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1. Genome-wide analysis in over 1 million individuals of European ancestry yields improved polygenic risk scores for blood pressure traits.

Author

Keaton, Jacob, Kamali, Zoha, Xie, Tian, Vaez, Ahmad, Williams, Ariel, Goleva, Slavina, Ani, Alireza, Evangelou, Evangelos, Hellwege, Jacklyn, Yengo, Loic, Young, William, Traylor, Matthew, Giri, Ayush, Zheng, Zhili, Zeng, Jian, Chasman, Daniel, Morris, Andrew, Caulfield, Mark, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Kooner, Jaspal, Conen, David, Attia, John, Morrison, Alanna, Loos, Ruth, Kristiansson, Kati, Schmidt, Reinhold, Hicks, Andrew, Pramstaller, Peter, Nelson, Christopher, Samani, Nilesh, Risch, Lorenz, Gyllensten, Ulf, Melander, Olle, Riese, Harriette, Wilson, James, Campbell, Harry, Rich, Stephen, Psaty, Bruce, Lu, Yingchang, Guo, Xiuqing, Rice, Kenneth, Vollenweider, Peter, Sundström, Johan, Langenberg, Claudia, Tobin, Martin, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Luan, Jianan, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Kutalik, Zoltan, Ripatti, Samuli, Salomaa, Veikko, Girotto, Giorgia, Trompet, Stella, Jukema, J, van der Harst, Pim, Ridker, Paul, Giulianini, Franco, Vitart, Veronique, Goel, Anuj, Watkins, Hugh, Harris, Sarah, Deary, Ian, van der Most, Peter, Oldehinkel, Albertine, Keavney, Bernard, Hayward, Caroline, Campbell, Archie, Boehnke, Michael, Scott, Laura, Boutin, Thibaud, Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto, Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Peters, Annette, Gieger, Christian, Lakatta, Edward, Cucca, Francesco, Hui, Jennie, Knekt, Paul, Enroth, Stefan, De Borst, Martin, Polašek, Ozren, Concas, Maria, Catamo, Eulalia, Cocca, Massimiliano, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Hofer, Edith, Schmidt, Helena, Spedicati, Beatrice, Waldenberger, Melanie, Strachan, David, Laan, Maris, Teumer, Alexander, Dörr, Marcus, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Cook, James, Ruggiero, Daniela, Kolcic, Ivana, Boerwinkle, Eric, Traglia, Michela, and Lehtimäki, Terho

Subjects
Female, Humans, Male, Blood Pressure, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Risk Score, Genome-Wide Association Study, Hypertension, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors
Abstract

Hypertension affects more than one billion people worldwide. Here we identify 113 novel loci, reporting a total of 2,103 independent genetic signals (P

Published
2024

2. Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention.

Author

Wang, Zhe, Emmerich, Andrew, Pillon, Nicolas, Moore, Tim, Hemerich, Daiane, Cornelis, Marilyn, Mazzaferro, Eugenia, Broos, Siacia, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer, Bartz, Traci, Bentley, Amy, Bielak, Lawrence, Chong, Mike, Chu, Audrey, Berry, Diane, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Dueker, Nicole, Kasbohm, Elisa, Feenstra, Bjarke, Feitosa, Mary, Gieger, Christian, Graff, Mariaelisa, Hall, Leanne, Haller, Toomas, Hartwig, Fernando, Hillis, David, Huikari, Ville, Heard-Costa, Nancy, Holzapfel, Christina, Jackson, Anne, Johansson, Åsa, Jørgensen, Anja, Kaakinen, Marika, Karlsson, Robert, Kerr, Kathleen, Kim, Boram, Koolhaas, Chantal, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lagou, Vasiliki, Lind, Penelope, Lorentzon, Mattias, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Metzendorf, Christoph, Monroe, Kristine, Pacolet, Alexander, Pérusse, Louis, Pool, Rene, Richmond, Rebecca, Rivera, Natalia, Robiou-du-Pont, Sebastien, Schraut, Katharina, Schulz, Christina-Alexandra, Stringham, Heather, Tanaka, Toshiko, Teumer, Alexander, Turman, Constance, van der Most, Peter, Vanmunster, Mathias, van Rooij, Frank, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana, Zhang, Xiaoshuai, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Zhao, Wei, Balkhiyarova, Zhanna, Balslev-Harder, Marie, Baumeister, Sebastian, Beilby, John, Blangero, John, Boomsma, Dorret, Brage, Soren, Braund, Peter, Brody, Jennifer, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Ekelund, Ulf, Liu, Ching-Ti, Cole, John, Collins, Francis, Cupples, L, Esko, Tõnu, Enroth, Stefan, Faul, Jessica, Fernandez-Rhodes, Lindsay, Fohner, Alison, Franco, Oscar, Galesloot, Tessel, Gordon, Scott, Grarup, Niels, Hartman, Catharina, Heiss, Gerardo, Hui, Jennie, Illig, Thomas, Jago, Russell, James, Alan, Joshi, Peter, Jung, Taeyeong, Kähönen, Mika, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas, Koh, Woon-Puay, and Kolcic, Ivana

Subjects
Actinin, Cross-Sectional Studies, Exercise, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leisure Activities, Sedentary Behavior
Abstract

Although physical activity and sedentary behavior are moderately heritable, little is known about the mechanisms that influence these traits. Combining data for up to 703,901 individuals from 51 studies in a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies yields 99 loci that associate with self-reported moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity during leisure time (MVPA), leisure screen time (LST) and/or sedentary behavior at work. Loci associated with LST are enriched for genes whose expression in skeletal muscle is altered by resistance training. A missense variant in ACTN3 makes the alpha-actinin-3 filaments more flexible, resulting in lower maximal force in isolated type IIA muscle fibers, and possibly protection from exercise-induced muscle damage. Finally, Mendelian randomization analyses show that beneficial effects of lower LST and higher MVPA on several risk factors and diseases are mediated or confounded by body mass index (BMI). Our results provide insights into physical activity mechanisms and its role in disease prevention.

Published
2022

3. KLB is associated with alcohol drinking, and its gene product β-Klotho is necessary for FGF21 regulation of alcohol preference

Author

Schumann, Gunter, Liu, Chunyu, O'Reilly, Paul, Gao, He, Song, Parkyong, Xu, Bing, Ruggeri, Barbara, Amin, Najaf, Jia, Tianye, Preis, Sarah, Segura Lepe, Marcelo, Akira, Shizuo, Barbieri, Caterina, Baumeister, Sebastian, Cauchi, Stephane, Clarke, Toni-Kim, Enroth, Stefan, Fischer, Krista, Hällfors, Jenni, Harris, Sarah E, Hieber, Saskia, Hofer, Edith, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Johansson, Åsa, Joshi, Peter K, Kaartinen, Niina, Laitinen, Jaana, Lemaitre, Rozenn, Loukola, Anu, Luan, Jian'an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mangino, Massimo, Manichaikul, Ani, Mbarek, Hamdi, Milaneschi, Yuri, Moayyeri, Alireza, Mukamal, Kenneth, Nelson, Christopher, Nettleton, Jennifer, Partinen, Eemil, Rawal, Rajesh, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda, Sala, Cinzia, Satoh, Takashi, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schraut, Katharina, Scott, Robert, Smith, Albert Vernon, Starr, John M, Teumer, Alexander, Trompet, Stella, Uitterlinden, André G, Venturini, Cristina, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verweij, Niek, Vitart, Veronique, Vuckovic, Dragana, Wedenoja, Juho, Yengo, Loic, Yu, Bing, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Boomsma, Dorret I, Chambers, John, Chasman, Daniel I, Daniela, Toniolo, de Geus, Eco, Deary, Ian, Eriksson, Johan G, Esko, Tõnu, Eulenburg, Volker, Franco, Oscar H, Froguel, Philippe, Gieger, Christian, Grabe, Hans J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Harris, Tamara B, Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa, Heath, Andrew C, Hocking, Lynne, Hofman, Albert, Huth, Cornelia, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Jukema, J Wouter, Kaprio, Jaakko, Kooner, Jaspal S, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lahti, Jari, Langenberg, Claudia, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liu, Yongmei, Madden, Pamela AF, Martin, Nicholas, Morrison, Alanna, Penninx, Brenda, Pirastu, Nicola, Psaty, Bruce, and Raitakari, Olli

Subjects
Underage Drinking, Genetics, Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health, Neurosciences, Substance Misuse, Pediatric, Underpinning research, 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning, Stroke, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Oral and gastrointestinal, Good Health and Well Being, Alcohol Drinking, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Emotions, Female, Fibroblast Growth Factors, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Klotho Proteins, Liver, Male, Membrane Proteins, Mice, Mice, 129 Strain, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, alcohol consumption, human, beta-Klotho, FGF21, mouse model, β-Klotho
Abstract

Excessive alcohol consumption is a major public health problem worldwide. Although drinking habits are known to be inherited, few genes have been identified that are robustly linked to alcohol drinking. We conducted a genome-wide association metaanalysis and replication study among >105,000 individuals of European ancestry and identified β-Klotho (KLB) as a locus associated with alcohol consumption (rs11940694; P = 9.2 × 10-12). β-Klotho is an obligate coreceptor for the hormone FGF21, which is secreted from the liver and implicated in macronutrient preference in humans. We show that brain-specific β-Klotho KO mice have an increased alcohol preference and that FGF21 inhibits alcohol drinking by acting on the brain. These data suggest that a liver-brain endocrine axis may play an important role in the regulation of alcohol drinking behavior and provide a unique pharmacologic target for reducing alcohol consumption.

Published
2016

4. The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals.

Author

Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Chasman, Daniel I, Jackson, Anne U, Schmidt, Ellen M, Johnson, Toby, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Luan, Jian'an, Donnelly, Lousie A, Kanoni, Stavroula, Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Pihur, Vasyl, Strawbridge, Rona J, Shungin, Dmitry, Hughes, Maria F, Meirelles, Osorio, Kaakinen, Marika, Bouatia-Naji, Nabila, Kristiansson, Kati, Shah, Sonia, Kleber, Marcus E, Guo, Xiuqing, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Fava, Cristiano, Eriksson, Niclas, Nolte, Ilja M, Magnusson, Patrik K, Salfati, Elias L, Rallidis, Loukianos S, Theusch, Elizabeth, Smith, Andrew JP, Folkersen, Lasse, Witkowska, Kate, Pers, Tune H, Joehanes, Roby, Kim, Stuart K, Lataniotis, Lazaros, Jansen, Rick, Johnson, Andrew D, Warren, Helen, Kim, Young Jin, Zhao, Wei, Wu, Ying, Tayo, Bamidele O, Bochud, Murielle, CHARGE-EchoGen consortium, CHARGE-HF consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Axelsson, Tomas, Baldassarre, Damiano, Balkau, Beverley, Bandinelli, Stefania, Barnes, Michael R, Barroso, Inês, Bevan, Stephen, Bis, Joshua C, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Brown, Morris J, Burnier, Michel, Cabrera, Claudia P, Chambers, John C, Chang, I-Shou, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Chines, Peter S, Chung, Ren-Hua, Collins, Francis S, Connell, John M, Döring, Angela, Dallongeville, Jean, Danesh, John, de Faire, Ulf, Delgado, Graciela, Dominiczak, Anna F, Doney, Alex SF, Drenos, Fotios, Edkins, Sarah, Eicher, John D, Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Per, Esko, Tonu, Evangelou, Evangelos, Evans, Alun, Fall, Tove, Farrall, Martin, Felix, Janine F, Ferrières, Jean, Ferrucci, Luigi, Fornage, Myriam, and Forrester, Terrence

Subjects
CHARGE-EchoGen consortium, CHARGE-HF consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Hypertension, Microarray Analysis, Blood Pressure, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, African Continental Ancestry Group, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Genome-Wide Association Study, Cells, Cultured, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Developmental Biology, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract

To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 individuals of European ancestry, and genotypes from an additional 140,886 individuals were used for validation. We identified 66 blood pressure-associated loci, of which 17 were new; 15 harbored multiple distinct association signals. The 66 index SNPs were enriched for cis-regulatory elements, particularly in vascular endothelial cells, consistent with a primary role in blood pressure control through modulation of vascular tone across multiple tissues. The 66 index SNPs combined in a risk score showed comparable effects in 64,421 individuals of non-European descent. The 66-SNP blood pressure risk score was significantly associated with target organ damage in multiple tissues but with minor effects in the kidney. Our findings expand current knowledge of blood pressure-related pathways and highlight tissues beyond the classical renal system in blood pressure regulation.

