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1. A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

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Yengo, Loïc, Vedantam, Sailaja, Marouli, Eirini, Sidorenko, Julia, Bartell, Eric, Sakaue, Saori, Graff, Marielisa, Eliasen, Anders U, Jiang, Yunxuan, Raghavan, Sridharan, Miao, Jenkai, Arias, Joshua D, Graham, Sarah E, Mukamel, Ronen E, Spracklen, Cassandra N, Yin, Xianyong, Chen, Shyh-Huei, Ferreira, Teresa, Highland, Heather H, Ji, Yingjie, Karaderi, Tugce, Lin, Kuang, Lüll, Kreete, Malden, Deborah E, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Machado, Moara, Moore, Amy, Rüeger, Sina, Sim, Xueling, Vrieze, Scott, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Akiyama, Masato, Allison, Matthew A, Alvarez, Marcus, Andersen, Mette K, Ani, Alireza, Appadurai, Vivek, Arbeeva, Liubov, Bhaskar, Seema, Bielak, Lawrence F, Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Bradford, Yuki, Braund, Peter S, Brody, Jennifer A, Burgdorf, Kristoffer S, Cade, Brian E, Cai, Hui, Cai, Qiuyin, Campbell, Archie, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Catamo, Eulalia, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chai, Xiaoran, Chang, Li-Ching, Chang, Yi-Cheng, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chesi, Alessandra, Choi, Seung Hoan, Chung, Ren-Hua, Cocca, Massimiliano, Concas, Maria Pina, Couture, Christian, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danning, Rebecca, Daw, E Warwick, Degenhard, Frauke, Delgado, Graciela E, Delitala, Alessandro, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Xuan, Devineni, Poornima, Dietl, Alexander, Dimitriou, Maria, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Ekici, Arif B, Engmann, Jorgen E, Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Faul, Jessica D, Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos, Forer, Lukas, Francescatto, Margherita, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Fuchsberger, Christian, Galesloot, Tessel E, Gao, Yan, Gao, Zishan, Geller, Frank, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Giulianini, Franco, Gjesing, Anette P, Goel, Anuj, Gordon, Scott D, Gorski, Mathias, Grove, Jakob, and Guo, Xiuqing

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Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Humans, Body Height, Gene Frequency, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Haplotypes, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Europe, Sample Size, Phenotype, Chromosome Mapping, 23andMe Research Team, VA Million Veteran Program, DiscovEHR, eMERGE, Lifelines Cohort Study, PRACTICAL Consortium, Understanding Society Scientific Group, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40-50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel2) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10-20% (14-24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries.

Published
2022

2. A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids

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Ramdas, Shweta, Judd, Jonathan, Graham, Sarah E, Kanoni, Stavroula, Wang, Yuxuan, Surakka, Ida, Wenz, Brandon, Clarke, Shoa L, Chesi, Alessandra, Wells, Andrew, Bhatti, Konain Fatima, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W, Locke, Adam E, Marouli, Eirini, Zajac, Greg JM, Wu, Kuan-Han H, Ntalla, Ioanna, Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Hilliard, Austin T, Wang, Zeyuan, Xue, Chao, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M, Rasheed, Humaira, Havulinna, Aki S, Veturi, Yogasudha, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A, Lingren, Todd, Feng, QiPing, Kullo, Iftikhar J, Narita, Akira, Takayama, Jun, Martin, Hilary C, Hunt, Karen A, Trivedi, Bhavi, Haessler, Jeffrey, Giulianini, Franco, Bradford, Yuki, Miller, Jason E, Campbell, Archie, Lin, Kuang, Millwood, Iona Y, Rasheed, Asif, Hindy, George, Faul, Jessica D, Zhao, Wei, Weir, David R, Turman, Constance, Huang, Hongyan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Choudhury, Ananyo, Sengupta, Dhriti, Mahajan, Anubha, Brown, Michael R, Zhang, Weihua, Yu, Ketian, Schmidt, Ellen M, Pandit, Anita, Gustafsson, Stefan, Yin, Xianyong, Luan, Jian’an, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Jang, Hye-Mi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Pitsillides, Achilleas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Wood, Andrew R, Ji, Yingji, Gao, Zishan, Haworth, Simon, Mitchell, Ruth E, Chai, Jin Fang, Aadahl, Mette, Bjerregaard, Anne A, Yao, Jie, Manichaikul, Ani, Lee, Wen-Jane, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Warren, Helen R, Ramirez, Julia, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Kårhus, Line L, Goel, Anuj, and Sabater-Lleal, Maria

Subjects
Human Genome, Biotechnology, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Chromatin, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Humans, Lipids, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Million Veterans Program, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, complex traits, fine-mapping, functional genomics, lipid biology, post-GWAS, regulatory mechanism, variant prioritization, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

A major challenge of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to translate phenotypic associations into biological insights. Here, we integrate a large GWAS on blood lipids involving 1.6 million individuals from five ancestries with a wide array of functional genomic datasets to discover regulatory mechanisms underlying lipid associations. We first prioritize lipid-associated genes with expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) colocalizations and then add chromatin interaction data to narrow the search for functional genes. Polygenic enrichment analysis across 697 annotations from a host of tissues and cell types confirms the central role of the liver in lipid levels and highlights the selective enrichment of adipose-specific chromatin marks in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. Overlapping transcription factor (TF) binding sites with lipid-associated loci identifies TFs relevant in lipid biology. In addition, we present an integrative framework to prioritize causal variants at GWAS loci, producing a comprehensive list of candidate causal genes and variants with multiple layers of functional evidence. We highlight two of the prioritized genes, CREBRF and RRBP1, which show convergent evidence across functional datasets supporting their roles in lipid biology.

Published
2022

3. The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

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Graham, Sarah E, Clarke, Shoa L, Wu, Kuan-Han H, Kanoni, Stavroula, Zajac, Greg JM, Ramdas, Shweta, Surakka, Ida, Ntalla, Ioanna, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W, Locke, Adam E, Marouli, Eirini, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Narita, Akira, Choudhury, Ananyo, Bentley, Amy R, Ekoru, Kenneth, Verma, Anurag, Trivedi, Bhavi, Martin, Hilary C, Hunt, Karen A, Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Zhu, Xiang, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M, Rasheed, Humaira, Ruotsalainen, Sanni E, Havulinna, Aki S, Veturi, Yogasudha, Feng, QiPing, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A, Lingren, Todd, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Pendergrass, Sarah A, Haessler, Jeffrey, Giulianini, Franco, Bradford, Yuki, Miller, Jason E, Campbell, Archie, Lin, Kuang, Millwood, Iona Y, Hindy, George, Rasheed, Asif, Faul, Jessica D, Zhao, Wei, Weir, David R, Turman, Constance, Huang, Hongyan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Mahajan, Anubha, Brown, Michael R, Zhang, Weihua, Yu, Ketian, Schmidt, Ellen M, Pandit, Anita, Gustafsson, Stefan, Yin, Xianyong, Luan, Jian’an, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Jang, Hye-Mi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Pitsillides, Achilleas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wood, Andrew R, Ji, Yingji, Gao, Zishan, Haworth, Simon, Mitchell, Ruth E, Chai, Jin Fang, Aadahl, Mette, Yao, Jie, Manichaikul, Ani, Warren, Helen R, Ramirez, Julia, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Kårhus, Line L, Goel, Anuj, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Noordam, Raymond, Sidore, Carlo, Fiorillo, Edoardo, McDaid, Aaron F, Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Wielscher, Matthias, Trompet, Stella, and Sattar, Naveed

Subjects
Heart Disease, Prevention, Human Genome, Genetics, Cardiovascular, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Good Health and Well Being, Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Population Groups, VA Million Veteran Program, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium*, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use1. Despite advances in prevention and treatment, in particular through reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels2, heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide3. Genome-wideassociation studies (GWAS) of blood lipid levels have led to important biological and clinical insights, as well as new drug targets, for cardiovascular disease. However, most previous GWAS4-23 have been conducted in European ancestry populations and may have missed genetic variants that contribute to lipid-level variation in other ancestry groups. These include differences in allele frequencies, effect sizes and linkage-disequilibrium patterns24. Here we conduct a multi-ancestry, genome-wide genetic discovery meta-analysis of lipid levels in approximately 1.65 million individuals, including 350,000 of non-European ancestries. We quantify the gain in studying non-European ancestries and provide evidence to support the expansion of recruitment of additional ancestries, even with relatively small sample sizes. We find that increasing diversity rather than studying additional individuals of European ancestry results in substantial improvements in fine-mapping functional variants and portability of polygenic prediction (evaluated in approximately 295,000 individuals from 7 ancestry groupings). Modest gains in the number of discovered loci and ancestry-specific variants were also achieved. As GWAS expand emphasis beyond the identification of genes and fundamental biology towards the use of genetic variants for preventive and precision medicine25, we anticipate that increased diversity of participants will lead to more accurate and equitable26 application of polygenic scores in clinical practice.

Published
2021

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

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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, and Hattersley, Andrew T

Subjects
Clinical Research, Obesity, Genetics, Nutrition, Prevention, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Animals, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Drosophila, Exome, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Homeostasis, Humans, Lipids, Male, Proteins, Risk Factors, Waist-Hip Ratio, 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, MAGIC Investigators, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, 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 nine low-frequency or rare (MAF

Published
2019

5. Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis

Author

Kanoni, Stavroula, Graham, Sarah E., Wang, Yuxuan, Surakka, Ida, Ramdas, Shweta, Zhu, Xiang, Clarke, Shoa L., Bhatti, Konain Fatima, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W., Locke, Adam E., Marouli, Eirini, Zajac, Greg J. M., Wu, Kuan-Han H., Ntalla, Ioanna, Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Hilliard, Austin T., Wang, Zeyuan, Xue, Chao, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M., Rasheed, Humaira, Havulinna, Aki S., Veturi, Yogasudha, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A., Lingren, Todd, Feng, QiPing, Kullo, Iftikhar J., Narita, Akira, Takayama, Jun, Martin, Hilary C., Hunt, Karen A., Trivedi, Bhavi, Haessler, Jeffrey, Giulianini, Franco, Bradford, Yuki, Miller, Jason E., Campbell, Archie, Lin, Kuang, Millwood, Iona Y., Rasheed, Asif, Hindy, George, Faul, Jessica D., Zhao, Wei, Weir, David R., Turman, Constance, Huang, Hongyan, Graff, Mariaelisa, Choudhury, Ananyo, Sengupta, Dhriti, Mahajan, Anubha, Brown, Michael R., Zhang, Weihua, Yu, Ketian, Schmidt, Ellen M., Pandit, Anita, Gustafsson, Stefan, Yin, Xianyong, Luan, Jian’an, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Matsuda, Fumihiko, Jang, Hye-Mi, Yoon, Kyungheon, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Pitsillides, Achilleas, Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Wood, Andrew R., Ji, Yingji, Gao, Zishan, Haworth, Simon, Yousri, Noha A., Mitchell, Ruth E., Chai, Jin Fang, Aadahl, Mette, Bjerregaard, Anne A., Yao, Jie, Manichaikul, Ani, Hwu, Chii-Min, Hung, Yi-Jen, Warren, Helen R., Ramirez, Julia, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Kårhus, Line L., Goel, Anuj, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Noordam, Raymond, Mauro, Pala, Matteo, Floris, McDaid, Aaron F., Marques-Vidal, Pedro, Wielscher, Matthias, Trompet, Stella, Sattar, Naveed, Møllehave, Line T., Munz, Matthias, Zeng, Lingyao, Huang, Jianfeng, Yang, Bin, Poveda, Alaitz, Kurbasic, Azra, Lamina, Claudia, Forer, Lukas, Scholz, Markus, Galesloot, Tessel E., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Ruotsalainen, Sanni E., Daw, EWarwick, Zmuda, Joseph M., Mitchell, Jonathan S., Fuchsberger, Christian, Christensen, Henry, Brody, Jennifer A., Vazquez-Moreno, Miguel, Feitosa, Mary F., Wojczynski, Mary K., Wang, Zhe, Preuss, Michael H., Mangino, Massimo, Christofidou, Paraskevi, Verweij, Niek, Benjamins, Jan W., Engmann, Jorgen, Tsao, Noah L., Verma, Anurag, Slieker, Roderick C., Lo, Ken Sin, Zilhao, Nuno R., Le, Phuong, Kleber, Marcus E., Delgado, Graciela E., Huo, Shaofeng, Ikeda, Daisuke D., Iha, Hiroyuki, Yang, Jian, Liu, Jun, Demirkan, Ayşe, Leonard, Hampton L., Marten, Jonathan, Frank, Mirjam, Schmidt, Börge, Smyth, Laura J., Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, Wang, Chaolong, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Wong, Andrew, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Sim, Xueling, Xia, Rui, Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia, Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Bayyana, Swati, Stringham, Heather M., Irvin, Marguerite R., Oldmeadow, Christopher, Kim, Han-Na, Ryu, Seungho, Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Arbeeva, Liubov, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Lange, Leslie A., Prasad, Gauri, Lorés-Motta, Laura, Pauper, Marc, Long, Jirong, Li, Xiaohui, Theusch, Elizabeth, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Loukola, Anu, Bollepalli, Sailalitha, Warner, Sophie C., Wang, Ya Xing, Wei, Wen B., Nutile, Teresa, Ruggiero, Daniela, Sung, Yun Ju, Chen, Shufeng, Liu, Fangchao, Yang, Jingyun, Kentistou, Katherine A., Banas, Bernhard, Nardone, Giuseppe Giovanni, Meidtner, Karina, Bielak, Lawrence F., Smith, Jennifer A., Hebbar, Prashantha, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Hofer, Edith, Lin, Maoxuan, Concas, Maria Pina, Vaccargiu, Simona, van der Most, Peter J., Pitkänen, Niina, Cade, Brian E., van der Laan, Sander W., Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu, Weiss, Stefan, Bentley, Amy R., Doumatey, Ayo P., Adeyemo, Adebowale A., Lee, Jong Young, Petersen, Eva R. B., Nielsen, Aneta A., Choi, Hyeok Sun, Nethander, Maria, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Southam, Lorraine, Rayner, Nigel W., Wang, Carol A., Lin, Shih-Yi, Wang, Jun-Sing, Couture, Christian, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nikus, Kjell, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Vestergaard, Henrik, Hidalgo, Bertha, Giannakopoulou, Olga, Cai, Qiuyin, Obura, Morgan O., van Setten, Jessica, Li, Xiaoyin, Liang, Jingjing, Tang, Hua, Terzikhan, Natalie, Shin, Jae Hun, Jackson, Rebecca D., Reiner, Alexander P., Martin, Lisa Warsinger, Chen, Zhengming, Li, Liming, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Thiery, Joachim, Bis, Joshua C., Launer, Lenore J., Li, Huaixing, Nalls, Mike A., Raitakari, Olli T., Ichihara, Sahoko, Wild, Sarah H., Nelson, Christopher P., Campbell, Harry, Jäger, Susanne, Nabika, Toru, Al-Mulla, Fahd, Niinikoski, Harri, Braund, Peter S., Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Giardoglou, Tota, Katsuya, Tomohiro, de Kleijn, Dominique, de Borst, Gert J., Kim, Eung Kweon, Adams, Hieab H. H., Ikram, M. Arfan, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Asselbergs, Folkert W., Kraaijeveld, Adriaan O., Beulens, Joline W. J., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Rallidis, Loukianos S., Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Mitchell, Paul, Hewitt, Alex W., Kähönen, Mika, Pérusse, Louis, Bouchard, Claude, Tönjes, Anke, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Pennell, Craig E., Mori, Trevor A., Lieb, Wolfgang, Franke, Andre, Ohlsson, Claes, Mellström, Dan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Lee, Hyejin, Yuan, Jian-Min, Koh, Woon-Puay, Rhee, Sang Youl, Woo, Jeong-Taek, Heid, Iris M., Stark, Klaus J., Zimmermann, Martina E., Völzke, Henry, Homuth, Georg, Evans, Michele K., Zonderman, Alan B., Polasek, Ozren, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Hoefer, Imo E., Redline, Susan, Pahkala, Katja, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Snieder, Harold, Biino, Ginevra, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Bandinelli, Stefania, Dedoussis, George, Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse, Kardia, Sharon L. R., Peyser, Patricia A., Kato, Norihiro, Schulze, Matthias B., Girotto, Giorgia, Böger, Carsten A., Jung, Bettina, Joshi, Peter K., Bennett, David A., De Jager, Philip L., Lu, Xiangfeng, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Brown, Morris, Caulfield, Mark J., Munroe, Patricia B., Guo, Xiuqing, Ciullo, Marina, Jonas, Jost B., Samani, Nilesh J., Kaprio, Jaakko, Pajukanta, Päivi, Tusié-Luna, Teresa, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A., Adair, Linda S., Bechayda, Sonny Augustin, de Silva, H. Janaka, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Krauss, Ronald M., Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Zheng, Wei, Hollander, Anneke Iden, Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Correa, Adolfo, Wilson, James G., Lind, Lars, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Nelson, Amanda E., Golightly, Yvonne M., Wilson, James F., Penninx, Brenda, Kim, Hyung-Lae, Attia, John, Scott, Rodney J., Rao, D. C., Arnett, Donna K., Hunt, Steven C., Walker, Mark, Koistinen, Heikki A., Chandak, Giriraj R., Mercader, Josep M., Costanzo, Maria C., Jang, Dongkeun, Burtt, Noël P., Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez, Orozco, Lorena, Fornage, Myriam, Tai, EShyong, van Dam, Rob M., Lehtimäki, Terho, Chaturvedi, Nish, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Liu, Jianjun, Reilly, Dermot F., McKnight, Amy Jayne, Kee, Frank, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, McCarthy, Mark I., Palmer, Colin N. A., Vitart, Veronique, Hayward, Caroline, Simonsick, Eleanor, van Duijn, Cornelia M., Jin, Zi-Bing, Qu, Jia, Hishigaki, Haretsugu, Lin, Xu, März, Winfried, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Lettre, Guillaume, Hart, Leen M.‘t, Elders, Petra J. M., Damrauer, Scott M., Kumari, Meena, Kivimaki, Mika, van der Harst, Pim, Spector, Tim D., Loos, Ruth J. F., Province, Michael A., Parra, Esteban J., Cruz, Miguel, Psaty, Bruce M., Brandslund, Ivan, Pramstaller, Peter P., Rotimi, Charles N., Christensen, Kaare, Ripatti, Samuli, Widén, Elisabeth, Hakonarson, Hakon, Grant, Struan F. A., Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., de Graaf, Jacqueline, Loeffler, Markus, Kronenberg, Florian, Gu, Dongfeng, Erdmann, Jeanette, Schunkert, Heribert, Franks, Paul W., Linneberg, Allan, Jukema, J. Wouter, Khera, Amit V., Männikkö, Minna, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Kutalik, Zoltan, Francesco, Cucca, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O., van Dijk, Ko Willems, Watkins, Hugh, Strachan, David P., Grarup, Niels, Sever, Peter, Poulter, Neil, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Rotter, Jerome I., Dantoft, Thomas M., Karpe, Fredrik, Neville, Matt J., Timpson, Nicholas J., Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien-Yin, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Li, Hengtong, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Peters, Annette, Gieger, Christian, Hattersley, Andrew T., Pedersen, Nancy L., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Boomsma, Dorret I., Willemsen, Allegonda H. M., Cupples, LAdrienne, van Meurs, Joyce B. J., Ghanbari, Mohsen, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Huang, Wei, Kim, Young Jin, Tabara, Yasuharu, Wareham, Nicholas J., Langenberg, Claudia, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Kuusisto, Johanna, Laakso, Markku, Ingelsson, Erik, Abecasis, Goncalo, Chambers, John C., Kooner, Jaspal S., de Vries, Paul S., Morrison, Alanna C., Hazelhurst, Scott, Ramsay, Michèle, North, Kari E., Daviglus, Martha, Kraft, Peter, Martin, Nicholas G., Whitfield, John B., Abbas, Shahid, Saleheen, Danish, Walters, Robin G., Holmes, Michael V., Black, Corri, Smith, Blair H., Baras, Aris, Justice, Anne E., Buring, Julie E., Ridker, Paul M., Chasman, Daniel I., Kooperberg, Charles, Tamiya, Gen, Yamamoto, Masayuki, van Heel, David A., Trembath, Richard C., Wei, Wei-Qi, Jarvik, Gail P., Namjou, Bahram, Hayes, M. Geoffrey, Ritchie, Marylyn D., Jousilahti, Pekka, Salomaa, Veikko, Hveem, Kristian, Åsvold, Bjørn Olav, Kubo, Michiaki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Okada, Yukinori, Murakami, Yoshinori, Kim, Bong-Jo, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stefansson, Kari, Zhang, Jifeng, Chen, YEugene, Ho, Yuk-Lam, Lynch, Julie A., Rader, Daniel J., Tsao, Philip S., Chang, Kyong-Mi, Cho, Kelly, O’Donnell, Christopher J., Gaziano, John M., Wilson, Peter W. F., Frayling, Timothy M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Kathiresan, Sekar, Mohlke, Karen L., Sun, Yan V., Morris, Andrew P., Boehnke, Michael, Brown, Christopher D., Natarajan, Pradeep, Deloukas, Panos, Willer, Cristen J., Assimes, Themistocles L., and Peloso, Gina M.

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2022
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6. Genetic Evidence That Carbohydrate-Stimulated Insulin Secretion Leads to Obesity

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Astley, Christina M, Todd, Jennifer N, Salem, Rany M, Vedantam, Sailaja, Ebbeling, Cara B, Huang, Paul L, Ludwig, David S, Hirschhorn, Joel N, and Florez, Jose C

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Medical Biochemistry and Metabolomics, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Nutrition, Diabetes, Prevention, Genetics, Obesity, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Cardiovascular, Metabolic and endocrine, Body Mass Index, Cohort Studies, Dietary Carbohydrates, Fasting, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glucose, Humans, Insulin Resistance, Insulin Secretion, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Models, Biological, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Reproducibility of Results, Medical Biotechnology, General Clinical Medicine, Clinical sciences, Medical biochemistry and metabolomics
Abstract

BackgroundA fundamental precept of the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is that insulin secretion drives weight gain. However, fasting hyperinsulinemia can also be driven by obesity-induced insulin resistance. We used genetic variation to isolate and estimate the potentially causal effect of insulin secretion on body weight.MethodsGenetic instruments of variation of insulin secretion [assessed as insulin concentration 30 min after oral glucose (insulin-30)] were used to estimate the causal relationship between increased insulin secretion and body mass index (BMI), using bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis of genome-wide association studies. Data sources included summary results from the largest published metaanalyses of predominantly European ancestry for insulin secretion (n = 26037) and BMI (n = 322154), as well as individual-level data from the UK Biobank (n = 138541). Data from the Cardiology and Metabolic Patient Cohort study at Massachusetts General Hospital (n = 1675) were used to validate genetic associations with insulin secretion and to test the observational association of insulin secretion and BMI.ResultsHigher genetically determined insulin-30 was strongly associated with higher BMI (β = 0.098, P = 2.2 × 10-21), consistent with a causal role in obesity. Similar positive associations were noted in sensitivity analyses using other genetic variants as instrumental variables. By contrast, higher genetically determined BMI was not associated with insulin-30.ConclusionsMendelian randomization analyses provide evidence for a causal relationship of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion on body weight, consistent with the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity.

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2018

7. Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

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Turcot, Valérie, Lu, Yingchang, Highland, Heather M, Schurmann, Claudia, Justice, Anne E, Fine, Rebecca S, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Esko, Tõnu, Giri, Ayush, Graff, Mariaelisa, Guo, Xiuqing, Hendricks, Audrey E, Karaderi, Tugce, Lempradl, Adelheid, Locke, Adam E, Mahajan, Anubha, Marouli, Eirini, Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Young, Kristin L, Alfred, Tamuno, Feitosa, Mary F, Masca, Nicholas GD, Manning, Alisa K, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie CY, Reiner, Alex P, Vedantam, Sailaja, Willems, Sara M, Winkler, Thomas W, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Aben, Katja K, Alam, Dewan S, Alharthi, Sameer E, Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Auer, Paul L, Balkau, Beverley, Bang, Lia E, Barroso, Inês, Bastarache, Lisa, Benn, Marianne, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blüher, Matthias, Boehnke, Michael, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bots, Michiel L, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Brandslund, Ivan, Breen, Gerome, Brilliant, Murray H, Broer, Linda, Brumat, Marco, Burt, Amber A, Butterworth, Adam S, Campbell, Peter T, Cappellani, Stefania, Carey, David J, Catamo, Eulalia, Caulfield, Mark J, Chambers, John C, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Yii-Der I, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Francis S, Cook, James P, Corley, Janie, Corominas Galbany, Jordi, Cox, Amanda J, Crosslin, David S, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, D’Eustacchio, Angela, Danesh, John, Davies, Gail, Bakker, Paul IW, Groot, Mark CH, Mutsert, Renée, Deary, Ian J, Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W, Heijer, Martin, Hollander, Anneke I, Ruijter, Hester M, Dennis, Joe G, Denny, Josh C, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Drenos, Fotios, Du, Mengmeng, Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Dunning, Alison M, and Easton, Douglas F

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Genetics, Biotechnology, Nutrition, Obesity, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Cancer, Stroke, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Oral and gastrointestinal, Adult, Animals, Body Mass Index, Drosophila, Energy Intake, Energy Metabolism, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Variation, Humans, Male, Proteins, Syndrome, CHD Exome+ Consortium, EPIC-CVD Consortium, ExomeBP Consortium, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, GoT2D Genes Consortium, EPIC InterAct Consortium, INTERVAL Study, ReproGen Consortium, T2D-Genes Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, Understanding Society Scientific Group, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal genes remains challenging. Here we combined data from 718,734 individuals to discover rare and low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) < 5%) coding variants associated with BMI. We identified 14 coding variants in 13 genes, of which 8 variants were in genes (ZBTB7B, ACHE, RAPGEF3, RAB21, ZFHX3, ENTPD6, ZFR2 and ZNF169) newly implicated in human obesity, 2 variants were in genes (MC4R and KSR2) previously observed to be mutated in extreme obesity and 2 variants were in GIPR. The effect sizes of rare variants are ~10 times larger than those of common variants, with the largest effect observed in carriers of an MC4R mutation introducing a stop codon (p.Tyr35Ter, MAF = 0.01%), who weighed ~7 kg more than non-carriers. Pathway analyses based on the variants associated with BMI confirm enrichment of neuronal genes and provide new evidence for adipocyte and energy expenditure biology, widening the potential of genetically supported therapeutic targets in obesity.

Published
2018

8. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium.

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Ng, Maggie CY, Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Justice, Anne E, Mudgal, Poorva, Liu, Ching-Ti, Young, Kristin, Yanek, Lisa R, Feitosa, Mary F, Wojczynski, Mary K, Rand, Kristin, Brody, Jennifer A, Cade, Brian E, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Duan, Qing, Guo, Xiuqing, Lange, Leslie A, Nalls, Michael A, Okut, Hayrettin, Tajuddin, Salman M, Tayo, Bamidele O, Vedantam, Sailaja, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Irvin, Marguerite R, Padhukasahasram, Badri, Smith, Jennifer A, Zheng, Wei, Allison, Matthew A, Ambrosone, Christine B, Bandera, Elisa V, Bartz, Traci M, Berndt, Sonja I, Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J, Bottinger, Erwin P, Carpten, John, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Conti, David V, Cooper, Richard S, Fornage, Myriam, Freedman, Barry I, Garcia, Melissa, Goodman, Phyllis J, Hsu, Yu-Han H, Hu, Jennifer, Huff, Chad D, Ingles, Sue A, John, Esther M, Kittles, Rick, Klein, Eric, Li, Jin, McKnight, Barbara, Nayak, Uma, Nemesure, Barbara, Ogunniyi, Adesola, Olshan, Andrew, Press, Michael F, Rohde, Rebecca, Rybicki, Benjamin A, Salako, Babatunde, Sanderson, Maureen, Shao, Yaming, Siscovick, David S, Stanford, Janet L, Stevens, Victoria L, Stram, Alex, Strom, Sara S, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Witte, John S, Yao, Jie, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Ziegler, Regina G, Zonderman, Alan B, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Ambs, Stefan, Cushman, Mary, Faul, Jessica D, Hakonarson, Hakon, Levin, Albert M, Nathanson, Katherine L, Ware, Erin B, Weir, David R, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Degui, Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (BMDCS) Group, Arnett, Donna K, Grant, Struan FA, Kardia, Sharon LR, Oloapde, Olufunmilayo I, Rao, DC, Rotimi, Charles N, Sale, Michele M, Williams, L Keoki, Zemel, Babette S, Becker, Diane M, and Borecki, Ingrid B

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Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (BMDCS) Group, Humans, Obesity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Serine Endopeptidases, Anthropometry, Body Mass Index, Waist-Hip Ratio, Chromosome Mapping, Gene Frequency, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Continental Ancestry Group, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Male, Adiposity, Genome-Wide Association Study, Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Protein, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >300 loci associated with measures of adiposity including body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), but few have been identified through screening of the African ancestry genomes. We performed large scale meta-analyses and replications in up to 52,895 individuals for BMI and up to 23,095 individuals for WHRadjBMI from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC) using 1000 Genomes phase 1 imputed GWAS to improve coverage of both common and low frequency variants in the low linkage disequilibrium African ancestry genomes. In the sex-combined analyses, we identified one novel locus (TCF7L2/HABP2) for WHRadjBMI and eight previously established loci at P < 5×10-8: seven for BMI, and one for WHRadjBMI in African ancestry individuals. An additional novel locus (SPRYD7/DLEU2) was identified for WHRadjBMI when combined with European GWAS. In the sex-stratified analyses, we identified three novel loci for BMI (INTS10/LPL and MLC1 in men, IRX4/IRX2 in women) and four for WHRadjBMI (SSX2IP, CASC8, PDE3B and ZDHHC1/HSD11B2 in women) in individuals of African ancestry or both African and European ancestry. For four of the novel variants, the minor allele frequency was low (

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2017

9. Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

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Marouli, Eirini, Graff, Mariaelisa, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Lo, Ken Sin, Wood, Andrew R, Kjaer, Troels R, Fine, Rebecca S, Lu, Yingchang, Schurmann, Claudia, Highland, Heather M, Rüeger, Sina, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Justice, Anne E, Lamparter, David, Stirrups, Kathleen E, Turcot, Valérie, Young, Kristin L, Winkler, Thomas W, Esko, Tõnu, Karaderi, Tugce, Locke, Adam E, Masca, Nicholas GD, Ng, Maggie CY, Mudgal, Poorva, Rivas, Manuel A, Vedantam, Sailaja, Mahajan, Anubha, Guo, Xiuqing, Abecasis, Goncalo, Aben, Katja K, Adair, Linda S, Alam, Dewan S, Albrecht, Eva, Allin, Kristine H, Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Appel, Emil V, Arveiler, Dominique, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Auer, Paul L, Balkau, Beverley, Banas, Bernhard, Bang, Lia E, Benn, Marianne, Bergmann, Sven, Bielak, Lawrence F, Blüher, Matthias, Boeing, Heiner, Boerwinkle, Eric, Böger, Carsten A, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bork-Jensen, Jette, Bots, Michiel L, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bowden, Donald W, Brandslund, Ivan, Breen, Gerome, Brilliant, Murray H, Broer, Linda, Burt, Amber A, Butterworth, Adam S, Carey, David J, Caulfield, Mark J, Chambers, John C, Chasman, Daniel I, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Christensen, Cramer, Chu, Audrey Y, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Francis S, Cook, James P, Corley, Janie, Galbany, Jordi Corominas, Cox, Amanda J, Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel, Danesh, John, Davies, Gail, de Bakker, Paul IW, de Borst, Gert J, de Denus, Simon, de Groot, Mark CH, de Mutsert, Renée, Deary, Ian J, Dedoussis, George, Demerath, Ellen W, den Hollander, Anneke I, Dennis, Joe G, Di Angelantonio, Emanuele, Drenos, Fotios, Du, Mengmeng, Dunning, Alison M, Easton, Douglas F, Ebeling, Tapani, Edwards, Todd L, Ellinor, Patrick T, Elliott, Paul, Evangelou, Evangelos, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, and Faul, Jessica D

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Human Genome, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, ADAMTS Proteins, Adult, Alleles, Body Height, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Glycoproteins, Glycosaminoglycans, Hedgehog Proteins, Humans, Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Interferon Regulatory Factors, Interleukin-11 Receptor alpha Subunit, Male, Multifactorial Inheritance, NADPH Oxidase 4, NADPH Oxidases, Phenotype, Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A, Procollagen N-Endopeptidase, Proteoglycans, Proteolysis, Receptors, Androgen, Somatomedins, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, CHD Exome+ Consortium, ExomeBP Consortium, T2D-Genes Consortium, GoT2D Genes Consortium, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, ReproGen Consortium, MAGIC Investigators, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far. Here, we report 83 height-associated coding variants with lower minor-allele frequencies (in the range of 0.1-4.8%) and effects of up to 2 centimetres per allele (such as those in IHH, STC2, AR and CRISPLD2), greater than ten times the average effect of common variants. In functional follow-up studies, rare height-increasing alleles of STC2 (giving an increase of 1-2 centimetres per allele) compromised proteolytic inhibition of PAPP-A and increased cleavage of IGFBP-4 in vitro, resulting in higher bioavailability of insulin-like growth factors. These 83 height-associated variants overlap genes that are mutated in monogenic growth disorders and highlight new biological candidates (such as ADAMTS3, IL11RA and NOX4) and pathways (such as proteoglycan and glycosaminoglycan synthesis) involved in growth. Our results demonstrate that sufficiently large sample sizes can uncover rare and low-frequency variants of moderate-to-large effect associated with polygenic human phenotypes, and that these variants implicate relevant genes and pathways.

Published
2017

10. Genome-wide Analysis of Body Proportion Classifies Height-Associated Variants by Mechanism of Action and Implicates Genes Important for Skeletal Development

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Chan, Yingleong, Salem, Rany M, Hsu, Yu-Han H, McMahon, George, Pers, Tune H, Vedantam, Sailaja, Esko, Tonu, Guo, Michael H, Lim, Elaine T, Consortium, GIANT, Franke, Lude, Smith, George Davey, Strachan, David P, and Hirschhorn, Joel N

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Adult, Black or African American, Body Height, Chromosome Mapping, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leg Bones, Male, Middle Aged, Multifactorial Inheritance, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, GIANT Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Human height is a composite measurement, reflecting the sum of leg, spine, and head lengths. Many common variants influence total height, but the effects of these or other variants on the components of height (body proportion) remain largely unknown. We studied sitting height ratio (SHR), the ratio of sitting height to total height, to identify such effects in 3,545 African Americans and 21,590 individuals of European ancestry. We found that SHR is heritable: 26% and 39% of the total variance of SHR can be explained by common variants in European and African Americans, respectively, and global European admixture is negatively correlated with SHR in African Americans (r(2) ≈ 0.03). Six regions reached genome-wide significance (p < 5 × 10(-8)) for association with SHR and overlapped biological candidate genes, including TBX2 and IGFBP3. We found that 130 of 670 height-associated variants are nominally associated (p < 0.05) with SHR, more than expected by chance (p = 5 × 10(-40)). At these 130 loci, the height-increasing alleles are associated with either a decrease (71 loci) or increase (59 loci) in SHR, suggesting that different height loci disproportionally affect either leg length or spine/head length. Pathway analyses via DEPICT revealed that height loci affecting SHR, and especially those affecting leg length, show enrichment of different biological pathways (e.g., bone/cartilage/growth plate pathways) than do loci with no effect on SHR (e.g., embryonic development). These results highlight the value of using a pair of related but orthogonal phenotypes, in this case SHR with height, as a prism to dissect the biology underlying genetic associations in polygenic traits and diseases.

Published
2015

11. New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

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Shungin, Dmitry, Winkler, Thomas W, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Ferreira, Teresa, Locke, Adam E, Mägi, Reedik, Strawbridge, Rona J, Pers, Tune H, Fischer, Krista, Justice, Anne E, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Wu, Joseph MW, Buchkovich, Martin L, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Roman, Tamara S, Drong, Alexander W, Song, Ci, Gustafsson, Stefan, Day, Felix R, Esko, Tonu, Fall, Tove, Kutalik, Zoltán, Luan, Jian’an, Randall, Joshua C, Scherag, André, Vedantam, Sailaja, Wood, Andrew R, Chen, Jin, Fehrmann, Rudolf, Karjalainen, Juha, Kahali, Bratati, Liu, Ching-Ti, Schmidt, Ellen M, Absher, Devin, Amin, Najaf, Anderson, Denise, Beekman, Marian, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Buyske, Steven, Demirkan, Ayse, Ehret, Georg B, Feitosa, Mary F, Goel, Anuj, Jackson, Anne U, Johnson, Toby, Kleber, Marcus E, Kristiansson, Kati, Mangino, Massimo, Mateo Leach, Irene, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Palmer, Cameron D, Pasko, Dorota, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Peters, Marjolein J, Prokopenko, Inga, Stančáková, Alena, Ju Sung, Yun, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Yengo, Loïc, Zhang, Weihua, Albrecht, Eva, Ärnlöv, Johan, Arscott, Gillian M, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barrett, Amy, Bellis, Claire, Bennett, Amanda J, Berne, Christian, Blüher, Matthias, Böhringer, Stefan, Bonnet, Fabrice, Böttcher, Yvonne, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Carba, Delia B, Caspersen, Ida H, Clarke, Robert, Warwick Daw, E, Deelen, Joris, Deelman, Ewa, Delgado, Graciela, Doney, Alex SF, Eklund, Niina, Erdos, Michael R, Estrada, Karol, Eury, Elodie, Friedrich, Nele, Garcia, Melissa E, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Gigante, Bruna, Go, Alan S, Golay, Alain, Grallert, Harald, Grammer, Tanja B, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grewal, Jagvir, Groves, Christopher J, Haller, Toomas, and Hallmans, Goran

Subjects
Genetics, Human Genome, Diabetes, Obesity, Nutrition, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Stroke, Adipocytes, Adipogenesis, Adipose Tissue, Age Factors, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Epigenesis, Genetic, Europe, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Male, Models, Biological, Neovascularization, Physiologic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Racial Groups, Sex Characteristics, Transcription, Genetic, Waist-Hip Ratio, ADIPOGen Consortium, CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, CKDGen Consortium, GEFOS Consortium, GENIE Consortium, GLGC, ICBP, International Endogene Consortium, LifeLines Cohort Study, MAGIC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, PAGE Consortium, ReproGen Consortium, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, here we conduct genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals. We identify 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (BMI), and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P

Published
2015

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

Author

Locke, Adam E, Kahali, Bratati, Berndt, Sonja I, Justice, Anne E, Pers, Tune H, Day, Felix R, Powell, Corey, Vedantam, Sailaja, Buchkovich, Martin L, Yang, Jian, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Esko, Tonu, Fall, Tove, Ferreira, Teresa, Gustafsson, Stefan, Kutalik, Zoltán, Luan, Jian’an, Mägi, Reedik, Randall, Joshua C, Winkler, Thomas W, Wood, Andrew R, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Faul, Jessica D, Smith, Jennifer A, Hua Zhao, Jing, Zhao, Wei, Chen, Jin, Fehrmann, Rudolf, Hedman, Åsa K, Karjalainen, Juha, Schmidt, Ellen M, Absher, Devin, Amin, Najaf, Anderson, Denise, Beekman, Marian, Bolton, Jennifer L, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Buyske, Steven, Demirkan, Ayse, Deng, Guohong, Ehret, Georg B, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary F, Fischer, Krista, Goel, Anuj, Gong, Jian, Jackson, Anne U, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kleber, Marcus E, Kristiansson, Kati, Lim, Unhee, Lotay, Vaneet, Mangino, Massimo, Mateo Leach, Irene, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Medland, Sarah E, Nalls, Michael A, Palmer, Cameron D, Pasko, Dorota, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Peters, Marjolein J, Prokopenko, Inga, Shungin, Dmitry, Stančáková, Alena, Strawbridge, Rona J, Ju Sung, Yun, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, van der Laan, Sander W, van Setten, Jessica, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Wang, Zhaoming, Yengo, Loïc, Zhang, Weihua, Isaacs, Aaron, Albrecht, Eva, Ärnlöv, Johan, Arscott, Gillian M, Attwood, Antony P, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barrett, Amy, Bas, Isabelita N, Bellis, Claire, Bennett, Amanda J, Berne, Christian, Blagieva, Roza, Blüher, Matthias, Böhringer, Stefan, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Böttcher, Yvonne, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Caspersen, Ida H, Ida Chen, Yii-Der, Clarke, Robert, Warwick Daw, E, de Craen, Anton JM, Delgado, Graciela, and Dimitriou, Maria

Subjects
Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Nutrition, Obesity, Prevention, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Stroke, Cardiovascular, Metabolic and endocrine, Oral and gastrointestinal, Cancer, Adipogenesis, Adiposity, Age Factors, Body Mass Index, Energy Metabolism, Europe, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glutamic Acid, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Secretion, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Racial Groups, Synapses, LifeLines Cohort Study, ADIPOGen Consortium, AGEN-BMI Working Group, CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, CKDGen Consortium, GLGC, ICBP, MAGIC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, MIGen Consortium, PAGE Consortium, ReproGen Consortium, GENIE Consortium, International Endogene Consortium, General Science & Technology
Abstract

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 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

13. Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

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Wood, Andrew R, Esko, Tonu, Yang, Jian, Vedantam, Sailaja, Pers, Tune H, Gustafsson, Stefan, Chu, Audrey Y, Estrada, Karol, Luan, Jian'an, Kutalik, Zoltán, Amin, Najaf, Buchkovich, Martin L, Croteau-Chonka, Damien C, Day, Felix R, Duan, Yanan, Fall, Tove, Fehrmann, Rudolf, Ferreira, Teresa, Jackson, Anne U, Karjalainen, Juha, Lo, Ken Sin, Locke, Adam E, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Porcu, Eleonora, Randall, Joshua C, Scherag, André, Vinkhuyzen, Anna AE, Westra, Harm-Jan, Winkler, Thomas W, Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Zhao, Jing Hua, Absher, Devin, Albrecht, Eva, Anderson, Denise, Baron, Jeffrey, Beekman, Marian, Demirkan, Ayse, Ehret, Georg B, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary F, Fischer, Krista, Fraser, Ross M, Goel, Anuj, Gong, Jian, Justice, Anne E, Kanoni, Stavroula, Kleber, Marcus E, Kristiansson, Kati, Lim, Unhee, Lotay, Vaneet, Lui, Julian C, Mangino, Massimo, Leach, Irene Mateo, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Nalls, Michael A, Nyholt, Dale R, Palmer, Cameron D, Pasko, Dorota, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Prokopenko, Inga, Ried, Janina S, Ripke, Stephan, Shungin, Dmitry, Stancáková, Alena, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, van der Laan, Sander W, van Setten, Jessica, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Wang, Zhaoming, Yengo, Loïc, Zhang, Weihua, Afzal, Uzma, Ärnlöv, Johan, Arscott, Gillian M, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barrett, Amy, Bellis, Claire, Bennett, Amanda J, Berne, Christian, Blüher, Matthias, Bolton, Jennifer L, Böttcher, Yvonne, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buckley, Brendan M, Buyske, Steven, Caspersen, Ida H, Chines, Peter S, Clarke, Robert, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cooper, Matthew, Daw, E Warwick, De Jong, Pim A, Deelen, Joris, and Delgado, Graciela

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Biotechnology, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Body Height, Genetic Variation, Genetics, Population, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMEMERGEGE) Consortium, MIGen Consortium, PAGEGE Consortium, LifeLines Cohort Study, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Using genome-wide data from 253,288 individuals, we identified 697 variants at genome-wide significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height. By testing different numbers of variants in independent studies, we show that the most strongly associated ∼2,000, ∼3,700 and ∼9,500 SNPs explained ∼21%, ∼24% and ∼29% of phenotypic variance. Furthermore, all common variants together captured 60% of heritability. The 697 variants clustered in 423 loci were enriched for genes, pathways and tissue types known to be involved in growth and together implicated genes and pathways not highlighted in earlier efforts, such as signaling by fibroblast growth factors, WNT/β-catenin and chondroitin sulfate-related genes. We identified several genes and pathways not previously connected with human skeletal growth, including mTOR, osteoglycin and binding of hyaluronic acid. Our results indicate a genetic architecture for human height that is characterized by a very large but finite number (thousands) of causal variants.

Published
2014

14. 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

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

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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

16. Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis

Author

Graham, Sarah E., Wang, Yuxuan, Surakka, Ida, Ramdas, Shweta, Zhu, Xiang, Clarke, Shoa L., Bhatti, Konain Fatima, Vedantam, Sailaja, Winkler, Thomas W., Locke, Adam E., Marouli, Eirini, Zajac, Greg J. M., Wu, Kuan-Han H., Ntalla, Ioanna, Hui, Qin, Klarin, Derek, Hilliard, Austin T., Wang, Zeyuan, Xue, Chao, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Helgadottir, Anna, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F., Holm, Hilma, Olafsson, Isleifur, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Han, Sohee, Akiyama, Masato, Sakaue, Saori, Terao, Chikashi, Kanai, Masahiro, Zhou, Wei, Brumpton, Ben M., Rasheed, Humaira, Havulinna, Aki S., Veturi, Yogasudha, Pacheco, Jennifer Allen, Rosenthal, Elisabeth A., Lingren, Todd, Feng, QiPing, Kullo, Iftikhar J., Narita, Akira, Takayama, Jun, Martin, Hilary C., Hunt, Karen A., Ramirez, Julia, Sabater-Lleal, Maria, Cañadas-Garre, Marisa, and Universitat Autònoma de barcelona

Subjects
Genome-wide association study, Cholesterol, Genetics, GWAS, Lipids
Abstract

Background: Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding of these findings and hindering downstream translational efforts such as drug target discovery. Results: To expand our understanding of the underlying biological pathways and mechanisms controlling blood lipid levels, we leverage a large multi-ancestry meta-analysis (N = 1,654,960) of blood lipids to prioritize putative causal genes for 2286 lipid associations using six gene prediction approaches. Using phenome-wide association (PheWAS) scans, we identify relationships of genetically predicted lipid levels to other diseases and conditions. We confirm known pleiotropic associations with cardiovascular phenotypes and determine novel associations, notably with cholelithiasis risk. We perform sex-stratified GWAS meta-analysis of lipid levels and show that 3-5% of autosomal lipid-associated loci demonstrate sex-biased effects. Finally, we report 21 novel lipid loci identified on the X chromosome. Many of the sex-biased autosomal and X chromosome lipid loci show pleiotropic associations with sex hormones, emphasizing the role of hormone regulation in lipid metabolism. Conclusions: Taken together, our findings provide insights into the biological mechanisms through which associated variants lead to altered lipid levels and potentially cardiovascular disease risk.

Published
2022

17. Publisher Correction : Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

Author

Turcot, Valérie, Lu, Yingchang, Highland, Heather M., Schurmann, Claudia, Justice, Anne E., Fine, Rebecca S., Bradfield, Jonathan P., Esko, Tõnu, Giri, Ayush, Graff, Mariaelisa, Guo, Xiuqing, Hendricks, Audrey E., Karaderi, Tugce, Lempradl, Adelheid, Locke, Adam E., Mahajan, Anubha, Marouli, Eirini, Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh, Young, Kristin L., Alfred, Tamuno, Feitosa, Mary F., Masca, Nicholas G.D., Manning, Alisa K., Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Mudgal, Poorva, Ng, Maggie C.Y., Reiner, Alex P., Vedantam, Sailaja, Willems, Sara M., Winkler, Thomas W., Abecasis, Gonçalo, Aben, Katja K., Alam, Dewan S., Alharthi, Sameer E., Allison, Matthew, Amouyel, Philippe, Asselbergs, Folkert W., Auer, Paul L., Balkau, Beverley, Bang, Lia E., Barroso, Inês, Bastarache, Lisa, Benn, Marianne, Bots, Michiel L., Ruijter, Hester M., Ikram, M. Arfan, Kahn, René S., Ophoff, Roel A., Pasterkamp, Gerard, and van Setten, Jessica

Subjects
Genetics
Abstract

In the version of this article originally published, one of the two authors with the name Wei Zhao was omitted from the author list and the affiliations for both authors were assigned to the single Wei Zhao in the author list. In addition, the ORCID for Wei Zhao (Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) was incorrectly assigned to author Wei Zhou. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Published
2018

18. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium

Author

Ng, Maggie C. Y., Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Justice, Anne E., Mudgal, Poorva, Liu, Ching-Ti, Young, Kristin, Yanek, Lisa R., Feitosa, Mary F., Wojczynski, Mary K., Rand, Kristin, Brody, Jennifer A., Cade, Brian E., Dimitrov, Latchezar, Duan, Qing, Guo, Xiuqing, Lange, Leslie A., Nalls, Michael A., Okut, Hayrettin, Tajuddin, Salman M., Tayo, Bamidele O., Vedantam, Sailaja, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Irvin, Marguerite R., Padhukasahasram, Badri, Smith, Jennifer A., Zheng, Wei, Allison, Matthew A., Ambrosone, Christine B., Bandera, Elisa V., Bartz, Traci M., Berndt, Sonja I., Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J., Bottinger, Erwin P., Carpten, John, Chanock, Stephen J., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Conti, David V., Cooper, Richard S., Fornage, Myriam, Freedman, Barry I., Garcia, Melissa, Goodman, Phyllis J., Hsu, Yu-Han H., Hu, Jennifer, Huff, Chad D., Ingles, Sue A., John, Esther M., Kittles, Rick, Klein, Eric, Li, Jin, McKnight, Barbara, Nayak, Uma, Nemesure, Barbara, Ogunniyi, Adesola, Olshan, Andrew, Press, Michael F., Rohde, Rebecca, Rybicki, Benjamin A., Salako, Babatunde, Sanderson, Maureen, Shao, Yaming, Siscovick, David S., Stanford, Janet L., Stevens, Victoria L., Stram, Alex, Strom, Sara S., Vaidya, Dhananjay, Witte, John S., Yao, Jie, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Ziegler, Regina G., Zonderman, Alan B., Adeyemo, Adebowale, Ambs, Stefan, Cushman, Mary, Faul, Jessica D., Hakonarson, Hakon, Levin, Albert M., Nathanson, Katherine L., Ware, Erin B., Weir, David R., Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Degui, Arnett, Donna K., Grant, Struan F. A., Kardia, Sharon L. R., Oloapde, Olufunmilayo I., Rao, D. C., Rotimi, Charles N., Sale, Michele M., Williams, L. Keoki, Zemel, Babette S., Becker, Diane M., Borecki, Ingrid B., Evans, Michele K., Harris, Tamara B., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Li, Yun, Patel, Sanjay R., Psaty, Bruce M., Rotter, Jerome I., Wilson, James G., Bowden, Donald W., Cupples, L. Adrienne, Haiman, Christopher A., Loos, Ruth J. F., and North, Kari E.

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Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Genome Analysis, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Genetics, Genomics, Human Genetics, Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Statistical Methods, Meta-Analysis, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics (Mathematics), Genetic Loci, Genomics Statistics, People and Places, Population Groupings, Ethnicities, Africans, Alleles, Trait Locus Analysis, Cell Biology, Signal Transduction, Cell Signaling, Genomic Signal Processing
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >300 loci associated with measures of adiposity including body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), but few have been identified through screening of the African ancestry genomes. We performed large scale meta-analyses and replications in up to 52,895 individuals for BMI and up to 23,095 individuals for WHRadjBMI from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC) using 1000 Genomes phase 1 imputed GWAS to improve coverage of both common and low frequency variants in the low linkage disequilibrium African ancestry genomes. In the sex-combined analyses, we identified one novel locus (TCF7L2/HABP2) for WHRadjBMI and eight previously established loci at P < 5×10−8: seven for BMI, and one for WHRadjBMI in African ancestry individuals. An additional novel locus (SPRYD7/DLEU2) was identified for WHRadjBMI when combined with European GWAS. In the sex-stratified analyses, we identified three novel loci for BMI (INTS10/LPL and MLC1 in men, IRX4/IRX2 in women) and four for WHRadjBMI (SSX2IP, CASC8, PDE3B and ZDHHC1/HSD11B2 in women) in individuals of African ancestry or both African and European ancestry. For four of the novel variants, the minor allele frequency was low (<5%). In the trans-ethnic fine mapping of 47 BMI loci and 27 WHRadjBMI loci that were locus-wide significant (P < 0.05 adjusted for effective number of variants per locus) from the African ancestry sex-combined and sex-stratified analyses, 26 BMI loci and 17 WHRadjBMI loci contained ≤ 20 variants in the credible sets that jointly account for 99% posterior probability of driving the associations. The lead variants in 13 of these loci had a high probability of being causal. As compared to our previous HapMap imputed GWAS for BMI and WHRadjBMI including up to 71,412 and 27,350 African ancestry individuals, respectively, our results suggest that 1000 Genomes imputation showed modest improvement in identifying GWAS loci including low frequency variants. Trans-ethnic meta-analyses further improved fine mapping of putative causal variants in loci shared between the African and European ancestry populations.

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2017
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19. Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

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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, 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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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20. Genome-Wide Association Studies of Asthma in Population-Based Cohorts Confirm Known and Suggested Loci and Identify an Additional Association near HLA

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Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Kuokkanen, Mikko, Vedantam, Sailaja, Gajdos, Zofia Katherine, Couto Alves, Alexessander, Lyon, Helen N., Ferreira, Manuel A. R., Strachan, David P., Zhao, Jing Hua, Abramson, Michael J., Brown, Matthew A., Coin, Lachlan, Dharmage, Shyamali C., Duffy, David L., Haahtela, Tari, Heath, Andrew C., Janson, Christer, Kähönen, Mika, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Laitinen, Jaana, Le Souef, Peter, Lehtimäki, Terho, Madden, Pamela A. F., Marks, Guy B., Martin, Nicholas G., Matheson, Melanie C., Palmer, Cameron Douglas, Palotie, Aarno, Pouta, Anneli, Robertson, Colin F., Viikari, Jorma, Widen, Elisabeth, Wjst, Matthias, Jarvis, Deborah L., Montgomery, Grant W., Thompson, Philip J., Wareham, Nick, Eriksson, Johan, Jousilahti, Pekka, Laitinen, Tarja, Pekkanen, Juha, Raitakari, Olli T., O'Connor, George T., Salomaa, Veikko, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, and Hirschhorn, Joel Naom

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Biology, Computational Biology, Molecular Genetics, Population Genetics, Genetics, Genetics of Disease, Human Genetics, Immunology, Allergy and Hypersensitivity, Genetics of the Immune System, Medicine, Clinical Immunology, Pulmonology, Asthma
Abstract

Rationale: Asthma has substantial morbidity and mortality and a strong genetic component, but identification of genetic risk factors is limited by availability of suitable studies. Objectives: To test if population-based cohorts with self-reported physician-diagnosed asthma and genome-wide association (GWA) data could be used to validate known associations with asthma and identify novel associations. Methods: The APCAT (Analysis in Population-based Cohorts of Asthma Traits) consortium consists of 1,716 individuals with asthma and 16,888 healthy controls from six European-descent population-based cohorts. We examined associations in APCAT of thirteen variants previously reported as genome-wide significant (P<5x\(10^{−8}\)) and three variants reported as suggestive (P<5×\(10^{−7}\)). We also searched for novel associations in APCAT (Stage 1) and followed-up the most promising variants in 4,035 asthmatics and 11,251 healthy controls (Stage 2). Finally, we conducted the first genome-wide screen for interactions with smoking or hay fever. Main Results: We observed association in the same direction for all thirteen previously reported variants and nominally replicated ten of them. One variant that was previously suggestive, rs11071559 in RORA, now reaches genome-wide significance when combined with our data (P = 2.4×\(10^{−9}\)). We also identified two genome-wide significant associations: rs13408661 near IL1RL1/IL18R1 (\(P_{Stage1+Stage2}\) = 1.1x\(10^{−9}\)), which is correlated with a variant recently shown to be associated with asthma (rs3771180), and rs9268516 in the HLA region (\(P_{Stage1+Stage2}\) = 1.1x\(10^{−8}\)), which appears to be independent of previously reported associations in this locus. Finally, we found no strong evidence for gene-environment interactions with smoking or hay fever status. Conclusions: Population-based cohorts with simple asthma phenotypes represent a valuable and largely untapped resource for genetic studies of asthma.

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2012
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21. Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis

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Stavroula Kanoni, Sarah E. Graham, Yuxuan Wang, Ida Surakka, Shweta Ramdas, Xiang Zhu, Shoa L. Clarke, Konain Fatima Bhatti, Sailaja Vedantam, Thomas W. Winkler, Adam E. Locke, Eirini Marouli, Greg J. M. Zajac, Kuan-Han H. Wu, Ioanna Ntalla, Qin Hui, Derek Klarin, Austin T. Hilliard, Zeyuan Wang, Chao Xue, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Anna Helgadottir, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Hilma Holm, Isleifur Olafsson, Mi Yeong Hwang, Sohee Han, Masato Akiyama, Saori Sakaue, Chikashi Terao, Masahiro Kanai, Wei Zhou, Ben M. Brumpton, Humaira Rasheed, Aki S. Havulinna, Yogasudha Veturi, Jennifer Allen Pacheco, Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, Todd Lingren, QiPing Feng, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Akira Narita, Jun Takayama, Hilary C. Martin, Karen A. Hunt, Bhavi Trivedi, Jeffrey Haessler, Franco Giulianini, Yuki Bradford, Jason E. Miller, Archie Campbell, Kuang Lin, Iona Y. Millwood, Asif Rasheed, George Hindy, Jessica D. Faul, Wei Zhao, David R. Weir, Constance Turman, Hongyan Huang, Mariaelisa Graff, Ananyo Choudhury, Dhriti Sengupta, Anubha Mahajan, Michael R. Brown, Weihua Zhang, Ketian Yu, Ellen M. Schmidt, Anita Pandit, Stefan Gustafsson, Xianyong Yin, Jian’an Luan, Jing-Hua Zhao, Fumihiko Matsuda, Hye-Mi Jang, Kyungheon Yoon, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Achilleas Pitsillides, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Andrew R. Wood, Yingji Ji, Zishan Gao, Simon Haworth, Noha A. Yousri, Ruth E. Mitchell, Jin Fang Chai, Mette Aadahl, Anne A. Bjerregaard, Jie Yao, Ani Manichaikul, Chii-Min Hwu, Yi-Jen Hung, Helen R. Warren, Julia Ramirez, Jette Bork-Jensen, Line L. Kårhus, Anuj Goel, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Raymond Noordam, Pala Mauro, Floris Matteo, Aaron F. McDaid, Pedro Marques-Vidal, Matthias Wielscher, Stella Trompet, Naveed Sattar, Line T. Møllehave, Matthias Munz, Lingyao Zeng, Jianfeng Huang, Bin Yang, Alaitz Poveda, Azra Kurbasic, Claudia Lamina, Lukas Forer, Markus Scholz, Tessel E. Galesloot, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Sanni E. 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Themistocles L, and Peloso, Gina M

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Genome-wide association study, Medizin, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Humans, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Sex Characteristics, Phenotype, Lipids/genetics, Genetic Pleiotropy, Cholesterol, GWAS, Genetics, Lipids, Genetic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Medicine [Science], 112 Statistics and probability, Medicinsk genetik, Genome-wide Association Study, Gwas, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, 3141 Health care science, FOS: Biological sciences, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], 3111 Biomedicine, Medical Genetics
Abstract

Background: Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding of these findings and hindering downstream translational efforts such as drug target discovery. Results: To expand our understanding of the underlying biological pathways and mechanisms controlling blood lipid levels, we leverage a large multi-ancestry metaanalysis (N = 1,654,960) of blood lipids to prioritize putative causal genes for 2286 lipid associations using six gene prediction approaches. Using phenome-wide association (PheWAS) scans, we identify relationships of genetically predicted lipid levels to other diseases and conditions. We confirm known pleiotropic associations with cardiovascular phenotypes and determine novel associations, notably with cholelithiasis risk. We perform sex-stratified GWAS meta-analysis of lipid levels and show that 3–5% of autosomal lipid-associated loci demonstrate sex-biased effects. Finally, we report 21 novel lipid loci identified on the X chromosome. Many of the sex-biased autosomal and X chromosome lipid loci show pleiotropic associations with sex hormones, emphasizing the role of hormone regulation in lipid metabolism. Conclusions: Taken together, our findings provide insights into the biological mechanisms through which associated variants lead to altered lipid levels and potentially cardiovascular disease risk., United States Department of Health & Human Services National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01HL127564 R01HL142711, Wellcome Trust 201543/B/16/Z 202802/Z/16/Z, European Commission HEALTH-F2-2013-601456 608765 786833, TriPartite Immunometabolism Consortium [TrIC]-Novo Nordisk Foundation NNF15CC0018486, American Diabetes Association 1-19-ICTS-068, Academy of Finland 312062 Finnish Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Finnish innovation fund Sitra (EW) Finska Lakaresallskapet, American Heart Association 15POST24470131 17POST33650016, University of Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre BRC-1215-2001, MRC & WT 217065/Z/19/Z, UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), Medical Research Council UK (MRC) MC_UU_00011, CRUK Integrative Cancer Epidemiology Programme C18281/A19169, Medical Research Council UK (MRC) MC_UU_00011/1, UK National Institute for Health Research Academic Clinical Fellowship, American Heart Association 18CDA34110116, Miguel Servet contract from the ISCIII Spanish Health Institute CP17/00142, European Social Fund (ESF), Westlake Education Foundation, British Heart Foundation FS/14/66/3129 Z01HG200362 R01HL142302 R01HL105756

Published
2022

22. Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

Author

Alison Pattie, Ailith Pirie, Francis S. Collins, Charles Kooperberg, Nienke van Leeuwen, Carmel Moore, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Neil R. Robertson, Lisa Bastarache, Allan Linneberg, Peter T. Campbell, Helena Kuivaniemi, Struan F.A. Grant, Sascha Fauser, Sekar Kathiresan, Lars Lind, Erin B. Ware, Olli T. Raitakari, Dawn M. Waterworth, James G. Wilson, Markus Perola, Chris J. Packard, Michelle L. O'Donoghue, Fredrik Karpe, Roel A. Ophoff, Sailaja Vedantam, Artitaya Lophatananon, Uwe Völker, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Hakon Hakonarson, Dajiang J. Liu, Craig E. Pennell, Xueling Sim, Jennifer E. Huffman, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Michiel L. Bots, Ayush Giri, Renée de Mutsert, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Nicholas J. Wareham, Jin Li, Gail P. Jarvik, Evangelos Evangelou, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Patricia B. Munroe, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Lia E. Bang, Ivan Brandslund, Hester M. den Ruijter, Jussi Hernesniemi, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Angela L. Mazul, Jonathan Tyrer, Danish Saleheen, Mark J. Caulfield, John Andrew Pospisilik, Annette Peters, Caroline Hayward, Iris M. Heid, J. Wouter Jukema, Valérie Turcot, Matt Neville, Rudolf Uher, Patricia A. Peyser, Jessica D. Faul, Asif Rasheed, Shuai Wang, John C. Chambers, Jordi Corominas Galbany, Murray H. Brilliant, Yucheng Jia, Torben Hansen, Veikko Salomaa, Mary F. Feitosa, Mathias Gorski, Li-An Lin, George Dedoussis, Honghuang Lin, Ethan M. Lange, Veronique Vitart, Bratati Kahali, Alexander Teumer, Jerome I. Rotter, Wayne H-H Sheu, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Lorraine Southam, Ele Ferrannini, Anette P. Gjesing, Krina T. Zondervan, Stavroula Kanoni, David J. Roberts, Rebecca S. Fine, Svati H. Shah, Tugce Karaderi, Claudia Langenberg, Stefan Johansson, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Alexander P. Reiner, Ching-Ti Liu, Yiqin Wang, Pål R. Njølstad, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Amanda J. Cox, Tim D. Spector, Paul W. Franks, Anke Tönjes, John D. Rioux, Jeffrey Haessler, Paul L. Auer, Ingrid B. Borecki, Deborah J. 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F., Internal medicine, AGEM - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition, Amsterdam Movement Sciences - Rehabilitation & Development, Amsterdam Movement Sciences - Restoration and Development, APH - Aging & Later Life, Physiology, and VU University medical center

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Male, ReproGen Consortium, MathematicsofComputing_GENERAL, Genome-wide association study, medicine.disease_cause, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Body Mass Index, genetics [Obesity], 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, Glucose homeostasis, Adult, Animals, Drosophila/genetics, Energy Intake/genetics, Energy Metabolism/genetics, Female, Genetic Variation, Humans, Obesity/genetics, Proteins/genetics, Syndrome, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Genetics & Heredity, Mutation, CHD Exome+ Consortium, body mass index, TheoryofComputation_GENERAL, T2D-Genes Consortium, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, MELANOCORTIN-4 RECEPTOR GENE, DONEPEZIL 23 MG, FRAMESHIFT MUTATION, GLUCOSE-HOMEOSTASIS, HYPOTHALAMIC AMPK, CODING VARIANTS, BLOOD-PRESSURE, RARE, LOCI, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], Drosophila, ExomeBP Consortium, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, INTERVAL Study, Understanding Society Scientific Group, EPIC InterAct Consortium, genetics [Energy Metabolism], Biology, EPIC-CVD Consortium, Frameshift mutation, 03 medical and health sciences, MAGIC Investigators, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Genetic, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, ddc:570, genetics [Drosophila], medicine, Journal Article, Global Lipids Genetic Consortium, Obesity, Gene, Allele frequency, Genetic association, Science & Technology, Proteins, 06 Biological Sciences, genetics [Proteins], Minor allele frequency, 030104 developmental biology, GoT2D Genes Consortium, Energy Intake, Energy Metabolism, genetics [Energy Intake], 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal genes remains challenging. Here we combined data from 718,734 individuals to discover rare and low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) < 5%) coding variants associated with BMI. We identified 14 coding variants in 13 genes, of which 8 variants were in genes (ZBTB7B, ACHE, RAPGEF3, RAB21, ZFHX3, ENTPD6, ZFR2 and ZNF169) newly implicated in human obesity, 2 variants were in genes (MC4R and KSR2) previously observed to be mutated in extreme obesity and 2 variants were in GIPR. The effect sizes of rare variants are ~10 times larger than those of common variants, with the largest effect observed in carriers of an MC4R mutation introducing a stop codon (p.Tyr35Ter, MAF = 0.01%), who weighed ~7 kg more than non-carriers. Pathway analyses based on the variants associated with BMI confirm enrichment of neuronal genes and provide new evidence for adipocyte and energy expenditure biology, widening the potential of genetically supported therapeutic targets in obesity.

Published
2018

23. Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe

Author

Joel N. Hirschhorn, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Michael E. Goddard, Anne E. Justice, Sonja I. Berndt, Peter M. Visscher, Leonard H. van den Berg, Erik Ingelsson, Sailaja Vedantam, Jan H. Veldink, Kari E. North, Matthew R. Robinson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Ruth J. F. Loos, Konstantin Shakhbazov, Gibran Hemani, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Andrew R. Wood, Joseph E. Powell, Massimo Mezzavilla, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Tõnu Esko, Paolo Gasparini, Adam E. Locke, Tim D. Spector, Nancy L. Pedersen, Stefan Gustafsson, Jian Yang, Eco J. C. de Geus, Timothy M. Frayling, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas G. Martin, Thomas Werge, Tune H. Pers, Fernando Rivadeneira, Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen, Andres Metspalu, Wouter van Rheenen, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Bratati Kahali, Ole A. Andreassen, Daniel I. Chasman, Robinson, Matthew R, Hemani, Gibran, Medina Gomez, Carolina, Mezzavilla, Massimo, Esko, Tonu, Shakhbazov, Konstantin, Powell, Joseph E., Vinkhuyzen, Anna, Berndt, Sonja I., Gustafsson, Stefan, Justice, Anne E., Kahali, Bratati, Locke, Adam E., Pers, Tune H., Vedantam, Sailaja, Wood, Andrew R., Van Rheenen, Wouter, Andreassen, Ole A., Gasparini, Paolo, Metspalu, Andre, Van Den Berg, Leonard H., Veldink, Jan H., Rivadeneira, Fernando, Werge, Thomas M., Abecasis, Goncalo R., Boomsma, Dorret I., Chasman, Daniel I., De Geus, Eco J. C., Frayling, Timothy M., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Hottenga, Jouke Jan, Ingelsson, Erik, Loos, Ruth J. F., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Martin, Nicholas G., Montgomery, Grant W., North, Kari E., Pedersen, Nancy L., Spector, Timothy D., Speliotes, Elizabeth K., Goddard, Michael E., Yang, Jian, Visscher, Peter M., Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Biological Psychology, Functional Genomics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Neurobiology of Mental Health, and EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes

Subjects
Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Population genetics, Genome-wide association study, Body Mass Index, 0302 clinical medicine, Models, Principal Component Analysi, Gene–environment interaction, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Principal Component Analysis, Geography, Algorithms, Body Height, Europe, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetics, Population, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Models, Genetic, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetic Variation, Single Nucleotide, Algorithm, Medical Genetics, Human, Population, Biology, Genetic correlation, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetic, Genetic variation, Polymorphism, education, 030304 developmental biology, Medicinsk genetik, Genetic divergence, Body mass index, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Demography
Abstract

Across-nation differences in the mean of complex traits such as obesity and stature are common1–8, but the reasons for these differences are not known. Here, we find evidence that many independent loci of small effect combine to create population genetic differences in height and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of 9,416 individuals across 14 European countries. Using discovery data on over 250,000 individuals and unbiased estimates of effect sizes from 17,500 sib pairs, we estimate that 24% (95% CI: 9%, 41%) and 8% (95% CI: 4%, 16%) of the captured additive genetic variance for height and BMI across Europe are attributed to among-population genetic differences. Population genetic divergence differed significantly from that expected under a null model (P

Published
2015

24. Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations

Author

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Male, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Blood Pressure, BLOOD-PRESSURE, INTELLIGENCE, Runs of Homozygosity, DISEASE, Homozygosity, Cohort Studies, Cognition, Forced Expiratory Volume, GENETIC-VARIANTS, Inbreeding depression, Settore MED/14 - NEFROLOGIA, Inbreeding, Inbreeding, Evolutionary genetics, Quantitative trait loci, Non-U.S. Gov't, Dominance (genetics), ddc:616, Genetics, ARCHITECTURE, Genome, Multidisciplinary, Body Height/genetics, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Homozygote, Confounding, heterozygosity, inbreeding, genomics, QUANTITATIVE TRAITS, BioBank Japan Project, Biological Evolution, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Cholesterol, Phenotype, Cholesterol, LDL/genetics, Trait, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Educational Status, Female, Lung Volume Measurements, Human, INBREEDING DEPRESSION, Quantitative trait loci, Blood Pressure/genetics, General Science & Technology, Forced Expiratory Volume/genetics, Lung Volume Measurement, Quantitative trait locus, Biology, Research Support, Evolutionary genetics, Article, LDL, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, MD Multidisciplinary, Journal Article, Humans, Genetic association, Science & Technology, Genome, Human, ta1184, PATHWAYS, Cholesterol, LDL, Body Height, Educational Statu, ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS, Evolutionary biology, Genome, Human/genetics, ta1181, Cohort Studie, Meta-Analysis
Abstract

Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power. Here we use runs of homozygosity to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts, and find statistically significant associations between summed runs of homozygosity and four complex traits: height, forced expiratory lung volume in one second, general cognitive ability and educational attainment (P < 1 × 10-300, 2.1 × 10-6, 2.5 × 10-10 and 1.8 × 10-10, respectively). In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months' less education. Similar effect sizes were found across four continental groups and populations with different degrees of genome-wide homozygosity, providing evidence that homozygosity, rather than confounding, directly contributes to phenotypic variance. Contrary to earlier reports in substantially smaller samples, no evidence was seen of an influence of genome-wide homozygosity on blood pressure and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, or ten other cardio-metabolic traits. Since directional dominance is predicted for traits under directional evolutionary selection, this study provides evidence that increased stature and cognitive function have been positively selected in human evolution, whereas many important risk factors for late-onset complex diseases may not have been.

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2015

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