group %K Genetic Association Studies %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Glomerular Filtration Rate %K Humans %K Inheritance Patterns %K Kidney Function Tests %K Phenotype %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Quantitative Trait Loci %K Quantitative Trait, Heritable %K Renal Insufficiency, Chronic %K Uromodulin %X

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is responsible for a public health burden with multi-systemic complications. Through trans-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and independent replication (n = 1,046,070), we identified 264 associated loci (166 new). Of these, 147 were likely to be relevant for kidney function on the basis of associations with the alternative kidney function marker blood urea nitrogen (n = 416,178). Pathway and enrichment analyses, including mouse models with renal phenotypes, support the kidney as the main target organ. A genetic risk score for lower eGFR was associated with clinically diagnosed CKD in 452,264 independent individuals. Colocalization analyses of associations with eGFR among 783,978 European-ancestry individuals and gene expression across 46 human tissues, including tubulo-interstitial and glomerular kidney compartments, identified 17 genes differentially expressed in kidney. Fine-mapping highlighted missense driver variants in 11 genes and kidney-specific regulatory variants. These results provide a comprehensive priority list of molecular targets for translational research.

%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 957-972 %8 2019 06 %G eng %N 6 %R 10.1038/s41588-019-0407-x %0 Journal Article %J Blood %D 2019 %T A genome-wide association study identifies new loci for factor VII and implicates factor VII in ischemic stroke etiology. %A de Vries, Paul S %A Sabater-Lleal, Maria %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Marten, Jonathan %A Song, Ci %A Pankratz, Nathan %A Bartz, Traci M %A de Haan, Hugoline G %A Delgado, Graciela E %A Eicher, John D %A Martinez-Perez, Angel %A Ward-Caviness, Cavin K %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Chen, Ming-Huei %A de Maat, Moniek P M %A Frånberg, Mattias %A Gill, Dipender %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Soria, José Manuel %A Tang, Weihong %A Tofler, Geoffrey H %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Davies, Neil M %A Giese, Anne-Katrin %A Ikram, M Kamran %A Kittner, Steven J %A McKnight, Barbara %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Reiner, Alex P %A Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan %A Taylor, Kent D %A Fornage, Myriam %A Hamsten, Anders %A März, Winfried %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Souto, Juan Carlos %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Johnson, Andrew D %A Morrison, Alanna C %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Smith, Nicholas L %X

Factor VII (FVII) is an important component of the coagulation cascade. Few genetic loci regulating FVII activity and/or levels have been discovered to date. We conducted a meta-analysis of 9 genome-wide association studies of plasma FVII levels (7 FVII activity and 2 FVII antigen) among 27 495 participants of European and African ancestry. Each study performed ancestry-specific association analyses. Inverse variance weighted meta-analysis was performed within each ancestry group and then combined for a -ancestry meta-analysis. Our primary analysis included the 7 studies that measured FVII activity, and a secondary analysis included all 9 studies. We provided functional genomic validation for newly identified significant loci by silencing candidate genes in a human liver cell line (HuH7) using small-interfering RNA and then measuring messenger RNA and FVII protein expression. Lastly, we used meta-analysis results to perform Mendelian randomization analysis to estimate the causal effect of FVII activity on coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke (IS), and venous thromboembolism. We identified 2 novel ( and ) and 6 known loci associated with FVII activity, explaining 19.0% of the phenotypic variance. Adding FVII antigen data to the meta-analysis did not result in the discovery of further loci. Silencing in HuH7 cells upregulated FVII, whereas silencing downregulated FVII. Mendelian randomization analyses suggest that FVII activity has a positive causal effect on the risk of IS. Variants at and contribute to FVII activity by regulating expression levels. FVII activity appears to contribute to the etiology of IS in the general population.

%B Blood %V 133 %P 967-977 %8 2019 Feb 28 %G eng %N 9 %R 10.1182/blood-2018-05-849240 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Commun %D 2019 %T Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration. %A Noordam, Raymond %A Bos, Maxime M %A Wang, Heming %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Bentley, Amy R %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A de Vries, Paul S %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Schwander, Karen %A Cade, Brian E %A Manning, Alisa %A Aschard, Hugues %A Brown, Michael R %A Chen, Han %A Franceschini, Nora %A Musani, Solomon K %A Richard, Melissa %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Aslibekyan, Stella %A Bartz, Traci M %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Feitosa, Mary %A Horimoto, Andrea R %A Ilkov, Marjan %A Kho, Minjung %A Kraja, Aldi %A Li, Changwei %A Lim, Elise %A Liu, Yongmei %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A van der Spek, Ashley %A Wang, Zhe %A Marten, Jonathan %A Laville, Vincent %A Alver, Maris %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Graff, Maria E %A He, Meian %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Marques-Vidal, Pedro %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Snieder, Harold %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Adolfo, Correa %A Ballantyne, Christie %A Bielak, Larry %A Biermasz, Nienke R %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Dimou, Niki %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Gao, Chuan %A Gharib, Sina A %A Gottlieb, Daniel J %A Haba-Rubio, José %A Harris, Tamara B %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heinzer, Raphael %A Hixson, James E %A Homuth, Georg %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Krieger, Jose E %A Lee, Jiwon %A Liu, Jingmin %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Luik, Annemarie I %A Mägi, Reedik %A Martin, Lisa W %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Nalls, Mike A %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Peters, Annette %A Peyser, Patricia %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Reiner, Alex P %A Rensen, Patrick C N %A Rice, Treva K %A Rich, Stephen S %A Roenneberg, Till %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Shikany, James %A Sidney, Stephen S %A Sims, Mario %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Sofer, Tamar %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Swertz, Morris A %A Taylor, Kent D %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Völzke, Henry %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wallance, Robert B %A van Dijk, Ko Willems %A Yu, Caizheng %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Elliott, Paul %A Esko, Tõnu %A Gieger, Christian %A Grabe, Hans J %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A North, Kari E %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wu, Tangchun %A Xiang, Yong-Bing %A Zheng, Wei %A Arnett, Donna K %A Bouchard, Claude %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Kardia, Sharon %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Province, Mike %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rotimi, Charles %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Amin, Najaf %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Fornage, Myriam %A Fox, Ervin F %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Gauderman, W James %A Rice, Kenneth %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A van Heemst, Diana %A Redline, Susan %X

Both short and long sleep are associated with an adverse lipid profile, likely through different biological pathways. To elucidate the biology of sleep-associated adverse lipid profile, we conduct multi-ancestry genome-wide sleep-SNP interaction analyses on three lipid traits (HDL-c, LDL-c and triglycerides). In the total study sample (discovery + replication) of 126,926 individuals from 5 different ancestry groups, when considering either long or short total sleep time interactions in joint analyses, we identify 49 previously unreported lipid loci, and 10 additional previously unreported lipid loci in a restricted sample of European-ancestry cohorts. In addition, we identify new gene-sleep interactions for known lipid loci such as LPL and PCSK9. The previously unreported lipid loci have a modest explained variance in lipid levels: most notable, gene-short-sleep interactions explain 4.25% of the variance in triglyceride level. Collectively, these findings contribute to our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in sleep-associated adverse lipid profiles.

%B Nat Commun %V 10 %P 5121 %8 2019 Nov 12 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1038/s41467-019-12958-0 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Commun %D 2019 %T Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity. %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Bentley, Amy R %A Noordam, Raymond %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Schwander, Karen %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Jakupović, Hermina %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Manning, Alisa %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Aschard, Hugues %A Brown, Michael R %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Franceschini, Nora %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Aslibekyan, Stella %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Kho, Minjung %A Musani, Solomon K %A Richard, Melissa %A Wang, Heming %A Wang, Zhe %A Bartz, Traci M %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Campbell, Archie %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Fisher, Virginia %A Hartwig, Fernando P %A Horimoto, Andrea R V R %A Li, Changwei %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Marten, Jonathan %A Sim, Xueling %A Smith, Albert V %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Alver, Maris %A Amini, Marzyeh %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Chai, Jin Fang %A Chen, Xu %A Divers, Jasmin %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Gao, Chuan %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Harris, Sarah E %A He, Meian %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Jackson, Anne U %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Laguzzi, Federica %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Riaz, Muhammad %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rueedi, Rico %A Stringham, Heather M %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A van der Most, Peter J %A Varga, Tibor V %A Verweij, Niek %A Ware, Erin B %A Wen, Wanqing %A Li, Xiaoyin %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Amin, Najaf %A Arnett, Donna K %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Brumat, Marco %A Cade, Brian %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Connell, John %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Silva, H Janaka %A de Vries, Paul S %A Demirkan, Ayse %A Ding, Jingzhong %A Eaton, Charles B %A Faul, Jessica D %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Gabriel, Kelley P %A Ghanbari, Mohsen %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gu, Chi Charles %A Gu, Dongfeng %A Harris, Tamara B %A He, Jiang %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hunt, Steven C %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Jonas, Jost B %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Krieger, Jose E %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Leander, Karin %A Lemaitre, Rozenn N %A Lewis, Cora E %A Liang, Jingjing %A Liu, Jianjun %A Mägi, Reedik %A Manichaikul, Ani %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Murray, Alison D %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nang, Ei-Ei Khaing %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Nona, Sotoodehnia %A Norris, Jill M %A Nwuba, Chiamaka Vivian %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Papanicolau, George J %A Pazoki, Raha %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Peters, Annette %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Poveda, Alaitz %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rich, Stephen S %A Risch, Neil %A Robinson, Jennifer G %A Rose, Lynda M %A Rudan, Igor %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Scott, Robert A %A Sidney, Stephen S %A Sims, Mario %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Snieder, Harold %A Sofer, Tamar %A Starr, John M %A Sternfeld, Barbara %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Tang, Hua %A Taylor, Kent D %A Tsai, Michael Y %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van der Ende, M Yldau %A van Heemst, Diana %A Voortman, Trudy %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wennberg, Patrik %A Wilson, Gregory %A Xiang, Yong-Bing %A Yao, Jie %A Yu, Caizheng %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zhao, Wei %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bowden, Donald W %A de Faire, Ulf %A Deary, Ian J %A Elliott, Paul %A Esko, Tõnu %A Freedman, Barry I %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gieger, Christian %A Kato, Norihiro %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A van der Harst, Pim %A van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wang, Ya X %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Weir, David R %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Evans, Michele K %A Franks, Paul W %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hayward, Caroline %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Liu, Yongmei %A North, Kari E %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Ridker, Paul M %A Tai, E Shyong %A van Dam, Rob M %A Fox, Ervin R %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Province, Michael A %A Redline, Susan %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Kooperberg, Charles B %A Gauderman, W James %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rice, Kenneth %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Fornage, Myriam %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Rotimi, Charles N %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Loos, Ruth J F %K Adolescent %K Adult %K African Continental Ancestry Group %K Aged %K Aged, 80 and over %K Asian Continental Ancestry Group %K Brazil %K Calcium-Binding Proteins %K Cholesterol %K Cholesterol, HDL %K Cholesterol, LDL %K European Continental Ancestry Group %K Exercise %K Female %K Genetic Loci %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Genotype %K Hispanic Americans %K Humans %K LIM-Homeodomain Proteins %K Lipid Metabolism %K Lipids %K Male %K Membrane Proteins %K Microtubule-Associated Proteins %K Middle Aged %K Muscle Proteins %K Nerve Tissue Proteins %K Transcription Factors %K Triglycerides %K Young Adult %X

Many genetic loci affect circulating lipid levels, but it remains unknown whether lifestyle factors, such as physical activity, modify these genetic effects. To identify lipid loci interacting with physical activity, we performed genome-wide analyses of circulating HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels in up to 120,979 individuals of European, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Brazilian ancestry, with follow-up of suggestive associations in an additional 131,012 individuals. We find four loci, in/near CLASP1, LHX1, SNTA1, and CNTNAP2, that are associated with circulating lipid levels through interaction with physical activity; higher levels of physical activity enhance the HDL cholesterol-increasing effects of the CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 loci and attenuate the LDL cholesterol-increasing effect of the CNTNAP2 locus. The CLASP1, LHX1, and SNTA1 regions harbor genes linked to muscle function and lipid metabolism. Our results elucidate the role of physical activity interactions in the genetic contribution to blood lipid levels.

%B Nat Commun %V 10 %P 376 %8 2019 01 22 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1038/s41467-018-08008-w %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2019 %T Target genes, variants, tissues and transcriptional pathways influencing human serum urate levels. %A Tin, Adrienne %A Marten, Jonathan %A Halperin Kuhns, Victoria L %A Li, Yong %A Wuttke, Matthias %A Kirsten, Holger %A Sieber, Karsten B %A Qiu, Chengxiang %A Gorski, Mathias %A Yu, Zhi %A Giri, Ayush %A Sveinbjornsson, Gardar %A Li, Man %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Hoppmann, Anselm %A O'Connor, Luke J %A Prins, Bram %A Nutile, Teresa %A Noce, Damia %A Akiyama, Masato %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Ghasemi, Sahar %A van der Most, Peter J %A Horn, Katrin %A Xu, Yizhe %A Fuchsberger, Christian %A Sedaghat, Sanaz %A Afaq, Saima %A Amin, Najaf %A Arnlöv, Johan %A Bakker, Stephan J L %A Bansal, Nisha %A Baptista, Daniela %A Bergmann, Sven %A Biggs, Mary L %A Biino, Ginevra %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Boutin, Thibaud S %A Brumat, Marco %A Burkhardt, Ralph %A Campana, Eric %A Campbell, Archie %A Campbell, Harry %A Carroll, Robert J %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Chambers, John C %A Ciullo, Marina %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Coresh, Josef %A Corre, Tanguy %A Cusi, Daniele %A Felicita, Sala Cinzia %A de Borst, Martin H %A De Grandi, Alessandro %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Vries, Aiko P J %A Delgado, Graciela %A Demirkan, Ayse %A Devuyst, Olivier %A Dittrich, Katalin %A Eckardt, Kai-Uwe %A Ehret, Georg %A Endlich, Karlhans %A Evans, Michele K %A Gansevoort, Ron T %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gieger, Christian %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Gögele, Martin %A Gordon, Scott D %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Haller, Toomas %A Hamet, Pavel %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hayward, Caroline %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Hofer, Edith %A Holm, Hilma %A Huang, Wei %A Hutri-Kähönen, Nina %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Lewis, Raychel M %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Jonsdottir, Ingileif %A Jonsson, Helgi %A Joshi, Peter K %A Josyula, Navya Shilpa %A Jung, Bettina %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Kanai, Masahiro %A Kerr, Shona M %A Kiess, Wieland %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Koenig, Wolfgang %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Körner, Antje %A Kovacs, Peter %A Krämer, Bernhard K %A Kronenberg, Florian %A Kubo, Michiaki %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A La Bianca, Martina %A Lange, Leslie A %A Lehne, Benjamin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Liu, Jun %A Loeffler, Markus %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Mägi, Reedik %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Martin, Nicholas G %A März, Winfried %A Mascalzoni, Deborah %A Matsuda, Koichi %A Meisinger, Christa %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Wilson, Otis D %A Gaziano, J Michael %A Mishra, Pashupati P %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Mononen, Nina %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Nadkarni, Girish N %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nauck, Matthias %A Nikus, Kjell %A Ning, Boting %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Noordam, Raymond %A O'Connell, Jeffrey R %A Olafsson, Isleifur %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Perls, Thomas %A Peters, Annette %A Pirastu, Mario %A Pirastu, Nicola %A Pistis, Giorgio %A Polasek, Ozren %A Ponte, Belen %A Porteous, David J %A Poulain, Tanja %A Preuss, Michael H %A Rabelink, Ton J %A Raffield, Laura M %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rettig, Rainer %A Rheinberger, Myriam %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Rizzi, Federica %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rudan, Igor %A Krajcoviechova, Alena %A Cifkova, Renata %A Rueedi, Rico %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Ryan, Kathleen A %A Saba, Yasaman %A Salvi, Erika %A Schmidt, Helena %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Shaffer, Christian M %A Smith, Albert V %A Smith, Blair H %A Spracklen, Cassandra N %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Sulem, Patrick %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Teren, Andrej %A Thiery, Joachim %A Thio, Chris H L %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Tönjes, Anke %A Tremblay, Johanne %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vaccargiu, Simona %A van der Harst, Pim %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Verweij, Niek %A Völker, Uwe %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Waeber, Gérard %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Whitfield, John B %A Wild, Sarah H %A Wilson, James F %A Yang, Qiong %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Bochud, Murielle %A Wilson, James G %A Pendergrass, Sarah A %A Ho, Kevin %A Parsa, Afshin %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Böger, Carsten A %A Snieder, Harold %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Okada, Yukinori %A Edwards, Todd L %A Stefansson, Kari %A Susztak, Katalin %A Scholz, Markus %A Heid, Iris M %A Hung, Adriana M %A Teumer, Alexander %A Pattaro, Cristian %A Woodward, Owen M %A Vitart, Veronique %A Köttgen, Anna %X

Elevated serum urate levels cause gout and correlate with cardiometabolic diseases via poorly understood mechanisms. We performed a trans-ancestry genome-wide association study of serum urate in 457,690 individuals, identifying 183 loci (147 previously unknown) that improve the prediction of gout in an independent cohort of 334,880 individuals. Serum urate showed significant genetic correlations with many cardiometabolic traits, with genetic causality analyses supporting a substantial role for pleiotropy. Enrichment analysis, fine-mapping of urate-associated loci and colocalization with gene expression in 47 tissues implicated the kidney and liver as the main target organs and prioritized potentially causal genes and variants, including the transcriptional master regulators in the liver and kidney, HNF1A and HNF4A. Experimental validation showed that HNF4A transactivated the promoter of ABCG2, encoding a major urate transporter, in kidney cells, and that HNF4A p.Thr139Ile is a functional variant. Transcriptional coregulation within and across organs may be a general mechanism underlying the observed pleiotropy between urate and cardiometabolic traits.

%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 1459-1474 %8 2019 Oct %G eng %N 10 %R 10.1038/s41588-019-0504-x %0 Journal Article %J Mol Psychiatry %D 2020 %T Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci. %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Noordam, Raymond %A Winkler, Thomas %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Schwander, Karen %A Bentley, Amy R %A Brown, Michael R %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Manning, Alisa %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Aschard, Hugues %A Bartz, Traci M %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Campbell, Archie %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Hartwig, Fernando P %A Horimoto, A R V R %A Li, Changwei %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Liu, Yongmei %A Marten, Jonathan %A Musani, Solomon K %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Richard, Melissa %A Sim, Xueling %A Smith, Albert V %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Warren, Helen R %A Xuan, Deng %A Alver, Maris %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Chai, Jin-Fang %A Chen, Xu %A Christensen, Kaare %A Divers, Jasmin %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Gao, Chuan %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Harris, Sarah E %A He, Meian %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Laguzzi, Federica %A Li, Xiaoyin %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Poveda, Alaitz %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Riaz, Muhammad %A Rueedi, Rico %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Snieder, Harold %A Sofer, Tamar %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A Verweij, Niek %A Ware, Erin B %A Weiss, Stefan %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Amin, Najaf %A Arking, Dan E %A Arnett, Donna K %A Bergmann, Sven %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Broeckel, Ulrich %A Brumat, Marco %A Burke, Gregory %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chee, Miao Li %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Connell, John %A de Silva, H Janaka %A de Vries, Paul S %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fisher, Virginia %A Forrester, Terrence %A Fox, Ervin F %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Gao, He %A Gigante, Bruna %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gu, Chi Charles %A Gu, Dongfeng %A Harris, Tamara B %A He, Jiang %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hunt, Steven %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Irvin, Marguerite R %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kavousi, Maryam %A Khor, Chiea Chuen %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Krieger, J E %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Li, Yize %A Liang, Jingjing %A Liewald, David C M %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Jianjun %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Mägi, Reedik %A McKenzie, Colin A %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Milani, Lili %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Norris, Jill M %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Ogunniyi, Adesola %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Perls, Thomas %A Peters, Annette %A Petersmann, Astrid %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Raffel, Leslie J %A Rice, Treva K %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Rueda-Ochoa, Oscar-Leonel %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Salako, Babatunde L %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Shikany, James M %A Sidney, Stephen S %A Sims, Mario %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Starr, John M %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Swertz, Morris A %A Teumer, Alexander %A Tham, Yih Chung %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vaidya, Dhananjay %A van der Ende, M Yldau %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Lihua %A Wang, Ya-Xing %A Wei, Wen-Bin %A Weir, David R %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yao, Jie %A Yu, Bing %A Yu, Caizheng %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zhao, Wei %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Bowden, Donald W %A Deary, Ian J %A Dörr, Marcus %A Esko, Tõnu %A Freedman, Barry I %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gieger, Christian %A Jonas, Jost Bruno %A Kammerer, Candace M %A Kato, Norihiro %A Lakka, Timo A %A Leander, Karin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Marques-Vidal, Pedro %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Samani, Nilesh J %A van der Harst, Pim %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Bouchard, Claude %A Cooper, Richard S %A Correa, Adolfo %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hayward, Caroline %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Levy, Daniel %A Palmas, Walter R %A Pereira, A C %A Province, Michael M %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rotimi, Charles N %A Tai, E Shyong %A van Dam, Rob M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Rice, Kenneth %A Gauderman, W James %A Morrison, Alanna C %A North, Kari E %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Elliott, Paul %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Franks, Paul W %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Fornage, Myriam %X

Educational attainment is widely used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES). Low SES is a risk factor for hypertension and high blood pressure (BP). To identify novel BP loci, we performed multi-ancestry meta-analyses accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions using two variables, "Some College" (yes/no) and "Graduated College" (yes/no). Interactions were evaluated using both a 1 degree of freedom (DF) interaction term and a 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Analyses were performed for systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure. We pursued genome-wide interrogation in Stage 1 studies (N = 117 438) and follow-up on promising variants in Stage 2 studies (N = 293 787) in five ancestry groups. Through combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 84 known and 18 novel BP loci at genome-wide significance level (P < 5 × 10). Two novel loci were identified based on the 1DF test of interaction with educational attainment, while the remaining 16 loci were identified through the 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Ten novel loci were identified in individuals of African ancestry. Several novel loci show strong biological plausibility since they involve physiologic systems implicated in BP regulation. They include genes involved in the central nervous system-adrenal signaling axis (ZDHHC17, CADPS, PIK3C2G), vascular structure and function (GNB3, CDON), and renal function (HAS2 and HAS2-AS1, SLIT3). Collectively, these findings suggest a role of educational attainment or SES in further dissection of the genetic architecture of BP.

%B Mol Psychiatry %8 2020 May 05 %G eng %R 10.1038/s41380-020-0719-3 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Commun %D 2020 %T Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction. %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Weng, Lu-Chen %A Cartwright, James H %A Hall, Amelia Weber %A Sveinbjornsson, Gardar %A Tucker, Nathan R %A Choi, Seung Hoan %A Chaffin, Mark D %A Roselli, Carolina %A Barnes, Michael R %A Mifsud, Borbala %A Warren, Helen R %A Hayward, Caroline %A Marten, Jonathan %A Cranley, James J %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Boutin, Thibaud %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Polasek, Ozren %A Rudan, Igor %A Araujo, Nathalia M %A Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda %A Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz P %A Souza, Renan P %A Tarazona-Santos, Eduardo %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Morris, Andrew P %A del Greco M, Fabiola %A Foco, Luisa %A Gögele, Martin %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Cook, James P %A Lind, Lars %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Sundström, Johan %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Riaz, Muhammad B %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sinagra, Gianfranco %A Ulivi, Sheila %A Kähönen, Mika %A Mishra, Pashupati P %A Mononen, Nina %A Nikus, Kjell %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Dominiczak, Anna %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Montasser, May E %A O'Connell, Jeff R %A Ryan, Kathleen %A Shuldiner, Alan R %A Aeschbacher, Stefanie %A Conen, David %A Risch, Lorenz %A Thériault, Sébastien %A Hutri-Kähönen, Nina %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Barnes, Catriona L K %A Campbell, Harry %A Joshi, Peter K %A Wilson, James F %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Kors, Jan A %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Huang, Paul L %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Harris, Tamara B %A Launer, Lenore J %A Smith, Albert V %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Nadkarni, Girish N %A Preuss, Michael H %A Correa, Adolfo %A Mei, Hao %A Wilson, James %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Peters, Annette %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Mangino, Massimo %A Spector, Timothy D %A Rienstra, Michiel %A van de Vegte, Yordi J %A van der Harst, Pim %A Verweij, Niek %A Kääb, Stefan %A Schramm, Katharina %A Sinner, Moritz F %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Cutler, Michael J %A Fatkin, Diane %A London, Barry %A Olesen, Morten %A Roden, Dan M %A Benjamin Shoemaker, M %A Gustav Smith, J %A Biggs, Mary L %A Bis, Joshua C %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rice, Kenneth %A Sotoodehnia, Nona %A De Grandi, Alessandro %A Fuchsberger, Christian %A Pattaro, Cristian %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Ford, Ian %A Wouter Jukema, J %A Macfarlane, Peter W %A Trompet, Stella %A Dörr, Marcus %A Felix, Stephan B %A Völker, Uwe %A Weiss, Stefan %A Havulinna, Aki S %A Jula, Antti %A Sääksjärvi, Katri %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Lin, Henry J %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Taylor, Kent D %A Yao, Jie %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Maan, Arie C %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Noordam, Raymond %A Cucca, Francesco %A Ding, Jun %A Lakatta, Edward G %A Qian, Yong %A Tarasov, Kirill V %A Levy, Daniel %A Lin, Honghuang %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher H %A Lunetta, Kathryn L %A Murray, Alison D %A Porteous, David J %A Smith, Blair H %A Stricker, Bruno H %A Uitterlinden, Andre %A van den Berg, Marten E %A Haessler, Jeffrey %A Jackson, Rebecca D %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Peters, Ulrike %A Reiner, Alexander P %A Whitsel, Eric A %A Alonso, Alvaro %A Arking, Dan E %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Ehret, Georg B %A Soliman, Elsayed Z %A Avery, Christy L %A Gogarten, Stephanie M %A Kerr, Kathleen F %A Laurie, Cathy C %A Seyerle, Amanda A %A Stilp, Adrienne %A Assa, Solmaz %A Abdullah Said, M %A Yldau van der Ende, M %A Lambiase, Pier D %A Orini, Michele %A Ramirez, Julia %A Van Duijvenboden, Stefan %A Arnar, David O %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Holm, Hilma %A Sulem, Patrick %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Benjamin, Emelia J %A Tinker, Andrew %A Stefansson, Kari %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Jamshidi, Yalda %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Munroe, Patricia B %X

The electrocardiographic PR interval reflects atrioventricular conduction, and is associated with conduction abnormalities, pacemaker implantation, atrial fibrillation (AF), and cardiovascular mortality. Here we report a multi-ancestry (N = 293,051) genome-wide association meta-analysis for the PR interval, discovering 202 loci of which 141 have not previously been reported. Variants at identified loci increase the percentage of heritability explained, from 33.5% to 62.6%. We observe enrichment for cardiac muscle developmental/contractile and cytoskeletal genes, highlighting key regulation processes for atrioventricular conduction. Additionally, 8 loci not previously reported harbor genes underlying inherited arrhythmic syndromes and/or cardiomyopathies suggesting a role for these genes in cardiovascular pathology in the general population. We show that polygenic predisposition to PR interval duration is an endophenotype for cardiovascular disease, including distal conduction disease, AF, and atrioventricular pre-excitation. These findings advance our understanding of the polygenic basis of cardiac conduction, and the genetic relationship between PR interval duration and cardiovascular disease.

%B Nat Commun %V 11 %P 2542 %8 2020 May 21 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1038/s41467-020-15706-x %0 Journal Article %J Nature %D 2021 %T Genetic insights into biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing. %A Ruth, Katherine S %A Day, Felix R %A Hussain, Jazib %A Martínez-Marchal, Ana %A Aiken, Catherine E %A Azad, Ajuna %A Thompson, Deborah J %A Knoblochova, Lucie %A Abe, Hironori %A Tarry-Adkins, Jane L %A Gonzalez, Javier Martin %A Fontanillas, Pierre %A Claringbould, Annique %A Bakker, Olivier B %A Sulem, Patrick %A Walters, Robin G %A Terao, Chikashi %A Turon, Sandra %A Horikoshi, Momoko %A Lin, Kuang %A Onland-Moret, N Charlotte %A Sankar, Aditya %A Hertz, Emil Peter Thrane %A Timshel, Pascal N %A Shukla, Vallari %A Borup, Rehannah %A Olsen, Kristina W %A Aguilera, Paula %A Ferrer-Roda, Mònica %A Huang, Yan %A Stankovic, Stasa %A Timmers, Paul R H J %A Ahearn, Thomas U %A Alizadeh, Behrooz Z %A Naderi, Elnaz %A Andrulis, Irene L %A Arnold, Alice M %A Aronson, Kristan J %A Augustinsson, Annelie %A Bandinelli, Stefania %A Barbieri, Caterina M %A Beaumont, Robin N %A Becher, Heiko %A Beckmann, Matthias W %A Benonisdottir, Stefania %A Bergmann, Sven %A Bochud, Murielle %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Bojesen, Stig E %A Bolla, Manjeet K %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Bowker, Nicholas %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Broer, Linda %A Buring, Julie E %A Campbell, Archie %A Campbell, Harry %A Castelao, Jose E %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Chanock, Stephen J %A Chenevix-Trench, Georgia %A Ciullo, Marina %A Corre, Tanguy %A Couch, Fergus J %A Cox, Angela %A Crisponi, Laura %A Cross, Simon S %A Cucca, Francesco %A Czene, Kamila %A Smith, George Davey %A de Geus, Eco J C N %A de Mutsert, Renée %A De Vivo, Immaculata %A Demerath, Ellen W %A Dennis, Joe %A Dunning, Alison M %A Dwek, Miriam %A Eriksson, Mikael %A Esko, Tõnu %A Fasching, Peter A %A Faul, Jessica D %A Ferrucci, Luigi %A Franceschini, Nora %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Gago-Dominguez, Manuela %A Mezzavilla, Massimo %A García-Closas, Montserrat %A Gieger, Christian %A Giles, Graham G %A Grallert, Harald %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Guénel, Pascal %A Haiman, Christopher A %A Håkansson, Niclas %A Hall, Per %A Hayward, Caroline %A He, Chunyan %A He, Wei %A Heiss, Gerardo %A Høffding, Miya K %A Hopper, John L %A Hottenga, Jouke J %A Hu, Frank %A Hunter, David %A Ikram, Mohammad A %A Jackson, Rebecca D %A Joaquim, Micaella D R %A John, Esther M %A Joshi, Peter K %A Karasik, David %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Kartsonaki, Christiana %A Karlsson, Robert %A Kitahara, Cari M %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Kraft, Peter %A Kurian, Allison W %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A La Bianca, Martina %A Lachance, Genevieve %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Laven, Joop S E %A Lawlor, Deborah A %A Le Marchand, Loïc %A Li, Jingmei %A Lindblom, Annika %A Lindström, Sara %A Lindstrom, Tricia %A Linet, Martha %A Liu, Yongmei %A Liu, Simin %A Luan, Jian'an %A Mägi, Reedik %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Mangino, Massimo %A Mannermaa, Arto %A Marco, Brumat %A Marten, Jonathan %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Mbarek, Hamdi %A McKnight, Barbara %A Medland, Sarah E %A Meisinger, Christa %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Menni, Cristina %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milani, Lili %A Milne, Roger L %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Mulas, Antonella %A Mulligan, Anna M %A Murray, Alison %A Nalls, Mike A %A Newman, Anne %A Noordam, Raymond %A Nutile, Teresa %A Nyholt, Dale R %A Olshan, Andrew F %A Olsson, Håkan %A Painter, Jodie N %A Patel, Alpa V %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Perjakova, Natalia %A Peters, Annette %A Peters, Ulrike %A Pharoah, Paul D P %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porcu, Eleonora %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rahman, Iffat %A Rennert, Gad %A Rennert, Hedy S %A Ridker, Paul M %A Ring, Susan M %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rose, Lynda M %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Rossouw, Jacques %A Rudan, Igor %A Rueedi, Rico %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Sala, Cinzia F %A Saloustros, Emmanouil %A Sandler, Dale P %A Sanna, Serena %A Sawyer, Elinor J %A Sarnowski, Chloe %A Schlessinger, David %A Schmidt, Marjanka K %A Schoemaker, Minouk J %A Schraut, Katharina E %A Scott, Christopher %A Shekari, Saleh %A Shrikhande, Amruta %A Smith, Albert V %A Smith, Blair H %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Sorice, Rossella %A Southey, Melissa C %A Spector, Tim D %A Spinelli, John J %A Stampfer, Meir %A Stöckl, Doris %A van Meurs, Joyce B J %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Styrkarsdottir, Unnur %A Swerdlow, Anthony J %A Tanaka, Toshiko %A Teras, Lauren R %A Teumer, Alexander %A Þorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Timpson, Nicholas J %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Traglia, Michela %A Troester, Melissa A %A Truong, Thérèse %A Tyrrell, Jessica %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Ulivi, Sheila %A Vachon, Celine M %A Vitart, Veronique %A Völker, Uwe %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Völzke, Henry %A Wang, Qin %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Weinberg, Clarice R %A Weir, David R %A Wilcox, Amber N %A van Dijk, Ko Willems %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Wilson, James F %A Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H R %A Wolk, Alicja %A Wood, Andrew R %A Zhao, Wei %A Zygmunt, Marek %A Chen, Zhengming %A Li, Liming %A Franke, Lude %A Burgess, Stephen %A Deelen, Patrick %A Pers, Tune H %A Grøndahl, Marie Louise %A Andersen, Claus Yding %A Pujol, Anna %A Lopez-Contreras, Andres J %A Daniel, Jeremy A %A Stefansson, Kari %A Chang-Claude, Jenny %A van der Schouw, Yvonne T %A Lunetta, Kathryn L %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Easton, Douglas F %A Visser, Jenny A %A Ozanne, Susan E %A Namekawa, Satoshi H %A Solc, Petr %A Murabito, Joanne M %A Ong, Ken K %A Hoffmann, Eva R %A Murray, Anna %A Roig, Ignasi %A Perry, John R B %X

Reproductive longevity is essential for fertility and influences healthy ageing in women, but insights into its underlying biological mechanisms and treatments to preserve it are limited. Here we identify 290 genetic determinants of ovarian ageing, assessed using normal variation in age at natural menopause (ANM) in about 200,000 women of European ancestry. These common alleles were associated with clinical extremes of ANM; women in the top 1% of genetic susceptibility have an equivalent risk of premature ovarian insufficiency to those carrying monogenic FMR1 premutations. The identified loci implicate a broad range of DNA damage response (DDR) processes and include loss-of-function variants in key DDR-associated genes. Integration with experimental models demonstrates that these DDR processes act across the life-course to shape the ovarian reserve and its rate of depletion. Furthermore, we demonstrate that experimental manipulation of DDR pathways highlighted by human genetics increases fertility and extends reproductive life in mice. Causal inference analyses using the identified genetic variants indicate that extending reproductive life in women improves bone health and reduces risk of type 2 diabetes, but increases the risk of hormone-sensitive cancers. These findings provide insight into the mechanisms that govern ovarian ageing, when they act, and how they might be targeted by therapeutic approaches to extend fertility and prevent disease.

%B Nature %V 596 %P 393-397 %8 2021 Aug %G eng %N 7872 %R 10.1038/s41586-021-03779-7 %0 Journal Article %J Commun Biol %D 2022 %T Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals. %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Rasheed, Humaira %A Teumer, Alexander %A Gorski, Mathias %A Rowan, Bryce X %A Stanzick, Kira J %A Thomas, Laurent F %A Tin, Adrienne %A Hoppmann, Anselm %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Tayo, Bamidele %A Thio, Chris H L %A Cusi, Daniele %A Chai, Jin-Fang %A Sieber, Karsten B %A Horn, Katrin %A Li, Man %A Scholz, Markus %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Wuttke, Matthias %A van der Most, Peter J %A Yang, Qiong %A Ghasemi, Sahar %A Nutile, Teresa %A Li, Yong %A Pontali, Giulia %A Günther, Felix %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Correa, Adolfo %A Parsa, Afshin %A Feresin, Agnese %A de Vries, Aiko P J %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Smith, Albert V %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A De Grandi, Alessandro %A Rosenkranz, Alexander R %A Franke, Andre %A Teren, Andrej %A Metspalu, Andres %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Morris, Andrew P %A Tönjes, Anke %A Morgan, Anna %A Podgornaia, Anna I %A Peters, Annette %A Körner, Antje %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Campbell, Archie %A Freedman, Barry I %A Spedicati, Beatrice %A Ponte, Belen %A Schöttker, Ben %A Brumpton, Ben %A Banas, Bernhard %A Krämer, Bernhard K %A Jung, Bettina %A Åsvold, Bjørn Olav %A Smith, Blair H %A Ning, Boting %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Vanderwerff, Brett R %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Kammerer, Candace M %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Hayward, Caroline %A Spracklen, Cassandra N %A Robinson-Cohen, Cassianne %A Hartman, Catharina A %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Wang, Chaolong %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Lanzani, Chiara %A Khor, Chiea-Chuen %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Fuchsberger, Christian %A Gieger, Christian %A Shaffer, Christian M %A Schulz, Christina-Alexandra %A Willer, Cristen J %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Ruggiero, Daniela %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Czamara, Darina %A Porteous, David J %A Waterworth, Dawn M %A Mascalzoni, Deborah %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Daw, E Warwick %A Hofer, Edith %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Salvi, Erika %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Tai, E-Shyong %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Rizzi, Federica %A Guo, Feng %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Guilianini, Franco %A Sveinbjornsson, Gardar %A Ehret, Georg %A Waeber, Gérard %A Biino, Ginevra %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Pistis, Giorgio %A Nadkarni, Girish N %A Delgado, Graciela E %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Snieder, Harold %A Campbell, Harry %A White, Harvey D %A Gao, He %A Stringham, Heather M %A Schmidt, Helena %A Li, Hengtong %A Brenner, Hermann %A Holm, Hilma %A Kirsten, Holgen %A Kramer, Holly %A Rudan, Igor %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Tzoulaki, Ioanna %A Olafsson, Isleifur %A Martins, Jade %A Cook, James P %A Wilson, James F %A Halbritter, Jan %A Felix, Janine F %A Divers, Jasmin %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Lee, Jeannette Jen-Mai %A O'Connell, Jeffrey %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Liu, Jianjun %A Xu, Jie %A Thiery, Joachim %A Arnlöv, Johan %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Tremblay, Johanne %A Chambers, John C %A Whitfield, John B %A Gaziano, John M %A Marten, Jonathan %A Coresh, Josef %A Jonas, Jost B %A Mychaleckyj, Josyf C %A Christensen, Kaare %A Eckardt, Kai-Uwe %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Endlich, Karlhans %A Dittrich, Katalin %A Ryan, Kathleen A %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Taylor, Kent D %A Ho, Kevin %A Nikus, Kjell %A Matsuda, Koichi %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Miliku, Kozeta %A Hveem, Kristian %A Lind, Lars %A Wallentin, Lars %A Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M %A Raffield, Laura M %A Phillips, Lawrence S %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Lange, Leslie A %A Citterio, Lorena %A Klaric, Lucija %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Ising, Marcus %A Kleber, Marcus E %A Francescatto, Margherita %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Ciullo, Marina %A Piratsu, Mario %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Laakso, Markku %A Loeffler, Markus %A Perola, Markus %A de Borst, Martin H %A Gögele, Martin %A Bianca, Martina La %A Lukas, Mary Ann %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Biggs, Mary L %A Wojczynski, Mary K %A Kavousi, Maryam %A Kanai, Masahiro %A Akiyama, Masato %A Yasuda, Masayuki %A Nauck, Matthias %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Chee, Miao-Li %A Chee, Miao-Ling %A Boehnke, Michael %A Preuss, Michael H %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Province, Michael A %A Evans, Michele K %A O'Donoghue, Michelle L %A Kubo, Michiaki %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kastarinen, Mika %A Nalls, Mike A %A Kuokkanen, Mikko %A Ghanbari, Mohsen %A Bochud, Murielle %A Josyula, Navya Shilpa %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Tan, Nicholas Y Q %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pirastu, Nicola %A Schupf, Nicole %A Verweij, Niek %A Hutri-Kähönen, Nina %A Mononen, Nina %A Bansal, Nisha %A Devuyst, Olivier %A Melander, Olle %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Polasek, Ozren %A Manunta, Paolo %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Mishra, Pashupati P %A Sulem, Patrick %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Elliott, Paul %A Ridker, Paul M %A Hamet, Pavel %A Svensson, Per O %A Joshi, Peter K %A Kovacs, Peter %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Rossing, Peter %A Vollenweider, Peter %A van der Harst, Pim %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Sim, Ralene Z H %A Burkhardt, Ralph %A Tao, Ran %A Noordam, Raymond %A Mägi, Reedik %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A de Mutsert, Renée %A Rueedi, Rico %A van Dam, Rob M %A Carroll, Robert J %A Gansevoort, Ron T %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Felicita, Sala Cinzia %A Sedaghat, Sanaz %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Freitag-Wolf, Sandra %A Pendergrass, Sarah A %A Graham, Sarah E %A Gordon, Scott D %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Kerr, Shona M %A Vaccargiu, Simona %A Patil, Snehal B %A Hallan, Stein %A Bakker, Stephan J L %A Lim, Su-Chi %A Lucae, Susanne %A Vogelezang, Suzanne %A Bergmann, Sven %A Corre, Tanguy %A Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Boutin, Thibaud S %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Wong, Tien-Yin %A Bergler, Tobias %A Rabelink, Ton J %A Esko, Tõnu %A Haller, Toomas %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Völker, Uwe %A Foo, Valencia Hui Xian %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Vitart, Veronique %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Jaddoe, Vincent W V %A Huang, Wei %A Zhang, Weihua %A Wei, Wen Bin %A Kiess, Wieland %A März, Winfried %A Koenig, Wolfgang %A Lieb, Wolfgang %A Gào, Xīn %A Sim, Xueling %A Wang, Ya Xing %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Tham, Yih-Chung %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Okada, Yukinori %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Yu, Zhi %A Stark, Klaus J %A Stefansson, Kari %A Böger, Carsten A %A Hung, Adriana M %A Kronenberg, Florian %A Köttgen, Anna %A Pattaro, Cristian %A Heid, Iris M %K Creatinine %K Diabetes Mellitus %K Diabetic Nephropathies %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Glomerular Filtration Rate %K Humans %K Kidney %X

Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) can progress to kidney failure. Risk factors include genetics and diabetes mellitus (DM), but little is known about their interaction. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses for estimated GFR based on serum creatinine (eGFR), separately for individuals with or without DM (n = 178,691, n = 1,296,113). Our genome-wide searches identified (i) seven eGFR loci with significant DM/noDM-difference, (ii) four additional novel loci with suggestive difference and (iii) 28 further novel loci (including CUBN) by allowing for potential difference. GWAS on eGFR among DM individuals identified 2 known and 27 potentially responsible loci for diabetic kidney disease. Gene prioritization highlighted 18 genes that may inform reno-protective drug development. We highlight the existence of DM-only and noDM-only effects, which can inform about the target group, if respective genes are advanced as drug targets. Largely shared effects suggest that most drug interventions to alter eGFR should be effective in DM and noDM.

%B Commun Biol %V 5 %P 580 %8 2022 Jun 13 %G eng %N 1 %R 10.1038/s42003-022-03448-z %0 Journal Article %J Front Genet %D 2023 %T Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-population genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel lipid loci. %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Schwander, Karen L %A Brown, Michael R %A Bentley, Amy R %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Miller, Clint L %A Aschard, Hugo %A Aslibekyan, Stella %A Bartz, Traci M %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Chai, Jin Fang %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hartwig, Fernando P %A Horimoto, Andrea %A Kolcic, Ivana %A Lim, Elise %A Liu, Yongmei %A Manning, Alisa K %A Marten, Jonathan %A Musani, Solomon K %A Noordam, Raymond %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Richard, Melissa A %A Ridker, Paul M %A Smith, Albert V %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Alver, Maris %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Christensen, Kaare %A Freedman, Barry I %A Gao, Chuan %A Giulianini, Franco %A Harris, Sarah E %A He, Meian %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Kuhnel, Brigitte %A Laguzzi, Federica %A Li, Xiaoyin %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Poveda, Alaitz %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Riaz, Muhammad %A Robino, Antonietta %A Sofer, Tamar %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A van der Most, Peter J %A Verweij, Niek %A Ware, Erin B %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Zhan, Yiqiang %A Amin, Najaf %A Arking, Dan E %A Ballantyne, Christie %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Broeckel, Ulrich %A Campbell, Archie %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chai, Xiaoran %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Chen, Xu %A Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu %A Concas, Maria Pina %A de Faire, Ulf %A de Mutsert, Renée %A de Silva, H Janaka %A de Vries, Paul S %A Do, Ahn %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fisher, Virginia %A Floyd, James S %A Forrester, Terrence %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Gu, C Charles %A Hallmans, Göran %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Homuth, Georg %A Hunt, Steven %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Jacobs, David R %A Kavousi, Maryam %A Khor, Chiea Chuen %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Liang, Jingjing %A Liu, Kiang %A Liu, Jianjun %A Lohman, Kurt %A Mägi, Reedik %A Manichaikul, Ani W %A McKenzie, Colin A %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Nauck, Matthias %A Nelson, Christopher P %A O'Connell, Jeffrey R %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Perls, Thomas %A Peters, Annette %A Polasek, Ozren %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rice, Kenneth %A Rice, Treva K %A Rich, Stephen S %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Sidney, Stephen %A Sims, Mario %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Starr, John M %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Tai, E Shyong %A Taylor, Kent D %A Tsai, Michael Y %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van Heemst, Diana %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Ya-Xing %A Wei, Wen-Bin %A Wilson, Gregory %A Xuan, Deng %A Yao, Jie %A Yu, Caizheng %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zhao, Wei %A Becker, Diane M %A Bonnefond, Amélie %A Bowden, Donald W %A Cooper, Richard S %A Deary, Ian J %A Divers, Jasmin %A Esko, Tõnu %A Franks, Paul W %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gieger, Christian %A Jonas, Jost B %A Kato, Norihiro %A Lakka, Timo A %A Leander, Karin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A North, Kari E %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Penninx, Brenda %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Snieder, Harold %A Spedicati, Beatrice %A van der Harst, Pim %A Völzke, Henry %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Weir, David R %A Wojczynski, Mary K %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Bouchard, Claude %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Evans, Michele K %A Fox, Ervin R %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hayward, Caroline %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Krieger, Jose Eduardo %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Province, Michael M %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rudan, Igor %A Sim, Xueling %A Smith, Blair H %A van Dam, Rob M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Arnett, Donna K %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Gauderman, James %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Fornage, Myriam %X

Educational attainment, widely used in epidemiologic studies as a surrogate for socioeconomic status, is a predictor of cardiovascular health outcomes. A two-stage genome-wide meta-analysis of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), and triglyceride (TG) levels was performed while accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions in up to 226,315 individuals from five population groups. We considered two educational attainment variables: "Some College" (yes/no, for any education beyond high school) and "Graduated College" (yes/no, for completing a 4-year college degree). Genome-wide significant ( < 5 × 10) and suggestive ( < 1 × 10) variants were identified in Stage 1 (in up to 108,784 individuals) through genome-wide analysis, and those variants were followed up in Stage 2 studies (in up to 117,531 individuals). In combined analysis of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 18 novel lipid loci (nine for LDL, seven for HDL, and two for TG) by two degree-of-freedom (2 DF) joint tests of main and interaction effects. Four loci showed significant interaction with educational attainment. Two loci were significant only in cross-population analyses. Several loci include genes with known or suggested roles in adipose (), brain (), and liver () biology, highlighting the potential importance of brain-adipose-liver communication in the regulation of lipid metabolism. An investigation of the potential druggability of genes in identified loci resulted in five gene targets shown to interact with drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration, including genes with roles in adipose and brain tissue. Genome-wide interaction analysis of educational attainment identified novel lipid loci not previously detected by analyses limited to main genetic effects.

%B Front Genet %V 14 %P 1235337 %8 2023 %G eng %R 10.3389/fgene.2023.1235337