Published
2016

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

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Joshi, Peter K, Esko, Tonu, Mattsson, Hannele, Eklund, Niina, Gandin, Ilaria, Nutile, Teresa, Jackson, Anne U, Schurmann, Claudia, Smith, Albert V, Zhang, Weihua, Okada, Yukinori, Stančáková, Alena, Faul, Jessica D, Zhao, Wei, Bartz, Traci M, Concas, Maria Pina, Franceschini, Nora, Enroth, Stefan, Vitart, Veronique, Trompet, Stella, Guo, Xiuqing, Chasman, Daniel I, O'Connel, Jeffrey R, Corre, Tanguy, Nongmaithem, Suraj S, Chen, Yuning, Mangino, Massimo, Ruggiero, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Kacprowski, Tim, Bjonnes, Andrew, van der Spek, Ashley, Wu, Ying, Giri, Anil K, Yanek, Lisa R, Wang, Lihua, Hofer, Edith, Rietveld, Cornelius A, McLeod, Olga, Cornelis, Marilyn C, Pattaro, Cristian, Verweij, Niek, Baumbach, Clemens, Abdellaoui, Abdel, Warren, Helen R, Vuckovic, Dragana, Mei, Hao, Bouchard, Claude, Perry, John RB, Cappellani, Stefania, Mirza, Saira S, Benton, Miles C, Broeckel, Ulrich, Medland, Sarah E, Lind, Penelope A, Malerba, Giovanni, Drong, Alexander, Yengo, Loic, Bielak, Lawrence F, Zhi, Degui, van der Most, Peter J, Shriner, Daniel, Mägi, Reedik, Hemani, Gibran, Karaderi, Tugce, Wang, Zhaoming, Liu, Tian, Demuth, Ilja, Zhao, Jing Hua, Meng, Weihua, Lataniotis, Lazaros, van der Laan, Sander W, Bradfield, Jonathan P, Wood, Andrew R, Bonnefond, Amelie, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Hall, Leanne M, Salvi, Erika, Yazar, Seyhan, Carstensen, Lisbeth, de Haan, Hugoline G, Abney, Mark, Afzal, Uzma, Allison, Matthew A, Amin, Najaf, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Bakker, Stephan JL, Barr, R Graham, Baumeister, Sebastian E, Benjamin, Daniel J, Bergmann, Sven, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bottinger, Erwin P, Campbell, Archie, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chan, Yingleong, Chanock, Stephen J, Chen, Constance, and Chen, Y-D Ida

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Biological Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Biological Evolution, Blood Pressure, Body Height, Cholesterol, LDL, Cognition, Cohort Studies, Educational Status, Female, Forced Expiratory Volume, Genome, Human, Homozygote, Humans, Lung Volume Measurements, Male, Phenotype, General Science & Technology
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.

Published
2015

6. Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity

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Loth, Daan W, Artigas, María Soler, Gharib, Sina A, Wain, Louise V, Franceschini, Nora, Koch, Beate, Pottinger, Tess D, Smith, Albert Vernon, Duan, Qing, Oldmeadow, Chris, Lee, Mi Kyeong, Strachan, David P, James, Alan L, Huffman, Jennifer E, Vitart, Veronique, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Wareham, Nicholas J, Kaprio, Jaakko, Wang, Xin-Qun, Trochet, Holly, Kähönen, Mika, Flexeder, Claudia, Albrecht, Eva, Lopez, Lorna M, de Jong, Kim, Thyagarajan, Bharat, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Enroth, Stefan, Omenaas, Ernst, Joshi, Peter K, Fall, Tove, Viñuela, Ana, Launer, Lenore J, Loehr, Laura R, Fornage, Myriam, Li, Guo, Wilk, Jemma B, Tang, Wenbo, Manichaikul, Ani, Lahousse, Lies, Harris, Tamara B, North, Kari E, Rudnicka, Alicja R, Hui, Jennie, Gu, Xiangjun, Lumley, Thomas, Wright, Alan F, Hastie, Nicholas D, Campbell, Susan, Kumar, Rajesh, Pin, Isabelle, Scott, Robert A, Pietiläinen, Kirsi H, Surakka, Ida, Liu, Yongmei, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Schulz, Holger, Heinrich, Joachim, Davies, Gail, Vonk, Judith M, Wojczynski, Mary, Pouta, Anneli, Johansson, Åsa, Wild, Sarah H, Ingelsson, Erik, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Völzke, Henry, Hysi, Pirro G, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Morrison, Alanna C, Rotter, Jerome I, Gao, Wei, Postma, Dirkje S, White, Wendy B, Rich, Stephen S, Hofman, Albert, Aspelund, Thor, Couper, David, Smith, Lewis J, Psaty, Bruce M, Lohman, Kurt, Burchard, Esteban G, Uitterlinden, André G, Garcia, Melissa, Joubert, Bonnie R, McArdle, Wendy L, Musk, A Bill, Hansel, Nadia, Heckbert, Susan R, Zgaga, Lina, van Meurs, Joyce BJ, Navarro, Pau, Rudan, Igor, Oh, Yeon-Mok, Redline, Susan, Jarvis, Deborah L, Zhao, Jing Hua, Rantanen, Taina, O'Connor, George T, and Ripatti, Samuli

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Rare Diseases, Lung, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Respiratory, Cohort Studies, Databases, Genetic, Follow-Up Studies, Forced Expiratory Volume, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Lung Diseases, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Quantitative Trait Loci, Respiratory Function Tests, Spirometry, Vital Capacity, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Forced vital capacity (FVC), a spirometric measure of pulmonary function, reflects lung volume and is used to diagnose and monitor lung diseases. We performed genome-wide association study meta-analysis of FVC in 52,253 individuals from 26 studies and followed up the top associations in 32,917 additional individuals of European ancestry. We found six new regions associated at genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10(-8)) with FVC in or near EFEMP1, BMP6, MIR129-2-HSD17B12, PRDM11, WWOX and KCNJ2. Two loci previously associated with spirometric measures (GSTCD and PTCH1) were related to FVC. Newly implicated regions were followed up in samples from African-American, Korean, Chinese and Hispanic individuals. We detected transcripts for all six newly implicated genes in human lung tissue. The new loci may inform mechanisms involved in lung development and the pathogenesis of restrictive lung disease.

Published
2014

7. The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer

Author

Haycock, Philip C, Borges, Maria Carolina, Burrows, Kimberley, Lemaitre, Rozenn N, Burgess, Stephen, Khankari, Nikhil K, Tsilidis, Konstantinos K, Gaunt, Tom R, Hemani, Gibran, Zheng, Jie, Truong, Therese, Birmann, Brenda M, OMara, Tracy, Spurdle, Amanda B, Iles, Mark M, Law, Matthew H, Slager, Susan L, Saberi Hosnijeh, Fatemeh, Mariosa, Daniela, Cotterchio, Michelle, Cerhan, James R, Peters, Ulrike, Enroth, Stefan, Gharahkhani, Puya, Le Marchand, Loic, Williams, Ann C, Block, Robert C, ACCC, CCFR-CORECT-GECCO, EPITHYR, InterLymph, MMAC, ECAC, ILCCO, PRACTICAL Consortium, PanScan, PanC4, Amos, Christopher I, Hung, Rayjean J, Zheng, Wei, Gunter, Marc J, Smith, George Davey, Relton, Caroline, Martin, Richard M, Fatty Acids in Cancer Mendelian Randomization Collaboration, Burgess, Stephen [0000-0001-5365-8760], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Fatty Acid Desaturases, Esophageal Neoplasms, Delta-5 desaturase, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Omega 6, Cancer risk, Omega 3, Fatty Acids, Omega-3, Mendelian randomization, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, Delta-6 desaturase, Humans, Polyunsaturated fatty acids, Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Colorectal Neoplasms
Abstract

BACKGROUND: The causal relevance of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) for risk of site-specific cancers remains uncertain. METHODS: Using a Mendelian randomization (MR) framework, we assessed the causal relevance of PUFAs for risk of cancer in European and East Asian ancestry individuals. We defined the primary exposure as PUFA desaturase activity, proxied by rs174546 at the FADS locus. Secondary exposures were defined as omega 3 and omega 6 PUFAs that could be proxied by genetic polymorphisms outside the FADS region. Our study used summary genetic data on 10 PUFAs and 67 cancers, corresponding to 562,871 cases and 1,619,465 controls, collected by the Fatty Acids in Cancer Mendelian Randomization Collaboration. We estimated odds ratios (ORs) for cancer per standard deviation increase in genetically proxied PUFA exposures. FINDINGS: Genetically elevated PUFA desaturase activity was associated (P

Published
2023

8. Genomewide binding of transcription factor Snail1 in triple‐negative breast cancer cells

Author

Maturi, Varun, Morén, Anita, Enroth, Stefan, Heldin, Carl‐Henrik, and Moustakas, Aristidis

Subjects
Bone Morphogenetic Protein 6, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, chromatin immunoprecipitation, epithelial–mesenchymal transition, lcsh:RC254-282, Bone and Bones, Mesoderm, Gene Knockout Techniques, breast cancer, Cell Movement, Cell Line, Tumor, bone morphogenetic protein, Homeostasis, Humans, transforming growth factor β, Research Articles, Base Sequence, Genome, Human, lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, HEK293 Cells, Phenotype, Female, Snail Family Transcription Factors, Transcriptome, Research Article, Protein Binding
Abstract

Transcriptional regulation mediated by the zinc finger protein Snail1 controls early embryogenesis. By binding to the epithelial tumor suppressor CDH1 gene, Snail1 initiates the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The EMT generates stem-like cells and promotes invasiveness during cancer progression. Accordingly, Snail1 mRNA and protein is abundantly expressed in triple-negative breast cancers with enhanced metastatic potential and phenotypic signs of the EMT. Such high endogenous Snail1 protein levels permit quantitative chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis. Snail1 associated with 185 genes at cis regulatory regions in the Hs578T triple-negative breast cancer cell model. These genes include morphogenetic regulators and signaling components that control polarized differentiation. Using the CRISPR/Cas9 system in Hs578T cells, a double deletion of 10 bp each was engineered into the first exon and into the second exon-intron junction of Snail1, suppressing Snail1 expression and causing misregulation of several hundred genes. Specific attention to regulators of chromatin organization provides a possible link to new phenotypes uncovered by the Snail1 loss-of-function mutation. On the other hand, genetic inactivation of Snail1 was not sufficient to establish a full epithelial transition to these tumor cells. Thus, Snail1 contributes to the malignant phenotype of breast cancer cells via diverse new mechanisms.

Published
2018

9. Genome–wide binding of transcription factor ZEB1 in triple‐negative breast cancer cells

Author

Maturi, Varun, Enroth, Stefan, Heldin, Carl‐Henrik, and Moustakas, Aristidis

Subjects
Homeodomain Proteins, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition, EMT, Zinc Finger E-box-Binding Homeobox 1, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, TGFβ, Cell Movement, Original Research Articles, Cell Line, Tumor, TIMP, ZEB1, Humans, Original Research Article, Transcription Factors
Abstract

Zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1) is a transcriptional regulator involved in embryonic development and cancer progression. ZEB1 induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Triple-negative human breast cancers express high ZEB1 mRNA levels and exhibit features of EMT. In the human triple-negative breast cancer cell model Hs578T, ZEB1 associates with almost 2,000 genes, representing many cellular functions, including cell polarity regulation (DLG2 and FAT3). By introducing a CRISPR-Cas9-mediated 30 bp deletion into the ZEB1 second exon, we observed reduced migratory and anchorage-independent growth capacity of these tumor cells. Transcriptomic analysis of control and ZEB1 knockout cells, revealed 1,372 differentially expressed genes. The TIMP metallopeptidase inhibitor 3 and the teneurin transmembrane protein 2 genes showed increased expression upon loss of ZEB1, possibly mediating pro-tumorigenic actions of ZEB1. This work provides a resource for regulators of cancer progression that function under the transcriptional control of ZEB1. The data confirm that removing a single EMT transcription factor, such as ZEB1, is not sufficient for reverting the triple-negative mesenchymal breast cancer cells into more differentiated, epithelial-like clones, but can reduce tumorigenic potential, suggesting that not all pro-tumorigenic actions of ZEB1 are linked to the EMT.

Published
2018

10. 1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function

Author

Gorski, Mathias, van der Most, Peter J., Teumer, Alexander, Chu, Audrey Y., Li, Man, Mijatovic, Vladan, Nolte, Ilja M., Cocca, Massimiliano, Taliun, Daniel, Gomez, Felicia, Li, Yong, Tayo, Bamidele, Tin, Adrienne, Feitosa, Mary F., Aspelund, Thor, Attia, John, Biffar, Reiner, Bochud, Murielle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Borecki, Ingrid, Bottinger, Erwin P., Chen, Ming-Huei, Chouraki, Vincent, Ciullo, Marina, Coresh, Josef, Cornelis, Marilyn C., Curhan, Gary C., d’Adamo, Adamo Pio, Dehghan, Abbas, Dengler, Laura, Ding, Jingzhong, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Endlich, Karlhans, Enroth, Stefan, Esko, Tõnu, Franco, Oscar H., Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Gottesman, Omri, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hancock, Stephen J., Harris, Tamara B., Helmer, Catherine, Höllerer, Simon, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Holliday, Elizabeth G., Homuth, Georg, Hu, Frank B., Huth, Cornelia, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Imboden, Medea, Johansson, Åsa, Kähönen, Mika, König, Wolfgang, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K., Kumar, Ashish, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Launer, Lenore J., Lehtimäki, Terho, de Borst, Martin, Navis, Gerjan, Swertz, Morris, Liu, Yongmei, Lohman, Kurt, Loos, Ruth J. F., Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, McEvoy, Mark A., Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Metzger, Marie, Mihailov, Evelin, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthias, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Olden, Matthias, Penninx, Brenda W. J. 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F, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo Pekka, Mcevoy, Mark A, Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thoma, Metspalu, Andre, Metzger, Marie, Mihailov, Evelin, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthia, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Olden, Matthia, Wjh Penninx, Brenda, Pistis, Giorgio, Pramstaller, Peter P, Probst Hensch, Nicole, Raitakari, Olli T, Rettig, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Robino, Antonietta, Rosas, Sylvia E, Ruderfer, Dougla, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Scott, Rodney J, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Smith, Albert V, Sorice, Rossella, Stengel, Benedicte, Stracke, Sylvia, Strauch, Konstantin, Toniolo, Daniela, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Ulivi, Sheila, Viikari, Jorma S, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Vuckovic, Dragana, Waldenberger, Melanie, Jin Wang, Jie, Yang, Qiong, Chasman, Daniel I, Tromp, Gerard, Snieder, Harold, Heid, Iris M, Fox, Caroline S, Köttgen, Anna, Pattaro, Cristian, Böger, Carsten A, Fuchsberger, Christian, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Vascular Ageing Programme (VAP), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Value, Affordability and Sustainability (VALUE), and Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT)

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kidney, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Genotyping Techniques, 610 Medizin, HapMap based genome-wide association studies, genome sequencing, The 1000 Genomes project, meta-analysis, kidney function, VARIANTS, GENOTYPE IMPUTATION, Kidney, GLOMERULAR-FILTRATION-RATE, Medical and Health Sciences, Genome-wide association studies, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, DISEASE, Article, genome-wide, Gene Frequency, Chronic kidney disease, WIDE ASSOCIATION, Erfðafræði, GWAS, Humans, ddc:610, SERUM CREATININE, LINKAGE ANALYSIS, HERITABILITY, Genome, Human, COMMUNITY-BASED POPULATION, Computational Biology, Rannsóknir, Arfgengi, Genetic Loci, Nýrnasjúkdómar, INTEGRATION, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

HapMap imputed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed >50 loci at which common variants with minor allele frequency >5% are associated with kidney function. GWAS using more complete reference sets for imputation, such as those from The 1000 Genomes project, promise to identify novel loci that have been missed by previous efforts. To investigate the value of such a more complete variant catalog, we conducted a GWAS meta-analysis of kidney function based on the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in 110,517 European ancestry participants using 1000 Genomes imputed data. We identified 10 novel loci with p-value, 3C. Three-City Study. The work was made possible by the participation of the control subjects, the patients, and their families. We thank Dr. Anne Boland (CNG) for her technical help in preparing the DNA samples for analyses. This work was supported by the National Foundation for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, the Institut Pasteur de Lille and the Centre National de Génotypage. The 3C Study was performed as part of a collaboration between the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), the Victor Segalen Bordeaux II University and Sanofi-Synthélabo. The Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale funded the preparation and initiation of the study. The 3C Study was also funded by the Caisse Nationale Maladie des Travailleurs Salariés, Direction Générale de la Santé, MGEN, Institut de la Longévité, Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé, the Aquitaine and Bourgogne Regional Councils, Fondation de France and the joint French Ministry of Research/INSERM “Cohortes et collections de données biologiques” programme. Lille Génopôle received an unconditional grant from Eisai. AGES. Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study. This study has been funded by NIH contract N01-AG-1-2100, the NIA Intramural Research Program, Hjartavernd (the Icelandic Heart Association), and the Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament). The study is approved by the Icelandic National Bioethics Committee, VSN: 00-063. The researchers are indebted to the participants for their willingness to participate in the study. ARIC. Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. The ARIC study is carried out as a collaborative study supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute contracts (HHSN268201100005C, HHSN268201100006C, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100011C, and HHSN268201100012C), R01HL087641, R01HL59367 and R01HL086694; National Human Genome Research Institute contract U01HG004402; and National Institutes of Health contract HHSN268200625226C. The authors thank the staff and participants of the ARIC study for their important contributions. Infrastructure was partly supported by Grant Number UL1RR025005, a component of the National Institutes of Health and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. This work as well as YL and AK were supported by the German Research Foundation (KO 3598/2-1, KO 3598/3-1 and CRC1140 A05 to AK). ASPS. Austrian Stroke Prevention Study. The research reported in this article was funded by the Austrian Science Fond (FWF) grant number P20545-P05 and P13180. The Medical University of Graz supports the databank of the ASPS. The authors thank the staff and the participants of the ASPS for their valuable contributions. We thank Birgit Reinhart for her long-term administrative commitment and Ing Johann Semmler for the technical assistance at creating the DNA-bank. BMES. Blue Mountains Eye Study. The BMES has been supported by the Australian RADGAC grant (1992- 94) and Australian National Health & Medical Research Council, Canberra Australia (Grant Nos: 974159, 211069, 991407, 457349). The GWAS studies of Blue Mountains Eye Study population are supported by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (Grant Nos: 512423, 475604, 529912) and the Wellcome Trust, UK (2008). EGH and JJW are funded by the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council Fellowship Schemes. CILENTO. Italian Network on Genetic Isolates – Cilento. We thank the populations of Cilento for their participation in the study. The study was supported by the Italian Ministry of Universities and CNR 36 (PON03PE_00060_7, Interomics Flagship Project), the Assessorato Ricerca Regione Campania, the Fondazione con il SUD (2011-PDR-13), and the Istituto Banco di Napoli - Fondazione to MC. COLAUS. The CoLaus authors thank Yolande Barreau, Mathieu Firmann, Vladimir Mayor, Anne-Lise Bastian, Binasa Ramic, Martine Moranville, Martine Baumer, Marcy Sagette, Jeanne Ecoffey and Sylvie Mermoud for data collection. The CoLaus study received financial contributions from GlaxoSmithKline, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of Lausanne, the Swiss National Science Foundation (33CSCO- 122661, 3200BO-111361/2, 3100AO-116323/1, 310000-112552). The computations for CoLaus imputation were performed in part at the Vital-IT center for high performance computing of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. We thank Vincent Mooser for his contribution to the CoLaus study. EGCUT. Estonian Genome Center University of Tartu. EGCUT received financing from FP7 grants (278913, 306031, 313010) and targeted financing from Estonian Government (SF0180142s08). EGCUT studies were covered from Infra-structure grant no. 3.2.0304.11-0312 funded mostly by the European Regional Development Fund, Center of Excellence in Genomics (EXCEGEN) and University of Tartu (SP1GVARENG). We acknowledge EGCUT technical personnel, especially Mr V. Soo and S. Smit. Data analyses were carried out in part in the High Performance Computing Center of the University of Tartu. FamHS. Family Heart Study. The FHS work was supported in part by NIH grants 5R01HL08770003, 5R01HL08821502 (Michael A. Province) from the NHLBI and 5R01DK07568102, 5R01DK06833603 from the NIDDK (I.B.B.). The authors thank the staff and participants of the FamHS for their important contributions. FHS. Framingham Heart Study. This research was conducted in part using data and resources from the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health and Boston University School of Medicine. The analyses reflect intellectual input and resource development from the Framingham Heart Study investigators participating in the SNP Health Association Resource (SHARe) project. This work was partially supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study (Contract No. N01-HC-25195) and its contract with Affymetrix, Inc. for genotyping services (Contract No. N02-HL-6-4278). A portion of this research utilized the Linux Cluster for Genetic Analysis (LinGA-II) funded by the Robert Dawson Evans Endowment of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. GENDIAN. GENetics of DIAbetic Nephropathy study. The support of the physicians, the patients, and the staff of the Diabetes Zentrum Mergentheim (Head: Prof. Dr. Thomas Haak), the diabetes outpatient clinic Dr Nusser - Dr Kreisel, the dialysis centers KfH Amberg, KfH Bayreuth, KfH Deggendorf, KfH Donauwörth, KfH Freising, KfH Freyung, KfH Fürth, KfH Hof, KfH Ingolstadt, KfH Kelheim, KfH München Elsenheimerstraße, KfH München-Schwabing, KfH Neumarkt, KfH Neusäß, KfH Oberschleißheim, KfH Passau, KfH Plauen, KfH Regensburg Günzstraße, KfH Regensburg Caritas-Krankenhaus, KfH Straubing, KfH Sulzbach-Rosenberg, KfH Weiden, Dialysezentrum Augsburg Dr. Kirschner, Dialysezentrum Bad Alexandersbad, KfH Bamberg, Dialysezentrum Emmering, Dialysezentrum Klinikum Landshut, Dialysezentrum Landshut, Dialysezentrum Pfarrkirchen, Dialysezentrum Schwandorf, Dr. Angela Götz, the medical doctoral student Johanna Christ and the Study Nurse Ingrid Lugauer. The expert technical assistance of Claudia Strohmeier is acknowledged. Phenotyping was funded by the Dr. Robert PflegerStiftung (Dr Carsten A. Böger), the MSD Stipend Diabetes (Dr Carsten A. Böger) and the University Hospital of Regensburg (intramural grant ReForM A to Dr. A. Götz, ReForM C to Dr. Carsten Böger). Genome-wide genotyping was funded by the KfH Stiftung Präventivmedizin e.V. (Dr. Carsten A. Böger, Dr. Jens Brüning), the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (2012_A147 to Dr Carsten A. Böger and Dr Iris M. Heid) and the University Hospital Regensburg (Dr Carsten A. Böger). Data analysis was funded by the Else 37 Kröner-Fresenius Stiftung (Dr. Iris M. Heid and Dr. Carsten A. Böger: 2012_A147; Dr. Carsten A. Böger and Dr. Bernhard K. Krämer: P48/08//A11/08). GENDIAN Study Group: Mathias Gorski, Iris M. Heid, Bernhard K. Krämer, Myriam Rheinberger, Michael Broll, Alexander Lammert, Jens Brüning, Matthias Olden, Klaus Stark, Claudia Strohmeier, Simone Neumeier, Sarah Hufnagel, Petra Jackermeier, Emilia Ruff, Johanna Christ, Peter Nürnberg, Thomas Haak, Carsten A. Böger. HABC. Health Aging and Body Composition Study. The HABC study was funded by the National Institutes of Aging. This research was supported by NIA contracts N01AG62101, N01AG62103, and N01AG62106. The genome-wide association study was funded by NIA grant 1R01AG032098-01A1 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences and genotyping services were provided by the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR). CIDR is fully funded through a federal contract from the National Institutes of Health to The Johns Hopkins University, contract number HHSN268200782096C. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging. HCS. Hunter Community Study. The University of Newcastle provided $300,000 from its Strategic Initiatives Fund, and $600,000 from the Gladys M Brawn Senior Research Fellowship scheme; Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, a private philanthropic trust, provided $195,000; The Hunter Medical Research Institute provided media support during the initial recruitment of participants; and Dr Anne Crotty, Prof. Rodney Scott and Associate Prof. Levi provided financial support towards freezing costs for the long-term storage of participant blood samples. The authors would like to thank the men and women participating in the HCS as well as all the staff, investigators and collaborators who have supported or been involved in the project to date. A special thank you should go to Alison Koschel and Debbie Quain who were instrumental in setting up the pilot study and initial phase of the project. HPFS. Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. The NHS/HPFS type 2 diabetes GWAS (U01HG004399) is a component of a collaborative project that includes 13 other GWAS (U01HG004738, U01HG004422, U01HG004402, U01HG004729, U01HG004726, U01HG004735, U01HG004415, U01HG004436, U01HG004423, U01HG004728, RFAHG006033; National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research: U01DE018993, U01DE018903) funded as part of the Gene Environment-Association Studies (GENEVA) under the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI). Assistance with phenotype harmonization and genotype cleaning, as well as with general study coordination, was provided by the GENEVA Coordinating Center (U01HG004446). Assistance with data cleaning was provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Genotyping was performed at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with funding support from the NIH GEI (U01HG04424), and Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research, with support from the NIH GEI (U01HG004438) and the NIH contract "High throughput genotyping for studying the genetic contributions to human disease”(HHSN268200782096C). Additional funding for the current research was provided by the National Cancer Institute (P01CA087969, P01CA055075), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK058845). We thank the staff and participants of the NHS and HPFS for their dedication and commitment. INGI-CARLANTINO. Italian Network on Genetic Isolates – Carlantino. We thank Anna Morgan and Angela D’Eustacchio for technical support. We are grateful to the municipal administrators for their collaboration on the project and for logistic support. We thank all participants to this study. INGI-FVG. Italian Network on Genetic Isolates – Friuli Venezia-Giulia. We thank Anna Morgan and Angela D’Eustacchio for technical support. We are grateful to the municipal administrators for their collaboration on the project and for logistic support. We thank all participants to this study. 38 INGI-VAL BORBERA. Italian Network on Genetic Isolates – Val Borbera. We thank the inhabitants of the Val Borbera who made this study possible, the local administrations and the ASL-Novi Ligure (Al) for support. We also thank Clara Camaschella for data collection supervision and organization of the clinical data collection, Fiammetta Vigano` for technical help and Corrado Masciullo for building the analysis platform. The research was supported by funds from Compagnia di San Paolo, Torino, Italy; Fondazione Cariplo, Italy and Ministry of Health, Ricerca Finalizzata 2008 and 2011/2012, CCM 2010, PRIN 2009 and Telethon, Italy to DT. IPM. Mount Sinai BioMe Biobank Program. The Mount Sinai BioMe Biobank Program is supported by The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. KORA-F3 and F4. The genetic epidemiological work was funded by the NIH subcontract from the Children’s Hospital, Boston, US, (H.E.W., I.M.H, prime grant 1 R01 DK075787-01A1), the German National Genome Research Net NGFN2 and NGFNplus (H.E.W. 01GS0823; WK project A3, number 01GS0834), the Munich Center of Health Sciences (MC Health) as part of LMUinnovativ, and by the Else KrönerFresenius-Stiftung (P48/08//A11/08; C.A.B., B.K.K; 2012_A147 to CAB and IMH.). The Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Regensburg received financial contributions from the BMBF (01ER1206 and 01ER1507). The kidney parameter measurements in F3 were funded by the Else Kröner-FreseniusStiftung (C.A.B., B.K.K.) and the Regensburg University Medical Center, Germany; in F4 by the University of Ulm, Germany (W.K.). Genome wide genotyping costs in F3 and F4 were in part funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (C.A.B., B.K.K.). De novo genotyping in F3 and F4 were funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (C.A.B., B.K.K.). The KORA research platform and the MONICA Augsburg studies were initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and by the State of Bavaria. Genotyping was performed in the Genome Analysis Center (GAC) of the Helmholtz Zentrum München. The LINUX platform for computation were funded by the University of Regensburg for the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Regensburg University Medical Center. LIFELINES. The authors wish to acknowledge the services of the Lifelines Cohort Study, the contributing research centers delivering data to Lifelines, and all the study participants. Lifelines group authors: Behrooz Z Alizadeh1 , H Marike Boezen1 , Lude Franke2 , Pim van der Harst3 , Gerjan Navis4 , Marianne Rots5 , Harold Snieder1 , Morris Swertz2 , Bruce HR Wolffenbuttel6 and Cisca Wijmenga2 1. Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands 2. Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands 3. Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands 4. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands 5. Department of Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands 6. Department of Endocrinology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands MESA. Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. University of Washington (N01-HC-95159),Regents of the University of California (N01-HC-95160), Columbia University (N01-HC-95161), Johns Hopkins University 39 (N01-HC-95162, N01-HC-95168), University of Minnesota (N01-HC-95163), Northwestern University (N01-HC-95164), Wake Forest University (N01-HC-95165), University of Vermont (N01-HC-95166), New England Medical Center (N01-HC-95167), Harbor-UCLA Research and Education Institute (N01-HC- 95169), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (R01-HL-071205), University of Virginia (subcontract to R01-HL- 071205) MICROS. Microisolates in South Tyrol study. We owe a debt of gratitude to all participants. We thank the primary care practitioners R. Stocker, S. Waldner, T. Pizzecco, J. Plangger, U. Marcadent and the personnel of the Hospital of Silandro (Department of Laboratory Medicine) for their participation and collaboration in the research project. In South Tyrol, the study was supported by the Ministry of Health and Department of Educational Assistance, University and Research of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, the South Tyrolean Sparkasse Foundation, and the European Union framework program 6 EUROSPAN project (contract no. LSHG-CT-2006-018947). NESDA. The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety. The infrastructure for the NESDA study is funded through the Geestkracht programme of the Dutch Scientific Organization (ZON-MW, grant number 10-000-1002) and matching funds from participating universities and mental health care organizations. Genotyping in NESDA was funded by the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) of the Foundation for the US National Institutes of Health. NHS. Nurses' Health Study. The NHS/HPFS type 2 diabetes GWAS (U01HG004399) is a component of a collaborative project that includes 13 other GWAS (U01HG004738, U01HG004422, U01HG004402, U01HG004729, U01HG004726, U01HG004735, U01HG004415, U01HG004436, U01HG004423, U01HG004728, RFAHG006033; National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research: U01DE018993, U01DE018903) funded as part of the Gene Environment-Association Studies (GENEVA) under the NIH Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI). Assistance with phenotype harmonization and genotype cleaning, as well as with general study coordination, was provided by the GENEVA Coordinating Center (U01HG004446). Assistance with data cleaning was provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Genotyping was performed at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with funding support from the NIH GEI (U01HG04424), and Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research, with support from the NIH GEI (U01HG004438) and the NIH contract "High throughput genotyping for studying the genetic contributions to human disease”(HHSN268200782096C). The NHS renal function and albuminuria work was supported by DK66574. Additional funding for the current research was provided by the National Cancer Institute (P01CA087969, P01CA055075), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK058845). We thank the staff and participants of the NHS and HPFS for their dedication and commitment. NSPHS. The Northern Swedish Population Health Study. The NSPHS was supported by grants from the Swedish Natural Sciences Research Council, the European Union through the EUROSPAN project (contract no. LSHG-CT-2006-018947), the Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and the Linneaus Centre for Bioinformatics (LCB). We are also grateful for the contribution of samples from the Medical Biobank in Umeå and for the contribution of the district nurse Svea Hennix in the Karesuando study. RS-I. The Rotterdam Study. The GWA study was funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO Investments (nr. 175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (014-93-015; RIDE2), the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)/Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA) project nr. 050-060-810. We thank Pascal Arp, Mila Jhamai, Dr Michael 40 Moorhouse, Marijn Verkerk, and Sander Bervoets for their help in creating the GWAS database. The Rotterdam Study is funded by Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, the European Commission (DG XII), and the Municipality of Rotterdam. The authors are very grateful to the participants and staff from the Rotterdam Study, the participating general practitioners and the pharmacists. We would like to thank Dr. Tobias A. Knoch, Luc V. de Zeeuw, Anis Abuseiris, and Rob de Graaf as well as their institutions the Erasmus Computing Grid, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and especially the national German MediGRID and Services@MediGRID part of the German D-Grid, both funded by the German Bundesministerium fuer Forschung und Technology under grants #01 AK 803 A-H and # 01 IG 07015 G, for access to their grid resources. Abbas Dehghan is supported by NWO grant (vici, 918-76-619). SAPALDIA. Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults. The SAPALDIA Team: Study directorate: T Rochat (p), NM Probst Hensch (e/g), N Künzli (e/exp), C Schindler (s), JM Gaspoz (c) Scientific team: JC Barthélémy (c), W Berger (g), R Bettschart (p), A Bircher (a), O Brändli (p), C Brombach (n), M Brutsche (p), L Burdet (p), M Frey (p), U Frey (pd), MW Gerbase (p), D Gold (e/c/p), E de Groot (c), W Karrer (p), R Keller (p), B Martin (pa), D Miedinger (o), U Neu (exp), L Nicod (p), M Pons (p), F Roche (c), T Rothe (p), E Russi (p), P Schmid-Grendelmeyer (a), A Schmidt-Trucksäss (pa), A Turk (p), J Schwartz (e), D. Stolz (p), P Straehl (exp), JM Tschopp (p), A von Eckardstein (cc), E Zemp Stutz (e). Scientific team at coordinating centers: M Adam (e/g), C Autenrieth (pa), PO Bridevaux (p), D Carballo (c), E Corradi (exp), I Curjuric (e), J Dratva (e), A Di Pasquale (s), E Dupuis Lozeron (s), E Fischer (e), M Germond (s), L Grize (s), D Keidel (s), S Kriemler (pa), A Kumar (g), M Imboden (g), N Maire (s), A Mehta (e), H Phuleria (exp), E Schaffner (s), GA Thun (g) A Ineichen (exp), M Ragettli (e), M Ritter (exp), T Schikowski (e), M Tarantino (s), M Tsai (exp) (a) allergology, (c) cardiology, (cc) clinical chemistry, (e) epidemiology, (exp) exposure, (g) genetic and molecular biology, (m) meteorology, (n) nutrition, (o) occupational health, (p) pneumology, (pa) physical activity, (pd) pediatrics, (s) statistics. Funding: The Swiss National Science Foundation (grants no 33CSCO-134276/1, 33CSCO-108796, 3247BO-104283, 3247BO-104288, 3247BO- 104284, 3247-065896, 3100-059302, 3200-052720, 3200-042532, 4026-028099), the Federal Office for Forest, Environment and Landscape, the Federal Office of Public Health, the Federal Office of Roads and Transport, the canton's government of Aargau, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Land, Geneva, Luzern, Ticino, Valais, and Zürich, the Swiss Lung League, the canton's Lung League of Basel Stadt/ Basel Landschaft, Geneva, Ticino, Valais and Zurich, SUVA, Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, UBS Wealth Foundation, Talecris Biotherapeutics GmbH, Abbott Diagnostics, European Commission 018996 (GABRIEL), Wellcome Trust WT 084703MA. The study could not have been done without the help of the study participants, technical and administrative support and the medical teams and field workers at the local study sites. Local fieldworkers : Aarau: S Brun, G Giger, M Sperisen, M Stahel, Basel: C Bürli, C Dahler, N Oertli, I Harreh, F Karrer, G Novicic, N Wyttenbacher, Davos: A Saner, P Senn, R Winzeler, Geneva: F Bonfils, B Blicharz, C Landolt, J Rochat, Lugano: S Boccia, E Gehrig, MT Mandia, G Solari, B Viscardi, Montana: AP Bieri, C Darioly, M Maire, Payerne: F Ding, P Danieli A Vonnez, Wald: D Bodmer, E Hochstrasser, R Kunz, C Meier, J Rakic, U Schafroth, A Walder. Administrative staff: C Gabriel, R Gutknecht. SHIP and SHIP-TREND. The Study of Health in Pomerania. SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research net of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grants no. 01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, and 01ZZ0403), the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, and the network 41 ‘Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine (GANI_MED)’ funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 03IS2061A). Genome-wide data have been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no. 03ZIK012) and a joint grant from Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany and the Federal State of Mecklenburg- West Pomerania. The University of Greifswald is a member of the ‘Center of Knowledge Interchange’ program of the Siemens AG and the Caché Campus program of the InterSystems GmbH. The SHIP authors are grateful to Mario Stanke for the opportunity to use his Server Cluster for the SNP imputation as well as to Holger Prokisch and Thomas Meitinger (Helmholtz Zentrum München) for the genotyping of the SHIP-TREND cohort. TRAILS. TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives. Trails is a collaborative project involving various departments of the University Medical Center and University of Groningen, the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the University of Utrecht, the Radboud Medical Center Nijmegen, and the Parnassia Bavo group, all in the Netherlands. TRAILS has been financially supported by grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO (Medical Research Council program grant GB-MW 940-38-011; ZonMW Brainpower grant 100-001-004; ZonMw Risk Behavior and Dependence grants 60- 60600-98-018 and 60-60600-97-118; ZonMw Culture and Health grant 261-98-710; Social Sciences Council medium-sized investment grants GB-MaGW 480-01-006 and GB-MaGW 480-07-001; Social Sciences Council project grants GB-MaGW 457-03-018, GB-MaGW 452-04-314, and GB-MaGW 452-06- 004; NWO large-sized investment grant 175.010.2003.005; NWO Longitudinal Survey and Panel Funding 481-08-013); the Sophia Foundation for Medical Research (projects 301 and 393), the Dutch Ministry of Justice (WODC), the European Science Foundation (EuroSTRESS project FP-006), and the participating universities. We are grateful to all adolescents, their parents and teachers who participated in this research and to everyone who worked on this project and made it possible. Statistical analyses were carried out on the Genetic Cluster Computer (http://www.geneticcluster.org), which is financially supported by the Netherlands Scientific Organization (NWO 480-05-003) along with a supplement from the Dutch Brain Foundation. WGHS. Women’s Genome Health Study. The WGHS is supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL043851 and HL080467) and the National Cancer Institute (CA047988 and UM1CA182913), with collaborative scientific support and funding for genotyping provided by Amgen. YFS. Young Finns Study. The YFS has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland: grants 134309 (Eye), 126925, 121584, 124282, 129378 (Salve), 117787 (Gendi), and 41071 (Skidi), the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kuopio, Tampere and Turku University Hospital Medical Funds (grant 9M048 and 9N035 for TeLeht), Juho Vainio Foundation, Paavo Nurmi Foundation, Finnish Foundation of Cardiovascular Research and Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tampere Tuberculosis Foundation and Emil Aaltonen Foundation (T.L). The technical assistance in the statistical analyses by Ville Aalto and Irina Lisinen is acknowledged.

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2017
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11. Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

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Sakornsakolpat, Phuwanat, Prokopenko, Dmitry, Lamontagne, Maxime, Reeve, Nicola F., Guyatt, Anna L., Jackson, Victoria E., Shrine, Nick, Qiao, Dandi, Bartz, Traci M., Kim, Deog Kyeom, Lee, Mi Kyeong, Latourelle, Jeanne C., Li, Xingnan, Morrow, Jarrett D., Obeidat, Ma’en, Wyss, Annah B., Bakke, Per, Barr, R. Graham, Beaty, Terri H., Belinsky, Steven A., Brusselle, Guy G., Crapo, James D., de Jong, Kim, DeMeo, Dawn L., Fingerlin, Tasha E., Gharib, Sina A., Gulsvik, Amund, Hall, Ian P., Hokanson, John E., Kim, Woo Jin, Lomas, David A., London, Stephanie J., Meyers, Deborah A., O’Connor, George T., Rennard, Stephen I., Schwartz, David A., Sliwinski, Pawel, Sparrow, David, Strachan, David P., Tal-Singer, Ruth, Tesfaigzi, Yohannes, Vestbo, Jørgen, Vonk, Judith M., Yim, Jae-Joon, Zhou, Xiaobo, Bossé, Yohan, Manichaikul, Ani, Lahousse, Lies, Silverman, Edwin K., Boezen, H. Marike, Wain, Louise V., Tobin, Martin D., Hobbs, Brian D., Cho, Michael H., Batini, Chiara, Zhao, Jing Hua, Wielscher, Matthias, Weiss, Stefan, Kentistou, Katherine A., Cook, James P., Hui, Jennie, Karrasch, Stefan, Imboden, Medea, Harris, Sarah E., Marten, Jonathan, Enroth, Stefan, Kerr, Shona M., Surakka, Ida, Vitart, Veronique, Lehtimäki, Terho, Ewert, Ralf, Gieger, Christian, Homuth, Georg, Joshi, Peter K., Langenberg, Claudia, Lind, Lars, Luan, Jian’an, Mahajan, Anubha, Murray, Alison, Porteous, David J., Rawal, Rajesh, Smith, Blair H., Timmers, Paul R. H. J., Raitakari, Olli T., Kähönen, Mika, Polasek, Ozren, Gyllensten, Ulf, Rudan, Igor, Deary, Ian J., Probst-Hensch, Nicole M., Schulz, Holger, James, Alan L., Wilson, James F., Stubbe, Beate, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Wareham, Nick, Hayward, Caroline, Morris, Andrew P., Agusti, Alvar, Anderson, Wayne, Bakerly, Nawar, Bals, Robert, Barnes, Kathleen C., Bleecker, Eugene R., Bowler, Russell, Brightling, Christopher, de Bruijne, Marleen, Castaldi, Peter J., Celli, Bartolome, Coxson, Harvey O., Crystal, Ron, de Jong, Pim, Dirksen, Asger, Dy, Jennifer, Foreman, Marilyn, Garcia-Aymerich, Judith, Gevenois, Pierre, Ghosh, Soumitra, Gietema, Hester, Hansel, Nadia, Hersh, Craig P., Hoffman, Eric, Kalsheker, Noor, Kauczor, Hans-Ulrich, Laitinen, Tarja, Lambrechts, Diether, Lee, Sang-Do, Litonjua, Augusto A., Loth, Daan W., Lutz, Sharon M., Lynch, David, MacNee, William, McDonald, Merry-Lynn, Newell, John D., Nordestgaard, Borge G., Oh, Yeon-Mok, Paré, Peter D., Pistolesi, Massimo, Postma, Dirkje S., Puhan, Milo, Regan, Elizabeth, Rich, Stephen S., Seo, Joon Beom, Short, Andrea, Stoel, Berend, Sverzellati, Nicola, ter Riet, Gerben, Van Beek, Edwin J. R., van Ginneken, Bram, Vogelmeier, Claus F., Wanner, Adam, Washko, George, Wauters, Els, Wouters, Emiel F. M., Young, Robert P., Zeigler-Heitbrock, Loems, SpiroMeta Consortium, Understanding Society Scientific Group, International COPD Genetics Consortium, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Beeldvorming, MUMC+: DA BV Medisch Specialisten Radiologie (9), MUMC+: MA Longziekten (3), RS: NUTRIM - R3 - Respiratory & Age-related Health, Pulmonologie, General practice, APH - Aging & Later Life, APH - Personalized Medicine, ACS - Diabetes & metabolism, Epidemiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Medical Informatics, and Radiology & Nuclear Medicine

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Male, Lydia Becker Institute, Pulmonary Fibrosis, LD SCORE REGRESSION, Gene Expression, Genome-wide association study, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, 0302 clinical medicine, Pulmonary fibrosis, GWAS, Lung, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, ACIDIC-MAMMALIAN-CHITINASE, LUNG-FUNCTION, EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX, PREDOMINANT EMPHYSEMA, CONNECTIVITY MAP, ATOPIC ASTHMA, RISK LOCI, 0303 health sciences, COPD, education.field_of_study, Smoking, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Phenotype, medicine.anatomical_structure, Medical genetics, Female, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9], Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Population, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, ResearchInstitutes_Networks_Beacons/lydia_becker_institute_of_immunology_and_inflammation, Genetics, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, education, Aged, 030304 developmental biology, Asthma, medicine.disease, respiratory tract diseases, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, Immunology, 3111 Biomedicine, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the leading cause of respiratory mortality worldwide. Genetic risk loci provide novel insights into disease pathogenesis. We performed a genome-wide association study in 35,735 cases and 222,076 controls from the UK Biobank and additional studies from the International COPD Genetics Consortium. We identified 82 loci with P-value < 5 × 10−8; 47 were previously described in association with either COPD or population-based lung function. Of the remaining 35 novel loci, 13 were associated with lung function in 79,055 individuals from the SpiroMeta consortium. Using gene expression and regulation data, we identified enrichment for loci in lung tissue, smooth muscle and several lung cell types. We found 14 COPD loci shared with either asthma or pulmonary fibrosis. COPD genetic risk loci clustered into groups of quantitative imaging features and comorbidity associations. Our analyses provide further support to the genetic susceptibility and heterogeneity of COPD., Editorial summary Genome-wide analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies 82 loci, 35 of which are new. Integration of gene expression and genomic annotation data shows enrichment of signals in lung tissue, smooth muscle and several lung cell types.

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2019
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12. Corrigendum: 1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function

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Gorski, Mathias, Most, Peter J van der, Teumer, Alexander, Chu, Audrey Y, Li, Man, Mijatovic, Vladan, Nolte, Ilja M, Cocca, Massimiliano, Taliun, Daniel, Gomez, Felicia, Li, Yong, Tayo, Bamidele, Tin, Adrienne, Feitosa, Mary F, Aspelund, Thor, Attia, John, Biffar, Reiner, Bochud, Murielle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Borecki, Ingrid, Bottinger, Erwin P, Chen, Ming-Huei, Chouraki, Vincent, Ciullo, Marina, Coresh, Josef, Cornelis, Marilyn C, Curhan, Gary C, Adamo, Adamo Pio d', Dehghan, Abbas, Dengler, Laura, Ding, Jingzhong, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Endlich, Karlhans, Enroth, Stefan, Esko, Tõnu, Franco, Oscar H, Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Gottesman, Omri, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hancock, Stephen J, Harris, Tamara B, Helmer, Catherine, Höllerer, Simon, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Homuth, Georg, Hu, Frank B, Huth, Cornelia, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Imboden, Medea, Johansson, Åsa, Kähönen, Mika, König, Wolfgang, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kumar, Ashish, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, de Borst, Martin H, Navis, Gerjan, Swertz, Morris, Liu, Yongmei, Lohman, Kurt, Loos, Ruth J F, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, McEvoy, Mark A, Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Metzger, Marie, Mihailov, Evelin, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthias, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Olden, Matthias, Wjh Penninx, Brenda, Pistis, Giorgio, Pramstaller, Peter P, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Raitakari, Olli T, Rettig, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Robino, Antonietta, Rosas, Sylvia E, Ruderfer, Douglas, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Scott, Rodney J, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Smith, Albert V, Sorice, Rossella, Stengel, Benedicte, Stracke, Sylvia, Strauch, Konstantin, Toniolo, Daniela, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Ulivi, Sheila, Viikari, Jorma S, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Vuckovic, Dragana, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wang, Jie Jin, Yang, Qiong, Chasman, Daniel I, Tromp, Gerard, Snieder, Harold, Heid, Iris M, Fox, Caroline S, Köttgen, Anna, Pattaro, Cristian, Böger, Carsten A, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gorski, Mathia, Most, Peter J van der, Teumer, Alexander, Chu, Audrey Y, Man, Li, Mijatovic, Vladan, Nolte, Ilja M, Cocca, Massimiliano, Taliun, Daniel, Gomez, Felicia, Li, Yong, Tayo, Bamidele, Tin, Adrienne, Feitosa, Mary F, Aspelund, Thor, Attia, John, Biffar, Reiner, Bochud, Murielle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Borecki, Ingrid, Bottinger, Erwin P, Chen, Ming-Huei, Chouraki, Vincent, Ciullo, Marina, Coresh, Josef, Cornelis, Marilyn C, Curhan, Gary C, Adamo, Adamo Pio d', Dehghan, Abba, Dengler, Laura, Ding, Jingzhong, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Endlich, Karlhan, Enroth, Stefan, Esko, Tõnu, Franco, Oscar H, Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Gottesman, Omri, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hancock, Stephen J, Harris, Tamara B, Helmer, Catherine, Höllerer, Simon, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Homuth, Georg, Hu, Frank B, Huth, Cornelia, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Imboden, Medea, Johansson, Åsa, Kähönen, Mika, König, Wolfgang, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kumar, Ashish, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lambert, Jean-Charle, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, de Borst, Martin H, Navis, Gerjan, Swertz, Morri, Liu, Yongmei, Lohman, Kurt, Loos, Ruth J F, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mcevoy, Mark A, Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thoma, Metspalu, Andre, Metzger, Marie, Mihailov, Evelin, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthia, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Olden, Matthia, Wjh Penninx, Brenda, Pistis, Giorgio, Pramstaller, Peter P, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Raitakari, Olli T, Rettig, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Robino, Antonietta, Rosas, Sylvia E, Ruderfer, Dougla, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Scott, Rodney J, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Smith, Albert V, Sorice, Rossella, Stengel, Benedicte, Stracke, Sylvia, Strauch, Konstantin, Toniolo, Daniela, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Ulivi, Sheila, Viikari, Jorma S, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Vuckovic, Dragana, Waldenberger, Melanie, Wang, Jie Jin, Yang, Qiong, Chasman, Daniel I, Tromp, Gerard, Snieder, Harold, Heid, Iris M, Fox, Caroline S, Köttgen, Anna, Pattaro, Cristian, Böger, Carsten A, and Fuchsberger, Christian

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Gene Frequency, Genotyping Techniques, Genetic Loci, Genome, Human, Computational Biology, Humans, Kidney, Corrigendum, Corrigenda, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study
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HapMap imputed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed50 loci at which common variants with minor allele frequency5% are associated with kidney function. GWAS using more complete reference sets for imputation, such as those from The 1000 Genomes project, promise to identify novel loci that have been missed by previous efforts. To investigate the value of such a more complete variant catalog, we conducted a GWAS meta-analysis of kidney function based on the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in 110,517 European ancestry participants using 1000 Genomes imputed data. We identified 10 novel loci with p-value 5 × 10

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2017

13. Systemic and specific effects of antihypertensive and lipid-lowering medication on plasma protein biomarkers for cardiovascular diseases

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Enroth, Stefan, Maturi, Varun, Berggrund, Malin, Enroth, Sofia Bosdotter, Moustakas, Aristidis, Johansson, Åsa, and Gyllensten, Ulf

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Anticholesteremic Agents, lcsh:R, lcsh:Medicine, Medical Biotechnology (with a focus on Cell Biology (including Stem Cell Biology), Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry or Biopharmacy), Blood Proteins, Prognosis, Article, Cohort Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Cardiovascular Diseases, Risk Factors, Humans, lcsh:Q, lcsh:Science, Medicinsk bioteknologi (med inriktning mot cellbiologi (inklusive stamcellsbiologi), molekylärbiologi, mikrobiologi, biokemi eller biofarmaci), Antihypertensive Agents, Biomarkers, Hypolipidemic Agents
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A large fraction of the adult population is on lifelong medication for cardiovascular disorders, but the metabolic consequences are largely unknown. This study determines the effects of common anti-hypertensive and lipid lowering drugs on circulating plasma protein biomarkers. We studied 425 proteins in plasma together with anthropometric and lifestyle variables, and the genetic profile in a cross-sectional cohort. We found 8406 covariate-protein associations, and a two-stage GWAS identified 17253 SNPs to be associated with 109 proteins. By computationally removing variation due to lifestyle and genetic factors, we could determine that medication, per se, affected the abundance levels of 35.7% of the plasma proteins. Medication either affected a single, a few, or a large number of protein, and were found to have a negative or positive influence on known disease pathways and biomarkers. Anti-hypertensive or lipid lowering drugs affected 33.1% of the proteins. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors showed the strongest lowering effect by decreasing plasma levels of myostatin. Cell-culture experiments showed that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors reducted myostatin RNA levels. Thus, understanding the effects of lifelong medication on the plasma proteome is important both for sharpening the diagnostic precision of protein biomarkers and in disease management.

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2018

14. The relative contribution of DNA methylation and genetic variants on protein biomarkers for human diseases

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Ahsan, Muhammad, Ek, Weronica E, Rask-Andersen, Mathias, Karlsson, Torgny, Lind-Thomsen, Allan, Enroth, Stefan, Gyllensten, Ulf B., and Johansson, Åsa

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Cell biology, Medicin och hälsovetenskap, Heredity, lcsh:QH426-470, Quantitative Trait Loci, Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Biochemistry, Methylation, Medical and Health Sciences, Epigenesis, Genetic, Genetics, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Humans, DNA methylation, Genome, Human, Chemical Reactions, Biology and Life Sciences, Computational Biology, Human Genetics, DNA, Genomics, Genome Analysis, Chromatin, Nucleic acids, Chemistry, lcsh:Genetics, Genetic Loci, Genetics of Disease, Physical Sciences, CpG Islands, Epigenetics, Gene expression, DNA modification, Biomarkers, Chromatin modification, Genome-Wide Association Study, Research Article, Chromosome biology
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Associations between epigenetic alterations and disease status have been identified for many diseases. However, there is no strong evidence that epigenetic alterations are directly causal for disease pathogenesis. In this study, we combined SNP and DNA methylation data with measurements of protein biomarkers for cancer, inflammation or cardiovascular disease, to investigate the relative contribution of genetic and epigenetic variation on biomarker levels. A total of 121 protein biomarkers were measured and analyzed in relation to DNA methylation at 470,000 genomic positions and to over 10 million SNPs. We performed epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) and genome-wide association study (GWAS) analyses, and integrated biomarker, DNA methylation and SNP data using between 698 and 1033 samples depending on data availability for the different analyses. We identified 124 and 45 loci (Bonferroni adjusted P < 0.05) with effect sizes up to 0.22 standard units’ change per 1% change in DNA methylation levels and up to four standard units’ change per copy of the effective allele in the EWAS and GWAS respectively. Most GWAS loci were cis-regulatory whereas most EWAS loci were located in trans. Eleven EWAS loci were associated with multiple biomarkers, including one in NLRC5 associated with CXCL11, CXCL9, IL-12, and IL-18 levels. All EWAS signals that overlapped with a GWAS locus were driven by underlying genetic variants and three EWAS signals were confounded by smoking. While some cis-regulatory SNPs for biomarkers appeared to have an effect also on DNA methylation levels, cis-regulatory SNPs for DNA methylation were not observed to affect biomarker levels. We present associations between protein biomarker and DNA methylation levels at numerous loci in the genome. The associations are likely to reflect the underlying pattern of genetic variants, specific environmental exposures, or represent secondary effects to the pathogenesis of disease., Author summary Every human being is unique, each with an individual risk of developing disease. Variation between humans can be attributed to genetic variation or the environment to which we are exposed. However, phenotypic differences can also be due to the epigenetic pattern of our genes, which refers to chemical modification that affects the activity of our genes. Epigenetic factors have recently gained a lot of interest, and aberrant epigenetic patterns, have been linked to many diseases. In the present study, we have identified genetic and epigenetic factors that influence the activity of our genes, by way of comparing to the level of different proteins that our genes encode, proteins that have previously been associated with human diseases such as cardiovascular diseases or cancer. We could clearly see that the epigenetic pattern was associated with the expression of specific genes but that such associations were mainly caused by genetic variants, or environmental factors influencing both epigenetic and expression patterns. However, it appeared that some disease-associated proteins could have altering effects on the epigenetic pattern, then suggesting that some epigenetic alterations represent secondary effects to the pathogenesis of disease.

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2017

15. Growth signals employ CGGBP1 to suppress transcription of Alu-SINEs

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Agarwal, Prasoon, Enroth, Stefan, Teichmann, Martin, Jernberg Wiklund, Helena, Smit, Arian, Westermark, Bengt, and Singh, Umashankar

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Serum, Base Sequence, Transcription, Genetic, Cellbiologi, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Vectors, Lentivirus, Primary Cell Culture, Cell Biology, Fibroblasts, DNA-Binding Proteins, Biological Factors, HEK293 Cells, Gene Expression Regulation, Alu Elements, Report, Humans, RNA Polymerase II, Phosphorylation, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Sequence Alignment, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Protein Binding, Alu-SINEs, CGGBP1, ChIP-seq, growth signals, RNA Pol III, transcription, tyrosine phosphorylation
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CGGBP1 (CGG triplet repeat-binding protein 1) regulates cell proliferation, stress response, cytokinesis, telomeric integrity and transcription. It could affect these processes by modulating target gene expression under different conditions. Identification of CGGBP1-target genes and their regulation could reveal how a transcription regulator affects such diverse cellular processes. Here we describe the mechanisms of differential gene expression regulation by CGGBP1 in quiescent or growing cells. By studying global gene expression patterns and genome-wide DNA-binding patterns of CGGBP1, we show that a possible mechanism through which it affects the expression of RNA Pol II-transcribed genes in trans depends on Alu RNA. We also show that it regulates Alu transcription in cis by binding to Alu promoter. Our results also indicate that potential phosphorylation of CGGBP1 upon growth stimulation facilitates its nuclear retention, Alu-binding and dislodging of RNA Pol III therefrom. These findings provide insights into how Alu transcription is regulated in response to growth signals.

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2016

16. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

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Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, de Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tanaka, Toshiko, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Trompet, Stella, Pervjakova, Natalia, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Vandenput, Liesbeth, van der Laan, Sander W, van der Velde, Nathalie, van Setten, Jessica, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Waite, Lindsay L, Wang, Sophie R, Wang, Zhaoming, Wild, Sarah H, Willenborg, Christina, Wilson, James F, Wong, Andrew, Yang, Jian, Yengo, Loïc, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Yu, Lei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Andersson, Ehm A, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baldassarre, Damiano, Banasik, Karina, Barcella, Matteo, Barlassina, Cristina, Bellis, Claire, Benaglio, Paola, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnet, Fabrice, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buchman, Aron S, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter S, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cole, John, Collins, Francis S, de Geus, Eco JC, de Groot, Lisette CPGM, Dimitriou, Maria, Duan, Jubao, Enroth, Stefan, Eury, Elodie, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gejman, Pablo V, Gigante, Bruna, Glorioso, Nicola, Go, Alan S, Gottesman, Omri, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gu, Yu-Mei, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies C, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Hartman, Catharina A, Hassinen, Maija, Hastie, Nicholas, Hattersley, Andrew T, Heath, Andrew C, Henders, Anjali K, Hernandez, Dena, Hillege, Hans, Holmen, Oddgeir, Hovingh, Kees G, Hui, Jennie, Husemoen, Lise L, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hysi, Pirro G, Illig, Thomas, De Jager, Philip L, Jalilzadeh, Shapour, Jørgensen, Torben, Jukema, J Wouter, Juonala, Markus, Kanoni, Stavroula, Karaleftheri, Maria, Khaw, Kay Tee, Kinnunen, Leena, Kittner, Steven J, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Krarup, Nikolaj T, Kratzer, Wolfgang, Krüger, Janine, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kyriakou, Theodosios, Langenberg, Claudia, Lannfelt, Lars, Lanzani, Chiara, Lotay, Vaneet, Launer, Lenore J, Leander, Karin, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yan-Ping, Lobbens, Stéphane, Luben, Robert, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Männistö, Satu, Magnusson, Patrik K, McArdle, Wendy L, Menni, Cristina, Merger, Sigrun, Milani, Lili, Montgomery, Grant W, Morris, Andrew P, Narisu, Narisu, Nelis, Mari, Ong, Ken K, 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Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Ong, Kenneth [0000-0003-4689-7530], Johnson, Kathleen [0000-0002-6823-3252], Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993], Barroso, Ines [0000-0001-5800-4520], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Biochemistry, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Public Health, Medical Oncology, Pathology, Erasmus MC other, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, and Clinical Genetics

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0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, Cancer Research, endocrine system diseases, Biological pathways, QH426-470, Genome, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Genetics (clinical), ddc:616, Genetics & Heredity, Sex Characteristics, Loci, MAGIC Consortium, Mass index, Age Factors, Chromosome Mapping, Middle Aged, Genealogy, Self-reported height, Peripheral-blood, Scale (social sciences), ICBP Consortium, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Medical Genetics, Research Article, arcOGEN Consortium, musculoskeletal diseases, Adult, European Continental Ancestry Group, Natural menopause, Aged, Body Size/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Waist-Hip Ratio, Biology, Body size, DIAGRAM Consortium, Age and sex, White People, Fat distribution, GLGC Consortium, 03 medical and health sciences, Life-course, Genetics, Weight-gain, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Medicinsk genetik, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, 0604 Genetics, Science & Technology, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Correction, 030104 developmental biology, GWAS meta-analysis, Global-BPGen Consortium, Common SNPS, CHARGE Consortium, 3111 Biomedicine, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR, Author Summary Adult body size and body shape differ substantially between men and women and change over time. More than 100 genetic variants that influence body mass index (measure of body size) or waist-to-hip ratio (measure of body shape) have been identified. While there is evidence that some genetic loci affect body shape differently in men than in women, little is known about whether genetic effects differ in older compared to younger adults, and whether such changes differ between men and women. Therefore, we conducted a systematic genome-wide search, including 114 studies (>320,000 individuals), to specifically identify genetic loci with age- and or sex-dependent effects on body size and shape. We identified 15 loci of which the effect on BMI was different in older compared to younger adults, whereas we found no evidence for loci with different effects in men compared to women. The opposite was seen for body shape as we identified 44 loci of which the effect on waist-to-hip ratio differed between men and women, but no difference between younger and older adults were observed. Our observations may provide new insights into the biology that underlies weight change with age or the sexual dimorphism of body shape.

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2014
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17. New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

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Shrine, Nick, Guyatt, Anna L, Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut, Jackson, Victoria E, Hobbs, Brian D, Melbourne, Carl A, Batini, Chiara, Fawcett, Katherine A, Song, Kijoung, Sakornsakolpat, Phuwanat, Li, Xingnan, Boxall, Ruth, Reeve, Nicola F, Obeidat, Ma'en, Zhao, Jing Hua, Wielscher, Matthias, Weiss, Stefan, Kentistou, Katherine A, Cook, James P, Sun, Benjamin B, Zhou, Jian, Hui, Jennie, Karrasch, Stefan, Imboden, Medea, Harris, Sarah E, Marten, Jonathan, Enroth, Stefan, Kerr, Shona M, Surakka, Ida, Vitart, Veronique, Lehtimäki, Terho, Allen, Richard J, Bakke, Per S, Beaty, Terri H, Bleecker, Eugene R, Bossé, Yohan, Brandsma, Corry-Anke, Chen, Zhengming, Crapo, James D, Danesh, John, DeMeo, Dawn L, Dudbridge, Frank, Ewert, Ralf, Gieger, Christian, Gulsvik, Amund, Hansell, Anna L, Hao, Ke, Hoffman, Joshua D, Hokanson, John E, Homuth, Georg, Joshi, Peter K, Joubert, Philippe, Langenberg, Claudia, Li, Xuan, Li, Liming, Lin, Kuang, Lind, Lars, Locantore, Nicholas, Luan, Jian'an, Mahajan, Anubha, Maranville, Joseph C, Murray, Alison, Nickle, David C, Packer, Richard, Parker, Margaret M, Paynton, Megan L, Porteous, David J, Prokopenko, Dmitry, Qiao, Dandi, Rawal, Rajesh, Runz, Heiko, Sayers, Ian, Sin, Don D, Smith, Blair H, Soler Artigas, María, Sparrow, David, Tal-Singer, Ruth, Timmers, Paul RHJ, Van Den Berge, Maarten, Whittaker, John C, Woodruff, Prescott G, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Troyanskaya, Olga G, Raitakari, Olli T, Kähönen, Mika, Polašek, Ozren, Gyllensten, Ulf, Rudan, Igor, Deary, Ian J, Probst-Hensch, Nicole M, Schulz, Holger, James, Alan L, Wilson, James F, Stubbe, Beate, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Wareham, Nick, Silverman, Edwin K, Hayward, Caroline, Morris, Andrew P, Butterworth, Adam S, Scott, Robert A, Walters, Robin G, Meyers, Deborah A, Cho, Michael H, Strachan, David P, Hall, Ian P, Tobin, Martin D, Wain, Louise V, and Understanding Society Scientific Group

Subjects
Aged, 80 and over, Male, Smoking, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, respiratory tract diseases, 3. Good health, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Lung, Aged, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Reduced lung function predicts mortality and is key to the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In a genome-wide association study in 400,102 individuals of European ancestry, we define 279 lung function signals, 139 of which are new. In combination, these variants strongly predict COPD in independent populations. Furthermore, the combined effect of these variants showed generalizability across smokers and never smokers, and across ancestral groups. We highlight biological pathways, known and potential drug targets for COPD and, in phenome-wide association studies, autoimmune-related and other pleiotropic effects of lung function-associated variants. This new genetic evidence has potential to improve future preventive and therapeutic strategies for COPD.

18. The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

Author

Winkler, Thomas W, Justice, Anne E, Graff, Mariaelisa, Barata, Llilda, Feitosa, Mary F, Chu, Su, Czajkowski, Jacek, Esko, Tõnu, Fall, Tove, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O, Lu, Yingchang, Mägi, Reedik, Mihailov, Evelin, Pers, Tune H, Rüeger, Sina, Teumer, Alexander, Ehret, Georg B, Ferreira, Teresa, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Karjalainen, Juha, Lagou, Vasiliki, Mahajan, Anubha, Neinast, Michael D, Prokopenko, Inga, Simino, Jeannette, Teslovich, Tanya M, Jansen, Rick, Westra, Harm-Jan, White, Charles C, Absher, Devin, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Ahmad, Shafqat, Albrecht, Eva, Alves, Alexessander Couto, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, De Craen, Anton JM, Bis, Joshua C, Bonnefond, Amélie, Boucher, Gabrielle, Cadby, Gemma, Cheng, Yu-Ching, Chiang, Charleston WK, Delgado, Graciela, Demirkan, Ayse, Dueker, Nicole, Eklund, Niina, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Eriksson, Joel, Feenstra, Bjarke, Fischer, Krista, Frau, Francesca, Galesloot, Tessel E, Geller, Frank, Goel, Anuj, Gorski, Mathias, Grammer, Tanja B, Gustafsson, Stefan, Haitjema, Saskia, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Jackson, Anne U, Jacobs, Kevin B, Johansson, Åsa, Kaakinen, Marika, Kleber, Marcus E, Lahti, Jari, Mateo Leach, Irene, Lehne, Benjamin, Liu, Youfang, Lo, Ken Sin, Lorentzon, Mattias, Luan, Jian'an, Madden, Pamela AF, Mangino, Massimo, McKnight, Barbara, Medina-Gomez, Carolina, Monda, Keri L, Montasser, May E, Müller, Gabriele, Müller-Nurasyid, Martina, Nolte, Ilja M, Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope, Pascoe, Laura, Paternoster, Lavinia, Rayner, Nigel W, Renström, Frida, Rizzi, Federica, Rose, Lynda M, Ryan, Kathy A, Salo, Perttu, Sanna, Serena, Scharnagl, Hubert, Shi, Jianxin, Smith, Albert Vernon, Southam, Lorraine, Stančáková, Alena, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sung, Yun Ju, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Tanaka, Toshiko, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Trompet, Stella, Pervjakova, Natalia, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Vandenput, Liesbeth, Van Der Laan, Sander W, Van Der Velde, Nathalie, Van Setten, Jessica, Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V, Verweij, Niek, Vlachopoulou, Efthymia, Waite, Lindsay L, Wang, Sophie R, Wang, Zhaoming, Wild, Sarah H, Willenborg, Christina, Wilson, James F, Wong, Andrew, Yang, Jian, Yengo, Loïc, Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M, Yu, Lei, Zhang, Weihua, Zhao, Jing Hua, Andersson, Ehm A, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baldassarre, Damiano, Banasik, Karina, Barcella, Matteo, Barlassina, Cristina, Bellis, Claire, Benaglio, Paola, Blangero, John, Blüher, Matthias, Bonnet, Fabrice, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Boyd, Heather A, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Buchman, Aron S, Campbell, Harry, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chines, Peter S, Claudi-Boehm, Simone, Cole, John, Collins, Francis S, De Geus, Eco JC, De Groot, Lisette CPGM, Dimitriou, Maria, Duan, Jubao, Enroth, Stefan, Eury, Elodie, Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni, Forouhi, Nita G, Friedrich, Nele, Gejman, Pablo V, Gigante, Bruna, Glorioso, Nicola, Go, Alan S, Gottesman, Omri, Gräßler, Jürgen, Grallert, Harald, Grarup, Niels, Gu, Yu-Mei, Broer, Linda, Ham, Annelies C, Hansen, Torben, Harris, Tamara B, Hartman, Catharina A, Hassinen, Maija, Hastie, Nicholas, Hattersley, Andrew T, Heath, Andrew C, Henders, Anjali K, Hernandez, Dena, Hillege, Hans, Holmen, Oddgeir, Hovingh, Kees G, Hui, Jennie, Husemoen, Lise L, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hysi, Pirro G, Illig, Thomas, De Jager, Philip L, Jalilzadeh, Shapour, Jørgensen, Torben, Jukema, J Wouter, Juonala, Markus, Kanoni, Stavroula, Karaleftheri, Maria, Khaw, Kay Tee, Kinnunen, Leena, Kittner, Steven J, Koenig, Wolfgang, Kolcic, Ivana, Kovacs, Peter, Krarup, Nikolaj T, Kratzer, Wolfgang, Krüger, Janine, Kuh, Diana, Kumari, Meena, Kyriakou, Theodosios, Langenberg, Claudia, Lannfelt, Lars, Lanzani, Chiara, Lotay, Vaneet, Launer, Lenore J, Leander, Karin, Lindström, Jaana, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Yan-Ping, Lobbens, Stéphane, Luben, Robert, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Männistö, Satu, Magnusson, Patrik K, McArdle, Wendy L, Menni, Cristina, Merger, Sigrun, Milani, Lili, Montgomery, Grant W, Morris, Andrew P, Narisu, Narisu, Nelis, Mari, Ong, Ken K, Palotie, Aarno, Pérusse, Louis, Pichler, Irene, Pilia, Maria G, Pouta, Anneli, Rheinberger, Myriam, Ribel-Madsen, Rasmus, Richards, Marcus, Rice, Kenneth M, Rice, Treva K, Rivolta, Carlo, Salomaa, Veikko, Sanders, Alan R, Sarzynski, Mark A, Scholtens, Salome, Scott, Robert A, Scott, William R, Sebert, Sylvain, Sengupta, Sebanti, Sennblad, Bengt, Seufferlein, Thomas, Silveira, Angela, Slagboom, P Eline, Smit, Jan H, Sparsø, Thomas H, Stirrups, Kathleen, Stolk, Ronald P, Stringham, Heather M, Swertz, Morris A, Swift, Amy J, Syvänen, Ann-Christine, Tan, Sian-Tsung, Thorand, Barbara, Tönjes, Anke, Tremblay, Angelo, Tsafantakis, Emmanouil, Van Der Most, Peter J, Völker, Uwe, Vohl, Marie-Claude, Vonk, Judith M, Waldenberger, Melanie, Walker, Ryan W, Wennauer, Roman, Widén, Elisabeth, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilsgaard, Tom, Wright, Alan F, Zillikens, M Carola, Van Dijk, Suzanne C, Van Schoor, Natasja M, Asselbergs, Folkert W, De Bakker, Paul IW, Beckmann, Jacques S, Beilby, John, Bennett, David A, Bergman, Richard N, Bergmann, Sven, Böger, Carsten A, Boehm, Bernhard O, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bornstein, Stefan R, Bottinger, Erwin P, Bouchard, Claude, Chambers, John C, Chanock, Stephen J, Chasman, Daniel I, Cucca, Francesco, Cusi, Daniele, Dedoussis, George, Erdmann, Jeanette, Eriksson, Johan G, Evans, Denis A, De Faire, Ulf, Farrall, Martin, Ferrucci, Luigi, Ford, Ian, Franke, Lude, Franks, Paul W, Froguel, Philippe, Gansevoort, Ron T, Gieger, Christian, Grönberg, Henrik, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hall, Per, Hamsten, Anders, Van Der Harst, Pim, Hayward, Caroline, Heliövaara, Markku, Hengstenberg, Christian, Hicks, Andrew A, Hingorani, Aroon, Hofman, Albert, Hu, Frank, Huikuri, Heikki V, Hveem, Kristian, James, Alan L, Jordan, Joanne M, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kajantie, Eero, Kathiresan, Sekar, Kiemeney, Lambertus ALM, Kivimaki, Mika, Knekt, Paul B, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kooner, Jaspal S, Koskinen, Seppo, Kuusisto, Johanna, Maerz, Winfried, Martin, Nicholas G, Laakso, Markku, Lakka, Timo A, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lettre, Guillaume, Levinson, Douglas F, Lind, Lars, Lokki, Marja-Liisa, Mäntyselkä, Pekka, Melbye, Mads, Metspalu, Andres, Mitchell, Braxton D, Moll, Frans L, Murray, Jeffrey C, Musk, Arthur W, Nieminen, Markku S, Njølstad, Inger, Ohlsson, Claes, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Oostra, Ben A, Palmer, Lyle J, Pankow, James S, Pasterkamp, Gerard, Pedersen, Nancy L, Pedersen, Oluf, Penninx, Brenda W, Perola, Markus, Peters, Annette, Polašek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P, Psaty, Bruce M, Qi, Lu, Quertermous, Thomas, Raitakari, Olli T, Rankinen, Tuomo, Rauramaa, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rioux, John D, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rotter, Jerome I, Rudan, Igor, Den Ruijter, Hester M, Saltevo, Juha, Sattar, Naveed, Schunkert, Heribert, Schwarz, Peter EH, Shuldiner, Alan R, Sinisalo, Juha, Snieder, Harold, Sørensen, Thorkild IA, Spector, Tim D, Staessen, Jan A, Stefania, Bandinelli, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Stumvoll, Michael, Tardif, Jean-Claude, Tremoli, Elena, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Uitterlinden, André G, Uusitupa, Matti, Verbeek, André LM, Vermeulen, Sita H, Viikari, Jorma S, Vitart, Veronique, Völzke, Henry, Vollenweider, Peter, Waeber, Gérard, Walker, Mark, Wallaschofski, Henri, Wareham, Nicholas J, Watkins, Hugh, Zeggini, Eleftheria, CHARGE Consortium, DIAGRAM Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Global-BPGen Consortium, ICBP Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Clegg, Deborah J, Cupples, L Adrienne, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Jaquish, Cashell E, Rao, DC, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Assimes, Themistocles L, Barroso, Inês, Berndt, Sonja I, Boehnke, Michael, Deloukas, Panos, Fox, Caroline S, Groop, Leif C, Hunter, David J, Ingelsson, Erik, Kaplan, Robert C, McCarthy, Mark I, Mohlke, Karen L, O'Connell, Jeffrey R, Schlessinger, David, Strachan, David P, Stefansson, Kari, Van Duijn, Cornelia M, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Heid, Iris M, North, Kari E, Borecki, Ingrid B, Kutalik, Zoltán, and Loos, Ruth JF

Subjects
Adult, Male, Sex Characteristics, Waist-Hip Ratio, Age Factors, Chromosome Mapping, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, 3. Good health, Body Mass Index, Body Size, Humans, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Aged, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 100 genetic variants contributing to BMI, a measure of body size, or waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), a measure of body shape. Body size and shape change as people grow older and these changes differ substantially between men and women. To systematically screen for age- and/or sex-specific effects of genetic variants on BMI and WHRadjBMI, we performed meta-analyses of 114 studies (up to 320,485 individuals of European descent) with genome-wide chip and/or Metabochip data by the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium. Each study tested the association of up to ~2.8M SNPs with BMI and WHRadjBMI in four strata (men ≤50y, men >50y, women ≤50y, women >50y) and summary statistics were combined in stratum-specific meta-analyses. We then screened for variants that showed age-specific effects (G x AGE), sex-specific effects (G x SEX) or age-specific effects that differed between men and women (G x AGE x SEX). For BMI, we identified 15 loci (11 previously established for main effects, four novel) that showed significant (FDR

19. Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

Author

Folkersen, Lasse, Gustafsson, Stefan, Wang, Qin, Hansen, Daniel Hvidberg, Hedman, Åsa K, Schork, Andrew, Page, Karen, Zhernakova, Daria V, Wu, Yang, Peters, James, Eriksson, Niclas, Bergen, Sarah E, Boutin, Thibaud S, Bretherick, Andrew D, Enroth, Stefan, Kalnapenkis, Anette, Gådin, Jesper R, Suur, Bianca E, Chen, Yan, Matic, Ljubica, Gale, Jeremy D, Lee, Julie, Zhang, Weidong, Quazi, Amira, Ala-Korpela, Mika, Choi, Seung Hoan, Claringbould, Annique, Danesh, John, Davey Smith, George, De Masi, Federico, Elmståhl, Sölve, Engström, Gunnar, Fauman, Eric, Fernandez, Celine, Franke, Lude, Franks, Paul W, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Haley, Chris, Hamsten, Anders, Ingason, Andres, Johansson, Åsa, Joshi, Peter K, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Lubitz, Steven, Palmer, Tom, Macdonald-Dunlop, Erin, Magnusson, Martin, Melander, Olle, Michaelsson, Karl, Morris, Andrew P, Mägi, Reedik, Nagle, Michael W, Nilsson, Peter M, Nilsson, Jan, Orho-Melander, Marju, Polasek, Ozren, Prins, Bram, Pålsson, Erik, Qi, Ting, Sjögren, Marketa, Sundström, Johan, Surendran, Praveen, Võsa, Urmo, Werge, Thomas, Wernersson, Rasmus, Westra, Harm-Jan, Yang, Jian, Zhernakova, Alexandra, Ärnlöv, Johan, Fu, Jingyuan, Smith, J Gustav, Esko, Tõnu, Hayward, Caroline, Gyllensten, Ulf, Landen, Mikael, Siegbahn, Agneta, Wilson, James F, Wallentin, Lars, Butterworth, Adam S, Holmes, Michael V, Ingelsson, Erik, and Mälarstig, Anders

Subjects
Proteome, Receptors, CCR5, Receptors, CCR2, Quantitative Trait Loci, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Chromosome Mapping, Genomics, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Cardiovascular System, Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 Protein, Asthma, Linkage Disequilibrium, 3. Good health, Drug Delivery Systems, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Humans, ATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Circulating proteins are vital in human health and disease and are frequently used as biomarkers for clinical decision-making or as targets for pharmacological intervention. Here, we map and replicate protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) for 90 cardiovascular proteins in over 30,000 individuals, resulting in 451 pQTLs for 85 proteins. For each protein, we further perform pathway mapping to obtain trans-pQTL gene and regulatory designations. We substantiate these regulatory findings with orthogonal evidence for trans-pQTLs using mouse knockdown experiments (ABCA1 and TRIB1) and clinical trial results (chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5), with consistent regulation. Finally, we evaluate known drug targets, and suggest new target candidates or repositioning opportunities using Mendelian randomization. This identifies 11 proteins with causal evidence of involvement in human disease that have not previously been targeted, including EGF, IL-16, PAPPA, SPON1, F3, ADM, CASP-8, CHI3L1, CXCL16, GDF15 and MMP-12. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the utility of large-scale mapping of the genetics of the proteome and provide a resource for future precision studies of circulating proteins in human health.

20. 1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function

Author

Gorski, Mathias, Van Der Most, Peter J, Teumer, Alexander, Chu, Audrey Y, Li, Man, Mijatovic, Vladan, Nolte, Ilja M, Cocca, Massimiliano, Taliun, Daniel, Gomez, Felicia, Li, Yong, Tayo, Bamidele, Tin, Adrienne, Feitosa, Mary F, Aspelund, Thor, Attia, John, Biffar, Reiner, Bochud, Murielle, Boerwinkle, Eric, Borecki, Ingrid, Bottinger, Erwin P, Chen, Ming-Huei, Chouraki, Vincent, Ciullo, Marina, Coresh, Josef, Cornelis, Marilyn C, Curhan, Gary C, D'Adamo, Adamo Pio, Dehghan, Abbas, Dengler, Laura, Ding, Jingzhong, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Endlich, Karlhans, Enroth, Stefan, Esko, Tõnu, Franco, Oscar H, Gasparini, Paolo, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Gottesman, Omri, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hancock, Stephen J, Harris, Tamara B, Helmer, Catherine, Höllerer, Simon, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Homuth, Georg, Hu, Frank B, Huth, Cornelia, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Imboden, Medea, Johansson, Åsa, Kähönen, Mika, König, Wolfgang, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kumar, Ashish, Kutalik, Zoltan, Lambert, Jean-Charles, Launer, Lenore J, Lehtimäki, Terho, De Borst, Martin, Navis, Gerjan, Swertz, Morris, Liu, Yongmei, Lohman, Kurt, Loos, Ruth JF, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, McEvoy, Mark A, Meisinger, Christa, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Metzger, Marie, Mihailov, Evelin, Mitchell, Paul, Nauck, Matthias, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Olden, Matthias, Wjh Penninx, Brenda, Pistis, Giorgio, Pramstaller, Peter P, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Raitakari, Olli T, Rettig, Rainer, Ridker, Paul M, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Robino, Antonietta, Rosas, Sylvia E, Ruderfer, Douglas, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia, Schmidt, Helena, Schmidt, Reinhold, Scott, Rodney J, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Smith, Albert V, Sorice, Rossella, Stengel, Benedicte, Stracke, Sylvia, Strauch, Konstantin, Toniolo, Daniela, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Ulivi, Sheila, Viikari, Jorma S, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Völzke, Henry, Vuckovic, Dragana, Waldenberger, Melanie, Jin Wang, Jie, Yang, Qiong, Chasman, Daniel I, Tromp, Gerard, Snieder, Harold, Heid, Iris M, Fox, Caroline S, Köttgen, Anna, Pattaro, Cristian, Böger, Carsten A, and Fuchsberger, Christian

Subjects
Gene Frequency, Genotyping Techniques, Genetic Loci, Genome, Human, Computational Biology, Humans, Kidney, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 3. Good health, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

HapMap imputed genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed >50 loci at which common variants with minor allele frequency >5% are associated with kidney function. GWAS using more complete reference sets for imputation, such as those from The 1000 Genomes project, promise to identify novel loci that have been missed by previous efforts. To investigate the value of such a more complete variant catalog, we conducted a GWAS meta-analysis of kidney function based on the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in 110,517 European ancestry participants using 1000 Genomes imputed data. We identified 10 novel loci with p-value < 5 × 10-8 previously missed by HapMap-based GWAS. Six of these loci (HOXD8, ARL15, PIK3R1, EYA4, ASTN2, and EPB41L3) are tagged by common SNPs unique to the 1000 Genomes reference panel. Using pathway analysis, we identified 39 significant (FDR < 0.05) genes and 127 significantly (FDR < 0.05) enriched gene sets, which were missed by our previous analyses. Among those, the 10 identified novel genes are part of pathways of kidney development, carbohydrate metabolism, cardiac septum development and glucose metabolism. These results highlight the utility of re-imputing from denser reference panels, until whole-genome sequencing becomes feasible in large samples.

21. New genetic signals for lung function highlight pathways and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associations across multiple ancestries

Author

Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, James F. Wilson, María Soler Artigas, Beate Stubbe, Nicholas J. Wareham, James D. Crapo, Victoria E. Jackson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Olga G. Troyanskaya, Medea Imboden, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Adam S. Butterworth, Carl A. Melbourne, Ian Sayers, Lars Lind, Stefan Weiss, Margaret M. Parker, Timmers Prhj, Edwin K. Silverman, John C. Whittaker, Ian P. Hall, Ozren Polasek, Mika Kähönen, Katherine A. Fawcett, Anna Hansell, Liming Li, David J. Porteous, Louise V. Wain, Robert A. Scott, Richard Packer, Richard J. Allen, Robin G Walters, Anna L. Guyatt, Terho Lehtimäki, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Shona M. Kerr, Christian Gieger, Matthias Wielscher, Rajesh Rawal, Jing Hua Zhao, John E. Hokanson, Holger Schulz, Nicola F. Reeve, Claudia Langenberg, Ke Hao, Corry-Anke Brandsma, Megan L. Paynton, Vitart, Dmitry Prokopenko, Jennie Hui, Eugene R. Bleecker, Ma'en Obeidat, John Danesh, Ralf Ewert, Benjamin B. Sun, Frank Dudbridge, Jian Zhou, Brian D. Hobbs, Blair H. Smith, Don D. Sin, Dawn L. DeMeo, Joseph C. Maranville, Ida Surakka, Alison Catherine Murray, Nicholas Locantore, Katherine A. Kentistou, Terri H. Beaty, Igor Rudan, Kuang Lin, Amund Gulsvik, Ian J. Deary, Ruth Tal-Singer, Kijoung Song, David C. Nickle, Michael H. Cho, Jian'an Luan, Joshua D. Hoffman, Georg Homuth, Zhengming Chen, Dandi Qiao, Heiko Runz, Per Bakke, Chiara Batini, Caroline Hayward, Stefan Karrasch, Alan James, Andrew P. Morris, Prescott G. Woodruff, Laura M Yerges Armstrong, David Sparrow, Ulf Gyllensten, James P. Cook, Jonathan Marten, Olli T. Raitakari, Nick Shrine, Deborah A. Meyers, Tobin, Ruth Boxall, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, David P. Strachan, Sarah E. Harris, Philippe Joubert, Stefan Enroth, Xingnan Li, van den Berge M, Anubha Mahajan, Yohan Bossé, Peter K. Joshi, Shrine, Nick [0000-0003-3641-4371], Guyatt, Anna L [0000-0003-1860-6337], Hobbs, Brian D [0000-0001-9564-0745], Sakornsakolpat, Phuwanat [0000-0002-4308-0974], Obeidat, Ma'en [0000-0002-5443-2752], Weiss, Stefan [0000-0002-3553-4315], Kentistou, Katherine A [0000-0002-5816-664X], Sun, Benjamin B [0000-0001-6347-2281], Enroth, Stefan [0000-0002-5056-9137], Vitart, Veronique [0000-0002-4991-3797], Allen, Richard J [0000-0002-8450-3056], Beaty, Terri H [0000-0002-7644-1705], Bossé, Yohan [0000-0002-3067-3711], Joshi, Peter K [0000-0002-6361-5059], Mahajan, Anubha [0000-0001-5585-3420], Murray, Alison [0000-0003-4915-4847], