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1. Serum Estradiol and 20 Site-Specific Cancers in Women: Mendelian Randomization Study.

Author: Larsson SC, Kar S, Perry JRB, Carter P, Vithayathil M, Mason AM, Easton DF, and Burgess S
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Aromatase metabolism, Breast Neoplasms blood, Breast Neoplasms genetics, Endometrial Neoplasms blood, Endometrial Neoplasms genetics, Estradiol metabolism, Female, Humans, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Aromatase genetics, Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Endometrial Neoplasms epidemiology, Estradiol blood, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: Context: The causal role of endogenous estradiol in cancers other than breast and endometrial cancer remains unclear., Objective: This Mendelian randomization study assessed the causal associations of endogenous 17β-estradiol (E2), the most potent estrogen, with cancer risk in women., Methods: As primary genetic instrument, we used a genetic variant in the CYP19A1 gene that is strongly associated with serum E2 levels. Summary statistics genetic data for the association of the E2 variant with breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer were obtained from large-scale consortia. We additionally estimated the associations of the E2 variant with any and 20 site-specific cancers in 198 825 women of European descent in UK Biobank. Odds ratios (OR) of cancer per 0.01 unit increase in log-transformed serum E2 levels in pmol/L were estimated using the Wald ratio., Results: Genetic predisposition to higher serum E2 levels was associated with increased risk of estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer (OR 1.02; 95% CI, 1.01-1.03; P = 2.5 × 10-3), endometrial cancer overall (OR 1.09; 95% CI, 1.06-1.11; P = 7.3 × 10-13), and endometrial cancer of the endometrioid histology subtype (OR 1.10; 95% CI, 1.07-1.13; P = 2.1 × 10-11). There were suggestive associations with breast cancer overall (OR 1.01; 95% CI, 1.00-1.02; P = 0.02), ovarian cancer of the endometrioid subtype (OR 1.05; 95% CI, 1.01-1.10; P = 0.02), and stomach cancer (OR 1.12; 95% CI, 1.00-1.26; P = 0.05), but no significant association with other cancers., Conclusion: This study supports a role of E2 in the development of ER-positive breast cancer and endometrioid endometrial cancer but found no strong association with other cancers in women., (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society.)
Published: 2022
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2. Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation.

Author: Min JL, Hemani G, Hannon E, Dekkers KF, Castillo-Fernandez J, Luijk R, Carnero-Montoro E, Lawson DJ, Burrows K, Suderman M, Bretherick AD, Richardson TG, Klughammer J, Iotchkova V, Sharp G, Al Khleifat A, Shatunov A, Iacoangeli A, McArdle WL, Ho KM, Kumar A, Söderhäll C, Soriano-Tárraga C, Giralt-Steinhauer E, Kazmi N, Mason D, McRae AF, Corcoran DL, Sugden K, Kasela S, Cardona A, Day FR, Cugliari G, Viberti C, Guarrera S, Lerro M, Gupta R, Bollepalli S, Mandaviya P, Zeng Y, Clarke TK, Walker RM, Schmoll V, Czamara D, Ruiz-Arenas C, Rezwan FI, Marioni RE, Lin T, Awaloff Y, Germain M, Aïssi D, Zwamborn R, van Eijk K, Dekker A, van Dongen J, Hottenga JJ, Willemsen G, Xu CJ, Barturen G, Català-Moll F, Kerick M, Wang C, Melton P, Elliott HR, Shin J, Bernard M, Yet I, Smart M, Gorrie-Stone T, Shaw C, Al Chalabi A, Ring SM, Pershagen G, Melén E, Jiménez-Conde J, Roquer J, Lawlor DA, Wright J, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Moffitt TE, Poulton R, Esko T, Milani L, Metspalu A, Perry JRB, Ong KK, Wareham NJ, Matullo G, Sacerdote C, Panico S, Caspi A, Arseneault L, Gagnon F, Ollikainen M, Kaprio J, Felix JF, Rivadeneira F, Tiemeier H, van IJzendoorn MH, Uitterlinden AG, Jaddoe VWV, Haley C, McIntosh AM, Evans KL, Murray A, Räikkönen K, Lahti J, Nohr EA, Sørensen TIA, Hansen T, Morgen CS, Binder EB, Lucae S, Gonzalez JR, Bustamante M, Sunyer J, Holloway JW, Karmaus W, Zhang H, Deary IJ, Wray NR, Starr JM, Beekman M, van Heemst D, Slagboom PE, Morange PE, Trégouët DA, Veldink JH, Davies GE, de Geus EJC, Boomsma DI, Vonk JM, Brunekreef B, Koppelman GH, Alarcón-Riquelme ME, Huang RC, Pennell CE, van Meurs J, Ikram MA, Hughes AD, Tillin T, Chaturvedi N, Pausova Z, Paus T, Spector TD, Kumari M, Schalkwyk LC, Visscher PM, Davey Smith G, Bock C, Gaunt TR, Bell JT, Heijmans BT, Mill J, and Relton CL
Subjects: Chromosome Mapping, Epigenesis, Genetic genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Multifactorial Inheritance genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Transcriptome genetics, DNA metabolism, DNA Methylation genetics, Gene Expression Regulation genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics
Abstract: Characterizing genetic influences on DNA methylation (DNAm) provides an opportunity to understand mechanisms underpinning gene regulation and disease. In the present study, we describe results of DNAm quantitative trait locus (mQTL) analyses on 32,851 participants, identifying genetic variants associated with DNAm at 420,509 DNAm sites in blood. We present a database of >270,000 independent mQTLs, of which 8.5% comprise long-range (trans) associations. Identified mQTL associations explain 15-17% of the additive genetic variance of DNAm. We show that the genetic architecture of DNAm levels is highly polygenic. Using shared genetic control between distal DNAm sites, we constructed networks, identifying 405 discrete genomic communities enriched for genomic annotations and complex traits. Shared genetic variants are associated with both DNAm levels and complex diseases, but only in a minority of cases do these associations reflect causal relationships from DNAm to trait or vice versa, indicating a more complex genotype-phenotype map than previously anticipated., (© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.)
Published: 2021
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3. GIGYF1 loss of function is associated with clonal mosaicism and adverse metabolic health.

Author: Zhao Y, Stankovic S, Koprulu M, Wheeler E, Day FR, Lango Allen H, Kerrison ND, Pietzner M, Loh PR, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Ong KK, and Perry JRB
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Carrier Proteins metabolism, Case-Control Studies, DNA Mutational Analysis, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 metabolism, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin metabolism, Leukocytes, Loss of Function Mutation, Male, Middle Aged, Receptor, IGF Type 1 metabolism, Signal Transduction genetics, Exome Sequencing, Carrier Proteins genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Y genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mosaicism
Abstract: Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in leukocytes is the most common form of clonal mosaicism, caused by dysregulation in cell-cycle and DNA damage response pathways. Previous genetic studies have focussed on identifying common variants associated with LOY, which we now extend to rarer, protein-coding variation using exome sequences from 82,277 male UK Biobank participants. We find that loss of function of two genes-CHEK2 and GIGYF1-reach exome-wide significance. Rare alleles in GIGYF1 have not previously been implicated in any complex trait, but here loss-of-function carriers exhibit six-fold higher susceptibility to LOY (OR = 5.99 [3.04-11.81], p = 1.3 × 10 -10 ). These same alleles are also associated with adverse metabolic health, including higher susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes (OR = 6.10 [3.51-10.61], p = 1.8 × 10 -12 ), 4 kg higher fat mass (p = 1.3 × 10 -4 ), 2.32 nmol/L lower serum IGF1 levels (p = 1.5 × 10 -4 ) and 4.5 kg lower handgrip strength (p = 4.7 × 10 -7 ) consistent with proposed GIGYF1 enhancement of insulin and IGF-1 receptor signalling. These associations are mirrored by a common variant nearby associated with the expression of GIGYF1. Our observations highlight a potential direct connection between clonal mosaicism and metabolic health.
Published: 2021
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4. Genetic basis of falling risk susceptibility in the UK Biobank Study.

Author: Trajanoska K, Seppala LJ, Medina-Gomez C, Hsu YH, Zhou S, van Schoor NM, de Groot LCPGM, Karasik D, Richards JB, Kiel DP, Uitterlinden AG, Perry JRB, van der Velde N, Day FR, and Rivadeneira F
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Biological Specimen Banks, Case-Control Studies, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium genetics, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Multifactorial Inheritance genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Risk Factors, United Kingdom, Accidental Falls statistics & numerical data, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
Abstract: Both extrinsic and intrinsic factors predispose older people to fall. We performed a genome-wide association analysis to investigate how much of an individual's fall susceptibility can be attributed to genetics in 89,076 cases and 362,103 controls from the UK Biobank Study. The analysis revealed a small, but significant SNP-based heritability (2.7%) and identified three novel fall-associated loci (P combined ≤ 5 × 10 -8 ). Polygenic risk scores in two independent settings showed patterns of polygenic inheritance. Risk of falling had positive genetic correlations with fractures, identifying for the first time a pathway independent of bone mineral density. There were also positive genetic correlations with insomnia, neuroticism, depressive symptoms, and different medications. Negative genetic correlations were identified with muscle strength, intelligence and subjective well-being. Brain, and in particular cerebellum tissue, showed the highest gene expression enrichment for fall-associated variants. Overall, despite the highly heterogenic nature underlying fall risk, a proportion of the susceptibility can be attributed to genetics.
Published: 2020
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5. Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood.

Author: Thompson DJ, Genovese G, Halvardson J, Ulirsch JC, Wright DJ, Terao C, Davidsson OB, Day FR, Sulem P, Jiang Y, Danielsson M, Davies H, Dennis J, Dunlop MG, Easton DF, Fisher VA, Zink F, Houlston RS, Ingelsson M, Kar S, Kerrison ND, Kinnersley B, Kristjansson RP, Law PJ, Li R, Loveday C, Mattisson J, McCarroll SA, Murakami Y, Murray A, Olszewski P, Rychlicka-Buniowska E, Scott RA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tomlinson I, Moghadam BT, Turnbull C, Wareham NJ, Gudbjartsson DF, Kamatani Y, Hoffmann ER, Jackson SP, Stefansson K, Auton A, Ong KK, Machiela MJ, Loh PR, Dumanski JP, Chanock SJ, Forsberg LA, and Perry JRB
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Computational Biology, Databases, Genetic, Female, Genetic Markers genetics, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms genetics, United Kingdom, Chromosome Deletion, Chromosomes, Human, Y genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genomic Instability genetics, Leukocytes pathology, Mosaicism
Abstract: Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common form of clonal mosaicism 1-5 , yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is limited. Here, using a computational approach, we estimate that 20% of the male population represented in the UK Biobank study (n = 205,011) has detectable LOY. We identify 156 autosomal genetic determinants of LOY, which we replicate in 757,114 men of European and Japanese ancestry. These loci highlight genes that are involved in cell-cycle regulation and cancer susceptibility, as well as somatic drivers of tumour growth and targets of cancer therapy. We demonstrate that genetic susceptibility to LOY is associated with non-haematological effects on health in both men and women, which supports the hypothesis that clonal haematopoiesis is a biomarker of genomic instability in other tissues. Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies dysregulated expression of autosomal genes in leukocytes with LOY and provides insights into why clonal expansion of these cells may occur. Collectively, these data highlight the value of studying clonal mosaicism to uncover fundamental mechanisms that underlie cancer and other ageing-related diseases.
Published: 2019
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6. Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution.

Author: Justice AE, Karaderi T, Highland HM, Young KL, Graff M, Lu Y, Turcot V, Auer PL, Fine RS, Guo X, Schurmann C, Lempradl A, Marouli E, Mahajan A, Winkler TW, Locke AE, Medina-Gomez C, Esko T, Vedantam S, Giri A, Lo KS, Alfred T, Mudgal P, Ng MCY, Heard-Costa NL, Feitosa MF, Manning AK, Willems SM, Sivapalaratnam S, Abecasis G, Alam DS, Allison M, Amouyel P, Arzumanyan Z, Balkau B, Bastarache L, Bergmann S, Bielak LF, Blüher M, Boehnke M, Boeing H, Boerwinkle E, Böger CA, Bork-Jensen J, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Brandslund I, Broer L, Burt AA, Butterworth AS, Caulfield MJ, Cesana G, Chambers JC, Chasman DI, Chen YI, Chowdhury R, Christensen C, Chu AY, Collins FS, Cook JP, Cox AJ, Crosslin DS, Danesh J, de Bakker PIW, Denus S, Mutsert R, Dedoussis G, Demerath EW, Dennis JG, Denny JC, Di Angelantonio E, Dörr M, Drenos F, Dubé MP, Dunning AM, Easton DF, Elliott P, Evangelou E, Farmaki AE, Feng S, Ferrannini E, Ferrieres J, Florez JC, Fornage M, Fox CS, Franks PW, Friedrich N, Gan W, Gandin I, Gasparini P, Giedraitis V, Girotto G, Gorski M, Grallert H, Grarup N, Grove ML, Gustafsson S, Haessler J, Hansen T, Hattersley AT, Hayward C, Heid IM, Holmen OL, Hovingh GK, Howson JMM, Hu Y, Hung YJ, Hveem K, Ikram MA, Ingelsson E, Jackson AU, Jarvik GP, Jia Y, Jørgensen T, Jousilahti P, Justesen JM, Kahali B, Karaleftheri M, Kardia SLR, Karpe F, Kee F, Kitajima H, Komulainen P, Kooner JS, Kovacs P, Krämer BK, Kuulasmaa K, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lakka TA, Lamparter D, Lange LA, Langenberg C, Larson EB, Lee NR, Lee WJ, Lehtimäki T, Lewis CE, Li H, Li J, Li-Gao R, Lin LA, Lin X, Lind L, Lindström J, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu DJ, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, MacGregor S, Mägi R, Männistö S, Marenne G, Marten J, Masca NGD, McCarthy MI, Meidtner K, Mihailov E, Moilanen L, Moitry M, Mook-Kanamori DO, Morgan A, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Munroe PB, Narisu N, Nelson CP, Neville M, Ntalla I, O'Connell JR, Owen KR, Pedersen O, Peloso GM, Pennell CE, Perola M, Perry JA, Perry JRB, Pers TH, Ewing A, Polasek O, Raitakari OT, Rasheed A, Raulerson CK, Rauramaa R, Reilly DF, Reiner AP, Ridker PM, Rivas MA, Robertson NR, Robino A, Rudan I, Ruth KS, Saleheen D, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Schreiner PJ, Schulze MB, Scott RA, Segura-Lepe M, Sim X, Slater AJ, Small KS, Smith BH, Smith JA, Southam L, Spector TD, Speliotes EK, Stefansson K, Steinthorsdottir V, Stirrups KE, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Stumvoll M, Sun L, Surendran P, Swart KMA, Tardif JC, Taylor KD, Teumer A, Thompson DJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Thuesen BH, Tönjes A, Torres M, Tsafantakis E, Tuomilehto J, Uitterlinden AG, Uusitupa M, van Duijn CM, Vanhala M, Varma R, Vermeulen SH, Vestergaard H, Vitart V, Vogt TF, Vuckovic D, Wagenknecht LE, Walker M, Wallentin L, Wang F, Wang CA, Wang S, Wareham NJ, Warren HR, Waterworth DM, Wessel J, White HD, Willer CJ, Wilson JG, Wood AR, Wu Y, Yaghootkar H, Yao J, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Young R, Zeggini E, Zhan X, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zheng H, Zhou W, Zillikens MC, Rivadeneira F, Borecki IB, Pospisilik JA, Deloukas P, Frayling TM, Lettre G, Mohlke KL, Rotter JI, Kutalik Z, Hirschhorn JN, Cupples LA, Loos RJF, North KE, and Lindgren CM
Subjects: Animals, Body Fat Distribution methods, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Drosophila genetics, Exome genetics, Female, Gene Frequency genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Waist-Hip Ratio methods, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genetic Variation genetics, Homeostasis genetics, Lipids genetics, Proteins genetics
Abstract: Body-fat distribution is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health consequences. We analyzed the association of body-fat distribution, assessed by waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, with 228,985 predicted coding and splice site variants available on exome arrays in up to 344,369 individuals from five major ancestries (discovery) and 132,177 European-ancestry individuals (validation). We identified 15 common (minor allele frequency, MAF ≥5%) and nine low-frequency or rare (MAF <5%) coding novel variants. Pathway/gene set enrichment analyses identified lipid particle, adiponectin, abnormal white adipose tissue physiology and bone development and morphology as important contributors to fat distribution, while cross-trait associations highlight cardiometabolic traits. In functional follow-up analyses, specifically in Drosophila RNAi-knockdowns, we observed a significant increase in the total body triglyceride levels for two genes (DNAH10 and PLXND1). We implicate novel genes in fat distribution, stressing the importance of interrogating low-frequency and protein-coding variants.
Published: 2019
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7. Association of Genetic Variants Related to Gluteofemoral vs Abdominal Fat Distribution With Type 2 Diabetes, Coronary Disease, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors.

Author: Lotta LA, Wittemans LBL, Zuber V, Stewart ID, Sharp SJ, Luan J, Day FR, Li C, Bowker N, Cai L, De Lucia Rolfe E, Khaw KT, Perry JRB, O'Rahilly S, Scott RA, Savage DB, Burgess S, Wareham NJ, and Langenberg C
Subjects: Body Mass Index, Cardiovascular Diseases genetics, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Abdominal Fat, Adiposity genetics, Coronary Disease genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Waist-Hip Ratio
Abstract: Importance: Body fat distribution, usually measured using waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), is an important contributor to cardiometabolic disease independent of body mass index (BMI). Whether mechanisms that increase WHR via lower gluteofemoral (hip) or via higher abdominal (waist) fat distribution affect cardiometabolic risk is unknown., Objective: To identify genetic variants associated with higher WHR specifically via lower gluteofemoral or higher abdominal fat distribution and estimate their association with cardiometabolic risk., Design, Setting, and Participants: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for WHR combined data from the UK Biobank cohort and summary statistics from previous GWAS (data collection: 2006-2018). Specific polygenic scores for higher WHR via lower gluteofemoral or via higher abdominal fat distribution were derived using WHR-associated genetic variants showing specific association with hip or waist circumference. Associations of polygenic scores with outcomes were estimated in 3 population-based cohorts, a case-cohort study, and summary statistics from 6 GWAS (data collection: 1991-2018)., Exposures: More than 2.4 million common genetic variants (GWAS); polygenic scores for higher WHR (follow-up analyses)., Main Outcomes and Measures: BMI-adjusted WHR and unadjusted WHR (GWAS); compartmental fat mass measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, type 2 diabetes, and coronary disease risk (follow-up analyses)., Results: Among 452 302 UK Biobank participants of European ancestry, the mean (SD) age was 57 (8) years and the mean (SD) WHR was 0.87 (0.09). In genome-wide analyses, 202 independent genetic variants were associated with higher BMI-adjusted WHR (n = 660 648) and unadjusted WHR (n = 663 598). In dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry analyses (n = 18 330), the hip- and waist-specific polygenic scores for higher WHR were specifically associated with lower gluteofemoral and higher abdominal fat, respectively. In follow-up analyses (n = 636 607), both polygenic scores were associated with higher blood pressure and triglyceride levels and higher risk of diabetes (waist-specific score: odds ratio [OR], 1.57 [95% CI, 1.34-1.83], absolute risk increase per 1000 participant-years [ARI], 4.4 [95% CI, 2.7-6.5], P < .001; hip-specific score: OR, 2.54 [95% CI, 2.17-2.96], ARI, 12.0 [95% CI, 9.1-15.3], P < .001) and coronary disease (waist-specific score: OR, 1.60 [95% CI, 1.39-1.84], ARI, 2.3 [95% CI, 1.5-3.3], P < .001; hip-specific score: OR, 1.76 [95% CI, 1.53-2.02], ARI, 3.0 [95% CI, 2.1-4.0], P < .001), per 1-SD increase in BMI-adjusted WHR., Conclusions and Relevance: Distinct genetic mechanisms may be linked to gluteofemoral and abdominal fat distribution that are the basis for the calculation of the WHR. These findings may improve risk assessment and treatment of diabetes and coronary disease.
Published: 2018
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8. Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer.

Author: O'Mara TA, Glubb DM, Amant F, Annibali D, Ashton K, Attia J, Auer PL, Beckmann MW, Black A, Bolla MK, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brinton L, Buchanan DD, Burwinkel B, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen C, Chen MM, Cheng THT, Clarke CL, Clendenning M, Cook LS, Couch FJ, Cox A, Crous-Bous M, Czene K, Day F, Dennis J, Depreeuw J, Doherty JA, Dörk T, Dowdy SC, Dürst M, Ekici AB, Fasching PA, Fridley BL, Friedenreich CM, Fritschi L, Fung J, García-Closas M, Gaudet MM, Giles GG, Goode EL, Gorman M, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hankison SE, Healey CS, Hein A, Hillemanns P, Hodgson S, Hoivik EA, Holliday EG, Hopper JL, Hunter DJ, Jones A, Krakstad C, Kristensen VN, Lambrechts D, Marchand LL, Liang X, Lindblom A, Lissowska J, Long J, Lu L, Magliocco AM, Martin L, McEvoy M, Meindl A, Michailidou K, Milne RL, Mints M, Montgomery GW, Nassir R, Olsson H, Orlow I, Otton G, Palles C, Perry JRB, Peto J, Pooler L, Prescott J, Proietto T, Rebbeck TR, Risch HA, Rogers PAW, Rübner M, Runnebaum I, Sacerdote C, Sarto GE, Schumacher F, Scott RJ, Setiawan VW, Shah M, Sheng X, Shu XO, Southey MC, Swerdlow AJ, Tham E, Trovik J, Turman C, Tyrer JP, Vachon C, VanDen Berg D, Vanderstichele A, Wang Z, Webb PM, Wentzensen N, Werner HMJ, Winham SJ, Wolk A, Xia L, Xiang YB, Yang HP, Yu H, Zheng W, Pharoah PDP, Dunning AM, Kraft P, De Vivo I, Tomlinson I, Easton DF, Spurdle AB, and Thompson DJ
Subjects: Alleles, Chromatin chemistry, Female, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk Factors, Signal Transduction, Biomarkers, Tumor genetics, Endometrial Neoplasms genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: Endometrial cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer of the female reproductive tract in developed countries. Through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we have previously identified eight risk loci for endometrial cancer. Here, we present an expanded meta-analysis of 12,906 endometrial cancer cases and 108,979 controls (including new genotype data for 5624 cases) and identify nine novel genome-wide significant loci, including a locus on 12q24.12 previously identified by meta-GWAS of endometrial and colorectal cancer. At five loci, expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses identify candidate causal genes; risk alleles at two of these loci associate with decreased expression of genes, which encode negative regulators of oncogenic signal transduction proteins (SH2B3 (12q24.12) and NF1 (17q11.2)). In summary, this study has doubled the number of known endometrial cancer risk loci and revealed candidate causal genes for future study.
Published: 2018
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9. Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types.

Author: Finucane HK, Reshef YA, Anttila V, Slowikowski K, Gusev A, Byrnes A, Gazal S, Loh PR, Lareau C, Shoresh N, Genovese G, Saunders A, Macosko E, Pollack S, Perry JRB, Buenrostro JD, Bernstein BE, Raychaudhuri S, McCarroll S, Neale BM, and Price AL
Subjects: Bipolar Disorder genetics, Body Mass Index, Brain metabolism, Chromatin genetics, Epigenesis, Genetic, Gene Expression Profiling statistics & numerical data, Genome-Wide Association Study statistics & numerical data, Humans, Immune System Diseases genetics, Linkage Disequilibrium, Models, Genetic, Multifactorial Inheritance, Neurons metabolism, Schizophrenia genetics, Tissue Distribution genetics, Gene Expression, Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Abstract: We introduce an approach to identify disease-relevant tissues and cell types by analyzing gene expression data together with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics. Our approach uses stratified linkage disequilibrium (LD) score regression to test whether disease heritability is enriched in regions surrounding genes with the highest specific expression in a given tissue. We applied our approach to gene expression data from several sources together with GWAS summary statistics for 48 diseases and traits (average N = 169,331) and found significant tissue-specific enrichments (false discovery rate (FDR) < 5%) for 34 traits. In our analysis of multiple tissues, we detected a broad range of enrichments that recapitulated known biology. In our brain-specific analysis, significant enrichments included an enrichment of inhibitory over excitatory neurons for bipolar disorder, and excitatory over inhibitory neurons for schizophrenia and body mass index. Our results demonstrate that our polygenic approach is a powerful way to leverage gene expression data for interpreting GWAS signals.
Published: 2018
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10. Genetic variants associated with mosaic Y chromosome loss highlight cell cycle genes and overlap with cancer susceptibility.

Author: Wright DJ, Day FR, Kerrison ND, Zink F, Cardona A, Sulem P, Thompson DJ, Sigurjonsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Helgason A, Chapman JR, Jackson SP, Langenberg C, Wareham NJ, Scott RA, Thorsteindottir U, Ong KK, Stefansson K, and Perry JRB
Subjects: Chromosome Deletion, Chromosomes, Human, X genetics, DNA Methylation, Female, Genome, Human genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Genome-Wide Association Study statistics & numerical data, Genomic Instability, Genotype, Humans, INDEL Mutation, Male, Neoplasms pathology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Cell Cycle genetics, Chromosomes, Human, Y genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genetic Variation, Neoplasms genetics
Abstract: The Y chromosome is frequently lost in hematopoietic cells, which represents the most common somatic alteration in men. However, the mechanisms that regulate mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY), and its clinical relevance, are unknown. We used genotype-array-intensity data and sequence reads from 85,542 men to identify 19 genomic regions (P < 5 × 10 -8 ) that are associated with mLOY. Cumulatively, these loci also predicted X chromosome loss in women (n = 96,123; P = 4 × 10 -6 ). Additional epigenome-wide methylation analyses using whole blood highlighted 36 differentially methylated sites associated with mLOY. The genes identified converge on aspects of cell proliferation and cell cycle regulation, including DNA synthesis (NPAT), DNA damage response (ATM), mitosis (PMF1, CENPN and MAD1L1) and apoptosis (TP53). We highlight the shared genetic architecture between mLOY and cancer susceptibility, in addition to inferring a causal effect of smoking on mLOY. Collectively, our results demonstrate that genotype-array-intensity data enables a measure of cell cycle efficiency at population scale and identifies genes implicated in aneuploidy, genome instability and cancer susceptibility.
Published: 2017
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11. Genetic Predisposition to an Impaired Metabolism of the Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: A Mendelian Randomisation Analysis.

Author: Lotta LA, Scott RA, Sharp SJ, Burgess S, Luan J, Tillin T, Schmidt AF, Imamura F, Stewart ID, Perry JR, Marney L, Koulman A, Karoly ED, Forouhi NG, Sjögren RJ, Näslund E, Zierath JR, Krook A, Savage DB, Griffin JL, Chaturvedi N, Hingorani AD, Khaw KT, Barroso I, McCarthy MI, O'Rahilly S, Wareham NJ, and Langenberg C
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 metabolism, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Sweden, Young Adult, Amino Acids, Branched-Chain metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 physiopathology, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Abstract: Background: Higher circulating levels of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs; i.e., isoleucine, leucine, and valine) are strongly associated with higher type 2 diabetes risk, but it is not known whether this association is causal. We undertook large-scale human genetic analyses to address this question., Methods and Findings: Genome-wide studies of BCAA levels in 16,596 individuals revealed five genomic regions associated at genome-wide levels of significance (p < 5 × 10-8). The strongest signal was 21 kb upstream of the PPM1K gene (beta in standard deviations [SDs] of leucine per allele = 0.08, p = 3.9 × 10-25), encoding an activator of the mitochondrial branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKD) responsible for the rate-limiting step in BCAA catabolism. In another analysis, in up to 47,877 cases of type 2 diabetes and 267,694 controls, a genetically predicted difference of 1 SD in amino acid level was associated with an odds ratio for type 2 diabetes of 1.44 (95% CI 1.26-1.65, p = 9.5 × 10-8) for isoleucine, 1.85 (95% CI 1.41-2.42, p = 7.3 × 10-6) for leucine, and 1.54 (95% CI 1.28-1.84, p = 4.2 × 10-6) for valine. Estimates were highly consistent with those from prospective observational studies of the association between BCAA levels and incident type 2 diabetes in a meta-analysis of 1,992 cases and 4,319 non-cases. Metabolome-wide association analyses of BCAA-raising alleles revealed high specificity to the BCAA pathway and an accumulation of metabolites upstream of branched-chain alpha-ketoacid oxidation, consistent with reduced BCKD activity. Limitations of this study are that, while the association of genetic variants appeared highly specific, the possibility of pleiotropic associations cannot be entirely excluded. Similar to other complex phenotypes, genetic scores used in the study captured a limited proportion of the heritability in BCAA levels. Therefore, it is possible that only some of the mechanisms that increase BCAA levels or affect BCAA metabolism are implicated in type 2 diabetes., Conclusions: Evidence from this large-scale human genetic and metabolomic study is consistent with a causal role of BCAA metabolism in the aetiology of type 2 diabetes., Competing Interests: CL receives a stipend as a specialty consulting editor for PLOS Medicine and serves on the journal's editorial board. MIM is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. MIM is a member of advisory boards for NovoNordisk and Pfizer. MIM received honoraria for speaking engagements: NovoNordisk, Pfizer, Eli Lilly. MIM receives research funding from: NovoNordisk, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Takeda, Servier, Sanofi-Aventis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, Merck, Roche, Astra-Zeneca. EDK is an employee of Metabolon Inc., a fee-for-service metabolomics provider and received salary and stock options as compensation. IB and her spouse own stock in GlaxoSmithKline and Incyte Corporation. SB acts as an occasional paid statistical referee for PLOS Medicine, however had no reviewer role in this paper. The other authors report no conflict of interest relative to this study.
Published: 2016
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12. Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease.

Author: Horikoshi M, Beaumont RN, Day FR, Warrington NM, Kooijman MN, Fernandez-Tajes J, Feenstra B, van Zuydam NR, Gaulton KJ, Grarup N, Bradfield JP, Strachan DP, Li-Gao R, Ahluwalia TS, Kreiner E, Rueedi R, Lyytikäinen LP, Cousminer DL, Wu Y, Thiering E, Wang CA, Have CT, Hottenga JJ, Vilor-Tejedor N, Joshi PK, Boh ETH, Ntalla I, Pitkänen N, Mahajan A, van Leeuwen EM, Joro R, Lagou V, Nodzenski M, Diver LA, Zondervan KT, Bustamante M, Marques-Vidal P, Mercader JM, Bennett AJ, Rahmioglu N, Nyholt DR, Ma RCW, Tam CHT, Tam WH, Ganesh SK, van Rooij FJ, Jones SE, Loh PR, Ruth KS, Tuke MA, Tyrrell J, Wood AR, Yaghootkar H, Scholtens DM, Paternoster L, Prokopenko I, Kovacs P, Atalay M, Willems SM, Panoutsopoulou K, Wang X, Carstensen L, Geller F, Schraut KE, Murcia M, van Beijsterveldt CE, Willemsen G, Appel EVR, Fonvig CE, Trier C, Tiesler CM, Standl M, Kutalik Z, Bonas-Guarch S, Hougaard DM, Sánchez F, Torrents D, Waage J, Hollegaard MV, de Haan HG, Rosendaal FR, Medina-Gomez C, Ring SM, Hemani G, McMahon G, Robertson NR, Groves CJ, Langenberg C, Luan J, Scott RA, Zhao JH, Mentch FD, MacKenzie SM, Reynolds RM, Lowe WL Jr, Tönjes A, Stumvoll M, Lindi V, Lakka TA, van Duijn CM, Kiess W, Körner A, Sørensen TI, Niinikoski H, Pahkala K, Raitakari OT, Zeggini E, Dedoussis GV, Teo YY, Saw SM, Melbye M, Campbell H, Wilson JF, Vrijheid M, de Geus EJ, Boomsma DI, Kadarmideen HN, Holm JC, Hansen T, Sebert S, Hattersley AT, Beilin LJ, Newnham JP, Pennell CE, Heinrich J, Adair LS, Borja JB, Mohlke KL, Eriksson JG, Widén EE, Kähönen M, Viikari JS, Lehtimäki T, Vollenweider P, Bønnelykke K, Bisgaard H, Mook-Kanamori DO, Hofman A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG, Pisinger C, Pedersen O, Power C, Hyppönen E, Wareham NJ, Hakonarson H, Davies E, Walker BR, Jaddoe VW, Jarvelin MR, Grant SF, Vaag AA, Lawlor DA, Frayling TM, Davey Smith G, Morris AP, Ong KK, Felix JF, Timpson NJ, Perry JR, Evans DM, McCarthy MI, and Freathy RM
Subjects: Adult, Anthropometry, Blood Pressure genetics, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Cohort Studies, Datasets as Topic, Female, Genetic Loci genetics, Genetic Variation genetics, Genomic Imprinting genetics, Genotype, Glucose metabolism, Glycogen biosynthesis, Humans, Insulin metabolism, Male, Phenotype, Signal Transduction, Aging genetics, Birth Weight genetics, Coronary Artery Disease genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Fetus metabolism, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Birth weight (BW) has been shown to be influenced by both fetal and maternal factors and in observational studies is reproducibly associated with future risk of adult metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease. These life-course associations have often been attributed to the impact of an adverse early life environment. Here, we performed a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of BW in 153,781 individuals, identifying 60 loci where fetal genotype was associated with BW (P < 5 × 10 -8 ). Overall, approximately 15% of variance in BW was captured by assays of fetal genetic variation. Using genetic association alone, we found strong inverse genetic correlations between BW and systolic blood pressure (R g = -0.22, P = 5.5 × 10 -13 ), T2D (R g = -0.27, P = 1.1 × 10 -6 ) and coronary artery disease (R g = -0.30, P = 6.5 × 10 -9 ). In addition, using large -cohort datasets, we demonstrated that genetic factors were the major contributor to the negative covariance between BW and future cardiometabolic risk. Pathway analyses indicated that the protein products of genes within BW-associated regions were enriched for diverse processes including insulin signalling, glucose homeostasis, glycogen biosynthesis and chromatin remodelling. There was also enrichment of associations with BW in known imprinted regions (P = 1.9 × 10 -4 ). We demonstrate that life-course associations between early growth phenotypes and adult cardiometabolic disease are in part the result of shared genetic effects and identify some of the pathways through which these causal genetic effects are mediated., Competing Interests: One of the authors discloses competing financial interests: Krina Zondervan has a scientific collaboration with Bayer HealthCare Ltd. and Population Diagnostics Inc.
Published: 2016
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13. The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.

Author: Fuchsberger C, Flannick J, Teslovich TM, Mahajan A, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Ma C, Fontanillas P, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, Perry JRB, Sim X, Blackwell TW, Robertson NR, Rayner NW, Cingolani P, Locke AE, Tajes JF, Highland HM, Dupuis J, Chines PS, Lindgren CM, Hartl C, Jackson AU, Chen H, Huyghe JR, van de Bunt M, Pearson RD, Kumar A, Müller-Nurasyid M, Grarup N, Stringham HM, Gamazon ER, Lee J, Chen Y, Scott RA, Below JE, Chen P, Huang J, Go MJ, Stitzel ML, Pasko D, Parker SCJ, Varga TV, Green T, Beer NL, Day-Williams AG, Ferreira T, Fingerlin T, Horikoshi M, Hu C, Huh I, Ikram MK, Kim BJ, Kim Y, Kim YJ, Kwon MS, Lee J, Lee S, Lin KH, Maxwell TJ, Nagai Y, Wang X, Welch RP, Yoon J, Zhang W, Barzilai N, Voight BF, Han BG, Jenkinson CP, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Manning A, Ng MCY, Palmer ND, Balkau B, Stančáková A, Abboud HE, Boeing H, Giedraitis V, Prabhakaran D, Gottesman O, Scott J, Carey J, Kwan P, Grant G, Smith JD, Neale BM, Purcell S, Butterworth AS, Howson JMM, Lee HM, Lu Y, Kwak SH, Zhao W, Danesh J, Lam VKL, Park KS, Saleheen D, So WY, Tam CHT, Afzal U, Aguilar D, Arya R, Aung T, Chan E, Navarro C, Cheng CY, Palli D, Correa A, Curran JE, Rybin D, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Freedman BI, Griswold M, Hale DE, Hicks PJ, Khor CC, Kumar S, Lehne B, Thuillier D, Lim WY, Liu J, van der Schouw YT, Loh M, Musani SK, Puppala S, Scott WR, Yengo L, Tan ST, Taylor HA Jr, Thameem F, Wilson G Sr, Wong TY, Njølstad PR, Levy JC, Mangino M, Bonnycastle LL, Schwarzmayr T, Fadista J, Surdulescu GL, Herder C, Groves CJ, Wieland T, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Koistinen HA, Doney ASF, Kinnunen L, Esko T, Farmer AJ, Hakaste L, Hodgkiss D, Kravic J, Lyssenko V, Hollensted M, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Ladenvall C, Justesen JM, Käräjämäki A, Kriebel J, Rathmann W, Lannfelt L, Lauritzen T, Narisu N, Linneberg A, Melander O, Milani L, Neville M, Orho-Melander M, Qi L, Qi Q, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Swift A, Rosengren AH, Stirrups K, Wood AR, Mihailov E, Blancher C, Carneiro MO, Maguire J, Poplin R, Shakir K, Fennell T, DePristo M, de Angelis MH, Deloukas P, Gjesing AP, Jun G, Nilsson P, Murphy J, Onofrio R, Thorand B, Hansen T, Meisinger C, Hu FB, Isomaa B, Karpe F, Liang L, Peters A, Huth C, O'Rahilly SP, Palmer CNA, Pedersen O, Rauramaa R, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Watanabe RM, Syvänen AC, Bergman RN, Bharadwaj D, Bottinger EP, Cho YS, Chandak GR, Chan JCN, Chia KS, Daly MJ, Ebrahim SB, Langenberg C, Elliott P, Jablonski KA, Lehman DM, Jia W, Ma RCW, Pollin TI, Sandhu M, Tandon N, Froguel P, Barroso I, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Loos RJF, Small KS, Ried JS, DeFronzo RA, Grallert H, Glaser B, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Walker M, Banks E, Gieger C, Ingelsson E, Im HK, Illig T, Franks PW, Buck G, Trakalo J, Buck D, Prokopenko I, Mägi R, Lind L, Farjoun Y, Owen KR, Gloyn AL, Strauch K, Tuomi T, Kooner JS, Lee JY, Park T, Donnelly P, Morris AD, Hattersley AT, Bowden DW, Collins FS, Atzmon G, Chambers JC, Spector TD, Laakso M, Strom TM, Bell GI, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Tai ES, McVean G, Hanis CL, Wilson JG, Seielstad M, Frayling TM, Meigs JB, Cox NJ, Sladek R, Lander ES, Gabriel S, Burtt NP, Mohlke KL, Meitinger T, Groop L, Abecasis G, Florez JC, Scott LJ, Morris AP, Kang HM, Boehnke M, Altshuler D, and McCarthy MI
Subjects: Alleles, DNA Mutational Analysis, Europe ethnology, Exome, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotyping Techniques, Humans, Sample Size, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genetic Variation genetics
Abstract: The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes of inherited variants that contribute to individual risk, has been long debated. Genome-wide association studies have identified scores of common variants associated with type 2 diabetes, but in aggregate, these explain only a fraction of the heritability of this disease. Here, to test the hypothesis that lower-frequency variants explain much of the remainder, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia performed whole-genome sequencing in 2,657 European individuals with and without diabetes, and exome sequencing in 12,940 individuals from five ancestry groups. To increase statistical power, we expanded the sample size via genotyping and imputation in a further 111,548 subjects. Variants associated with type 2 diabetes after sequencing were overwhelmingly common and most fell within regions previously identified by genome-wide association studies. Comprehensive enumeration of sequence variation is necessary to identify functional alleles that provide important clues to disease pathophysiology, but large-scale sequencing does not support the idea that lower-frequency variants have a major role in predisposition to type 2 diabetes.
Published: 2016
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14. New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk.

Author: Lu Y, Day FR, Gustafsson S, Buchkovich ML, Na J, Bataille V, Cousminer DL, Dastani Z, Drong AW, Esko T, Evans DM, Falchi M, Feitosa MF, Ferreira T, Hedman ÅK, Haring R, Hysi PG, Iles MM, Justice AE, Kanoni S, Lagou V, Li R, Li X, Locke A, Lu C, Mägi R, Perry JR, Pers TH, Qi Q, Sanna M, Schmidt EM, Scott WR, Shungin D, Teumer A, Vinkhuyzen AA, Walker RW, Westra HJ, Zhang M, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhu Z, Afzal U, Ahluwalia TS, Bakker SJ, Bellis C, Bonnefond A, Borodulin K, Buchman AS, Cederholm T, Choh AC, Choi HJ, Curran JE, de Groot LC, De Jager PL, Dhonukshe-Rutten RA, Enneman AW, Eury E, Evans DS, Forsen T, Friedrich N, Fumeron F, Garcia ME, Gärtner S, Han BG, Havulinna AS, Hayward C, Hernandez D, Hillege H, Ittermann T, Kent JW, Kolcic I, Laatikainen T, Lahti J, Mateo Leach I, Lee CG, Lee JY, Liu T, Liu Y, Lobbens S, Loh M, Lyytikäinen LP, Medina-Gomez C, Michaëlsson K, Nalls MA, Nielson CM, Oozageer L, Pascoe L, Paternoster L, Polašek O, Ripatti S, Sarzynski MA, Shin CS, Narančić NS, Spira D, Srikanth P, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Sung YJ, Swart KM, Taittonen L, Tanaka T, Tikkanen E, van der Velde N, van Schoor NM, Verweij N, Wright AF, Yu L, Zmuda JM, Eklund N, Forrester T, Grarup N, Jackson AU, Kristiansson K, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Lichtner P, Luan J, Mahajan A, Männistö S, Palmer CD, Ried JS, Scott RA, Stancáková A, Wagner PJ, Demirkan A, Döring A, Gudnason V, Kiel DP, Kühnel B, Mangino M, Mcknight B, Menni C, O'Connell JR, Oostra BA, Shuldiner AR, Song K, Vandenput L, van Duijn CM, Vollenweider P, White CC, Boehnke M, Boettcher Y, Cooper RS, Forouhi NG, Gieger C, Grallert H, Hingorani A, Jørgensen T, Jousilahti P, Kivimaki M, Kumari M, Laakso M, Langenberg C, Linneberg A, Luke A, Mckenzie CA, Palotie A, Pedersen O, Peters A, Strauch K, Tayo BO, Wareham NJ, Bennett DA, Bertram L, Blangero J, Blüher M, Bouchard C, Campbell H, Cho NH, Cummings SR, Czerwinski SA, Demuth I, Eckardt R, Eriksson JG, Ferrucci L, Franco OH, Froguel P, Gansevoort RT, Hansen T, Harris TB, Hastie N, Heliövaara M, Hofman A, Jordan JM, Jula A, Kähönen M, Kajantie E, Knekt PB, Koskinen S, Kovacs P, Lehtimäki T, Lind L, Liu Y, Orwoll ES, Osmond C, Perola M, Pérusse L, Raitakari OT, Rankinen T, Rao DC, Rice TK, Rivadeneira F, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Sørensen TI, Stumvoll M, Tönjes A, Towne B, Tranah GJ, Tremblay A, Uitterlinden AG, van der Harst P, Vartiainen E, Viikari JS, Vitart V, Vohl MC, Völzke H, Walker M, Wallaschofski H, Wild S, Wilson JF, Yengo L, Bishop DT, Borecki IB, Chambers JC, Cupples LA, Dehghan A, Deloukas P, Fatemifar G, Fox C, Furey TS, Franke L, Han J, Hunter DJ, Karjalainen J, Karpe F, Kaplan RC, Kooner JS, McCarthy MI, Murabito JM, Morris AP, Bishop JA, North KE, Ohlsson C, Ong KK, Prokopenko I, Richards JB, Schadt EE, Spector TD, Widén E, Willer CJ, Yang J, Ingelsson E, Mohlke KL, Hirschhorn JN, Pospisilik JA, Zillikens MC, Lindgren C, Kilpeläinen TO, and Loos RJ
Subjects: Animals, Drosophila melanogaster genetics, Drosophila melanogaster metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation physiology, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Adiposity genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Heart Diseases genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics
Abstract: To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10(-8)), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near COBLL1/GRB14, IGF2BP1, PLA2G6, CRTC1) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.
Published: 2016
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15. Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci.

Author: Gaulton KJ, Ferreira T, Lee Y, Raimondo A, Mägi R, Reschen ME, Mahajan A, Locke A, Rayner NW, Robertson N, Scott RA, Prokopenko I, Scott LJ, Green T, Sparso T, Thuillier D, Yengo L, Grallert H, Wahl S, Frånberg M, Strawbridge RJ, Kestler H, Chheda H, Eisele L, Gustafsson S, Steinthorsdottir V, Thorleifsson G, Qi L, Karssen LC, van Leeuwen EM, Willems SM, Li M, Chen H, Fuchsberger C, Kwan P, Ma C, Linderman M, Lu Y, Thomsen SK, Rundle JK, Beer NL, van de Bunt M, Chalisey A, Kang HM, Voight BF, Abecasis GR, Almgren P, Baldassarre D, Balkau B, Benediktsson R, Blüher M, Boeing H, Bonnycastle LL, Bottinger EP, Burtt NP, Carey J, Charpentier G, Chines PS, Cornelis MC, Couper DJ, Crenshaw AT, van Dam RM, Doney AS, Dorkhan M, Edkins S, Eriksson JG, Esko T, Eury E, Fadista J, Flannick J, Fontanillas P, Fox C, Franks PW, Gertow K, Gieger C, Gigante B, Gottesman O, Grant GB, Grarup N, Groves CJ, Hassinen M, Have CT, Herder C, Holmen OL, Hreidarsson AB, Humphries SE, Hunter DJ, Jackson AU, Jonsson A, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Kao WH, Kerrison ND, Kinnunen L, Klopp N, Kong A, Kovacs P, Kraft P, Kravic J, Langford C, Leander K, Liang L, Lichtner P, Lindgren CM, Lindholm E, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Lobbens S, Luan J, Lyssenko V, Männistö S, McLeod O, Meyer J, Mihailov E, Mirza G, Mühleisen TW, Müller-Nurasyid M, Navarro C, Nöthen MM, Oskolkov NN, Owen KR, Palli D, Pechlivanis S, Peltonen L, Perry JR, Platou CG, Roden M, Ruderfer D, Rybin D, van der Schouw YT, Sennblad B, Sigurðsson G, Stančáková A, Steinbach G, Storm P, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Sun Q, Thorand B, Tikkanen E, Tonjes A, Trakalo J, Tremoli E, Tuomi T, Wennauer R, Wiltshire S, Wood AR, Zeggini E, Dunham I, Birney E, Pasquali L, Ferrer J, Loos RJ, Dupuis J, Florez JC, Boerwinkle E, Pankow JS, van Duijn C, Sijbrands E, Meigs JB, Hu FB, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, Lakka TA, Rauramaa R, Stumvoll M, Pedersen NL, Lind L, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi SM, Korpi-Hyövälti E, Saaristo TE, Saltevo J, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Metspalu A, Erbel R, Jöcke KH, Moebus S, Ripatti S, Salomaa V, Ingelsson E, Boehm BO, Bergman RN, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Koistinen H, Tuomilehto J, Hveem K, Njølstad I, Deloukas P, Donnelly PJ, Frayling TM, Hattersley AT, de Faire U, Hamsten A, Illig T, Peters A, Cauchi S, Sladek R, Froguel P, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Morris AD, Palmer CN, Kathiresan S, Melander O, Nilsson PM, Groop LC, Barroso I, Langenberg C, Wareham NJ, O'Callaghan CA, Gloyn AL, Altshuler D, Boehnke M, Teslovich TM, McCarthy MI, and Morris AP
Subjects: Binding Sites, Case-Control Studies, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Gene Expression Regulation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-beta metabolism, Humans, Islets of Langerhans metabolism, Islets of Langerhans pathology, Liver metabolism, Liver pathology, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Receptor, Melatonin, MT2 metabolism, Chromosome Mapping, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-beta genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Receptor, Melatonin, MT2 genetics
Abstract: We performed fine mapping of 39 established type 2 diabetes (T2D) loci in 27,206 cases and 57,574 controls of European ancestry. We identified 49 distinct association signals at these loci, including five mapping in or near KCNQ1. 'Credible sets' of the variants most likely to drive each distinct signal mapped predominantly to noncoding sequence, implying that association with T2D is mediated through gene regulation. Credible set variants were enriched for overlap with FOXA2 chromatin immunoprecipitation binding sites in human islet and liver cells, including at MTNR1B, where fine mapping implicated rs10830963 as driving T2D association. We confirmed that the T2D risk allele for this SNP increases FOXA2-bound enhancer activity in islet- and liver-derived cells. We observed allele-specific differences in NEUROD1 binding in islet-derived cells, consistent with evidence that the T2D risk allele increases islet MTNR1B expression. Our study demonstrates how integration of genetic and genomic information can define molecular mechanisms through which variants underlying association signals exert their effects on disease.
Published: 2015
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16. Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics.

Author: Finucane HK, Bulik-Sullivan B, Gusev A, Trynka G, Reshef Y, Loh PR, Anttila V, Xu H, Zang C, Farh K, Ripke S, Day FR, Purcell S, Stahl E, Lindstrom S, Perry JR, Okada Y, Raychaudhuri S, Daly MJ, Patterson N, Neale BM, and Price AL
Subjects: Algorithms, Computer Simulation, Female, Gene Frequency, Histones metabolism, Humans, Inheritance Patterns, Lysine metabolism, Male, Methylation, Models, Genetic, Disease genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Recent work has demonstrated that some functional categories of the genome contribute disproportionately to the heritability of complex diseases. Here we analyze a broad set of functional elements, including cell type-specific elements, to estimate their polygenic contributions to heritability in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 17 complex diseases and traits with an average sample size of 73,599. To enable this analysis, we introduce a new method, stratified LD score regression, for partitioning heritability from GWAS summary statistics while accounting for linked markers. This new method is computationally tractable at very large sample sizes and leverages genome-wide information. Our findings include a large enrichment of heritability in conserved regions across many traits, a very large immunological disease-specific enrichment of heritability in FANTOM5 enhancers and many cell type-specific enrichments, including significant enrichment of central nervous system cell types in the heritability of body mass index, age at menarche, educational attainment and smoking behavior.
Published: 2015
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17. Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair.

Author: Day FR, Ruth KS, Thompson DJ, Lunetta KL, Pervjakova N, Chasman DI, Stolk L, Finucane HK, Sulem P, Bulik-Sullivan B, Esko T, Johnson AD, Elks CE, Franceschini N, He C, Altmaier E, Brody JA, Franke LL, Huffman JE, Keller MF, McArdle PF, Nutile T, Porcu E, Robino A, Rose LM, Schick UM, Smith JA, Teumer A, Traglia M, Vuckovic D, Yao J, Zhao W, Albrecht E, Amin N, Corre T, Hottenga JJ, Mangino M, Smith AV, Tanaka T, Abecasis G, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Arndt V, Arnold AM, Barbieri C, Beckmann MW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bernstein L, Bielinski SJ, Blomqvist C, Boerwinkle E, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Borresen-Dale AL, Boutin TS, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brüning T, Burwinkel B, Campbell A, Campbell H, Chanock SJ, Chapman JR, Chen YI, Chenevix-Trench G, Couch FJ, Coviello AD, Cox A, Czene K, Darabi H, De Vivo I, Demerath EW, Dennis J, Devilee P, Dörk T, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Dunning AM, Eicher JD, Fasching PA, Faul JD, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Gandin I, Garcia ME, García-Closas M, Giles GG, Girotto GG, Goldberg MS, González-Neira A, Goodarzi MO, Grove ML, Gudbjartsson DF, Guénel P, Guo X, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hamann U, Henderson BE, Hocking LJ, Hofman A, Homuth G, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL, Hu FB, Huang J, Humphreys K, Hunter DJ, Jakubowska A, Jones SE, Kabisch M, Karasik D, Knight JA, Kolcic I, Kooperberg C, Kosma VM, Kriebel J, Kristensen V, Lambrechts D, Langenberg C, Li J, Li X, Lindström S, Liu Y, Luan J, Lubinski J, Mägi R, Mannermaa A, Manz J, Margolin S, Marten J, Martin NG, Masciullo C, Meindl A, Michailidou K, Mihailov E, Milani L, Milne RL, Müller-Nurasyid M, Nalls M, Neale BM, Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Newman AB, Nordestgaard BG, Olson JE, Padmanabhan S, Peterlongo P, Peters U, Petersmann A, Peto J, Pharoah PDP, Pirastu NN, Pirie A, Pistis G, Polasek O, Porteous D, Psaty BM, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Raffel LJ, Rivadeneira F, Rudan I, Rudolph A, Ruggiero D, Sala CF, Sanna S, Sawyer EJ, Schlessinger D, Schmidt MK, Schmidt F, Schmutzler RK, Schoemaker MJ, Scott RA, Seynaeve CM, Simard J, Sorice R, Southey MC, Stöckl D, Strauch K, Swerdlow A, Taylor KD, Thorsteinsdottir U, Toland AE, Tomlinson I, Truong T, Tryggvadottir L, Turner ST, Vozzi D, Wang Q, Wellons M, Willemsen G, Wilson JF, Winqvist R, Wolffenbuttel BBHR, Wright AF, Yannoukakos D, Zemunik T, Zheng W, Zygmunt M, Bergmann S, Boomsma DI, Buring JE, Ferrucci L, Montgomery GW, Gudnason V, Spector TD, van Duijn CM, Alizadeh BZ, Ciullo M, Crisponi L, Easton DF, Gasparini PP, Gieger C, Harris TB, Hayward C, Kardia SLR, Kraft P, McKnight B, Metspalu A, Morrison AC, Reiner AP, Ridker PM, Rotter JI, Toniolo D, Uitterlinden AG, Ulivi S, Völzke H, Wareham NJ, Weir DR, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Price AL, Stefansson K, Visser JA, Ong KK, Chang-Claude J, Murabito JM, Perry JRB, and Murray A
Subjects: Adult, Age Factors, Aging genetics, Female, Gene Regulatory Networks genetics, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Genomics methods, Genotype, Humans, Menopause genetics, Middle Aged, Models, Genetic, Phenotype, Reproduction genetics, BRCA1 Protein genetics, Breast Neoplasms genetics, DNA Repair, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Hypothalamus metabolism, Signal Transduction genetics
Abstract: Menopause timing has a substantial impact on infertility and risk of disease, including breast cancer, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. We report a dual strategy in ∼70,000 women to identify common and low-frequency protein-coding variation associated with age at natural menopause (ANM). We identified 44 regions with common variants, including two regions harboring additional rare missense alleles of large effect. We found enrichment of signals in or near genes involved in delayed puberty, highlighting the first molecular links between the onset and end of reproductive lifespan. Pathway analyses identified major association with DNA damage response (DDR) genes, including the first common coding variant in BRCA1 associated with any complex trait. Mendelian randomization analyses supported a causal effect of later ANM on breast cancer risk (∼6% increase in risk per year; P = 3 × 10(-14)), likely mediated by prolonged sex hormone exposure rather than DDR mechanisms.
Published: 2015
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18. Discovery and fine mapping of serum protein loci through transethnic meta-analysis.

Author: Franceschini N, van Rooij FJ, Prins BP, Feitosa MF, Karakas M, Eckfeldt JH, Folsom AR, Kopp J, Vaez A, Andrews JS, Baumert J, Boraska V, Broer L, Hayward C, Ngwa JS, Okada Y, Polasek O, Westra HJ, Wang YA, Del Greco M F, Glazer NL, Kapur K, Kema IP, Lopez LM, Schillert A, Smith AV, Winkler CA, Zgaga L, Bandinelli S, Bergmann S, Boban M, Bochud M, Chen YD, Davies G, Dehghan A, Ding J, Doering A, Durda JP, Ferrucci L, Franco OH, Franke L, Gunjaca G, Hofman A, Hsu FC, Kolcic I, Kraja A, Kubo M, Lackner KJ, Launer L, Loehr LR, Li G, Meisinger C, Nakamura Y, Schwienbacher C, Starr JM, Takahashi A, Torlak V, Uitterlinden AG, Vitart V, Waldenberger M, Wild PS, Kirin M, Zeller T, Zemunik T, Zhang Q, Ziegler A, Blankenberg S, Boerwinkle E, Borecki IB, Campbell H, Deary IJ, Frayling TM, Gieger C, Harris TB, Hicks AA, Koenig W, O' Donnell CJ, Fox CS, Pramstaller PP, Psaty BM, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Snieder H, Tanaka T, van Duijn CM, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Wilson JF, Witteman JC, Wolffenbuttel BH, Wright AF, Wu Q, Liu Y, Jenny NS, North KE, Felix JF, Alizadeh BZ, Cupples LA, Perry JR, and Morris AP
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Alleles, Animals, Asian People genetics, Chromosome Mapping methods, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study methods, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium genetics, Male, Mice, Middle Aged, Protein Biosynthesis genetics, Proteolysis, Ribosomes genetics, Serum Albumin genetics, White People genetics, Blood Proteins genetics, Blood Proteins metabolism, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
Abstract: Many disorders are associated with altered serum protein concentrations, including malnutrition, cancer, and cardiovascular, kidney, and inflammatory diseases. Although these protein concentrations are highly heritable, relatively little is known about their underlying genetic determinants. Through transethnic meta-analysis of European-ancestry and Japanese genome-wide association studies, we identified six loci at genome-wide significance (p < 5 × 10(-8)) for serum albumin (HPN-SCN1B, GCKR-FNDC4, SERPINF2-WDR81, TNFRSF11A-ZCCHC2, FRMD5-WDR76, and RPS11-FCGRT, in up to 53,190 European-ancestry and 9,380 Japanese individuals) and three loci for total protein (TNFRS13B, 6q21.3, and ELL2, in up to 25,539 European-ancestry and 10,168 Japanese individuals). We observed little evidence of heterogeneity in allelic effects at these loci between groups of European and Japanese ancestry but obtained substantial improvements in the resolution of fine mapping of potential causal variants by leveraging transethnic differences in the distribution of linkage disequilibrium. We demonstrated a functional role for the most strongly associated serum albumin locus, HPN, for which Hpn knockout mice manifest low plasma albumin concentrations. Other loci associated with serum albumin harbor genes related to ribosome function, protein translation, and proteasomal degradation, whereas those associated with serum total protein include genes related to immune function. Our results highlight the advantages of transethnic meta-analysis for the discovery and fine mapping of complex trait loci and have provided initial insights into the underlying genetic architecture of serum protein concentrations and their association with human disease., (Copyright © 2012 The American Society of Human Genetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Published: 2012
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19. Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes.

Author: Morris AP, Voight BF, Teslovich TM, Ferreira T, Segrè AV, Steinthorsdottir V, Strawbridge RJ, Khan H, Grallert H, Mahajan A, Prokopenko I, Kang HM, Dina C, Esko T, Fraser RM, Kanoni S, Kumar A, Lagou V, Langenberg C, Luan J, Lindgren CM, Müller-Nurasyid M, Pechlivanis S, Rayner NW, Scott LJ, Wiltshire S, Yengo L, Kinnunen L, Rossin EJ, Raychaudhuri S, Johnson AD, Dimas AS, Loos RJ, Vedantam S, Chen H, Florez JC, Fox C, Liu CT, Rybin D, Couper DJ, Kao WH, Li M, Cornelis MC, Kraft P, Sun Q, van Dam RM, Stringham HM, Chines PS, Fischer K, Fontanillas P, Holmen OL, Hunt SE, Jackson AU, Kong A, Lawrence R, Meyer J, Perry JR, Platou CG, Potter S, Rehnberg E, Robertson N, Sivapalaratnam S, Stančáková A, Stirrups K, Thorleifsson G, Tikkanen E, Wood AR, Almgren P, Atalay M, Benediktsson R, Bonnycastle LL, Burtt N, Carey J, Charpentier G, Crenshaw AT, Doney AS, Dorkhan M, Edkins S, Emilsson V, Eury E, Forsen T, Gertow K, Gigante B, Grant GB, Groves CJ, Guiducci C, Herder C, Hreidarsson AB, Hui J, James A, Jonsson A, Rathmann W, Klopp N, Kravic J, Krjutškov K, Langford C, Leander K, Lindholm E, Lobbens S, Männistö S, Mirza G, Mühleisen TW, Musk B, Parkin M, Rallidis L, Saramies J, Sennblad B, Shah S, Sigurðsson G, Silveira A, Steinbach G, Thorand B, Trakalo J, Veglia F, Wennauer R, Winckler W, Zabaneh D, Campbell H, van Duijn C, Uitterlinden AG, Hofman A, Sijbrands E, Abecasis GR, Owen KR, Zeggini E, Trip MD, Forouhi NG, Syvänen AC, Eriksson JG, Peltonen L, Nöthen MM, Balkau B, Palmer CN, Lyssenko V, Tuomi T, Isomaa B, Hunter DJ, Qi L, Shuldiner AR, Roden M, Barroso I, Wilsgaard T, Beilby J, Hovingh K, Price JF, Wilson JF, Rauramaa R, Lakka TA, Lind L, Dedoussis G, Njølstad I, Pedersen NL, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi SM, Saaristo TE, Korpi-Hyövälti E, Saltevo J, Laakso M, Kuusisto J, Metspalu A, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Bergman RN, Tuomilehto J, Boehm BO, Gieger C, Hveem K, Cauchi S, Froguel P, Baldassarre D, Tremoli E, Humphries SE, Saleheen D, Danesh J, Ingelsson E, Ripatti S, Salomaa V, Erbel R, Jöckel KH, Moebus S, Peters A, Illig T, de Faire U, Hamsten A, Morris AD, Donnelly PJ, Frayling TM, Hattersley AT, Boerwinkle E, Melander O, Kathiresan S, Nilsson PM, Deloukas P, Thorsteinsdottir U, Groop LC, Stefansson K, Hu F, Pankow JS, Dupuis J, Meigs JB, Altshuler D, Boehnke M, and McCarthy MI
Subjects: Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 epidemiology, Female, Genes physiology, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Male, Pakistan epidemiology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide physiology, Sex Factors, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study statistics & numerical data
Abstract: To extend understanding of the genetic architecture and molecular basis of type 2 diabetes (T2D), we conducted a meta-analysis of genetic variants on the Metabochip, including 34,840 cases and 114,981 controls, overwhelmingly of European descent. We identified ten previously unreported T2D susceptibility loci, including two showing sex-differentiated association. Genome-wide analyses of these data are consistent with a long tail of additional common variant loci explaining much of the variation in susceptibility to T2D. Exploration of the enlarged set of susceptibility loci implicates several processes, including CREBBP-related transcription, adipocytokine signaling and cell cycle regulation, in diabetes pathogenesis.
Published: 2012
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20. Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis.

Author: Voight BF, Scott LJ, Steinthorsdottir V, Morris AP, Dina C, Welch RP, Zeggini E, Huth C, Aulchenko YS, Thorleifsson G, McCulloch LJ, Ferreira T, Grallert H, Amin N, Wu G, Willer CJ, Raychaudhuri S, McCarroll SA, Langenberg C, Hofmann OM, Dupuis J, Qi L, Segrè AV, van Hoek M, Navarro P, Ardlie K, Balkau B, Benediktsson R, Bennett AJ, Blagieva R, Boerwinkle E, Bonnycastle LL, Bengtsson Boström K, Bravenboer B, Bumpstead S, Burtt NP, Charpentier G, Chines PS, Cornelis M, Couper DJ, Crawford G, Doney AS, Elliott KS, Elliott AL, Erdos MR, Fox CS, Franklin CS, Ganser M, Gieger C, Grarup N, Green T, Griffin S, Groves CJ, Guiducci C, Hadjadj S, Hassanali N, Herder C, Isomaa B, Jackson AU, Johnson PR, Jørgensen T, Kao WH, Klopp N, Kong A, Kraft P, Kuusisto J, Lauritzen T, Li M, Lieverse A, Lindgren CM, Lyssenko V, Marre M, Meitinger T, Midthjell K, Morken MA, Narisu N, Nilsson P, Owen KR, Payne F, Perry JR, Petersen AK, Platou C, Proença C, Prokopenko I, Rathmann W, Rayner NW, Robertson NR, Rocheleau G, Roden M, Sampson MJ, Saxena R, Shields BM, Shrader P, Sigurdsson G, Sparsø T, Strassburger K, Stringham HM, Sun Q, Swift AJ, Thorand B, Tichet J, Tuomi T, van Dam RM, van Haeften TW, van Herpt T, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk JV, Walters GB, Weedon MN, Wijmenga C, Witteman J, Bergman RN, Cauchi S, Collins FS, Gloyn AL, Gyllensten U, Hansen T, Hide WA, Hitman GA, Hofman A, Hunter DJ, Hveem K, Laakso M, Mohlke KL, Morris AD, Palmer CN, Pramstaller PP, Rudan I, Sijbrands E, Stein LD, Tuomilehto J, Uitterlinden A, Walker M, Wareham NJ, Watanabe RM, Abecasis GR, Boehm BO, Campbell H, Daly MJ, Hattersley AT, Hu FB, Meigs JB, Pankow JS, Pedersen O, Wichmann HE, Barroso I, Florez JC, Frayling TM, Groop L, Sladek R, Thorsteinsdottir U, Wilson JF, Illig T, Froguel P, van Duijn CM, Stefansson K, Altshuler D, Boehnke M, and McCarthy MI
Subjects: Blood Glucose metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 blood, Dual-Specificity Phosphatases genetics, Fasting blood, Gene Dosage, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alpha genetics, Humans, KCNQ1 Potassium Channel genetics, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatases genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome, Human genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: By combining genome-wide association data from 8,130 individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and 38,987 controls of European descent and following up previously unidentified meta-analysis signals in a further 34,412 cases and 59,925 controls, we identified 12 new T2D association signals with combined P<5x10(-8). These include a second independent signal at the KCNQ1 locus; the first report, to our knowledge, of an X-chromosomal association (near DUSP9); and a further instance of overlap between loci implicated in monogenic and multifactorial forms of diabetes (at HNF1A). The identified loci affect both beta-cell function and insulin action, and, overall, T2D association signals show evidence of enrichment for genes involved in cell cycle regulation. We also show that a high proportion of T2D susceptibility loci harbor independent association signals influencing apparently unrelated complex traits.
Published: 2010
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21. Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls.

Author: Craddock N, Hurles ME, Cardin N, Pearson RD, Plagnol V, Robson S, Vukcevic D, Barnes C, Conrad DF, Giannoulatou E, Holmes C, Marchini JL, Stirrups K, Tobin MD, Wain LV, Yau C, Aerts J, Ahmad T, Andrews TD, Arbury H, Attwood A, Auton A, Ball SG, Balmforth AJ, Barrett JC, Barroso I, Barton A, Bennett AJ, Bhaskar S, Blaszczyk K, Bowes J, Brand OJ, Braund PS, Bredin F, Breen G, Brown MJ, Bruce IN, Bull J, Burren OS, Burton J, Byrnes J, Caesar S, Clee CM, Coffey AJ, Connell JM, Cooper JD, Dominiczak AF, Downes K, Drummond HE, Dudakia D, Dunham A, Ebbs B, Eccles D, Edkins S, Edwards C, Elliot A, Emery P, Evans DM, Evans G, Eyre S, Farmer A, Ferrier IN, Feuk L, Fitzgerald T, Flynn E, Forbes A, Forty L, Franklyn JA, Freathy RM, Gibbs P, Gilbert P, Gokumen O, Gordon-Smith K, Gray E, Green E, Groves CJ, Grozeva D, Gwilliam R, Hall A, Hammond N, Hardy M, Harrison P, Hassanali N, Hebaishi H, Hines S, Hinks A, Hitman GA, Hocking L, Howard E, Howard P, Howson JM, Hughes D, Hunt S, Isaacs JD, Jain M, Jewell DP, Johnson T, Jolley JD, Jones IR, Jones LA, Kirov G, Langford CF, Lango-Allen H, Lathrop GM, Lee J, Lee KL, Lees C, Lewis K, Lindgren CM, Maisuria-Armer M, Maller J, Mansfield J, Martin P, Massey DC, McArdle WL, McGuffin P, McLay KE, Mentzer A, Mimmack ML, Morgan AE, Morris AP, Mowat C, Myers S, Newman W, Nimmo ER, O'Donovan MC, Onipinla A, Onyiah I, Ovington NR, Owen MJ, Palin K, Parnell K, Pernet D, Perry JR, Phillips A, Pinto D, Prescott NJ, Prokopenko I, Quail MA, Rafelt S, Rayner NW, Redon R, Reid DM, Renwick, Ring SM, Robertson N, Russell E, St Clair D, Sambrook JG, Sanderson JD, Schuilenburg H, Scott CE, Scott R, Seal S, Shaw-Hawkins S, Shields BM, Simmonds MJ, Smyth DJ, Somaskantharajah E, Spanova K, Steer S, Stephens J, Stevens HE, Stone MA, Su Z, Symmons DP, Thompson JR, Thomson W, Travers ME, Turnbull C, Valsesia A, Walker M, Walker NM, Wallace C, Warren-Perry M, Watkins NA, Webster J, Weedon MN, Wilson AG, Woodburn M, Wordsworth BP, Young AH, Zeggini E, Carter NP, Frayling TM, Lee C, McVean G, Munroe PB, Palotie A, Sawcer SJ, Scherer SW, Strachan DP, Tyler-Smith C, Brown MA, Burton PR, Caulfield MJ, Compston A, Farrall M, Gough SC, Hall AS, Hattersley AT, Hill AV, Mathew CG, Pembrey M, Satsangi J, Stratton MR, Worthington J, Deloukas P, Duncanson A, Kwiatkowski DP, McCarthy MI, Ouwehand W, Parkes M, Rahman N, Todd JA, Samani NJ, and Donnelly P
Subjects: Arthritis, Rheumatoid genetics, Case-Control Studies, Crohn Disease genetics, Diabetes Mellitus genetics, Gene Frequency genetics, Humans, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Pilot Projects, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Quality Control, DNA Copy Number Variations genetics, Disease, Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Copy number variants (CNVs) account for a major proportion of human genetic polymorphism and have been predicted to have an important role in genetic susceptibility to common disease. To address this we undertook a large, direct genome-wide study of association between CNVs and eight common human diseases. Using a purpose-designed array we typed approximately 19,000 individuals into distinct copy-number classes at 3,432 polymorphic CNVs, including an estimated approximately 50% of all common CNVs larger than 500 base pairs. We identified several biological artefacts that lead to false-positive associations, including systematic CNV differences between DNAs derived from blood and cell lines. Association testing and follow-up replication analyses confirmed three loci where CNVs were associated with disease-IRGM for Crohn's disease, HLA for Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, and TSPAN8 for type 2 diabetes-although in each case the locus had previously been identified in single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based studies, reflecting our observation that most common CNVs that are well-typed on our array are well tagged by SNPs and so have been indirectly explored through SNP studies. We conclude that common CNVs that can be typed on existing platforms are unlikely to contribute greatly to the genetic basis of common human diseases.
Published: 2010
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22. New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk.

Author: Dupuis J, Langenberg C, Prokopenko I, Saxena R, Soranzo N, Jackson AU, Wheeler E, Glazer NL, Bouatia-Naji N, Gloyn AL, Lindgren CM, Mägi R, Morris AP, Randall J, Johnson T, Elliott P, Rybin D, Thorleifsson G, Steinthorsdottir V, Henneman P, Grallert H, Dehghan A, Hottenga JJ, Franklin CS, Navarro P, Song K, Goel A, Perry JR, Egan JM, Lajunen T, Grarup N, Sparsø T, Doney A, Voight BF, Stringham HM, Li M, Kanoni S, Shrader P, Cavalcanti-Proença C, Kumari M, Qi L, Timpson NJ, Gieger C, Zabena C, Rocheleau G, Ingelsson E, An P, O'Connell J, Luan J, Elliott A, McCarroll SA, Payne F, Roccasecca RM, Pattou F, Sethupathy P, Ardlie K, Ariyurek Y, Balkau B, Barter P, Beilby JP, Ben-Shlomo Y, Benediktsson R, Bennett AJ, Bergmann S, Bochud M, Boerwinkle E, Bonnefond A, Bonnycastle LL, Borch-Johnsen K, Böttcher Y, Brunner E, Bumpstead SJ, Charpentier G, Chen YD, Chines P, Clarke R, Coin LJ, Cooper MN, Cornelis M, Crawford G, Crisponi L, Day IN, de Geus EJ, Delplanque J, Dina C, Erdos MR, Fedson AC, Fischer-Rosinsky A, Forouhi NG, Fox CS, Frants R, Franzosi MG, Galan P, Goodarzi MO, Graessler J, Groves CJ, Grundy S, Gwilliam R, Gyllensten U, Hadjadj S, Hallmans G, Hammond N, Han X, Hartikainen AL, Hassanali N, Hayward C, Heath SC, Hercberg S, Herder C, Hicks AA, Hillman DR, Hingorani AD, Hofman A, Hui J, Hung J, Isomaa B, Johnson PR, Jørgensen T, Jula A, Kaakinen M, Kaprio J, Kesaniemi YA, Kivimaki M, Knight B, Koskinen S, Kovacs P, Kyvik KO, Lathrop GM, Lawlor DA, Le Bacquer O, Lecoeur C, Li Y, Lyssenko V, Mahley R, Mangino M, Manning AK, Martínez-Larrad MT, McAteer JB, McCulloch LJ, McPherson R, Meisinger C, Melzer D, Meyre D, Mitchell BD, Morken MA, Mukherjee S, Naitza S, Narisu N, Neville MJ, Oostra BA, Orrù M, Pakyz R, Palmer CN, Paolisso G, Pattaro C, Pearson D, Peden JF, Pedersen NL, Perola M, Pfeiffer AF, Pichler I, Polasek O, Posthuma D, Potter SC, Pouta A, Province MA, Psaty BM, Rathmann W, Rayner NW, Rice K, Ripatti S, Rivadeneira F, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Sandbaek A, Sandhu M, Sanna S, Sayer AA, Scheet P, Scott LJ, Seedorf U, Sharp SJ, Shields B, Sigurethsson G, Sijbrands EJ, Silveira A, Simpson L, Singleton A, Smith NL, Sovio U, Swift A, Syddall H, Syvänen AC, Tanaka T, Thorand B, Tichet J, Tönjes A, Tuomi T, Uitterlinden AG, van Dijk KW, van Hoek M, Varma D, Visvikis-Siest S, Vitart V, Vogelzangs N, Waeber G, Wagner PJ, Walley A, Walters GB, Ward KL, Watkins H, Weedon MN, Wild SH, Willemsen G, Witteman JC, Yarnell JW, Zeggini E, Zelenika D, Zethelius B, Zhai G, Zhao JH, Zillikens MC, Borecki IB, Loos RJ, Meneton P, Magnusson PK, Nathan DM, Williams GH, Hattersley AT, Silander K, Salomaa V, Smith GD, Bornstein SR, Schwarz P, Spranger J, Karpe F, Shuldiner AR, Cooper C, Dedoussis GV, Serrano-Ríos M, Morris AD, Lind L, Palmer LJ, Hu FB, Franks PW, Ebrahim S, Marmot M, Kao WH, Pankow JS, Sampson MJ, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Pramstaller PP, Wichmann HE, Illig T, Rudan I, Wright AF, Stumvoll M, Campbell H, Wilson JF, Bergman RN, Buchanan TA, Collins FS, Mohlke KL, Tuomilehto J, Valle TT, Altshuler D, Rotter JI, Siscovick DS, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI, Deloukas P, Spector TD, Frayling TM, Ferrucci L, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, van Duijn CM, Aulchenko YS, Cao A, Scuteri A, Schlessinger D, Uda M, Ruokonen A, Jarvelin MR, Waterworth DM, Vollenweider P, Peltonen L, Mooser V, Abecasis GR, Wareham NJ, Sladek R, Froguel P, Watanabe RM, Meigs JB, Groop L, Boehnke M, McCarthy MI, Florez JC, and Barroso I
Subjects: Adolescent, Adult, Alleles, Child, DNA Copy Number Variations genetics, Databases, Genetic, Delta-5 Fatty Acid Desaturase, Gene Expression Regulation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics, Quantitative Trait Loci genetics, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, Reproducibility of Results, Blood Glucose genetics, Blood Glucose metabolism, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Fasting blood, Genetic Loci genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Homeostasis genetics
Abstract: Levels of circulating glucose are tightly regulated. To identify new loci influencing glycemic traits, we performed meta-analyses of 21 genome-wide association studies informative for fasting glucose, fasting insulin and indices of beta-cell function (HOMA-B) and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in up to 46,186 nondiabetic participants. Follow-up of 25 loci in up to 76,558 additional subjects identified 16 loci associated with fasting glucose and HOMA-B and two loci associated with fasting insulin and HOMA-IR. These include nine loci newly associated with fasting glucose (in or near ADCY5, MADD, ADRA2A, CRY2, FADS1, GLIS3, SLC2A2, PROX1 and C2CD4B) and one influencing fasting insulin and HOMA-IR (near IGF1). We also demonstrated association of ADCY5, PROX1, GCK, GCKR and DGKB-TMEM195 with type 2 diabetes. Within these loci, likely biological candidate genes influence signal transduction, cell proliferation, development, glucose-sensing and circadian regulation. Our results demonstrate that genetic studies of glycemic traits can identify type 2 diabetes risk loci, as well as loci containing gene variants that are associated with a modest elevation in glucose levels but are not associated with overt diabetes.
Published: 2010
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23. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes.

Author: Zeggini E, Scott LJ, Saxena R, Voight BF, Marchini JL, Hu T, de Bakker PI, Abecasis GR, Almgren P, Andersen G, Ardlie K, Boström KB, Bergman RN, Bonnycastle LL, Borch-Johnsen K, Burtt NP, Chen H, Chines PS, Daly MJ, Deodhar P, Ding CJ, Doney AS, Duren WL, Elliott KS, Erdos MR, Frayling TM, Freathy RM, Gianniny L, Grallert H, Grarup N, Groves CJ, Guiducci C, Hansen T, Herder C, Hitman GA, Hughes TE, Isomaa B, Jackson AU, Jørgensen T, Kong A, Kubalanza K, Kuruvilla FG, Kuusisto J, Langenberg C, Lango H, Lauritzen T, Li Y, Lindgren CM, Lyssenko V, Marvelle AF, Meisinger C, Midthjell K, Mohlke KL, Morken MA, Morris AD, Narisu N, Nilsson P, Owen KR, Palmer CN, Payne F, Perry JR, Pettersen E, Platou C, Prokopenko I, Qi L, Qin L, Rayner NW, Rees M, Roix JJ, Sandbaek A, Shields B, Sjögren M, Steinthorsdottir V, Stringham HM, Swift AJ, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Timpson NJ, Tuomi T, Tuomilehto J, Walker M, Watanabe RM, Weedon MN, Willer CJ, Illig T, Hveem K, Hu FB, Laakso M, Stefansson K, Pedersen O, Wareham NJ, Barroso I, Hattersley AT, Collins FS, Groop L, McCarthy MI, Boehnke M, and Altshuler D
Subjects: Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human
Abstract: Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified multiple loci at which common variants modestly but reproducibly influence risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Established associations to common and rare variants explain only a small proportion of the heritability of T2D. As previously published analyses had limited power to identify variants with modest effects, we carried out meta-analysis of three T2D GWA scans comprising 10,128 individuals of European descent and approximately 2.2 million SNPs (directly genotyped and imputed), followed by replication testing in an independent sample with an effective sample size of up to 53,975. We detected at least six previously unknown loci with robust evidence for association, including the JAZF1 (P = 5.0 x 10(-14)), CDC123-CAMK1D (P = 1.2 x 10(-10)), TSPAN8-LGR5 (P = 1.1 x 10(-9)), THADA (P = 1.1 x 10(-9)), ADAMTS9 (P = 1.2 x 10(-8)) and NOTCH2 (P = 4.1 x 10(-8)) gene regions. Our results illustrate the value of large discovery and follow-up samples for gaining further insights into the inherited basis of T2D.
Published: 2008
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24. Replication of genome-wide association signals in UK samples reveals risk loci for type 2 diabetes.

Author: Zeggini E, Weedon MN, Lindgren CM, Frayling TM, Elliott KS, Lango H, Timpson NJ, Perry JR, Rayner NW, Freathy RM, Barrett JC, Shields B, Morris AP, Ellard S, Groves CJ, Harries LW, Marchini JL, Owen KR, Knight B, Cardon LR, Walker M, Hitman GA, Morris AD, Doney AS, McCarthy MI, and Hattersley AT
Subjects: Adult, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Chromosome Mapping, Female, Genes, p16, Homeodomain Proteins genetics, Humans, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins genetics, Introns, Male, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Middle Aged, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Transcription Factors genetics, United Kingdom, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: The molecular mechanisms involved in the development of type 2 diabetes are poorly understood. Starting from genome-wide genotype data for 1924 diabetic cases and 2938 population controls generated by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, we set out to detect replicated diabetes association signals through analysis of 3757 additional cases and 5346 controls and by integration of our findings with equivalent data from other international consortia. We detected diabetes susceptibility loci in and around the genes CDKAL1, CDKN2A/CDKN2B, and IGF2BP2 and confirmed the recently described associations at HHEX/IDE and SLC30A8. Our findings provide insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes, emphasizing the contribution of multiple variants of modest effect. The regions identified underscore the importance of pathways influencing pancreatic beta cell development and function in the etiology of type 2 diabetes.
Published: 2007
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25. A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity.

Author: Frayling TM, Timpson NJ, Weedon MN, Zeggini E, Freathy RM, Lindgren CM, Perry JR, Elliott KS, Lango H, Rayner NW, Shields B, Harries LW, Barrett JC, Ellard S, Groves CJ, Knight B, Patch AM, Ness AR, Ebrahim S, Lawlor DA, Ring SM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Jarvelin MR, Sovio U, Bennett AJ, Melzer D, Ferrucci L, Loos RJ, Barroso I, Wareham NJ, Karpe F, Owen KR, Cardon LR, Walker M, Hitman GA, Palmer CN, Doney AS, Morris AD, Smith GD, Hattersley AT, and McCarthy MI
Subjects: Adipose Tissue, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Alleles, Birth Weight, Case-Control Studies, Child, Cohort Studies, Female, Homozygote, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, Overweight genetics, United Kingdom, Body Mass Index, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Obesity genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract: Obesity is a serious international health problem that increases the risk of several common diseases. The genetic factors predisposing to obesity are poorly understood. A genome-wide search for type 2 diabetes-susceptibility genes identified a common variant in the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene that predisposes to diabetes through an effect on body mass index (BMI). An additive association of the variant with BMI was replicated in 13 cohorts with 38,759 participants. The 16% of adults who are homozygous for the risk allele weighed about 3 kilograms more and had 1.67-fold increased odds of obesity when compared with those not inheriting a risk allele. This association was observed from age 7 years upward and reflects a specific increase in fat mass.
Published: 2007
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26. GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal effect of schizophrenia liability

Author: Pasman, Joëlle A, Verweij, Karin JH, Gerring, Zachary, Stringer, Sven, Sanchez-Roige, Sandra, Treur, Jorien L, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Nivard, Michel G, Baselmans, Bart ML, Ong, Jue-Sheng, Ip, Hill F, van der Zee, Matthijs D, Bartels, Meike, Day, Felix R, Fontanillas, Pierre, Elson, Sarah L, the 23andMe Research Team, de Wit, Harriet, Davis, Lea K, MacKillop, James, The Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Derringer, Jaime L, Branje, Susan JT, Hartman, Catharina A, Heath, Andrew C, van Lier, Pol AC, Madden, Pamela AF, Mägi, Reedik, Meeus, Wim, Montgomery, Grant W, Oldehinkel, AJ, Pausova, Zdenka, Ramos-Quiroga, Josep A, Paus, Tomas, Ribases, Marta, Kaprio, Jaakko, Boks, Marco PM, Bell, Jordana T, Spector, Tim D, Gelernter, Joel, Boomsma, Dorret I, Martin, Nicholas G, MacGregor, Stuart, Perry, John RB, Palmer, Abraham A, Posthuma, Danielle, Munafò, Marcus R, Gillespie, Nathan A, Derks, Eske M, and Vink, Jacqueline M
Subjects: Biological Psychology, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Psychology, Prevention, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Clinical Research, Behavioral and Social Science, Genetics, Mental Illness, Brain Disorders, Serious Mental Illness, Human Genome, Drug Abuse (NIDA only), Women's Health, Cannabinoid Research, Substance Misuse, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Mental health, Good Health and Well Being, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Databases, Genetic, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Marijuana Abuse, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk-Taking, Young Adult, 23andMe Research Team, Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Biological psychology
Abstract: Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to date (N = 184,765), we identified eight genome-wide significant independent single nucleotide polymorphisms in six regions. All measured genetic variants combined explained 11% of the variance. Gene-based tests revealed 35 significant genes in 16 regions, and S-PrediXcan analyses showed that 21 genes had different expression levels for cannabis users versus nonusers. The strongest finding across the different analyses was CADM2, which has been associated with substance use and risk-taking. Significant genetic correlations were found with 14 of 25 tested substance use and mental health-related traits, including smoking, alcohol use, schizophrenia and risk-taking. Mendelian randomization analysis showed evidence for a causal positive influence of schizophrenia risk on cannabis use. Overall, our study provides new insights into the etiology of cannabis use and its relation with mental health.
Published: 2018

27. GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia.

Author: Pasman, Joëlle A, Verweij, Karin JH, Gerring, Zachary, Stringer, Sven, Sanchez-Roige, Sandra, Treur, Jorien L, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Nivard, Michel G, Baselmans, Bart ML, Ong, Jue-Sheng, Ip, Hill F, van der Zee, Matthijs D, Bartels, Meike, Day, Felix R, Fontanillas, Pierre, Elson, Sarah L, 23andMe Research Team, de Wit, Harriet, Davis, Lea K, MacKillop, James, Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Derringer, Jaime L, Branje, Susan JT, Hartman, Catharina A, Heath, Andrew C, van Lier, Pol AC, Madden, Pamela AF, Mägi, Reedik, Meeus, Wim, Montgomery, Grant W, Oldehinkel, AJ, Pausova, Zdenka, Ramos-Quiroga, Josep A, Paus, Tomas, Ribases, Marta, Kaprio, Jaakko, Boks, Marco PM, Bell, Jordana T, Spector, Tim D, Gelernter, Joel, Boomsma, Dorret I, Martin, Nicholas G, MacGregor, Stuart, Perry, John RB, Palmer, Abraham A, Posthuma, Danielle, Munafò, Marcus R, Gillespie, Nathan A, Derks, Eske M, and Vink, Jacqueline M
Subjects: 23andMe Research Team, Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, International Cannabis Consortium, Humans, Marijuana Abuse, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Risk-Taking, Mental Health, Schizophrenia, Gene Expression Regulation, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Databases, Genetic, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Middle Aged, Female, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, Young Adult, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Databases, Genetic, and over, Prevention, Human Genome, Brain Disorders, Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse, Genetics, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cardiovascular, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Psychology
Abstract: Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to date (N = 184,765), we identified eight genome-wide significant independent single nucleotide polymorphisms in six regions. All measured genetic variants combined explained 11% of the variance. Gene-based tests revealed 35 significant genes in 16 regions, and S-PrediXcan analyses showed that 21 genes had different expression levels for cannabis users versus nonusers. The strongest finding across the different analyses was CADM2, which has been associated with substance use and risk-taking. Significant genetic correlations were found with 14 of 25 tested substance use and mental health-related traits, including smoking, alcohol use, schizophrenia and risk-taking. Mendelian randomization analysis showed evidence for a causal positive influence of schizophrenia risk on cannabis use. Overall, our study provides new insights into the etiology of cannabis use and its relation with mental health.
Published: 2018

28. A Low-Frequency Inactivating Akt2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk.

Author: Manning, Alisa, Highland, Heather M, Gasser, Jessica, Sim, Xueling, Tukiainen, Taru, Fontanillas, Pierre, Grarup, Niels, Rivas, Manuel A, Mahajan, Anubha, Locke, Adam E, Cingolani, Pablo, Pers, Tune H, Viñuela, Ana, Brown, Andrew A, Wu, Ying, Flannick, Jason, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gamazon, Eric R, Gaulton, Kyle J, Im, Hae Kyung, Teslovich, Tanya M, Blackwell, Thomas W, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Burtt, Noël P, Chen, Yuhui, Green, Todd, Hartl, Christopher, Kang, Hyun Min, Kumar, Ashish, Ladenvall, Claes, Ma, Clement, Moutsianas, Loukas, Pearson, Richard D, Perry, John RB, Rayner, N William, Robertson, Neil R, Scott, Laura J, van de Bunt, Martijn, Eriksson, Johan G, Jula, Antti, Koskinen, Seppo, Lehtimäki, Terho, Palotie, Aarno, Raitakari, Olli T, Jacobs, Suzanne BR, Wessel, Jennifer, Chu, Audrey Y, Scott, Robert A, Goodarzi, Mark O, Blancher, Christine, Buck, Gemma, Buck, David, Chines, Peter S, Gabriel, Stacey, Gjesing, Anette P, Groves, Christopher J, Hollensted, Mette, Huyghe, Jeroen R, Jackson, Anne U, Jun, Goo, Justesen, Johanne Marie, Mangino, Massimo, Murphy, Jacquelyn, Neville, Matt, Onofrio, Robert, Small, Kerrin S, Stringham, Heather M, Trakalo, Joseph, Banks, Eric, Carey, Jason, Carneiro, Mauricio O, DePristo, Mark, Farjoun, Yossi, Fennell, Timothy, Goldstein, Jacqueline I, Grant, George, Hrabé de Angelis, Martin, Maguire, Jared, Neale, Benjamin M, Poplin, Ryan, Purcell, Shaun, Schwarzmayr, Thomas, Shakir, Khalid, Smith, Joshua D, Strom, Tim M, Wieland, Thomas, Lindstrom, Jaana, Brandslund, Ivan, Christensen, Cramer, Surdulescu, Gabriela L, Lakka, Timo A, Doney, Alex SF, Nilsson, Peter, Wareham, Nicholas J, Langenberg, Claudia, Varga, Tibor V, Franks, Paul W, Rolandsson, Olov, Rosengren, Anders H, and Farook, Vidya S
Subjects: Genetics, Diabetes, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Black or African American, Alleles, Asian People, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Fasting, Finland, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Odds Ratio, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, White People, Medical and Health Sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Abstract: To identify novel coding association signals and facilitate characterization of mechanisms influencing glycemic traits and type 2 diabetes risk, we analyzed 109,215 variants derived from exome array genotyping together with an additional 390,225 variants from exome sequence in up to 39,339 normoglycemic individuals from five ancestry groups. We identified a novel association between the coding variant (p.Pro50Thr) in AKT2 and fasting plasma insulin (FI), a gene in which rare fully penetrant mutations are causal for monogenic glycemic disorders. The low-frequency allele is associated with a 12% increase in FI levels. This variant is present at 1.1% frequency in Finns but virtually absent in individuals from other ancestries. Carriers of the FI-increasing allele had increased 2-h insulin values, decreased insulin sensitivity, and increased risk of type 2 diabetes (odds ratio 1.05). In cellular studies, the AKT2-Thr50 protein exhibited a partial loss of function. We extend the allelic spectrum for coding variants in AKT2 associated with disorders of glucose homeostasis and demonstrate bidirectional effects of variants within the pleckstrin homology domain of AKT2.
Published: 2017

29. Associations between Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors and Alzheimer Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Author: Østergaard, Søren D, Mukherjee, Shubhabrata, Sharp, Stephen J, Proitsi, Petroula, Lotta, Luca A, Day, Felix, Perry, John RB, Boehme, Kevin L, Walter, Stefan, Kauwe, John S, Gibbons, Laura E, Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, GERAD1 Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Larson, Eric B, Powell, John F, Langenberg, Claudia, Crane, Paul K, Wareham, Nicholas J, and Scott, Robert A
Subjects: Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, GERAD1 Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Humans, Alzheimer Disease, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk Factors, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Male, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Obesity, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Dementia, Tobacco Smoke and Health, Brain Disorders, Human Genome, Aging, Clinical Research, Genetics, Tobacco, Prevention, Neurodegenerative, Alzheimer's Disease, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, General & Internal Medicine, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract: BackgroundPotentially modifiable risk factors including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and smoking are associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) and represent promising targets for intervention. However, the causality of these associations is unclear. We sought to assess the causal nature of these associations using Mendelian randomization (MR).Methods and findingsWe used SNPs associated with each risk factor as instrumental variables in MR analyses. We considered type 2 diabetes (T2D, NSNPs = 49), fasting glucose (NSNPs = 36), insulin resistance (NSNPs = 10), body mass index (BMI, NSNPs = 32), total cholesterol (NSNPs = 73), HDL-cholesterol (NSNPs = 71), LDL-cholesterol (NSNPs = 57), triglycerides (NSNPs = 39), systolic blood pressure (SBP, NSNPs = 24), smoking initiation (NSNPs = 1), smoking quantity (NSNPs = 3), university completion (NSNPs = 2), and years of education (NSNPs = 1). We calculated MR estimates of associations between each exposure and AD risk using an inverse-variance weighted approach, with summary statistics of SNP-AD associations from the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project, comprising a total of 17,008 individuals with AD and 37,154 cognitively normal elderly controls. We found that genetically predicted higher SBP was associated with lower AD risk (odds ratio [OR] per standard deviation [15.4 mm Hg] of SBP [95% CI]: 0.75 [0.62-0.91]; p = 3.4 × 10(-3)). Genetically predicted higher SBP was also associated with a higher probability of taking antihypertensive medication (p = 6.7 × 10(-8)). Genetically predicted smoking quantity was associated with lower AD risk (OR per ten cigarettes per day [95% CI]: 0.67 [0.51-0.89]; p = 6.5 × 10(-3)), although we were unable to stratify by smoking history; genetically predicted smoking initiation was not associated with AD risk (OR = 0.70 [0.37, 1.33]; p = 0.28). We saw no evidence of causal associations between glycemic traits, T2D, BMI, or educational attainment and risk of AD (all p > 0.1). Potential limitations of this study include the small proportion of intermediate trait variance explained by genetic variants and other implicit limitations of MR analyses.ConclusionsInherited lifetime exposure to higher SBP is associated with lower AD risk. These findings suggest that higher blood pressure--or some environmental exposure associated with higher blood pressure, such as use of antihypertensive medications--may reduce AD risk.
Published: 2015

30. Rare variants in PPARG with decreased activity in adipocyte differentiation are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Author: Majithia, Amit R, Flannick, Jason, Shahinian, Peter, Guo, Michael, Bray, Mark-Anthony, Fontanillas, Pierre, Gabriel, Stacey B, Rosen, Evan D, Altshuler, David, Manning, Alisa K, Hartl, Christopher, Agarwala, Vineeta, Green, Todd, Banks, Eric, DePristo, Mark, Poplin, Ryan, Shakir, Khalid, Fennell, Timothy, Njølstad, Pål R, Burtt, Noël, Gabriel, Stacey, Fuchsberger, Christian, Kang, Hun Min, Sim, Xueling, Ma, Clement, Locke, Adam, Blackwell, Thomas, Jackson, Anne, Teslovich, Tanya M, Stringham, Heather, Chines, Peter, Kwan, Phoenix, Huyghe, Jeroen, Tan, Adrian, Jun, Goo, Stitzel, Michael, Bergman, Richard N, Bonnycastle, Lori, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Collins, Francis S, Scott, Laura, Mohlke, Karen, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Boehnke, Michael, Strom, Tim, Gieger, Christian, Nurasyid, Martina Müller, Grallert, Harald, Kriebel, Jennifer, Ried, Janina, de Angelis, Martin Hrabé, Huth, Cornelia, Meisinger, Christa, Peters, Annette, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Strauch, Konstantin, Meitinger, Thomas, Kravic, Jasmina, Algren, Peter, Ladenvall, Claes, Toumi, Tiinamaija, Isomaa, Bo, Groop, Leif, Gaulton, Kyle, Moutsianas, Loukas, Rivas, Manny, Pearson, Richard, Mahajan, Anubha, Prokopenko, Inga, Kumar, Ashish, Perry, John, Howie, Bryan, van de Bunt, Martijn, Small, Kerrin, Lindgren, Cecilia, Lunter, Gerton, Robertson, Neil, Rayner, William, Morris, Andrew, Buck, David, Hattersley, Andrew, Spector, Tim, McVean, Gil, Frayling, Tim, Donnelly, Peter, McCarthy, Mark, Gupta, Namrata, Taylor, Herman, Fox, Ervin, Cheh, Christopher Newton, Wilson, James G, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Kathiresan, Sekar, Hirschhorn, Joel, Seidman, JG, and Seidman, Christine
Subjects: Genetics, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Diabetes, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Adipocytes, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, Cell Differentiation, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Ethnicity, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, PPAR gamma, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Sequence Analysis, DNA, GoT2D Consortium, NHGRI JHS/FHS Allelic Spectrum Project, SIGMA T2D Consortium, T2D-GENES Consortium
Abstract: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARG) is a master transcriptional regulator of adipocyte differentiation and a canonical target of antidiabetic thiazolidinedione medications. In rare families, loss-of-function (LOF) mutations in PPARG are known to cosegregate with lipodystrophy and insulin resistance; in the general population, the common P12A variant is associated with a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D). Whether and how rare variants in PPARG and defects in adipocyte differentiation influence risk of T2D in the general population remains undetermined. By sequencing PPARG in 19,752 T2D cases and controls drawn from multiple studies and ethnic groups, we identified 49 previously unidentified, nonsynonymous PPARG variants (MAF < 0.5%). Considered in aggregate (with or without computational prediction of functional consequence), these rare variants showed no association with T2D (OR = 1.35; P = 0.17). The function of the 49 variants was experimentally tested in a novel high-throughput human adipocyte differentiation assay, and nine were found to have reduced activity in the assay. Carrying any of these nine LOF variants was associated with a substantial increase in risk of T2D (OR = 7.22; P = 0.005). The combination of large-scale DNA sequencing and functional testing in the laboratory reveals that approximately 1 in 1,000 individuals carries a variant in PPARG that reduces function in a human adipocyte differentiation assay and is associated with a substantial risk of T2D.
Published: 2014

31. Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals.

Author: Dastani, Zari, Hivert, Marie-France, Timpson, Nicholas, Perry, John RB, Yuan, Xin, Scott, Robert A, Henneman, Peter, Heid, Iris M, Kizer, Jorge R, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Fuchsberger, Christian, Tanaka, Toshiko, Morris, Andrew P, Small, Kerrin, Isaacs, Aaron, Beekman, Marian, Coassin, Stefan, Lohman, Kurt, Qi, Lu, Kanoni, Stavroula, Pankow, James S, Uh, Hae-Won, Wu, Ying, Bidulescu, Aurelian, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Greenwood, Celia MT, Ladouceur, Martin, Grimsby, Jonna, Manning, Alisa K, Liu, Ching-Ti, Kooner, Jaspal, Mooser, Vincent E, Vollenweider, Peter, Kapur, Karen A, Chambers, John, Wareham, Nicholas J, Langenberg, Claudia, Frants, Rune, Willems-Vandijk, Ko, Oostra, Ben A, Willems, Sara M, Lamina, Claudia, Winkler, Thomas W, Psaty, Bruce M, Tracy, Russell P, Brody, Jennifer, Chen, Ida, Viikari, Jorma, Kähönen, Mika, Pramstaller, Peter P, Evans, David M, St Pourcain, Beate, Sattar, Naveed, Wood, Andrew R, Bandinelli, Stefania, Carlson, Olga D, Egan, Josephine M, Böhringer, Stefan, van Heemst, Diana, Kedenko, Lyudmyla, Kristiansson, Kati, Nuotio, Marja-Liisa, Loo, Britt-Marie, Harris, Tamara, Garcia, Melissa, Kanaya, Alka, Haun, Margot, Klopp, Norman, Wichmann, H-Erich, Deloukas, Panos, Katsareli, Efi, Couper, David J, Duncan, Bruce B, Kloppenburg, Margreet, Adair, Linda S, Borja, Judith B, DIAGRAM+ Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, Wilson, James G, Musani, Solomon, Guo, Xiuqing, Johnson, Toby, Semple, Robert, Teslovich, Tanya M, Allison, Matthew A, Redline, Susan, Buxbaum, Sarah G, Mohlke, Karen L, Meulenbelt, Ingrid, Ballantyne, Christie M, Dedoussis, George V, Hu, Frank B, Liu, Yongmei, Paulweber, Bernhard, Spector, Timothy D, Slagboom, P Eline, Ferrucci, Luigi, and Jula, Antti
Subjects: DIAGRAM+ Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GIANT Consortium, Global B Pgen Consortium, Procardis Consortium, MAGIC investigators, GLGC Consortium, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Insulin Resistance, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Glucose Tolerance Test, Waist-Hip Ratio, Gene Expression, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Americans, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Adiponectin, Cholesterol, HDL, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Genome-Wide Association Study, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Cholesterol, HDL, Genetics, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Circulating levels of adiponectin, a hormone produced predominantly by adipocytes, are highly heritable and are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and other metabolic traits. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 39,883 individuals of European ancestry to identify genes associated with metabolic disease. We identified 8 novel loci associated with adiponectin levels and confirmed 2 previously reported loci (P = 4.5×10(-8)-1.2×10(-43)). Using a novel method to combine data across ethnicities (N = 4,232 African Americans, N = 1,776 Asians, and N = 29,347 Europeans), we identified two additional novel loci. Expression analyses of 436 human adipocyte samples revealed that mRNA levels of 18 genes at candidate regions were associated with adiponectin concentrations after accounting for multiple testing (p
Published: 2012

32. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

Author: Speliotes, Elizabeth K, Willer, Cristen J, Berndt, Sonja I, Monda, Keri L, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Jackson, Anne U, Allen, Hana Lango, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Luan, Jian'an, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua C, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W, Qi, Lu, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Heid, Iris M, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stringham, Heather M, Weedon, Michael N, Wheeler, Eleanor, Wood, Andrew R, Ferreira, Teresa, Weyant, Robert J, Segrè, Ayellet V, Estrada, Karol, Liang, Liming, Nemesh, James, Park, Ju-Hyun, Gustafsson, Stefan, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Yang, Jian, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Esko, Tõnu, Feitosa, Mary F, Kutalik, Zoltán, Mangino, Massimo, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, Scherag, Andre, Smith, Albert Vernon, Welch, Ryan, Zhao, Jing Hua, Aben, Katja K, Absher, Devin M, Amin, Najaf, Dixon, Anna L, Fisher, Eva, Glazer, Nicole L, Goddard, Michael E, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Hoesel, Volker, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Johansson, Åsa, Johnson, Toby, Ketkar, Shamika, Lamina, Claudia, Li, Shengxu, Moffatt, Miriam F, Myers, Richard H, Narisu, Narisu, Perry, John RB, Peters, Marjolein J, Preuss, Michael, Ripatti, Samuli, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Sandholt, Camilla, Scott, Laura J, Timpson, Nicholas J, Tyrer, Jonathan P, van Wingerden, Sophie, Watanabe, Richard M, White, Charles C, Wiklund, Fredrik, Barlassina, Christina, Chasman, Daniel I, Cooper, Matthew N, Jansson, John-Olov, Lawrence, Robert W, Pellikka, Niina, Prokopenko, Inga, Shi, Jianxin, Thiering, Elisabeth, Alavere, Helene, Alibrandi, Maria TS, Almgren, Peter, Arnold, Alice M, Aspelund, Thor, Atwood, Larry D, Balkau, Beverley, Balmforth, Anthony J, Bennett, Amanda J, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Biebermann, Heike, Blakemore, Alexandra IF, Boes, Tanja, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bornstein, Stefan R, Brown, Morris J, and Buchanan, Thomas A
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Prevention, Human Genome, Body Height, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Body Weight, Chromosome Mapping, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, MAGIC, Procardis Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract: Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations between body mass index and ∼ 2.8 million SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted follow up of 42 SNPs in up to 125,931 additional individuals. We confirmed 14 known obesity susceptibility loci and identified 18 new loci associated with body mass index (P < 5 × 10⁻⁸), one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B. Some loci (at MC4R, POMC, SH2B1 and BDNF) map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor. Furthermore, genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Published: 2010

33. Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Author: Lango Allen, Hana, Estrada, Karol, Lettre, Guillaume, Berndt, Sonja I, Weedon, Michael N, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Willer, Cristen J, Jackson, Anne U, Vedantam, Sailaja, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, Ferreira, Teresa, Wood, Andrew R, Weyant, Robert J, Segrè, Ayellet V, Speliotes, Elizabeth K, Wheeler, Eleanor, Soranzo, Nicole, Park, Ju-Hyun, Yang, Jian, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Randall, Joshua C, Qi, Lu, Vernon Smith, Albert, Mägi, Reedik, Pastinen, Tomi, Liang, Liming, Heid, Iris M, Luan, Jian’an, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Winkler, Thomas W, Goddard, Michael E, Sin Lo, Ken, Palmer, Cameron, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Aulchenko, Yurii S, Johansson, Åsa, Carola Zillikens, M, Feitosa, Mary F, Esko, Tõnu, Johnson, Toby, Ketkar, Shamika, Kraft, Peter, Mangino, Massimo, Prokopenko, Inga, Absher, Devin, Albrecht, Eva, Ernst, Florian, Glazer, Nicole L, Hayward, Caroline, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Jacobs, Kevin B, Knowles, Joshua W, Kutalik, Zoltán, Monda, Keri L, Polasek, Ozren, Preuss, Michael, Rayner, Nigel W, Robertson, Neil R, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Voight, Benjamin F, Wiklund, Fredrik, Xu, Jianfeng, Hua Zhao, Jing, Nyholt, Dale R, Pellikka, Niina, Perola, Markus, Perry, John RB, Surakka, Ida, Tammesoo, Mari-Liis, Altmaier, Elizabeth L, Amin, Najaf, Aspelund, Thor, Bhangale, Tushar, Boucher, Gabrielle, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Constance, Coin, Lachlan, Cooper, Matthew N, Dixon, Anna L, Gibson, Quince, Grundberg, Elin, Hao, Ke, Juhani Junttila, M, Kaplan, Lee M, Kettunen, Johannes, König, Inke R, Kwan, Tony, Lawrence, Robert W, Levinson, Douglas F, Lorentzon, Mattias, McKnight, Barbara, Morris, Andrew P, Müller, Martina, Suh Ngwa, Julius, Purcell, Shaun, Rafelt, Suzanne, Salem, Rany M, and Salvi, Erika
Subjects: Biological Sciences, Genetics, Health Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Statistics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Body Height, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Multifactorial Inheritance, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, General Science & Technology
Abstract: Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits, but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait. The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P
Published: 2010

34. GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI

Author: Couto Alves, Alexessander, De Silva, N Maneka G, Karhunen, Ville, Sovio, Ulla, Das, Shikta, Taal, H Rob, Warrington, Nicole M, Lewin, Alexandra M, Kaakinen, Marika, Cousminer, Diana L, Thiering, Elisabeth, Timpson, Nicholas J, Bond, Tom A, Lowry, Estelle, Brown, Christopher D, Estivill, Xavier, Lindi, Virpi, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Geller, Frank, Speed, Doug, Coin, Lachlan J M, Loh, Marie, Barton, Sheila J, Beilin, Lawrence J, Bisgaard, Hans, Bønnelykke, Klaus, Alili, Rohia, Hatoum, Ida J, Schramm, Katharina, Cartwright, Rufus, Charles, Marie-Aline, Salerno, Vincenzo, Clément, Karine, Claringbould, Annique A J, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Moltchanova, Elena, Eriksson, Johan G, Elks, Cathy, Feenstra, Bjarke, Flexeder, Claudia, Franks, Stephen, Frayling, Timothy M, Freathy, Rachel M, Elliott, Paul, Widén, Elisabeth, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hattersley, Andrew T, Rodriguez, Alina, Banterle, Marco, Heinrich, Joachim, Heude, Barbara, Holloway, John W, Hofman, Albert, Hyppönen, Elina, Inskip, Hazel, Kaplan, Lee M, Hedman, Asa K, Läärä, Esa, Prokisch, Holger, Grallert, Harald, Lakka, Timo A, Lawlor, Debbie A, Melbye, Mads, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Marinelli, Marcella, Millwood, Iona Y, Palmer, Lyle J, Pennell, Craig E, Perry, John R, Ring, Susan M, Savolainen, Markku J, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Standl, Marie, Sunyer, Jordi, Tiesler, Carla M T, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Schierding, William, O'Sullivan, Justin M, Prokopenko, Inga, Herzig, Karl-Heinz, Smith, George Davey, O'Reilly, Paul, Felix, Janine F, Buxton, Jessica L, Blakemore, Alexandra I F, Ong, Ken K, Jaddoe, Vincent W V, Grant, Struan F A, Sebert, Sylvain, McCarthy, Mark I, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Erasmus MC other, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Medical Research Council (MRC), Sovio, Ulla [0000-0002-0799-1105], Perry, John [0000-0001-6483-3771], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Warrington, Nicole M [0000-0003-4195-775X], Lewin, Alexandra M [0000-0003-0081-7582], Kaakinen, Marika [0000-0002-9228-0462], Cousminer, Diana L [0000-0001-8864-7893], Timpson, Nicholas J [0000-0002-7141-9189], Lowry, Estelle [0000-0002-4655-416X], Brown, Christopher D [0000-0002-3785-5008], Estivill, Xavier [0000-0002-0723-2256], Geller, Frank [0000-0002-9238-3269], Speed, Doug [0000-0002-0096-9765], Coin, Lachlan J M [0000-0002-4300-455X], Loh, Marie [0000-0003-3626-8466], Barton, Sheila J [0000-0003-4963-4242], Alili, Rohia [0000-0002-0158-4250], Schramm, Katharina [0000-0002-8809-3170], Charles, Marie-Aline [0000-0003-4025-4390], Claringbould, Annique A J [0000-0002-9201-6557], van Duijn, Cornelia M [0000-0002-2374-9204], Feenstra, Bjarke [0000-0003-1478-649X], Frayling, Timothy M [0000-0001-8362-2603], Freathy, Rachel M [0000-0003-4152-2238], Widén, Elisabeth [0000-0001-7108-2806], Hakonarson, Hakon [0000-0003-2814-7461], Rodriguez, Alina [0000-0003-1209-8802], Heude, Barbara [0000-0002-1565-1629], Holloway, John W [0000-0001-9998-0464], Hofman, Albert [0000-0002-9865-121X], Hyppönen, Elina [0000-0003-3670-9399], Inskip, Hazel [0000-0001-8897-1749], Kaplan, Lee M [0000-0002-6301-2696], Prokisch, Holger [0000-0003-2379-6286], Lakka, Timo A [0000-0002-9199-2871], Lawlor, Debbie A [0000-0002-6793-2262], Melbye, Mads [0000-0001-8264-6785], Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S [0000-0002-7464-3354], Marinelli, Marcella [0000-0002-5450-3960], Palmer, Lyle J [0000-0002-1628-3055], Pennell, Craig E [0000-0002-0937-6165], Perry, John R [0000-0001-6483-3771], Ring, Susan M [0000-0003-3103-9330], Savolainen, Markku J [0000-0002-2557-6423], Rivadeneira, Fernando [0000-0001-9435-9441], Sunyer, Jordi [0000-0002-2602-4110], Schierding, William [0000-0001-5659-2701], O'Sullivan, Justin M [0000-0003-2927-450X], Prokopenko, Inga [0000-0003-1624-7457], Smith, George Davey [0000-0002-1407-8314], Felix, Janine F [0000-0002-9801-5774], Ong, Ken K [0000-0003-4689-7530], Jaddoe, Vincent W V [0000-0003-2939-0041], Sebert, Sylvain [0000-0001-6681-6983], McCarthy, Mark I [0000-0002-4393-0510], and Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta [0000-0002-2149-0630]
Subjects: Adult, Male, Pharmacogenomic Variants, Quantitative Trait Loci, BLOOD-PRESSURE, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Body Mass Index, EARLY-LIFE, 03 medical and health sciences, AGE, Quantitative Trait, Heritable, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Longitudinal Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, METABOLIC RISK, Growth Charts, FTO GENE, Child, Research Articles, Genetic Association Studies, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, 2. Zero hunger, Science & Technology, BIRTH COHORT, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, nutritional and metabolic diseases, SciAdv r-articles, Infant, Human Genetics, Genomics, 3. Good health, Multidisciplinary Sciences, BODY-MASS INDEX, OBESITY, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Receptors, Leptin, ADIPOSITY, Female, biological, Research Article, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Longitudinal data find a new variant controlling BMI in infancy and reveal genetic differences between infant and adult BMI., Early childhood growth patterns are associated with adult health, yet the genetic factors and the developmental stages involved are not fully understood. Here, we combine genome-wide association studies with modeling of longitudinal growth traits to study the genetics of infant and child growth, followed by functional, pathway, genetic correlation, risk score, and colocalization analyses to determine how developmental timings, molecular pathways, and genetic determinants of these traits overlap with those of adult health. We found a robust overlap between the genetics of child and adult body mass index (BMI), with variants associated with adult BMI acting as early as 4 to 6 years old. However, we demonstrated a completely distinct genetic makeup for peak BMI during infancy, influenced by variation at the LEPR/LEPROT locus. These findings suggest that different genetic factors control infant and child BMI. In light of the obesity epidemic, these findings are important to inform the timing and targets of prevention strategies.
Published: 2019

35. Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood

Author: Thompson, Deborah J, Genovese, Giulio, Halvardson, Jonatan, Ulirsch, Jacob C, Wright, Daniel J, Terao, Chikashi, Davidsson, Olafur B, Day, Felix R, Sulem, Patrick, Jiang, Yunxuan, Danielsson, Marcus, Davies, Hanna, Dennis, Joe, Dunlop, Malcolm G, Easton, Douglas F, Fisher, Victoria A, Zink, Florian, Houlston, Richard S, Ingelsson, Martin, Kar, Siddhartha, Kerrison, Nicola D, Kinnersley, Ben, Kristjansson, Ragnar P, Law, Philip J, Li, Rong, Loveday, Chey, Mattisson, Jonas, McCarroll, Steven A, Murakami, Yoshinori, Murray, Anna, Olszewski, Pawel, Rychlicka-Buniowska, Edyta, Scott, Robert A, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Tomlinson, Ian, Moghadam, Behrooz Torabi, Turnbull, Clare, Wareham, Nicholas J, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, International Lung Cancer Consortium (INTEGRAL-ILCCO), Breast Cancer Association Consortium, Consortium Of Investigators Of Modifiers Of BRCA1/2, Endometrial Cancer Association Consortium, Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium, Prostate Cancer Association Group To Investigate Cancer Associated Alterations In The Genome (PRACTICAL) Consortium, Kidney Cancer GWAS Meta-Analysis Project, EQTLGen Consortium, Biobank-Based Integrative Omics Study (BIOS) Consortium, 23andMe Research Team, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Hoffmann, Eva R, Jackson, Steve P, Stefansson, Kari, Auton, Adam, Ong, Ken K, Machiela, Mitchell J, Loh, Po-Ru, Dumanski, Jan P, Chanock, Stephen J, Forsberg, Lars A, Perry, John RB, Thompson, Deborah [0000-0003-1465-5799], Wright, Daniel [0000-0003-3983-2093], Day, Felix [0000-0003-3789-7651], Dennis, Joe [0000-0003-4591-1214], Easton, Douglas [0000-0003-2444-3247], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Jackson, Stephen [0000-0001-9317-7937], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Perry, John [0000-0001-6483-3771], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Adult, Genetic Markers, Male, 0303 health sciences, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Mosaicism, Computational Biology, Middle Aged, Genomic Instability, United Kingdom, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Neoplasms, Databases, Genetic, Leukocytes, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Chromosome Deletion, 030304 developmental biology, Aged
Abstract: Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in circulating white blood cells is the most common form of clonal mosaicism1-5, yet our knowledge of the causes and consequences of this is limited. Here, using a computational approach, we estimate that 20% of the male population represented in the UK Biobank study (n = 205,011) has detectable LOY. We identify 156 autosomal genetic determinants of LOY, which we replicate in 757,114 men of European and Japanese ancestry. These loci highlight genes that are involved in cell-cycle regulation and cancer susceptibility, as well as somatic drivers of tumour growth and targets of cancer therapy. We demonstrate that genetic susceptibility to LOY is associated with non-haematological effects on health in both men and women, which supports the hypothesis that clonal haematopoiesis is a biomarker of genomic instability in other tissues. Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies dysregulated expression of autosomal genes in leukocytes with LOY and provides insights into why clonal expansion of these cells may occur. Collectively, these data highlight the value of studying clonal mosaicism to uncover fundamental mechanisms that underlie cancer and other ageing-related diseases.
Published: 2019
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36. The Early Growth Genetics (EGG) and EArly Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) consortia : design, results and future prospects

Author: Middeldorp, Christel M., Mahajan, Anubha, Horikoshi, Momoko, Robertson, Neil R., Beaumont, Robin N., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Bustamante, Mariona, Cousminer, Diana L., Day, Felix R., De Silva, N. Maneka, Guxens, Monica, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., St Pourcain, Beate, Warrington, Nicole M., Adair, Linda S., Ahlqvist, Emma, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S., Almgren, Peter, Ang, Wei, Atalay, Mustafa, Auvinen, Juha, Bartels, Meike, Beckmann, Jacques S., Bilbao, Jose Ramon, Bond, Tom, Borja, Judith B., Cavadino, Alana, Charoen, Pimphen, Chen, Zhanghua, Coin, Lachlan, Cooper, Cyrus, Curtin, John A., Custovic, Adnan, Das, Shikta, Davies, Gareth E., Dedoussis, George V., Duijts, Liesbeth, Eastwood, Peter R., Eliasen, Anders U., Elliott, Paul, Eriksson, Johan G., Estivill, Xavier, Fadista, Joao, Fedko, Iryna O., Frayling, Timothy M., Gaillard, Romy, Gauderman, W. James, Geller, Frank, Gilliland, Frank, Gilsanz, Vincente, Granell, Raquel, Grarup, Niels, Groop, Leif, Hadley, Dexter, Hakonarson, Hakon, Hansen, Torben, Hartman, Catharina A., Hattersley, Andrew T., Hayes, M. Geoffrey, Hebebrand, Johannes, Heinrich, Joachim, Helgeland, Oyvind, Henders, Anjali K., Henderson, John, Henriksen, Tine B., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Hivert, Marie-France, Hocher, Berthold, Holloway, John W., Holt, Patrick, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Hypponen, Elina, Iniguez, Carmen, Johansson, Stefan, Jugessur, Astanand, Kahonen, Mika, Kalkwarf, Heidi J., Kaprio, Jaakko, Karhunen, Ville, Kemp, John P., Kerkhof, Marjan, Koppelman, Gerard H., Korner, Antje, Kotecha, Sailesh, Kreiner-Moller, Eskil, Kulohoma, Benard, Kumar, Ashish, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lahti, Jari, Lappe, Joan M., Larsson, Henrik, Lehtimaki, Terho, Lewin, Alexandra M., Li, Jin, Lichtenstein, Paul, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Lindi, Virpi, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Xueping, Liu, Jun, Lowe, William L., Jr., Lundstrom, Sebastian, Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Ma, Ronald C. W., Mace, Aurelien, Magi, Reedik, Magnus, Per, Mamun, Abdullah A., Mannikko, Minna, Martin, Nicholas G., Mbarek, Hamdi, McCarthy, Nina S., Medland, Sarah E., Melbye, Mads, Melen, Erik, Mohlke, Karen L., Monnereau, Claire, Morgen, Camilla S., Morris, Andrew P., Murray, Jeffrey C., Myhre, Ronny, Najman, Jackob M., Nivard, Michel G., Nohr, Ellen A., Nolte, Ilja M., Ntalla, Ioanna, O'Reilly, Paul, Oberfield, Sharon E., Oken, Emily, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Pahkala, Katja, Palviainen, Teemu, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pedersen, Oluf, Pennell, Craig E., Pershagen, Goran, Pitkanen, Niina, Plomin, Robert, Power, Christine, Prasad, Rashmi B., Prokopenko, Inga, Pulkkinen, Lea, Raikkonen, Katri, Raitakari, Olli T., Reynolds, Rebecca M., Richmond, Rebecca C., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rodriguez, Alina, Rose, Richard J., Salem, Rany, Santa-Marina, Loreto, Saw, Seang-Mei, Schnurr, Theresia M., Scott, James G., Selzam, Saskia, Shepherd, John A., Simpson, Angela, Skotte, Line, Sleiman, Patrick M. A., Snieder, Harold, Sørensen, Thorkild I. A., Standl, Marie, Steegers, Eric A. P., Strachan, David P., Straker, Leon, Strandberg, Timo, Taylor, Michelle, Teo, Yik-Ying, Thiering, Elisabeth, Torrent, Maties, Tyrrell, Jessica, Uitterlinden, Andre G., van Beijsterveldt, Toos, van der Most, Peter J., van Duijn, Cornelia M., Viikari, Jorma, Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia, Vogelezang, Suzanne, Vonk, Judith M., Vrijkotte, Tanja G. M., Vuoksimaa, Eero, Wang, Carol A., Watkins, William J., Wichmann, H-Erich, Willemsen, Gonneke, Williams, Gail M., Wilson, James F., Wray, Naomi R., Xu, Shujing, Xu, Cheng-Jian, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Yi, Lu, Zafarmand, Mohammad Hadi, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zemel, Babette S., Hinney, Anke, Lakka, Timo A., Whitehouse, Andrew J. O., Sunyer, Jordi, Widen, Elisabeth E., Feenstra, Bjarke, Sebert, Sylvain, Jacobsson, Bo, Njolstad, Pal R., Stoltenberg, Camilla, Smith, George Davey, Lawlor, Debbie A., Paternoster, Lavinia, Timpson, Nicholas J., Ong, Ken K., Bisgaard, Hans, Bonnelykke, Klaus, Jaddoe, Vincent W. V., Tiemeier, Henning, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Evans, David M., Perry, John R. B., Grant, Struan F. A., Boomsma, Dorret I., Freathy, Rachel M., McCarthy, Mark I., Felix, Janine F., Sorensen, Thorkild I. A., Tiemeier, Hen-Ning, Biological Psychology, APH - Mental Health, APH - Personalized Medicine, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Methodology, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Public and occupational health, APH - Aging & Later Life, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, APH - Global Health, Epidemiology and Data Science, Medical Research Council (MRC), Johan Eriksson / Principal Investigator, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Clinicum, Doctoral Programme in Cognition, Learning, Instruction and Communication, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Timo Strandberg / Principal Investigator, Department of Medicine, Elisabeth Ingrid Maria Widen / Principal Investigator, HUS Internal Medicine and Rehabilitation, HUS Abdominal Center, Developmental Psychology Research Group, Genetic Epidemiology, Genomic Discoveries and Clinical Translation, Cognitive and Brain Aging, Middeldorp, Christel M [0000-0002-6218-0428], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), embarazo, Epidemiology, C840 Clinical Psychology, LD SCORE REGRESSION, humanos, LOCI, Medizin, adolescente, Genome-wide association study, BLOOD-PRESSURE, Disease, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Early childhood, C820 Developmental Psychology, estudios de cohortes, Child, C440 Molecular Genetics, Public, Environmental & Occupational Health, Genetics, education.field_of_study, United Kingdom/epidemiology, COMMON VARIANTS, Hälsovetenskaper, adulto, A900 Others in Medicine and Dentistry, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, 3. Good health, predicción, ddc, Childhood traits and disorders, Phenotype, Disease/genetics, Research Design, Child, Preschool, fenotipo, Female, ICEP, medicine.symptom, CHILDHOOD OBESITY, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, EArly Genetics Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) consortium, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Birth weight, Population, Consortium, Childhood Traits And Disorders, Longitudinal, enfermedad, Childhood obesity, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Health Sciences, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, education, LONGITUDINAL TWIN, METAANALYSIS, lactante, Science & Technology, Early Growth Genetics (EGG) consortium, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Infant, predisposición genética a la enfermedad, medicine.disease, BODY-MASS, C800 Psychology, BIRTH-WEIGHT, C420 Human Genetics, United Kingdom, Low birth weight, business, diseño de la investigación, Forecasting
Abstract: The impact of many unfavorable childhood traits or diseases, such as low birth weight and mental disorders, is not limited to childhood and adolescence, as they are also associated with poor outcomes in adulthood, such as cardiovascular disease. Insight into the genetic etiology of childhood and adolescent traits and disorders may therefore provide new perspectives, not only on how to improve wellbeing during childhood, but also how to prevent later adverse outcomes. To achieve the sample sizes required for genetic research, the Early Growth Genetics (EGG) and EArly Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology (EAGLE) consortia were established. The majority of the participating cohorts are longitudinal population-based samples, but other cohorts with data on early childhood phenotypes are also involved. Cohorts often have a broad focus and collect(ed) data on various somatic and psychiatric traits as well as environmental factors. Genetic variants have been successfully identified for multiple traits, for example, birth weight, atopic dermatitis, childhood BMI, allergic sensitization, and pubertal growth. Furthermore, the results have shown that genetic factors also partly underlie the association with adult traits. As sample sizes are still increasing, it is expected that future analyses will identify additional variants. This, in combination with the development of innovative statistical methods, will provide detailed insight on the mechanisms underlying the transition from childhood to adult disorders. Both consortia welcome new collaborations. Policies and contact details are available from the corresponding authors of this manuscript and/or the consortium websites., We are grateful to all families and participants who took part in these studies. We also acknowledge and appreciate the unique efforts of the research teams and practitioners contributing to the collection of this wealth of data. C. M. M. is supported by funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 721567. J. F. F. has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633595 (DynaHEALTH) and 733206 (LifeCycle). R. M. F. and R. N. B. are supported by Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (Wellcome Trust and Royal Society grant: WT104150). D. L. C. is funded by the American Diabetes Association Grant 1-17-PDF-077. D. O. M-K. was supported by Dutch Science Organization (ZonMW-VENI Grant 916.14.023). N. M. W. is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship (APP1104818). T. S. A. was partially funded by the Gene-Diet Interactions in Obesity (GENDINOB) project on behalf of GOYA male cohort data management and analyses and acknowledges the same. S. D. was supported by National Institute of Health Research. T. M. F. is supported by the European Research Council grant: 323195 SZ-245 50371-GLUCOSEGENES-FP7-IDEAS-ERC. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research is an independent Research Center at the University of Copenhagen partially funded by an unrestricted donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (www.metabol.ku.dk).H.H.is funded by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Endowed Chair in Genomic Research. A. T. H. is supported by the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards (WT098395), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator Award (NF-SI-0611-10219). J. Hebebrand received grants from German Research Society, German Ministry of Education and Research. M-F. H. is currently supported by an American Diabetes Association (ADA) Pathway Program Accelerator Early Investigator Award (1-15-ACE-26). S. J. is supported by Helse Vest no. 23929, Bergen Forskningsstiftelse and KG Jebsen Foundation and University of Bergen. J. K. has been supported by the Academy of Finland Research Professor program (grants 265240 & 263278). J. P. K. is funded by a University of Queensland Development Fellowship (UQFEL1718945). H. L. has served as a speaker for Eli-Lilly and Shire and has received research grants from Shire; all outside the submitted work. C. M. L is supported by the Li Ka Shing Foundation, WT-SSI/John Fell funds and by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, by Widenlife and NIH (5P50HD028138-27). S. E. M. was funded by an NHMRC Senior Reseach Fellowship (APP1103623). K. Panoutsopoulou is funded by a career development fellowship (grant 20308) and by the Wellcome Trust (WT098051). C. P. at UCL Institute of Child Health, with support from the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and University College London. I. P. was funded in part by the Wellcome Trust (WT205915), and the European Union's Horizon 2020 research, the European Union FP7-IDEAS-ERC Advanced Grant (GEPIDIAB, ERC-AG -ERC-294785), and innovation programme (DYNAhealth, H2020-PHC-2014-633595). R. C. R. is supported by CRUK (grant number C18281/A19169). J. G. S. is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship Grant (APP1105807). J. T.; r is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund (ESF), Convergence Programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Non-Clinical Fellowship. N. V-T. is funded by a pre-doctoral grant from the Agencia de Gestio d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (2015 FI_B 00636), Generalitat de Catalunya. T. G. M. V was supported by ZonMW (TOP 40-00812-98-11010. J. F. W. is supported by the MRC Human Genetics Unit quinquennial programme QTL in Health and Disease. H. Y. is funded by Diabetes UK RD Lawrence fellowship (grant: 17/0005594). M. H. Z was supported by BBMRI-NL (CP2013-50). E. Z. is supported by the Wellcome Trust (098051). B. F. is supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation (12955) and an Oak Foundation Fellowship. S. S. and M-R. J. have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [under grant agreement No 633595] for the DynaHEALTH action. P. R. N. was supported by the European Research Council (ERC), University of Bergen, KG Jebsen and Helse Vest. G. D. S. works within the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol (MC_UU_12013/1). D. A. L was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement (Grant number 669545; DevelopObese), US National Institute of Health (grant: R01 DK10324), the UK Medical Research Council (grant: MC_UU_00011/6), Wellcome Trust GWAS grant (WT088806), an NIHR Senior Investigator Award (NF-SI-0611-10196) and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol. L. Paternoster was supported by the UK Medical Research Council Unit grants MC_UU_12013_5. N. J. T. is a Wellcome Trust Investigator (202802/Z/16/Z), is the PI of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (MRC & WT 102215/2/13/2), is supported by the University of Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and works within the CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme (C18281/A19169). V.W.V.J. received an additional grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (NWO, ZonMw-VIDI 016.136.361), a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (ERC-2014-CoG-648916) and funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 633595 (DynaHEALTH) and 733206 (LifeCycle). D. M. E. is funded by the UK Medical Research Council Unit grant MC_UU_12013_4, Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130101709) and a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (GNT1137714). S. F. A. G. is funded by the Daniel B. Burke Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research and R01 HD056465. D. I. B. is supported by Spinozapremie (NWO-56-464-14192) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science Professor Award (PAH/6635) to DIB. M. I. M. is a Wellcome Senior Investgator and NIHR Senior Investigator supported by the Wellcome (090532, 098381, 203141), NIHR (NF-SI-0617-10090) and the US National Institute of Health (grant: R01 DK10324), the UK Medical Research Council (grant: MCiabetes UK RD Lawrence fellowship (grant: 17/0005594). M. H. Z was supported by BBMRI-NLNIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford. The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health.
Published: 2019

37. GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia

Author: Pasman, Joëlle A., Verweij, Karin J.H., Gerring, Zachary, Stringer, Sven, Sanchez-Roige, Sandra, Treur, Jorien L., Abdellaoui, Abdel, Nivard, Michel G., Baselmans, Bart M.L., Ong, Jue-Sheng, Ip, Hill F., van der Zee, Matthijs D., Bartels, Meike, Day, Felix R., Fontanillas, Pierre, Elson, Sarah L., de Wit, Harriet, Davis, Lea K., MacKillop, James, Derringer, Jaime L., Branje, Susan J.T., Hartman, Catharina A., Heath, Andrew C., van Lier, Pol A.C., Madden, Pamela A.F., Mägi, Reedik, Meeus, Wim, Montgomery, Grant W., Oldehinkel, A.J., Pausova, Zdenka, Ramos-Quiroga, Josep A., Paus, Tomas, Ribases, Marta, Kaprio, Jaakko, Boks, Marco P.M., Bell, Jordana T., Spector, Tim D., Gelernter, Joel, Boomsma, Dorret I., Martin, Nicholas G., MacGregor, Stuart, Perry, John R.B., Palmer, Abraham A., Posthuma, Danielle, Munafò, Marcus R., Gillespie, Nathan A., Derks, Eske M., Vink, Jacqueline M., Leerstoel Branje, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE)
Subjects: Adult, Male, Marijuana Abuse, Adolescent, Genotype, Gene Expression Regulation/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 23andMe Research Team, Article, Schizophrenia/chemically induced, Marijuana Abuse/genetics, Young Adult, Risk-Taking, Databases, Genetic, Taverne, Humans, International Cannabis Consortium, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Middle Aged, Mental Health, Gene Expression Regulation, Schizophrenia, Substance Use Disorders Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Female, Cell Adhesion Molecules/genetics, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: © 2018, The Author(s). Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to date (N = 184,765), we identified eight genome-wide significant independent single nucleotide polymorphisms in six regions. All measured genetic variants combined explained 11% of the variance. Gene-based tests revealed 35 significant genes in 16 regions, and S-PrediXcan analyses showed that 21 genes had different expression levels for cannabis users versus nonusers. The strongest finding across the different analyses was CADM2, which has been associated with substance use and risk-taking. Significant genetic correlations were found with 14 of 25 tested substance use and mental health–related traits, including smoking, alcohol use, schizophrenia and risk-taking. Mendelian randomization analysis showed evidence for a causal positive influence of schizophrenia risk on cannabis use. Overall, our study provides new insights into the etiology of cannabis use and its relation with mental health.
Published: 2018

38. The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

Author: UK10K Consortium, Walter, Klaudia, Min, Josine L, Huang, Jie, Crooks, Lucy, Memari, Yasin, McCarthy, Shane, Perry, John RB, Xu, ChangJiang, Futema, Marta, Lawson, Daniel, Iotchkova, Valentina, Schiffels, Stephan, Hendricks, Audrey E, Danecek, Petr, Li, Rui, Floyd, James, Wain, Louise V, Barroso, Inês, Humphries, Steve E, Hurles, Matthew E, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Barrett, Jeffrey C, Plagnol, Vincent, Richards, J Brent, Greenwood, Celia MT, Timpson, Nicholas J, Durbin, Richard, Soranzo, Nicole, McCarthy, Shane [0000-0002-2715-4187], Durbin, Richard [0000-0002-9130-1006], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: Male, Genome, Human, Genetics, Medical, Genetic Variation, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Genomics, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Reference Standards, Lipid Metabolism, United Kingdom, Cohort Studies, Genetics, Population, Receptors, LDL, Health, Humans, Disease, Exome, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Adiponectin, Alleles, Triglycerides, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: The contribution of rare and low-frequency variants to human traits is largely unexplored. Here we describe insights from sequencing whole genomes (low read depth, 7×) or exomes (high read depth, 80×) of nearly 10,000 individuals from population-based and disease collections. In extensively phenotyped cohorts we characterize over 24 million novel sequence variants, generate a highly accurate imputation reference panel and identify novel alleles associated with levels of triglycerides (APOB), adiponectin (ADIPOQ) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLR and RGAG1) from single-marker and rare variant aggregation tests. We describe population structure and functional annotation of rare and low-frequency variants, use the data to estimate the benefits of sequencing for association studies, and summarize lessons from disease-specific collections. Finally, we make available an extensive resource, including individual-level genetic and phenotypic data and web-based tools to facilitate the exploration of association results.
Published: 2018
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39. The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

Author: Walter, Klaudia, Min, Josine L., Huang, Jie, Crooks, Lucy, Memari, Yasin, McCarthy, Shane, Perry, John R. B., Xu, ChangJiang, Futema, Marta, Lawson, Daniel, Iotchkova, Valentina, Schiffels, Stephan, Hendricks, Audrey E., Danecek, Petr, Li, Rui, Floyd, James, Wain, Louise V., Barroso, Inês, Humphries, Steve E., Hurles, Matthew E., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Barrett, Jeffrey C., Plagnol, Vincent, Brent Richards, J., Greenwood, Celia M. T., Timpson, Nicholas J., Durbin, Richard, Soranzo, Nicole, Bala, Senduran, Clapham, Peter, Coates, Guy, Cox, Tony, Daly, Allan, Du, Yuanping, Edkins, Sarah, Ellis, Peter, Flicek, Paul, Guo, Xiaosen, Guo, Xueqin, Huang, Liren, Jackson, David K., Joyce, Chris, Keane, Thomas, Kolb-Kokocinski, Anja, Langford, Cordelia, Li, Yingrui, Liang, Jieqin, Lin, Hong, Liu, Ryan, Maslen, John, Muddyman, Dawn, Quail, Michael A., Stalker, Jim, Sun, Jianping, Tian, Jing, Wang, Guangbiao, Wang, Jun, Wang, Yu, Wong, Kim, Zhang, Pingbo, Birney, Ewan, Boustred, Chris, Chen, Lu, Clement, Gail, Cocca, Massimiliano, Davey Smith, George, Day, Ian N. M., Day-Williams, Aaron, Down, Thomas, Dunham, Ian, Evans, David M., Gaunt, Tom R., Geihs, Matthias, Hart, Deborah, Howie, Bryan, Hubbard, Tim, Hysi, Pirro, Jamshidi, Yalda, Karczewski, Konrad J., Kemp, John P., Lachance, Genevieve, Lek, Monkol, Lopes, Margarida, MacArthur, Daniel G., Marchini, Jonathan, Mangino, Massimo, Mathieson, Iain, Metrustry, Sarah, Moayyeri, Alireza, Northstone, Kate, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Paternoster, Lavinia, Quaye, Lydia, Ring, Susan, Ritchie, Graham R. S., Shihab, Hashem A., Shin, So-Youn, Small, Kerrin S., Soler Artigas, María, Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D., St Pourcain, Beate, Surdulescu, Gabriela, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tobin, Martin D., Valdes, Ana M., Visscher, Peter M., Ward, Kirsten, Wilson, Scott G., Yang, Jian, Zhang, Feng, Zheng, Hou-Feng, Anney, Richard, Ayub, Muhammad, Blackwood, Douglas, Bolton, Patrick F., Breen, Gerome, Collier, David A., Craddock, Nick, Curran, Sarah, Curtis, David, Gallagher, Louise, Geschwind, Daniel, Gurling, Hugh, Holmans, Peter, Lee, Irene, Lönnqvist, Jouko, McGuffin, Peter, McIntosh, Andrew M., McKechanie, Andrew G., McQuillin, Andrew, Morris, James, O'Donovan, Michael C., Owen, Michael J., Palotie, Aarno, Parr, Jeremy R., Paunio, Tiina, Pietilainen, Olli, Rehnström, Karola, Sharp, Sally I., Skuse, David, St Clair, David, Suvisaari, Jaana, Walters, James T. R., Williams, Hywel J., Bochukova, Elena, Bounds, Rebecca, Dominiczak, Anna, Farooqi, I. Sadaf, Keogh, Julia, Marenne, Gaëlle, Morris, Andrew, O'Rahilly, Stephen, Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Wheeler, Eleanor, Al Turki, Saeed, Anderson, Carl A., Antony, Dinu, Beales, Phil, Bentham, Jamie, Bhattacharya, Shoumo, Calissano, Mattia, Carss, Keren, Chatterjee, Krishna, Cirak, Sebahattin, Cosgrove, Catherine, Fitzpatrick, David R., Reghan Foley, A., Franklin, Christopher S., Grozeva, Detelina, Mitchison, Hannah M., Muntoni, Francesco, Onoufriadis, Alexandros, Parker, Victoria, Payne, Felicity, Lucy Raymond, F., Roberts, Nicola, Savage, David B., Scambler, Peter, Schmidts, Miriam, Schoenmakers, Nadia, Semple, Robert K., Serra, Eva, Spasic-Boskovic, Olivera, Stevens, Elizabeth, van Kogelenberg, Margriet, Vijayarangakannan, Parthiban, Williamson, Kathleen A., Wilson, Crispian, Whyte, Tamieka, Ciampi, Antonio, Oualkacha, Karim, Bobrow, Martin, Griffin, Heather, Kaye, Jane, Kennedy, Karen, Kent, Alastair, Smee, Carol, Charlton, Ruth, Ekong, Rosemary, Khawaja, Farrah, Lopes, Luis R., Migone, Nicola, Payne, Stewart J., Pollitt, Rebecca C., Povey, Sue, Ridout, Cheryl K., Robinson, Rachel L., Scott, Richard H., Shaw, Adam, Syrris, Petros, Taylor, Rohan, Vandersteen, Anthony M., Amuzu, Antoinette, Pablo Casas, Juan, Chambers, John C., Dedoussis, George, Gambaro, Giovanni, Gasparini, Paolo, Isaacs, Aaron, Johnson, Jon, Kleber, Marcus E., Kooner, Jaspal S., Langenberg, Claudia, Luan, Jian'an, Malerba, Giovanni, März, Winfried, Matchan, Angela, Morris, Richard, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Benn, Marianne, Scott, Robert A., Toniolo, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Tybjaerg-Hansen, Anne, van Duijn, Cornelia M., van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M., Varbo, Anette, Whincup, Peter, Zaza, Gianluigi, Zhang, Weihua, Civil Law, Epidemiology, Clinicum, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Palotie, Aarno, Walter, Klaudia, Min, Josine L., Huang, Jie, Crooks, Lucy, Memari, Yasin, Mccarthy, Shane, Perry, John R. B., Xu, Changjiang, Futema, Marta, Lawson, Daniel, Iotchkova, Valentina, Schiffels, Stephan, Hendricks, Audrey E., Danecek, Petr, Li, Rui, Floyd, Jame, Wain, Louise V., Barroso, Inê, Humphries, Steve E., Hurles, Matthew E., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Barrett, Jeffrey C., Plagnol, Vincent, Brent Richards, J., Greenwood, Celia M. T., Timpson, Nicholas J., Durbin, Richard, Soranzo, Nicole, Bala, Senduran, Clapham, Peter, Coates, Guy, Cox, Tony, Daly, Allan, Du, Yuanping, Edkins, Sarah, Ellis, Peter, Flicek, Paul, Guo, Xiaosen, Guo, Xueqin, Huang, Liren, Jackson, David K., Joyce, Chri, Keane, Thoma, Kolb Kokocinski, Anja, Langford, Cordelia, Li, Yingrui, Liang, Jieqin, Lin, Hong, Liu, Ryan, Maslen, John, Muddyman, Dawn, Quail, Michael A., Stalker, Jim, Sun, Jianping, Tian, Jing, Wang, Guangbiao, Wang, Jun, Wang, Yu, Wong, Kim, Zhang, Pingbo, Birney, Ewan, Boustred, Chri, Chen, Lu, Clement, Gail, Cocca, Massimiliano, Davey Smith, George, Day, Ian N. M., Day Williams, Aaron, Down, Thoma, Dunham, Ian, Evans, David M., Gaunt, Tom R., Geihs, Matthia, Hart, Deborah, Howie, Bryan, Hubbard, Tim, Hysi, Pirro, Jamshidi, Yalda, Karczewski, Konrad J., Kemp, John P., Lachance, Genevieve, Lek, Monkol, Lopes, Margarida, Macarthur, Daniel G., Marchini, Jonathan, Mangino, Massimo, Mathieson, Iain, Metrustry, Sarah, Moayyeri, Alireza, Northstone, Kate, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Paternoster, Lavinia, Quaye, Lydia, Ring, Susan, Ritchie, Graham R. S., Shihab, Hashem A., Shin, So Youn, Small, Kerrin S., Soler Artigas, María, Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D., St Pourcain, Beate, Surdulescu, Gabriela, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tobin, Martin D., Valdes, Ana M., Visscher, Peter M., Ward, Kirsten, Wilson, Scott G., Yang, Jian, Zhang, Feng, Zheng, Hou Feng, Anney, Richard, Ayub, Muhammad, Blackwood, Dougla, Bolton, Patrick F., Breen, Gerome, Collier, David A., Craddock, Nick, Curran, Sarah, Curtis, David, Gallagher, Louise, Geschwind, Daniel, Gurling, Hugh, Holmans, Peter, Lee, Irene, Lönnqvist, Jouko, Mcguffin, Peter, Mcintosh, Andrew M., Mckechanie, Andrew G., Mcquillin, Andrew, Morris, Jame, O'Donovan, Michael C., Owen, Michael J., Parr, Jeremy R., Paunio, Tiina, Pietilainen, Olli, Rehnström, Karola, Sharp, Sally I., Skuse, David, St Clair, David, Suvisaari, Jaana, Walters, James T. R., Williams, Hywel J., Bochukova, Elena, Bounds, Rebecca, Dominiczak, Anna, Farooqi, I. Sadaf, Keogh, Julia, Marenne, Gaëlle, Morris, Andrew, O'Rahilly, Stephen, Porteous, David J., Smith, Blair H., Wheeler, Eleanor, Al Turki, Saeed, Anderson, Carl A., Antony, Dinu, Beales, Phil, Bentham, Jamie, Bhattacharya, Shoumo, Calissano, Mattia, Carss, Keren, Chatterjee, Krishna, Cirak, Sebahattin, Cosgrove, Catherine, Fitzpatrick, David R., Reghan Foley, A., Franklin, Christopher S., Grozeva, Detelina, Mitchison, Hannah M., Muntoni, Francesco, Onoufriadis, Alexandro, Parker, Victoria, Payne, Felicity, Lucy Raymond, F., Roberts, Nicola, Savage, David B., Scambler, Peter, Schmidts, Miriam, Schoenmakers, Nadia, Semple, Robert K., Serra, Eva, Spasic Boskovic, Olivera, Stevens, Elizabeth, van Kogelenberg, Margriet, Vijayarangakannan, Parthiban, Williamson, Kathleen A., Wilson, Crispian, Whyte, Tamieka, Ciampi, Antonio, Oualkacha, Karim, Bobrow, Martin, Griffin, Heather, Kaye, Jane, Kennedy, Karen, Kent, Alastair, Smee, Carol, Charlton, Ruth, Ekong, Rosemary, Khawaja, Farrah, Lopes, Luis R., Migone, Nicola, Payne, Stewart J., Pollitt, Rebecca C., Povey, Sue, Ridout, Cheryl K., Robinson, Rachel L., Scott, Richard H., Shaw, Adam, Syrris, Petro, Taylor, Rohan, Vandersteen, Anthony M., Amuzu, Antoinette, Pablo Casas, Juan, Chambers, John C., Dedoussis, George, Gambaro, Giovanni, Gasparini, Paolo, Isaacs, Aaron, Johnson, Jon, Kleber, Marcus E., Kooner, Jaspal S., Langenberg, Claudia, Luan, Jian'An, Malerba, Giovanni, März, Winfried, Matchan, Angela, Morris, Richard, Nordestgaard, Børge G., Benn, Marianne, Scott, Robert A., Toniolo, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Tybjaerg Hansen, Anne, van Duijn, Cornelia M., van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M., Varbo, Anette, Whincup, Peter, Zaza, Gianluigi, and Zhang, Weihua
Subjects: APOC3, Male, Genome-wide association study, genetics,UK10K,Whole-genome sequencing, Genome-wide association studies, Next-generation sequencing, Genome-wide association studies, rare and low-frequency variants, Cohort Studies, OF-FUNCTION MUTATIONS, genetics, Disease, Exome, Exome sequencing, POPULATION, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, HERITABILITY, Great Britain, Genomics, Reference Standards, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Health, Science & Technology - Other Topics, INCIDENTAL FINDINGS, LOW-FREQUENCY, Female, Adiponectin, General Science & Technology, Genetics, Medical, Population, Computational biology, Biology, Article, MD Multidisciplinary, SEQUENCE VARIATION, UK10K Consortium, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, education, COMMON, Alleles, Triglycerides, Genetic association, Whole genome sequencing, Whole-genome sequencing, Science & Technology, Genome, Human, COMPLEX TRAITS, Genetic Variation, Molecular Sequence Annotation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Lipid Metabolism, United Kingdom, 3141 Health care science, Genetics, Population, UK10K, Receptors, LDL, Next-generation sequencing, rare and low-frequency variants, Imputation (genetics), Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: M. Kivimäki työryhmäjäsen. The contribution of rare and low-frequency variants to human traits is largely unexplored. Here we describe insights from sequencing whole genomes (low read depth, 7x) or exomes (high read depth, 80x) of nearly 10,000 individuals from population-based and disease collections. In extensively phenotyped cohorts we characterize over 24 million novel sequence variants, generate a highly accurate imputation reference panel and identify novel alleles associated with levels of triglycerides (APOB), adiponectin (ADIPOQ) and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLR and RGAG1) from single-marker and rare variant aggregation tests. We describe population structure and functional annotation of rare and low-frequency variants, use the data to estimate the benefits of sequencing for association studies, and summarize lessons from disease-specific collections. Finally, we make available an extensive resource, including individual-level genetic and phenotypic data and web-based tools to facilitate the exploration of association results.
Published: 2015

40. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Author: Locke, Adam E, Kahali, Bratati, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Doney, Alex S F, He, Bing, Heikkilä, Outi, Hietala, Kustaa, Kytö, Janne, Lahermo, Päivi, Lehto, Markku, Österholm, Anne-May, Parkkonen, Maija, Pitkäniemi, Janne, Rosengård-Bärlund, Milla, Eklund, Niina, Saraheimo, Markku, Sarti, Cinzia, Söderlund, Jenny, Soro-Paavonen, Aino, Syreeni, Anna, Thorn, Lena M, Tikkanen, Heikki, Tolonen, Nina, Tryggvason, Karl, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Estrada, Karol, Wadén, Johan, Gill, Geoffrey V, Prior, Sarah, Guiducci, Candace, Mirel, Daniel B, Taylor, Andrew, Hosseini, Mohsen, Parving, Hans-Henrik, Rossing, Peter, Tarnow, Lise, Eury, Elodie, Ladenvall, Claes, Alhenc-Gelas, François, Lefebvre, Pierre, Rigalleau, Vincent, Roussel, Ronan, Tregouet, David-Alexandre, Maestroni, Anna, Maestroni, Silvia, Falhammar, Henrik, Gu, Tianwei, Folkersen, Lasse, Möllsten, Anna, Cimponeriu, Dan, Mihai, Ioana, Mota, Maria, Mota, Eugen, Serafinceanu, Cristian, Stavarachi, Monica, Hanson, Robert L, Nelson, Robert 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Investigators, The MuTHER Consortium, The MIGen Consortium, The PAGE Consortium, The ReproGen Consortium, The GENIE Consortium, The International Endogene Consortium, Berndt, Sonja I, Justice, Anne E, Hyppönen, Elina Tuulikki, Epidemiology and Data Science, NCA - Neurobiology of mental health, and EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes
Subjects: Male, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, Continental Population Groups/genetics, VARIANTS, Body Mass Index, Insulin Secretion, Insulin, Age Factor, Adiposity, ddc:616, Adipogenesis, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Synapse, 3. Good health, Continental Population Group, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATIONPROVIDES INSIGHTSGLYCEMIC TRAITSLOCIMETAANALYSISVARIANTSINDIVIDUALSHIPPOCAMPALARCHITECTURETOPIRAMATE, ddc:500, Adipogenesis/genetics, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Age Factors, Continental Population Groups, Energy Metabolism, Europe, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Glutamic Acid, Humans, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Synapses, Genome-Wide Association Study, Multidisciplinary, genetics [Adiposity], Human, Socio-culturale, genetics [Energy Metabolism], ta3111, genetic, body mass index, obesity, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, GLYCEMIC TRAITS, genetics [Continental Population Groups], Genetic variability, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, genetics [Adipogenesis], METAANALYSIS, Genetic association, Adipogenesi, genetics [Quantitative Trait Loci], ta1184, metabolism [Glutamic Acid], ta1182, PATHWAYS, metabolism [Synapses], ta3121, medicine.disease, metabolism [Insulin], Adiposity/genetics, Clinical Medicine, Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics, Body mass index, HUMAN HEIGHT, BIO/12 - BIOCHIMICA CLINICA E BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE CLINICA, Synapses/metabolism, Medizin, Obesity/genetics, Bioinformatics, genetic basis, Obesity/metabolism, genetics [Obesity], body mass index (BMI), genetics [Genetic Predisposition to Disease], ethnology [Europe], 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, ARCHITECTURE, Genetics of obesity, Medicine (all), Single Nucleotide, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Insulin/metabolism/secretion, Glutamic Acid/metabolism, genetics [Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide], EXPRESSION, Insulin/metabolism, PROVIDES INSIGHTS, genetics [Racial Groups], Biology, Obesity/genetics/metabolism, Europe/ethnology, metabolism [Obesity], Mendelian randomization, medicine, Energy Metabolism/genetics, body mass, genetic analysis, obesity, Klinisk medicin
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P < 5 x 10(-8)), 56 of which are novel. Five loci demonstrate clear evidence of several independent association signals, and many loci have significant effects on other metabolic phenotypes. The 97 loci account for approximately 2.7% of BMI variation, and genome-wide estimates suggest that common variation accounts for >20% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new genes and pathways, including those related to synaptic function, glutamate signalling, insulin secretion/action, energy metabolism, lipid biology and adipogenesis.
Published: 2015

41. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

Author: Burton, Paul R., Clayton, David G., Cardon, Lon R., Craddock, Nick, Deloukas, Panos, Duncanson, Audrey, Kwiatkowski, Dominic P., McCarthy, Mark I., Ouwehand, Willem H., Samani, Nilesh J., Todd, John A., Donnelly, Peter, Barrett, Jeffrey C., Davison, Dan, Easton, Doug, Evans, David, Leung, Hin-Tak, Marchini, Jonathan L., Morris, Andrew P., Spencer, Chris C. A., Tobin, Martin D., Attwood, Antony P., Boorman, James P., Cant, Barbara, Everson, Ursula, Hussey, Judith M., Jolley, Jennifer D., Knight, Alexandra S., Koch, Kerstin, Meech, Elizabeth, Nutland, Sarah, Prowse, Christopher V., Stevens, Helen E., Taylor, Niall C., Walters, Graham R., Walker, Neil M., Watkins, Nicholas A., Winzer, Thilo, Jones, Richard W., McArdle, Wendy L., Ring, Susan M., Strachan, David P., Pembrey, Marcus, Breen, Gerome, St Clair, David, Caesar, Sian, Gordon-Smith, Katherine, Jones, Lisa, Fraser, Christine, Green, Elaine K., Grozeva, Detelina, Hamshere, Marian L., Holmans, Peter A., Jones, Ian R., Kirov, George, Moskvina, Valentina, Nikolov, Ivan, O'Donovan, Michael C., Owen, Michael J., Collier, David A., Elkin, Amanda, Farmer, Anne, Williamson, Richard, McGuffin, Peter, Young, Allan H., Ferrier, I. Nicol, Ball, Stephen G., Balmforth, Anthony J., Barrett, Jennifer H., Bishop, D. Timothy, Iles, Mark M., Maqbool, Azhar, Yuldasheva, Nadira, Hall, Alistair S., Braund, Peter S., Dixon, Richard J., Mangino, Massimo, Stevens, Suzanne, Thompson, John R., Bredin, Francesca, Tremelling, Mark, Parkes, Miles, Drummond, Hazel, Lees, Charles W., Nimmo, Elaine R., Satsangi, Jack, Fisher, Sheila A., Forbes, Alastair, Lewis, Cathryn M., Onnie, Clive M., Prescott, Natalie J., Sanderson, Jeremy, Mathew, Christopher G., Barbour, Jamie, Mohiuddin, M. Khalid, Todhunter, Catherine E., Mansfield, John C., Ahmad, Tariq, Cummings, Fraser R., Jewell, Derek P., Webster, John, Brown, Morris J., Lathrop, G. Mark, Connell, John, Dominiczak, Anna, Marcano, Carolina A. Braga, Burke, Beverley, Dobson, Richard, Gungadoo, Johannie, Lee, Kate L., Munroe, Patricia B., Newhouse, Stephen J., Onipinla, Abiodun, Wallace, Chris, Xue, Mingzhan, Caulfield, Mark, Farrall, Martin, Barton, Anne, and Genomics (BRAGGS), The Biologics in RA Genetics, Bruce, Ian N., Donovan, Hannah, Eyre, Steve, Gilbert, Paul D., Hider, Samantha L., Hinks, Anne M., John, Sally L., Potter, Catherine, Silman, Alan J., Symmons, Deborah P. M., Thomson, Wendy, Worthington, Jane, Dunger, David B., Widmer, Barry, Frayling, Timothy M., Freathy, Rachel M., Lango, Hana, Perry, John R. B., Shields, Beverley M., Weedon, Michael N., Hattersley, Andrew T., Hitman, Graham A., Walker, Mark, Elliott, Kate S., Groves, Christopher J., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Rayner, Nigel W., Timpson, Nicholas J., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Newport, Melanie, Sirugo, Giorgio, Lyons, Emily, Vannberg, Fredrik, Hill, Adrian V. S., Bradbury, Linda A., Farrar, Claire, Pointon, Jennifer J., Wordsworth, Paul, Brown, Matthew A., Franklyn, Jayne A., Heward, Joanne M., Simmonds, Matthew J., Gough, Stephen C. L., Seal, Sheila, Susceptibility Collaboration (UK), Breast Cancer, Stratton, Michael R., Rahman, Nazneen, Ban, Maria, Goris, An, Sawcer, Stephen J., Compston, Alastair, Conway, David, Jallow, Muminatou, Rockett, Kirk A., Bumpstead, Suzannah J., Chaney, Amy, Downes, Kate, Ghori, Mohammed J. R., Gwilliam, Rhian, Hunt, Sarah E., Inouye, Michael, Keniry, Andrew, King, Emma, McGinnis, Ralph, Potter, Simon, Ravindrarajah, Rathi, Whittaker, Pamela, Widden, Claire, Withers, David, Cardin, Niall J., Ferreira, Teresa, Pereira-Gale, Joanne, Hallgrimsdóttir, Ingileif B., Howie, Bryan N., Su, Zhan, Teo, Yik Ying, Vukcevic, Damjan, Bentley, David, and Compston, Alistair
Subjects: Genetic Markers, Bipolar Disorder, Population, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Coronary Artery Disease, Disease, Biology, Population stratification, Article, Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Crohn Disease, Gene Frequency, Diabetes Mellitus, Chromosomes, Human, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, education, Allele frequency, Genetics, education.field_of_study, Multidisciplinary, Geography, Genome, Human, CDKN2BAS, United Kingdom, Human genetics, C431 Medical Genetics, Genetics, Population, Case-Control Studies, Hypertension
Abstract: There is increasing evidence that genome-wide association ( GWA) studies represent a powerful approach to the identification of genes involved in common human diseases. We describe a joint GWA study ( using the Affymetrix GeneChip 500K Mapping Array Set) undertaken in the British population, which has examined similar to 2,000 individuals for each of 7 major diseases and a shared set of similar to 3,000 controls. Case-control comparisons identified 24 independent association signals at P < 5 X 10(-7): 1 in bipolar disorder, 1 in coronary artery disease, 9 in Crohn's disease, 3 in rheumatoid arthritis, 7 in type 1 diabetes and 3 in type 2 diabetes. On the basis of prior findings and replication studies thus-far completed, almost all of these signals reflect genuine susceptibility effects. We observed association at many previously identified loci, and found compelling evidence that some loci confer risk for more than one of the diseases studied. Across all diseases, we identified a large number of further signals ( including 58 loci with single-point P values between 10(-5) and 5 X 10(-7)) likely to yield additional susceptibility loci. The importance of appropriately large samples was confirmed by the modest effect sizes observed at most loci identified. This study thus represents a thorough validation of the GWA approach. It has also demonstrated that careful use of a shared control group represents a safe and effective approach to GWA analyses of multiple disease phenotypes; has generated a genome-wide genotype database for future studies of common diseases in the British population; and shown that, provided individuals with non-European ancestry are excluded, the extent of population stratification in the British population is generally modest. Our findings offer new avenues for exploring the pathophysiology of these important disorders. We anticipate that our data, results and software, which will be widely available to other investigators, will provide a powerful resource for human genetics research.
Published: 2007

42. A Genome-Wide Association Search for Type 2 Diabetes Genes in African Americans

Author: Palmer, Nicholette D, McDonough, Caitrin W, Hicks, Pamela J, Roh, Bong H, Wing, Maria R, An, S Sandy, Hester, Jessica M, Cooke, Jessica N, Bostrom, Meredith A, Rudock, Megan E, Talbert, Matthew E, Lewis, Joshua P, DIAGRAM Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Ferrara, Assiamira, Lu, Lingyi, Ziegler, Julie T, Sale, Michele M, Divers, Jasmin, Shriner, Daniel, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Rotimi, Charles N, Ng, Maggie CY, Langefeld, Carl D, Freedman, Barry I, Bowden, Donald W, Voight, Benjamin F, Scott, Laura J, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Morris, Andrew P, Dina, Christian, Welch, Ryan P, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Huth, Cornelia, Aulchenko, Yurii S, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, McCulloch, Laura J, Ferreira, Teresa, Grallert, Harald, Amin, Najaf, Wu, Guanming, Willer, Cristen J, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, McCarroll, Steve A, Langenberg, Claudia, Hofmann, Oliver M, Dupuis, Josée, Qi, Lu, Segrè, Ayellet V, Van Hoek, Mandy, Navarro, Pau, Ardlie, Kristin, Balkau, Beverley, Benediktsson, Rafn, Bennett, Amanda J, Blagieva, Roza, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boström, Kristina Bengtsson, Bravenboer, Bert, Bumpstead, Suzannah, Burtt, Noël P, Charpentier, Guillaume, Chines, Peter S, Cornelis, Marilyn, Couper, David J, Crawford, Gabe, Doney, Alex SF, Elliott, Katherine S, Elliott, Amanda L, Erdos, Michael R, Fox, Caroline S, Franklin, Christopher S, Ganser, Martha, Gieger, Christian, Grarup, Niels, Green, Todd, Griffin, Simon, Groves, Christopher J, Guiducci, Candace, Hadjadj, Samy, Hassanali, Neelam, Herder, Christian, Isomaa, Bo, Jackson, Anne U, Johnson, Paul RV, Jørgensen, Torben, Kao, Wen HL, Klopp, Norman, Kong, Augustine, Kraft, Peter, Kuusisto, Johanna, Lauritzen, Torsten, Li, Man, Lieverse, Aloysius, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Marre, Michel, Meitinger, Thomas, Midthjell, Kristian, Morken, Mario A, Narisu, Narisu, Nilsson, Peter, Owen, Katharine R, Payne, Felicity, Perry, John RB, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Platou, Carl, Proença, Christine, Prokopenko, Inga, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Rayner, N William, Robertson, Neil R, Rocheleau, Ghislain, Roden, Michael, Sampson, Michael J, Saxena, Richa, Shields, Beverley M, Shrader, Peter, Sigurdsson, Gunnar, Sparsø, Thomas, Strassburger, Klaus, Stringham, Heather M, Sun, Qi, Swift, Amy J, Thorand, Barbara, Tichet, Jean, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Van Dam, Rob M, Van Haeften, Timon W, Van Herpt, Thijs, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Walters, G Bragi, Weedon, Michael N, Wijmenga, Cisca, Witteman, Jacqueline, Bergman, Richard N, Cauchi, Stephane, Collins, Francis S, Gloyn, Anna L, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hansen, Torben, Hide, Winston A, Hitman, Graham A, Hofman, Albert, Hunter, David J, Hveem, Kristian, Laakso, Markku, Mohlke, Karen L, Morris, Andrew D, Palmer, Colin NA, Pramstaller, Peter P, Rudan, Igor, Sijbrands, Eric, Stein, Lincoln D, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, Andre, Walker, Mark, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watanabe, Richard M, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Boehm, Bernhard O, Campbell, Harry, Daly, Mark J, Hattersley, Andrew T, Hu, Frank B, Meigs, James B, Pankow, James S, Pedersen, Oluf, Wichmann, H-Erich, Barroso, Inês, Florez, Jose C, Frayling, Timothy M, Groop, Leif, Sladek, Rob, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Wilson, James F, Illig, Thomas, Froguel, Philippe, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Stefansson, Kari, Altshuler, David, Boehnke, Michael, McCarthy, Mark I, Soranzo, Nicole, Wheeler, Eleanor, Glazer, Nicole L, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua, Johnson, Toby, Elliott, Paul, Rybin, Denis, Henneman, Peter, Dehghan, Abbas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Song, Kijoung, Goel, Anuj, Egan, Josephine M, Lajunen, Taina, Doney, Alex, Kanoni, Stavroula, Cavalcanti-Proença, Christine, Kumari, Meena, Timpson, Nicholas J, Zabena, Carina, Ingelsson, Erik, An, Ping, O'Connell, Jeffrey, Luan, Jian'an, Elliott, Amanda, McCarroll, Steven A, Roccasecca, Rosa Maria, Pattou, François, Sethupathy, Praveen, Ariyurek, Yavuz, Barter, Philip, Beilby, John P, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Bergmann, Sven, Bochud, Murielle, Bonnefond, Amélie, Borch-Johnsen, Knut, Böttcher, Yvonne, Brunner, Eric, Bumpstead, Suzannah J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter, Clarke, Robert, Coin, Lachlan JM, Cooper, Matthew N, Crisponi, Laura, Day, Ian NM, De Geus, Eco JC, Delplanque, Jerome, Fedson, Annette C, Fischer-Rosinsky, Antje, Forouhi, Nita G, Frants, Rune, Franzosi, Maria Grazia, Galan, Pilar, Goodarzi, Mark O, Graessler, Jürgen, Grundy, Scott, Gwilliam, Rhian, Hallmans, Göran, Hammond, Naomi, Han, Xijing, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Hayward, Caroline, Heath, Simon C, Hercberg, Serge, Hicks, Andrew A, Hillman, David R, Hingorani, Aroon D, Hui, Jennie, Hung, Joe, Jula, Antti, Kaakinen, Marika, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kesaniemi, Y Antero, Kivimaki, Mika, Knight, Beatrice, Koskinen, Seppo, Kovacs, Peter, Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm, Lathrop, G Mark, Lawlor, Debbie A, Le Bacquer, Olivier, Lecoeur, Cécile, Li, Yun, Mahley, Robert, Mangino, Massimo, Manning, Alisa K, Martínez-Larrad, María Teresa, McAteer, Jarred B, McPherson, Ruth, Meisinger, Christa, Melzer, David, Meyre, David, Mitchell, Braxton D, Mukherjee, Sutapa, Naitza, Silvia, Neville, Matthew J, Oostra, Ben A, Orrù, Marco, Pakyz, Ruth, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Pattaro, Cristian, Pearson, Daniel, Peden, John F, Pedersen, Nancy L, Perola, Markus, Pfeiffer, Andreas FH, Pichler, Irene, Polasek, Ozren, Posthuma, Danielle, Potter, Simon C, Pouta, Anneli, Province, Michael A, Psaty, Bruce M, Rayner, Nigel W, Rice, Kenneth, Ripatti, Samuli, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rolandsson, Olov, Sandbaek, Annelli, Sandhu, Manjinder, Sanna, Serena, Sayer, Avan Aihie, Scheet, Paul, Seedorf, Udo, Sharp, Stephen J, Shields, Beverley, Sijbrands, Eric JG, Silveira, Angela, Simpson, Laila, Singleton, Andrew, Smith, Nicholas L, Sovio, Ulla, Swift, Amy, Syddall, Holly, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tanaka, Toshiko, Tönjes, Anke, Uitterlinden, André G, Van Dijk, Ko Willems, Varma, Dhiraj, Visvikis-Siest, Sophie, Vitart, Veronique, Vogelzangs, Nicole, Waeber, Gérard, Wagner, Peter J, Walley, Andrew, Ward, Kim L, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H, Willemsen, Gonneke, Witteman, Jaqueline CM, Yarnell, John WG, Zelenika, Diana, Zethelius, Björn, Zhai, Guangju, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zillikens, M Carola, Borecki, Ingrid B, Loos, Ruth JF, Meneton, Pierre, Magnusson, Patrik KE, Nathan, David M, Williams, Gordon H, Silander, Kaisa, Salomaa, Veikko, Smith, George Davey, Bornstein, Stefan R, Schwarz, Peter, Spranger, Joachim, Karpe, Fredrik, Shuldiner, Alan R, Cooper, Cyrus, Dedoussis, George V, Serrano-Ríos, Manuel, Lind, Lars, Palmer, Lyle J, Franks, Paul W, Ebrahim, Shah, Marmot, Michael, Kao, WH Linda, Pramstaller, Peter Paul, Wright, Alan F, Stumvoll, Michael, Hamsten, Anders, Buchanan, Thomas A, Valle, Timo T, Rotter, Jerome I, Siscovick, David S, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Boomsma, Dorret I, Deloukas, Panos, Spector, Timothy D, Ferrucci, Luigi, Cao, Antonio, Scuteri, Angelo, Schlessinger, David, Uda, Manuela, Ruokonen, Aimo, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Waterworth, Dawn M, Vollenweider, Peter, Peltonen, Leena, Mooser, Vincent, Sladek, Robert, Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Palmer, Nd, Mcdonough, Cw, Hicks, Pj, Roh, Bh, Wing, Mr, An, S, Hester, Jm, Cooke, Jn, Bostrom, Ma, Rudock, Me, Talbert, Me, Lewis, Jp, Diagram, Consortium, Magic, Investigator, Ferrara, A, Lu, L, Ziegler, Jt, Sale, Mm, Divers, J, Shriner, D, Adeyemo, A, Rotimi, Cn, Ng, Mc, Langefeld, Cd, Freedman, Bi, Bowden, Dw, Voight, Bf, Scott, Lj, Steinthorsdottir, V, Morris, Ap, Dina, C, Welch, Rp, Zeggini, E, Huth, C, Aulchenko, Y, Thorleifsson, G, Mcculloch, Lj, Ferreira, T, Grallert, H, Amin, N, Wu, G, Willer, Cj, Raychaudhuri, S, Mccarroll, Sa, Langenberg, C, Hofmann, Om, Dupuis, J, Qi, L, Segrè, Av, van Hoek, M, Navarro, P, Ardlie, K, Balkau, B, Benediktsson, R, Bennett, Aj, Blagieva, R, Boerwinkle, E, Bonnycastle, Ll, Boström, Kb, Bravenboer, B, Bumpstead, S, Burtt, Np, Charpentier, G, Chines, P, Cornelis, M, Couper, Dj, Crawford, G, Doney, A, Elliott, K, Elliott, Al, Erdos, Mr, Fox, C, Franklin, C, Ganser, M, Gieger, C, Grarup, N, Green, T, Griffin, S, Groves, Cj, Guiducci, C, Hadjadj, S, Hassanali, N, Herder, C, Isomaa, B, Jackson, Au, Johnson, Pr, Jørgensen, T, Kao, Wh, Klopp, N, Kong, A, Kraft, P, Kuusisto, J, Lauritzen, T, Li, M, Lieverse, A, Lindgren, Cm, Lyssenko, V, Marre, M, Meitinger, T, Midthjell, K, Morken, Ma, Narisu, N, Nilsson, P, Owen, Kr, Payne, F, Perry, Jr, Petersen, Ak, Platou, C, Proença, C, Prokopenko, I, Rathmann, W, Rayner, Nw, Robertson, Nr, Rocheleau, G, Roden, M, Sampson, Mj, Saxena, R, Shields, Bm, Shrader, P, Sigurdsson, G, Sparsø, T, Strassburger, K, Stringham, Hm, Sun, Q, Swift, Aj, Thorand, B, Tichet, J, Tuomi, T, van Dam, Rm, van Haeften, Tw, van Herpt, T, van Vliet Ostaptchouk, Jv, Walters, Gb, Weedon, Mn, Wijmenga, C, Witteman, J, Bergman, Rn, Cauchi, S, Collins, F, Gloyn, Al, Gyllensten, U, Hansen, T, Hide, Wa, Hitman, Ga, Hofman, A, Hunter, Dj, Hveem, K, Laakso, M, Mohlke, Kl, Morris, Ad, Palmer, Cn, Pramstaller, Pp, Rudan, I, Sijbrands, E, Stein, Ld, Tuomilehto, J, Uitterlinden, A, Walker, M, Wareham, Nj, Watanabe, Rm, Abecasis, Gr, Boehm, Bo, Campbell, H, Daly, Mj, Hattersley, At, Hu, Fb, Meigs, Jb, Pankow, J, Pedersen, O, Wichmann, He, Barroso, I, Florez, Jc, Frayling, Tm, Groop, L, Sladek, R, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Wilson, Jf, Illig, T, Froguel, P, van Duijn, Cm, Stefansson, K, Altshuler, D, Boehnke, M, Mccarthy, Mi, Soranzo, N, Wheeler, E, Glazer, Nl, Bouatia Naji, N, Mägi, R, Randall, J, Johnson, T, Elliott, P, Rybin, D, Henneman, P, Dehghan, A, Hottenga, Jj, Song, K, Goel, A, Egan, Jm, Lajunen, T, Kanoni, S, Cavalcanti Proença, C, Kumari, M, Timpson, Nj, Zabena, C, Ingelsson, E, An, P, O'Connell, J, Luan, J, Elliott, A, Roccasecca, Rm, Pattou, F, Sethupathy, P, Ariyurek, Y, Barter, P, Beilby, Jp, Ben Shlomo, Y, Bergmann, S, Bochud, M, Bonnefond, A, Borch Johnsen, K, Böttcher, Y, Brunner, E, Bumpstead, Sj, Chen, Yd, Clarke, R, Coin, Lj, Cooper, Mn, Crisponi, L, Day, In, de Geus, Ej, Delplanque, J, Fedson, Ac, Fischer Rosinsky, A, Forouhi, Ng, Frants, R, Franzosi, Mg, Galan, P, Goodarzi, Mo, Graessler, J, Grundy, S, Gwilliam, R, Hallmans, G, Hammond, N, Han, X, Hartikainen, Al, Hayward, C, Heath, Sc, Hercberg, S, Hicks, Aa, Hillman, Dr, Hingorani, Ad, Hui, J, Hung, J, Jula, A, Kaakinen, M, Kaprio, J, Kesaniemi, Ya, Kivimaki, M, Knight, B, Koskinen, S, Kovacs, P, Kyvik, Ko, Lathrop, Gm, Lawlor, Da, Le Bacquer, O, Lecoeur, C, Li, Y, Mahley, R, Mangino, M, Manning, Ak, Martínez Larrad, Mt, Mcateer, Jb, Mcpherson, R, Meisinger, C, Melzer, D, Meyre, D, Mitchell, Bd, Mukherjee, S, Naitza, S, Neville, Mj, Oostra, Ba, Orrù, M, Pakyz, R, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Pattaro, C, Pearson, D, Peden, Jf, Pedersen, Nl, Perola, M, Pfeiffer, Af, Pichler, I, Polasek, O, Posthuma, D, Potter, Sc, Pouta, A, Province, Ma, Psaty, Bm, Rice, K, Ripatti, S, Rivadeneira, F, Rolandsson, O, Sandbaek, A, Sandhu, M, Sanna, S, Sayer, Aa, Scheet, P, Seedorf, U, Sharp, Sj, Shields, B, Sijbrands, Ej, Silveira, A, Simpson, L, Singleton, A, Smith, Nl, Sovio, U, Swift, A, Syddall, H, Syvänen, Ac, Tanaka, T, Tönjes, A, Uitterlinden, Ag, van Dijk, Kw, Varma, D, Visvikis Siest, S, Vitart, V, Vogelzangs, N, Waeber, G, Wagner, Pj, Walley, A, Ward, Kl, Watkins, H, Wild, Sh, Willemsen, G, Witteman, Jc, Yarnell, Jw, Zelenika, D, Zethelius, B, Zhai, G, Zhao, Jh, Zillikens, Mc, Borecki, Ib, Loos, Rj, Meneton, P, Magnusson, Pk, Nathan, Dm, Williams, Gh, Silander, K, Salomaa, V, Smith, Gd, Bornstein, Sr, Schwarz, P, Spranger, J, Karpe, F, Shuldiner, Ar, Cooper, C, Dedoussis, Gv, Serrano Ríos, M, Lind, L, Palmer, Lj, Franks, Pw, Ebrahim, S, Marmot, M, Wright, Af, Stumvoll, M, Hamsten, A, Buchanan, Ta, Valle, Tt, Rotter, Ji, Siscovick, D, Penninx, Bw, Boomsma, Di, Deloukas, P, Spector, Td, Ferrucci, L, Cao, A, Scuteri, A, Schlessinger, D, Uda, M, Ruokonen, A, Jarvelin, Mr, Waterworth, Dm, Vollenweider, P, Peltonen, L, Mooser, V, Sladek, R., Medical Research Council (MRC), Human genetics, Psychiatry, NCA - Attention & Cognition, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Biological Psychology, Functional Genomics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Attention & Cognition, EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes, Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Griffin, Simon [0000-0002-2157-4797], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Soranzo, Nicole [0000-0003-1095-3852], Wheeler, Eleanor [0000-0002-8616-6444], Luan, Jian'an [0000-0003-3137-6337], Forouhi, Nita [0000-0002-5041-248X], Sharp, Stephen [0000-0003-2375-1440], Sovio, Ulla [0000-0002-0799-1105], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, DIAGRAM Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Johnson, T., Bergman, S., Bochud, M., Waeber, G., and Vollenweider, P.
Subjects: Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, Adult, African Americans/genetics, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/ethnology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/genetics, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Validation Studies as Topic, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Linkage disequilibrium, Genetic Screens, endocrine system diseases, lcsh:Medicine, Genome-wide association study, Medical and Health Sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Endocrinology, Genome Sequencing, lcsh:Science, Medicine(all), Genetics, African Americans, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, Multidisciplinary, Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), LARGE-SCALE ASSOCIATION, STAGE RENAL-DISEASE, COMMON VARIANTS, Genomics, Medicine, Research Article, SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI, General Science & Technology, Population, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Biology, DIAGRAM Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, MAGIC Investigators, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Genetic linkage, MD Multidisciplinary, Genome-Wide Association Studies, SNP, ddc:610, education, Genotyping, 030304 developmental biology, Diabetic Endocrinology, LINKAGE ANALYSIS, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), lcsh:R, TCF7L2 GENE, Case-control study, Computational Biology, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Human Genetics, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Stage renal-disease, large-scale association, Susceptibility loci, Insulin-resistance, Fasting glucose, Tissue factor, Homeodomain protein, Linkage analysis, Common variants, TCF7L2 gene, Black or African American, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, TISSUE FACTOR, Genetics of Disease, HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN, Genetic Polymorphism, lcsh:Q, Genome Expression Analysis, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Population Genetics, FASTING GLUCOSE
Abstract: African Americans are disproportionately affected by type 2 diabetes (T2DM) yet few studies have examined T2DM using genome-wide association approaches in this ethnicity. The aim of this study was to identify genes associated with T2DM in the African American population. We performed a Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) using the Affymetrix 6.0 array in 965 African-American cases with T2DM and end-stage renal disease (T2DM-ESRD) and 1029 population-based controls. The most significant SNPs (n = 550 independent loci) were genotyped in a replication cohort and 122 SNPs (n = 98 independent loci) were further tested through genotyping three additional validation cohorts followed by meta-analysis in all five cohorts totaling 3,132 cases and 3,317 controls. Twelve SNPs had evidence of association in the GWAS (P
Published: 2012

43. Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

Author: Nejentsev, Sergey, Howson, Joanna M. M., Walker, Neil M., Szeszko, Jeffrey, Field, Sarah F., Stevens, Helen E., Reynolds, Pamela, Hardy, Matthew, King, Erna, Masters, Jennifer, Hulme, John, Maier, Lisa M., Smyth, Deborah, Bailey, Rebecca, Cooper, Jason D., Ribas, Gloria, Campbell, R. Duncan, Clayton, David G., Todd, John A., Burton, Paul R., Cardon, Lon R., Craddock, Nick, Deloukas, Panos, Duncanson, Audrey, Kwiatkowski, Dominic P., McCarthy, Mark I., Ouwehand, Willem H., Samani, Nilesh J., Donnelly, Peter, Barrett, Jeffrey C., Davison, Dan, Easton, Doug, Evans, David, Leung, Hin-Tak, Marchini, Jonathan L., Morris, Andrew P., Spencer, Chris C. A., Tobin, Martin D., Attwood, Antony P., Boorman, James P., Cant, Barbara, Everson, Ursula, Hussey, Judith M., Jolley, Jennifer D., Knight, Alexandra S., Koch, Kerstin, Meech, Elizabeth, Nutland, Sarah, Prowse, Christopher V., Taylor, Niall C., Walters, Graham R., Watkins, Nicholas A., Winzer, Thilo, Jones, Richard W., McArdle, Wendy L., Ring, Susan M., Strachan, David P., Pembrey, Marcus, Breen, Gerome, St Clair, David, Caesar, Sian, Gordon-Smith, Katherine, Jones, Lisa, Fraser, Christine, Green, Elaine K., Grozeva, Detelina, Hamshere, Marian L., Holmans, Peter A., Jones, Ian R., Kirov, George, Moskvina, Valentina, Nikolov, Ivan, O’Donovan, Michael C., Owen, Michael J., Collier, David A., Elkin, Amanda, Farmer, Anne, Williamson, Richard, McGuffin, Peter, Young, Allan H., Nicol Ferrier, I., Ball, Stephen G., Balmforth, Anthony J., Barrett, Jennifer H., Bishop, D. Timothy, Iles, Mark M., Maqbool, Azhar, Yuldasheva, Nadira, Hall, Alistair S., Braund, Peter S., Dixon, Richard J., Mangino, Massimo, Stevens, Suzanne, Thompson, John R., Bredin, Francesca, Tremelling, Mark, Parkes, Miles, Drummond, Hazel, Lees, Charles W., Nimmo, Elaine R., Satsangi, Jack, Fisher, Sheila A., Forbes, Alastair, Lewis, Cathryn M., Onnie, Clive M., Prescott, Natalie J., Sanderson, Jeremy, Mathew, Christopher G., Barbour, Jamie, Khalid Mohiuddin, M., Todhunter, Catherine E., Mansfield, John C., Ahmad, Tariq, Cummings, Fraser R., Jewell, Derek P., Webster, John, Brown, Morris J., Lathrop, G. Mark, Connell, John, Dominiczak, Anna, Braga, Carolina A., Burke, Beverley, Dobson, Richard, Gungadoo, Johannie, Lee, Kate L., Munroe, Patricia B., Newhouse, Stephen J., Onipinla, Abiodun, Wallace, Chris, Xue, Mingzhan, Caulfield, Mark, Farrall, Martin, Barton, Anne, Bruce, Ian N., Donovan, Hannah, Eyre, Steve, Gilbert, Paul D., Hider, Samantha L., Hinks, Anne M., John, Sally L., Potter, Catherine, Silman, Alan J., Symmons, Deborah P. M., Thomson, Wendy, Worthington, Jane, Dunger, David B., Widmer, Barry, Frayling, Timothy M., Freathy, Rachel M., Lango, Hana, Perry, John R. B., Shields, Beverley M., Weedon, Michael N., Hattersley, Andrew T., Hitman, Graham A., Walker, Mark, Elliott, Kate S., Groves, Christopher J., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Rayner, Nigel W., Timpson, Nicholas J., Zeggini, Eleftheria, Newport, Melanie, Sirugo, Giorgio, Lyons, Emily, Vannberg, Fredrik, Hill, Adrian V. S., Bradbury, Linda A., Farrar, Claire, Pointon, Jennifer J., Wordsworth, Paul, Brown, Matthew A., Franklyn, Jayne A., Heward, Joanne M., Simmonds, Matthew J., Gough, Stephen C. L., Seal, Sheila, Stratton, Michael R., Rahman, Nazneen, Ban, Maria, Goris, An, Sawcer, Stephen J., Compston, Alastair, Conway, David, Jallow, Muminatou, Rockett, Kirk A., Bryan, Claire, Bumpstead, Suzannah J., Chaney, Amy, Downes, Kate, Ghori, Jilur, Gwilliam, Rhian, Hunt, Sarah E., Inouye, Michael, Keniry, Andrew, King, Emma, McGinnis, Ralph, Potter, Simon, Ravindrarajah, Rathi, Whittaker, Pamela, Withers, David, Cardin, Niall J., Ferreira, Teresa, Pereira-Gale, Joanne, Hallgrimsdóttir, Ingeleif B., Howie, Bryan N., Su, Zhan, Ying Teo, Yik, Vukcevic, Damjan, Bentley, David, and Compston, Alistair
Subjects: Genotype, Genes, MHC Class II, Genes, MHC Class I, Human leukocyte antigen, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, White People, MHC Class II Gene, Gene Frequency, HLA-DQ Antigens, Databases, Genetic, HLA-B Antigens, HLA-DQ beta-Chains, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Alleles, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, HLA-DQ Antigen, HLA-A Antigens, MHC Class I Gene, HLA-DR Antigens, HLA-B, Histocompatibility, HLA-A, C431 Medical Genetics, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Case-Control Studies, Sample Size, HLA-DRB1 Chains
Abstract: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 is associated with susceptibility to more common diseases than any other region of the human genome, including almost all disorders classified as autoimmune. In type 1 diabetes the major genetic susceptibility determinants have been mapped to the MHC class II genes HLA-DQB1 and HLA-DRB1 (refs 1-3), but these genes cannot completely explain the association between type 1 diabetes and the MHC region. Owing to the region's extreme gene density, the multiplicity of disease-associated alleles, strong associations between alleles, limited genotyping capability, and inadequate statistical approaches and sample sizes, which, and how many, loci within the MHC determine susceptibility remains unclear. Here, in several large type 1 diabetes data sets, we analyse a combined total of 1,729 polymorphisms, and apply statistical methods - recursive partitioning and regression - to pinpoint disease susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A (risk ratios >1.5; Pcombined = 2.01 × 10-19 and 2.35 × 10-13, respectively) in addition to the established associations of the MHC class II genes. Other loci with smaller and/or rarer effects might also be involved, but to find these, future searches must take into account both the HLA class II and class I genes and use even larger samples. Taken together with previous studies, we conclude that MHC-class-I-mediated events, principally involving HLA-B*39, contribute to the aetiology of type 1 diabetes. ©2007 Nature Publishing Group.
Published: 2007

44. Multiple type 2 diabetes susceptibility genes following genome-wide association scan in UK samples

Author: Zeggini, Eleftheria, Weedon, Michael N., Lindgren, Cecilia M., Frayling, Timothy M., Elliott, Katherine S., Lango, Hana, Timpson, Nicholas J., Perry, John R.B., Rayner, Nigel W., Freathy, Rachel M., Barrett, Jeffrey C., Shields, Beverley, Morris, Andrew P., Ellard, Sian, Groves, Christopher J., Harries, Lorna W., Marchini, Jonathan L., Owen, Katharine R., Knight, Beatrice, Cardon, Lon R., Walker, Mark, Hitman, Graham A., Morris, Andrew D., Doney, Alex S.F., McCarthy, Mark I., and Hattersley, Andrew T.
Subjects: Adult, Homeodomain Proteins, Male, Genome, Human, Genes, p16, Chromosome Mapping, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Introns, United Kingdom, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Aged, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Transcription Factors
Abstract: The molecular mechanisms involved in the development of type 2 diabetes are poorly understood. Starting from genome-wide genotype data for 1,924 diabetic cases and 2,938 population controls generated by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, we set out to detect replicated diabetes association signals through analysis of 3,757 additional cases and 5,346 controls, and by integration of our findings with equivalent data from other international consortia. We detected diabetes susceptibility loci in and around the genes CDKAL1, CDKN2A/CDKN2B and IGF2BP2 and confirmed the recently described associations at HHEX/IDE and SLC30A8. Our findings provide insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes, emphasizing the contribution of multiple variants of modest effect. The regions identified underscore the importance of pathways influencing pancreatic beta cell development and function in the etiology of type 2 diabetes.
Published: 2007

45. Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

Author: Justice, Anne E, Karaderi, Tugce, Highland, Heather M, Young, Kristin L, Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Turcot, Valérie, Auer, Paul L, Fine, Rebecca S, Guo, Xiuqing, Schurmann, Claudia, Lempradl, Adelheid, Marouli, Eirini, Mahajan, Anubha, Winkler, Thomas W, Locke, Adam E, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Esko, Tõnu, Vedantam, Sailaja, Giri, Ayush, Lo, Ken Sin, Alfred, Tamuno, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie CY, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Feitosa, Mary F, Manning, Alisa K, Willems, Sara M, Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Abecasis, Goncalo, Alam, Dewan S, Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Balkau, Beverley, Bastarache, Lisa, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blüher, Matthias, Boehnke, Michael, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Brandslund, Ivan, Broer, Linda, Burt, Amber A, Butterworth, Adam S, Caulfield, Mark J, Cesana, Giancarlo, Chambers, John C, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y, Collins, Francis S, Cook, James P, Cox, Amanda J, Crosslin, David S, Danesh, John, de Bakker, Paul IW, Denus, Simon de, Mutsert, Renée de, Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W, Dennis, Joe G, Denny, Josh C, Angelantonio, Emanuele Di, Dörr, Marcus, Drenos, Fotios, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Dunning, Alison M, Easton, Douglas F, Elliott, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelos, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Feng, Shuang, Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrieres, Jean, Florez, Jose C, Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline S, Franks, Paul W, Friedrich, Nele, Gan, Wei, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Girotto, Giorgia, Gorski, Mathias, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Grove, Megan L, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeff, Hansen, Torben, Hattersley, Andrew T, Hayward, Caroline, Heid, Iris M, Holmen, Oddgeir L, Hovingh, G Kees, Howson, Joanna MM, Hu, Yao, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hveem, Kristian, Ikram, M Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jackson, Anne U, Jarvik, Gail P, Jia, Yucheng, Jørgensen, Torben, Jousilahti, Pekka, Justesen, Johanne M, Kahali, Bratati, Karaleftheri, Maria, Kardia, Sharon LR, Karpe, Fredrik, Kee, Frank, Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kovacs, Peter, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A, Lamparter, David, Lange, Leslie A, Langenberg, Claudia, Larson, Eric B, Lee, Nanette R, Lee, Wen-Jane, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lewis, Cora E, Li, Huaixing, Li, Jin, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Li-An, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Dajiang J, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, MacGregor, Stuart, Mägi, Reedik, Männistö, Satu, Marenne, Gaëlle, Marten, Jonathan, Masca, Nicholas GD, McCarthy, Mark I, Meidtner, Karina, Mihailov, Evelin, Moilanen, Leena, Moitry, Marie, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Munroe, Patricia B, Narisu, Narisu, Nelson, Christopher P, Neville, Matt, Ntalla, Ioanna, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Owen, Katharine R, Pedersen, Oluf, Peloso, Gina M, Pennell, Craig E, Perola, Markus, Perry, James A, Perry, John RB, Pers, Tune H, Ewing, Ailith, Polasek, Ozren, Raitakari, Olli T, Rasheed, Asif, Raulerson, Chelsea K, Rauramaa, Rainer, Reilly, Dermot F, Reiner, Alex P, Ridker, Paul M, Rivas, Manuel A, Robertson, Neil R, Robino, Antonietta, Rudan, Igor, Ruth, Katherine S, Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J, Schreiner, Pamela J, Schulze, Matthias B, Scott, Robert A, Segura-Lepe, Marcelo, Sim, Xueling, Slater, Andrew J, Small, Kerrin S, Smith, Blair H, Smith, Jennifer A, Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D, Speliotes, Elizabeth K, Stefansson, Kari, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stirrups, Kathleen E, Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M, Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Surendran, Praveen, Swart, Karin MA, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Thompson, Deborah J, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Thuesen, Betina H, Tönjes, Anke, Torres, Mina, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Vanhala, Mauno, Varma, Rohit, Vermeulen, Sita H, Vestergaard, Henrik, Vitart, Veronique, Vogt, Thomas F, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wagenknecht, Lynne E, Walker, Mark, Wallentin, Lars, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Carol A, Wang, Shuai, Wareham, Nicholas J, Warren, Helen R, Waterworth, Dawn M, Wessel, Jennifer, White, Harvey D, Willer, Cristen J, Wilson, James G, Wood, Andrew R, Wu, Ying, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Yao, Jie, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Young, Robin, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zhan, Xiaowei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zheng, He, Zhou, Wei, Zillikens, M Carola, CHD Exome+ Consortium, Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CH, EPIC-CVD Consortium, ExomeBP Consortium, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, GoT2D Genes Consortium, InterAct, ReproGen Consortium, T2D-Genes Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Borecki, Ingrid B, Pospisilik, J Andrew, 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Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Turcot, Valérie, Auer, Paul L., Fine, Rebecca S., Guo, Xiuqing, Schurmann, Claudia, Lempradl, Adelheid, Marouli, Eirini, Mahajan, Anubha, Winkler, Thomas W., Locke, Adam E., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Esko, Tõnu, Vedantam, Sailaja, Giri, Ayush, Lo, Ken Sin, Alfred, Tamuno, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie C. Y., Heard-Costa, Nancy L., Feitosa, Mary F., Manning, Alisa K., Willems, Sara M., Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Abecasis, Goncalo, Alam, Dewan S., Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Balkau, Beverley, Bastarache, Lisa, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F., Blüher, Matthia, Boehnke, Michael, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A., Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P., Bowden, Donald W., Brandslund, Ivan, Broer, Linda, Burt, Amber A., Butterworth, Adam S., Caulfield, Mark J., Cesana, Giancarlo, Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y., Collins, Francis S., Cook, James P., Cox, Amanda J., Crosslin, David S., Danesh, John, de Bakker, Paul I. W., Denus, Simon de, Mutsert, Renée de, Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W., Dennis, Joe G., Denny, Josh C., Angelantonio, Emanuele Di, Dörr, Marcu, Drenos, Fotio, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Dunning, Alison M., Easton, Douglas F., Elliott, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelo, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Feng, Shuang, Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrieres, Jean, Florez, Jose C., Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline S., Franks, Paul W., Friedrich, Nele, Gan, Wei, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmanta, Girotto, Giorgia, Gorski, Mathia, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niel, Grove, Megan L., Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeff, Hansen, Torben, Hattersley, Andrew T., Hayward, Caroline, Heid, Iris M., Holmen, Oddgeir L., Hovingh, G. Kee, Howson, Joanna M. M., Hu, Yao, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hveem, Kristian, Ikram, M. Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jackson, Anne U., Jarvik, Gail P., Jia, Yucheng, Jørgensen, Torben, Jousilahti, Pekka, Justesen, Johanne M., Kahali, Bratati, Karaleftheri, Maria, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Karpe, Fredrik, Kee, Frank, Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kooner, Jaspal S., Kovacs, Peter, Krämer, Bernhard K., Kuulasmaa, Kari, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A., Lamparter, David, Lange, Leslie A., Langenberg, Claudia, Larson, Eric B., Lee, Nanette R., Lee, Wen-Jane, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lewis, Cora E., Li, Huaixing, Li, Jin, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Li-An, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lar, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Dajiang J., Luan, Jian’An, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Macgregor, Stuart, Mägi, Reedik, Männistö, Satu, Marenne, Gaëlle, Marten, Jonathan, Masca, Nicholas G. D., Mccarthy, Mark I., Meidtner, Karina, Mihailov, Evelin, Moilanen, Leena, Moitry, Marie, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P., Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Munroe, Patricia B., Narisu, Narisu, Nelson, Christopher P., Neville, Matt, Ntalla, Ioanna, O’Connell, Jeffrey R., Owen, Katharine R., Pedersen, Oluf, Peloso, Gina M., Pennell, Craig E., Perola, Marku, Perry, James A., Perry, John R. B., Pers, Tune H., Ewing, Ailith, Polasek, Ozren, Raitakari, Olli T., Rasheed, Asif, Raulerson, Chelsea K., Rauramaa, Rainer, Reilly, Dermot F., Reiner, Alex P., Ridker, Paul M., Rivas, Manuel A., Robertson, Neil R., Robino, Antonietta, Rudan, Igor, Ruth, Katherine S., Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J., Schreiner, Pamela J., Schulze, Matthias B., Scott, Robert A., Segura-Lepe, Marcelo, Sim, Xueling, Slater, Andrew J., Small, Kerrin S., Smith, Blair H., Smith, Jennifer A., Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D., Speliotes, Elizabeth K., Stefansson, Kari, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stirrups, Kathleen E., Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M., Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Surendran, Praveen, Swart, Karin M. A., Tardif, Jean-Claude, Taylor, Kent D., Teumer, Alexander, Thompson, Deborah J., Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Thuesen, Betina H., Tönjes, Anke, Torres, Mina, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G., Uusitupa, Matti, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Vanhala, Mauno, Varma, Rohit, Vermeulen, Sita H., Vestergaard, Henrik, Vitart, Veronique, Vogt, Thomas F., Vuckovic, Dragana, Wagenknecht, Lynne E., Walker, Mark, Wallentin, Lar, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Carol A., Wang, Shuai, Wareham, Nicholas J., Warren, Helen R., Waterworth, Dawn M., Wessel, Jennifer, White, Harvey D., Willer, Cristen J., Wilson, James G., Wood, Andrew R., Wu, Ying, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Yao, Jie, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M., Young, Robin, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zhan, Xiaowei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zheng, He, Zhou, Wei, Zillikens, M. Carola, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Borecki, Ingrid B., Pospisilik, J. Andrew, Deloukas, Pano, Frayling, Timothy M., Lettre, Guillaume, Mohlke, Karen L., Rotter, Jerome I., Kutalik, Zoltán, Hirschhorn, Joel N., Cupples, L. Adrienne, Loos, Ruth J. F., North, Kari E., Lindgren, Cecilia M., APH - Societal Participation & Health, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Aging & Later Life, Epidemiology and Data Science, and VU University medical center
Subjects: Exome/genetics, Male, ReproGen Consortium, Adipose tissue, Genome-wide association study, Type 2 diabetes, White adipose tissue, Body Mass Index, Animals, Body Fat Distribution, Case-Control Studies, Drosophila, Exome, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Homeostasis, Humans, Lipids, Proteins, Risk Factors, Waist-Hip Ratio, 0302 clinical medicine, Hyperlipidemia, Body fat distribution, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, INSULIN-RESISTANCE, ADIPOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION, CHD Exome+ Consortium, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Drosophila/genetics, RS11209026 POLYMORPHISM, KINASE 7, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, T2D-Genes Consortium, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Body Fat Distribution/methods, RECEPTOR ALK7, ADIPOSE-TISSUE, Gene Frequency/genetics, Genetic Variation/genetics, InterAct, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], genetic association study, RNA splicing, Proteins/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Lipid particle, ExomeBP Consortium, WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE, Waist-Hip Ratio/methods, Biology, EPIC-CVD Consortium, Article, MAGIC Investigators, 03 medical and health sciences, Homeostasis/genetics, Lipids/genetics, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, medicine, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, Risk factor, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, ABDOMINAL ADIPOSITY, Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, 06 Biological Sciences, medicine.disease, Minor allele frequency, GoT2D Genes Consortium, genetics research, TYPE-2 DIABETES SUSCEPTIBILITY, 3111 Biomedicine, Body mass index, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract: Body fat distribution is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health consequences. We analyzed the association of body fat distribution, assessed by waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, with 228,985 predicted coding and splice site variants available on exome arrays in up to 344,369 individuals from five major ancestries (discovery) and 132,177 European-ancestry individuals (validation). We identified 15 common (minor allele frequency, MAF ≥ 5%) and 9 low frequency or rare (MAF < 5%) coding novel variants. Pathway/gene set enrichment analyses identified lipid particle, adiponectin, abnormal white adipose tissue physiology, and bone development and morphology as important contributors to fat distribution, while cross-trait associations highlight cardiometabolic traits. In functional follow-up analyses, specifically in Drosophila RNAi-knockdowns, we observed a significant increase in the total body triglyceride levels for two genes (DNAH10 and PLXND1). We implicate novel genes in fat distribution, stressing the importance of interrogating low-frequency and protein-coding variants., Editorial summary: A trans-ethnic exome-wide association study for body fat distribution identifies protein-coding variants that are significantly associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index.
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46. Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals

Author: Dastani, Zari, Hivert, Marie-France, Timpson, Nicholas, Perry, John RB, Yuan, Xin, Scott, Robert A, Henneman, Peter, Heid, Iris M, Kizer, Jorge R, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Fuchsberger, Christian, Tanaka, Toshiko, Morris, Andrew P, Small, Kerrin, Isaacs, Aaron, Beekman, Marian, Coassin, Stefan, Lohman, Kurt, Qi, Lu, Kanoni, Stavroula, Pankow, James S, Uh, Hae-Won, Wu, Ying, Bidulescu, Aurelian, Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J, Greenwood, Celia MT, Ladouceur, Martin, Grimsby, Jonna, Manning, Alisa K, Liu, Ching-Ti, Kooner, Jaspal, Mooser, Vincent E, Vollenweider, Peter, Kapur, Karen A, Chambers, John, Wareham, Nicholas J, Langenberg, Claudia, Frants, Rune, Willems-Vandijk, Ko, Oostra, Ben A, Willems, Sara M, Lamina, Claudia, Winkler, Thomas W, Psaty, Bruce M, Tracy, Russell P, Brody, Jennifer, Chen, Ida, Viikari, Jorma, Kähönen, Mika, Pramstaller, Peter P, Evans, David M, St Pourcain, Beate, Sattar, Naveed, Wood, Andrew R, Bandinelli, Stefania, Carlson, Olga D, Egan, Josephine M, Böhringer, Stefan, Van Heemst, Diana, Kedenko, Lyudmyla, Kristiansson, Kati, Nuotio, Marja-Liisa, Loo, Britt-Marie, Harris, Tamara, Garcia, Melissa, Kanaya, Alka, Haun, Margot, Klopp, Norman, Wichmann, H-Erich, Deloukas, Panos, Katsareli, Efi, Couper, David J, Duncan, Bruce B, Kloppenburg, Margreet, Adair, Linda S, Borja, Judith B, DIAGRAM+ Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, Wilson, James G, Musani, Solomon, Guo, Xiuqing, Johnson, Toby, Semple, Robert, Teslovich, Tanya M, Allison, Matthew A, Redline, Susan, Buxbaum, Sarah G, Mohlke, Karen L, Meulenbelt, Ingrid, Ballantyne, Christie M, Dedoussis, George V, Hu, Frank B, Liu, Yongmei, Paulweber, Bernhard, Spector, Timothy D, Slagboom, P Eline, Ferrucci, Luigi, Jula, Antti, Perola, Markus, Raitakari, Olli, Florez, Jose C, Salomaa, Veikko, Eriksson, Johan G, Frayling, Timothy M, Hicks, Andrew A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Smith, George Davey, Siscovick, David S, Kronenberg, Florian, Van Duijn, Cornelia, Loos, Ruth JF, Waterworth, Dawn M, Meigs, James B, Dupuis, Josee, Richards, J Brent, Voight, Benjamin F, Scott, Laura J, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Dina, Christian, Welch, Ryan P, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Huth, Cornelia, Aulchenko, Yurii S, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, McCulloch, Laura J, Ferreira, Teresa, Grallert, Harald, Amin, Najaf, Wu, Guanming, Willer, Cristen J, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, McCarroll, Steve A, Hofmann, Oliver M, Segrè, Ayellet V, Van Hoek, Mandy, Navarro, Pau, Ardlie, Kristin, Balkau, Beverley, Benediktsson, Rafn, Bennett, Amanda J, Blagieva, Roza, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boström, Kristina Bengtsson, Bravenboer, Bert, Bumpstead, Suzannah, Burtt, Noël P, Charpentier, Guillaume, Chines, Peter S, Cornelis, Marilyn, Crawford, Gabe, Doney, Alex SF, Elliott, Katherine S, Elliott, Amanda L, Erdos, Michael R, Fox, Caroline S, Franklin, Christopher S, Ganser, Martha, Gieger, Christian, Grarup, Niels, Green, Todd, Griffin, Simon, Groves, Christopher J, Guiducci, Candace, Hadjadj, Samy, Hassanali, Neelam, Herder, Christian, Isomaa, Bo, Jackson, Anne U, Johnson, Paul RV, Jørgensen, Torben, Kao, Wen HL, Kong, Augustine, Kraft, Peter, Kuusisto, Johanna, Lauritzen, Torsten, Li, Man, Lieverse, Aloysius, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Marre, Michel, Meitinger, Thomas, Midthjell, Kristian, Morken, Mario A, Narisu, Narisu, Nilsson, Peter, Owen, Katharine R, Payne, Felicity, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Platou, Carl, Proença, Christine, Prokopenko, Inga, Rathmann, Wolfgang, Rayner, N William, Robertson, Neil R, Rocheleau, Ghislain, Roden, Michael, Sampson, Michael J, Saxena, Richa, Shields, Beverley M, Shrader, Peter, Sigurdsson, Gunnar, Sparsø, Thomas, Strassburger, Klaus, Stringham, Heather M, Sun, Qi, Swift, Amy J, Thorand, Barbara, Tichet, Jean, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Van Dam, Rob M, Van Haeften, Timon W, Van Herpt, Thijs, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Walters, G Bragi, Weedon, Michael N, Wijmenga, Cisca, Witteman, Jacqueline, Bergman, Richard N, Cauchi, Stephane, Collins, Francis S, Gloyn, Anna L, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hansen, Torben, Hide, Winston A, Hitman, Graham A, Hofman, Albert, Hunter, David J, Hveem, Kristian, Laakso, Markku, Morris, Andrew D, Palmer, Colin NA, Rudan, Igor, Sijbrands, Eric, Stein, Lincoln D, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, Andre, Walker, Mark, Watanabe, Richard M, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Boehm, Bernhard O, Campbell, Harry, Daly, Mark J, Hattersley, Andrew T, Pedersen, Oluf, Barroso, Inês, Groop, Leif, Sladek, Rob, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Wilson, James F, Illig, Thomas, Froguel, Philippe, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Stefansson, Kari, Altshuler, David, Boehnke, Michael, McCarthy, Mark I, Soranzo, Nicole, Wheeler, Eleanor, Glazer, Nicole L, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua, Elliott, Paul, Rybin, Denis, Dehghan, Abbas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Song, Kijoung, Goel, Anuj, Lajunen, Taina, Doney, Alex, Cavalcanti-Proença, Christine, Kumari, Meena, Timpson, Nicholas J, Zabena, Carina, Ingelsson, Erik, An, Ping, O'Connell, Jeffrey, Luan, Jian'an, Elliott, Amanda, McCarroll, Steven A, Roccasecca, Rosa Maria, Pattou, François, Sethupathy, Praveen, Ariyurek, Yavuz, Barter, Philip, Beilby, John P, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Bergmann, Sven, Bochud, Murielle, Bonnefond, Amélie, Borch-Johnsen, Knut, Böttcher, Yvonne, Brunner, Eric, Bumpstead, Suzannah J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter, Clarke, Robert, Coin, Lachlan JM, Cooper, Matthew N, Crisponi, Laura, Day, Ian NM, De Geus, Eco JC, Delplanque, Jerome, Fedson, Annette C, Fischer-Rosinsky, Antje, Forouhi, Nita G, Franzosi, Maria Grazia, Galan, Pilar, Goodarzi, Mark O, Graessler, Jürgen, Grundy, Scott, Gwilliam, Rhian, Hallmans, Göran, Hammond, Naomi, Han, Xijing, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Hayward, Caroline, Heath, Simon C, Hercberg, Serge, Hillman, David R, Hingorani, Aroon D, Hui, Jennie, Hung, Joe, Kaakinen, Marika, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kesaniemi, Y Antero, Kivimaki, Mika, Knight, Beatrice, Koskinen, Seppo, Kovacs, Peter, Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm, Lathrop, G Mark, Lawlor, Debbie A, Le Bacquer, Olivier, Lecoeur, Cécile, Li, Yun, Mahley, Robert, Mangino, Massimo, Martínez-Larrad, María Teresa, McAteer, Jarred B, McPherson, Ruth, Meisinger, Christa, Melzer, David, Meyre, David, Mitchell, Braxton D, Mukherjee, Sutapa, Naitza, Silvia, Neville, Matthew J, Orrù, Marco, Pakyz, Ruth, Paolisso, Giuseppe, Pattaro, Cristian, Pearson, Daniel, Peden, John F, Pedersen, Nancy L, Pfeiffer, Andreas FH, Pichler, Irene, Polasek, Ozren, Posthuma, Danielle, Potter, Simon C, Pouta, Anneli, Province, Michael A, Rayner, Nigel W, Rice, Kenneth, Ripatti, Samuli, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rolandsson, Olov, Sandbaek, Annelli, Sandhu, Manjinder, Sanna, Serena, Sayer, Avan Aihie, Scheet, Paul, Seedorf, Udo, Sharp, Stephen J, Shields, Beverley, Sigurðsson, Gunnar, Sijbrands, Eric JG, Silveira, Angela, Simpson, Laila, Singleton, Andrew, Smith, Nicholas L, Sovio, Ulla, Swift, Amy, Syddall, Holly, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tönjes, Anke, Uitterlinden, André G, Van Dijk, Ko Willems, Varma, Dhiraj, Visvikis-Siest, Sophie, Vitart, Veronique, Vogelzangs, Nicole, Waeber, Gérard, Wagner, Peter J, Walley, Andrew, Ward, Kim L, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H, Willemsen, Gonneke, Witteman, Jaqueline CM, Yarnell, John WG, Zelenika, Diana, Zethelius, Björn, Zhai, Guangju, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zillikens, M Carola, DIAGRAM Consortium, GIANT Consortium, Global B Pgen Consortium, Borecki, Ingrid B, Meneton, Pierre, Magnusson, Patrik KE, Nathan, David M, Williams, Gordon H, Silander, Kaisa, Bornstein, Stefan R, Schwarz, Peter, Spranger, Joachim, Karpe, Fredrik, Shuldiner, Alan R, Cooper, Cyrus, Serrano-Ríos, Manuel, Lind, Lars, Palmer, Lyle J, Franks, Paul W, Ebrahim, Shah, Marmot, Michael, Kao, WH Linda, Pramstaller, Peter Paul, Wright, Alan F, Stumvoll, Michael, Hamsten, Anders, Procardis Consortium, Buchanan, Thomas A, Valle, Timo T, Rotter, Jerome I, Penninx, Brenda WJH, Boomsma, Dorret I, Cao, Antonio, Scuteri, Angelo, Schlessinger, David, Uda, Manuela, Ruokonen, Aimo, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Peltonen, Leena, Mooser, Vincent, Sladek, Robert, MAGIC Investigators, GLGC Consortium, Musunuru, Kiran, Smith, Albert V, Edmondson, Andrew C, Stylianou, Ioannis M, Koseki, Masahiro, Pirruccello, James P, Chasman, Daniel I, Johansen, Christopher T, Fouchier, Sigrid W, Peloso, Gina M, Barbalic, Maja, Ricketts, Sally L, Bis, Joshua C, Feitosa, Mary F, Orho-Melander, Marju, Melander, Olle, Li, Xiaohui, Li, Mingyao, Cho, Yoon Shin, Go, Min Jin, Kim, Young Jin, Lee, Jong-Young, Park, Taesung, Kim, Kyunga, Sim, Xueling, Ong, Rick Twee-Hee, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Lange, Leslie A, Smith, Joshua D, Ziegler, Andreas, Zhang, Weihua, Zee, Robert YL, Whitfield, John B, Thompson, John R, Surakka, Ida, Spector, Tim D, Smit, Johannes H, Sinisalo, Juha, Scott, James, Saharinen, Juha, Sabatti, Chiara, Rose, Lynda M, Roberts, Robert, Rieder, Mark, Parker, Alex N, Pare, Guillaume, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Nieminen, Markku S, Nickerson, Deborah A, Montgomery, Grant W, McArdle, Wendy, Masson, David, Martin, Nicholas G, Marroni, Fabio, Lucas, Gavin, Luben, Robert, Lokki, Marja-Liisa, Lettre, Guillaume, Launer, Lenore J, Lakatta, Edward G, Laaksonen, Reijo, Kyvik, Kirsten O, König, Inke R, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kaplan, Lee M, Johansson, Åsa, Janssens, A Cecile JW, Igl, Wilmar, Hovingh, G Kees, Hengstenberg, Christian, Havulinna, Aki S, Hastie, Nicholas D, Harris, Tamara B, Haritunians, Talin, Hall, Alistair S, Groop, Leif C, Gonzalez, Elena, Freimer, Nelson B, Erdmann, Jeanette, Ejebe, Kenechi G, Döring, Angela, Dominiczak, Anna F, Demissie, Serkalem, Deloukas, Panagiotis, De Faire, Ulf, Crawford, Gabriel, Chen, Yii-Der I, Caulfield, Mark J, Boekholdt, S Matthijs, Assimes, Themistocles L, Quertermous, Thomas, Seielstad, Mark, Wong, Tien Y, Tai, E-Shyong, Feranil, Alan B, Kuzawa, Christopher W, Taylor, Herman A, Gabriel, Stacey B, Holm, Hilma, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Krauss, Ronald M, Ordovas, Jose M, Munroe, Patricia B, Kooner, Jaspal S, Tall, Alan R, Hegele, Robert A, Kastelein, John JP, Schadt, Eric E, Strachan, David P, Reilly, Muredach P, Samani, Nilesh J, Schunkert, Heribert, Cupples, L Adrienne, Sandhu, Manjinder S, Ridker, Paul M, Rader, Daniel J, and Kathiresan, Sekar
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Male, Waist-Hip Ratio, Cholesterol, HDL, Gene Expression, Glucose Tolerance Test, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, 3. Good health, Black or African American, Asian People, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Adiponectin, Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Circulating levels of adiponectin, a hormone produced predominantly by adipocytes, are highly heritable and are inversely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and other metabolic traits. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 39,883 individuals of European ancestry to identify genes associated with metabolic disease. We identified 8 novel loci associated with adiponectin levels and confirmed 2 previously reported loci (P = 4.5×10(-8)-1.2×10(-43)). Using a novel method to combine data across ethnicities (N = 4,232 African Americans, N = 1,776 Asians, and N = 29,347 Europeans), we identified two additional novel loci. Expression analyses of 436 human adipocyte samples revealed that mRNA levels of 18 genes at candidate regions were associated with adiponectin concentrations after accounting for multiple testing (p

47. Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

Author: Justice, Anne E, Karaderi, Tugce, Highland, Heather M, Young, Kristin L, Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Turcot, Valérie, Auer, Paul L, Fine, Rebecca S, Guo, Xiuqing, Schurmann, Claudia, Lempradl, Adelheid, Marouli, Eirini, Mahajan, Anubha, Winkler, Thomas W, Locke, Adam E, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Esko, Tõnu, Vedantam, Sailaja, Giri, Ayush, Lo, Ken Sin, Alfred, Tamuno, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie CY, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Feitosa, Mary F, Manning, Alisa K, Willems, Sara M, Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Abecasis, Goncalo, Alam, Dewan S, Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Arzumanyan, Zorayr, Balkau, Beverley, Bastarache, Lisa, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blüher, Matthias, Boehnke, Michael, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Brandslund, Ivan, Broer, Linda, Burt, Amber A, Butterworth, Adam S, Caulfield, Mark J, Cesana, Giancarlo, Chambers, John C, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y, Collins, Francis S, Cook, James P, Cox, Amanda J, Crosslin, David S, Danesh, John, De Bakker, Paul IW, Denus, Simon De, Mutsert, Renée De, Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W, Dennis, Joe G, Denny, Josh C, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Dörr, Marcus, Drenos, Fotios, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Dunning, Alison M, Easton, Douglas F, Elliott, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelos, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Feng, Shuang, Ferrannini, Ele, Ferrieres, Jean, Florez, Jose C, Fornage, Myriam, Fox, Caroline S, Franks, Paul W, Friedrich, Nele, Gan, Wei, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Girotto, Giorgia, Gorski, Mathias, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Grove, Megan L, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haessler, Jeff, Hansen, Torben, Hattersley, Andrew T, Hayward, Caroline, Heid, Iris M, Holmen, Oddgeir L, Hovingh, G Kees, Howson, Joanna MM, Hu, Yao, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hveem, Kristian, Ikram, M Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jackson, Anne U, Jarvik, Gail P, Jia, Yucheng, Jørgensen, Torben, Jousilahti, Pekka, Justesen, Johanne M, Kahali, Bratati, Karaleftheri, Maria, Kardia, Sharon LR, Karpe, Fredrik, Kee, Frank, Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Komulainen, Pirjo, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kovacs, Peter, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kuulasmaa, Kari, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A, Lamparter, David, Lange, Leslie A, Langenberg, Claudia, Larson, Eric B, Lee, Nanette R, Lee, Wen-Jane, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lewis, Cora E, Li, Huaixing, Li, Jin, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Li-An, Lin, Xu, Lind, Lars, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Dajiang J, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, MacGregor, Stuart, Mägi, Reedik, Männistö, Satu, Marenne, Gaëlle, Marten, Jonathan, Masca, Nicholas GD, McCarthy, Mark I, Meidtner, Karina, Mihailov, Evelin, Moilanen, Leena, Moitry, Marie, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Munroe, Patricia B, Narisu, Narisu, Nelson, Christopher P, Neville, Matt, Ntalla, Ioanna, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Owen, Katharine R, Pedersen, Oluf, Peloso, Gina M, Pennell, Craig E, Perola, Markus, Perry, James A, Perry, John RB, Pers, Tune H, Ewing, Ailith, Polasek, Ozren, Raitakari, Olli T, Rasheed, Asif, Raulerson, Chelsea K, Rauramaa, Rainer, Reilly, Dermot F, Reiner, Alex P, Ridker, Paul M, Rivas, Manuel A, Robertson, Neil R, Robino, Antonietta, Rudan, Igor, Ruth, Katherine S, Saleheen, Danish, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J, Schreiner, Pamela J, Schulze, Matthias B, Scott, Robert A, Segura-Lepe, Marcelo, Sim, Xueling, Slater, Andrew J, Small, Kerrin S, Smith, Blair H, Smith, Jennifer A, Southam, Lorraine, Spector, Timothy D, Speliotes, Elizabeth K, Stefansson, Kari, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Stirrups, Kathleen E, Strauch, Konstantin, Stringham, Heather M, Stumvoll, Michael, Sun, Liang, Surendran, Praveen, Swart, Karin MA, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Thompson, Deborah J, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Thuesen, Betina H, Tönjes, Anke, Torres, Mina, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Vanhala, Mauno, Varma, Rohit, Vermeulen, Sita H, Vestergaard, Henrik, Vitart, Veronique, Vogt, Thomas F, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wagenknecht, Lynne E, Walker, Mark, Wallentin, Lars, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Carol A, Wang, Shuai, Wareham, Nicholas J, Warren, Helen R, Waterworth, Dawn M, Wessel, Jennifer, White, Harvey D, Willer, Cristen J, Wilson, James G, Wood, Andrew R, Wu, Ying, Yaghootkar, Hanieh, Yao, Jie, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Young, Robin, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Zhan, Xiaowei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Zhao, Wei, Zheng, He, Zhou, Wei, Zillikens, M Carola, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Borecki, Ingrid B, Pospisilik, J Andrew, Deloukas, Panos, Frayling, Timothy M, Lettre, Guillaume, Mohlke, Karen L, Rotter, Jerome I, Kutalik, Zoltán, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Cupples, L Adrienne, Loos, Ruth JF, North, Kari E, Lindgren, Cecilia M, CHD Exome+ Consortium, Cohorts For Heart And Aging Research In Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium, EPIC-CVD Consortium, ExomeBP Consortium, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, GoT2D Genes Consortium, InterAct, ReproGen Consortium, T2D-Genes Consortium, and MAGIC Investigators
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Male, Waist-Hip Ratio, Genetic Variation, Proteins, Lipids, Body Mass Index, Gene Frequency, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Animals, Body Fat Distribution, Homeostasis, Humans, Drosophila, Exome, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Body-fat distribution is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health consequences. We analyzed the association of body-fat distribution, assessed by waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, with 228,985 predicted coding and splice site variants available on exome arrays in up to 344,369 individuals from five major ancestries (discovery) and 132,177 European-ancestry individuals (validation). We identified 15 common (minor allele frequency, MAF ≥5%) and nine low-frequency or rare (MAF

48. Heritability enrichment of specifically expressed genes identifies disease-relevant tissues and cell types

Author: Finucane, Hilary K, Reshef, Yakir A, Anttila, Verneri, Slowikowski, Kamil, Gusev, Alexander, Byrnes, Andrea, Gazal, Steven, Loh, Po-Ru, Lareau, Caleb, Shoresh, Noam, Genovese, Giulio, Saunders, Arpiar, Macosko, Evan, Pollack, Samuela, Brainstorm Consortium, Perry, John RB, Buenrostro, Jason D, Bernstein, Bradley E, Raychaudhuri, Soumya, McCarroll, Steven, Neale, Benjamin M, and Price, Alkes L
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Neurons, Multifactorial Inheritance, Bipolar Disorder, Models, Genetic, Gene Expression Profiling, Brain, Gene Expression, Chromatin, Linkage Disequilibrium, Body Mass Index, Epigenesis, Genetic, Immune System Diseases, Schizophrenia, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Tissue Distribution, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: We introduce an approach to identify disease-relevant tissues and cell types by analyzing gene expression data together with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics. Our approach uses stratified linkage disequilibrium (LD) score regression to test whether disease heritability is enriched in regions surrounding genes with the highest specific expression in a given tissue. We applied our approach to gene expression data from several sources together with GWAS summary statistics for 48 diseases and traits (average N = 169,331) and found significant tissue-specific enrichments (false discovery rate (FDR) < 5%) for 34 traits. In our analysis of multiple tissues, we detected a broad range of enrichments that recapitulated known biology. In our brain-specific analysis, significant enrichments included an enrichment of inhibitory over excitatory neurons for bipolar disorder, and excitatory over inhibitory neurons for schizophrenia and body mass index. Our results demonstrate that our polygenic approach is a powerful way to leverage gene expression data for interpreting GWAS signals.

49. Association of Genetically Enhanced Lipoprotein Lipase-Mediated Lipolysis and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol-Lowering Alleles With Risk of Coronary Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Lotta, Luca A, Stewart, Isobel D, Sharp, Stephen J, Day, Felix R, Burgess, Stephen, Luan, Jian'an, Bowker, Nicholas, Cai, Lina, Li, Chen, Wittemans, Laura BL, Kerrison, Nicola D, Khaw, Kay-Tee, McCarthy, Mark I, O'Rahilly, Stephen, Scott, Robert A, Savage, David B, Perry, John RB, Langenberg, Claudia, and Wareham, Nicholas J
Subjects: 2. Zero hunger, Male, Lipolysis, Membrane Proteins, Membrane Transport Proteins, Cholesterol, LDL, Coronary Artery Disease, Middle Aged, 16. Peace & justice, 3. Good health, Lipoprotein Lipase, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Odds Ratio, Angiopoietin-Like Protein 4, Humans, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases, Proprotein Convertase 9, Genetic Association Studies, Aged
Abstract: IMPORTANCE: Pharmacological enhancers of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) are in preclinical or early clinical development for cardiovascular prevention. Studying whether these agents will reduce cardiovascular events or diabetes risk when added to existing lipid-lowering drugs would require large outcome trials. Human genetics studies can help prioritize or deprioritize these resource-demanding endeavors. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the independent and combined associations of genetically determined differences in LPL-mediated lipolysis and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) metabolism with risk of coronary disease and diabetes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: In this genetic association study, individual-level genetic data from 392 220 participants from 2 population-based cohort studies and 1 case-cohort study conducted in Europe were included. Data were collected from January 1991 to July 2018, and data were analyzed from July 2014 to July 2018. EXPOSURES: Six conditionally independent triglyceride-lowering alleles in LPL, the p.Glu40Lys variant in ANGPTL4, rare loss-of-function variants in ANGPTL3, and LDL-C-lowering polymorphisms at 58 independent genomic regions, including HMGCR, NPC1L1, and PCSK9. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Odds ratio for coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes. RESULTS: Of the 392 220 participants included, 211 915 (54.0%) were female, and the mean (SD) age was 57 (8) years. Triglyceride-lowering alleles in LPL were associated with protection from coronary disease (approximately 40% lower odds per SD of genetically lower triglycerides) and type 2 diabetes (approximately 30% lower odds) in people above or below the median of the population distribution of LDL-C-lowering alleles at 58 independent genomic regions, HMGCR, NPC1L1, or PCSK9. Associations with lower risk were consistent in quintiles of the distribution of LDL-C-lowering alleles and 2 × 2 factorial genetic analyses. The 40Lys variant in ANGPTL4 was associated with protection from coronary disease and type 2 diabetes in groups with genetically higher or lower LDL-C. For a genetic difference of 0.23 SDs in LDL-C, ANGPTL3 loss-of-function variants, which also have beneficial associations with LPL lipolysis, were associated with greater protection against coronary disease than other LDL-C-lowering genetic mechanisms (ANGPTL3 loss-of-function variants: odds ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.52-0.83; 58 LDL-C-lowering variants: odds ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.89-0.91; P for heterogeneity = .009). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Triglyceride-lowering alleles in the LPL pathway are associated with lower risk of coronary disease and type 2 diabetes independently of LDL-C-lowering genetic mechanisms. These findings provide human genetics evidence to support the development of agents that enhance LPL-mediated lipolysis for further clinical benefit in addition to LDL-C-lowering therapy.

50. GWAS of mosaic loss of chromosome Y highlights genetic effects on blood cell differentiation

Author: Terao, Chikashi, Momozawa, Yukihide, Ishigaki, Kazuyoshi, Kawakami, Eiryo, Akiyama, Masato, Loh, Po-Ru, Genovese, Giulio, Sugishita, Hiroki, Ohta, Tazro, Hirata, Makoto, Perry, John RB, Matsuda, Koichi, Murakami, Yoshinori, Kubo, Michiaki, and Kamatani, Yoichiro
Subjects: Aged, 80 and over, Blood Platelets, Male, Chromosomes, Human, Y, Erythrocytes, Genotype, Mosaicism, Cell Differentiation, Hematopoietic Stem Cells, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Cohort Studies, Asian People, Japan, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Chromosome Deletion, Aged, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (mLOY) is frequently observed in the leukocytes of ageing men. However, the genetic architecture and biological mechanisms underlying mLOY are not fully understood. In a cohort of 95,380 Japanese men, we identify 50 independent genetic markers in 46 loci associated with mLOY at a genome-wide significant level, 35 of which are unreported. Lead markers overlap enhancer marks in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs, P ≤ 1.0 × 10−6). mLOY genome-wide association study signals exhibit polygenic architecture and demonstrate strong heritability enrichment in regions surrounding genes specifically expressed in multipotent progenitor (MPP) cells and HSCs (P ≤ 3.5 × 10−6). ChIP-seq data demonstrate that binding sites of FLI1, a fate-determining factor promoting HSC differentiation into platelets rather than red blood cells (RBCs), show a strong heritability enrichment (P = 1.5 × 10−6). Consistent with these findings, platelet and RBC counts are positively and negatively associated with mLOY, respectively. Collectively, our observations improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying mLOY.

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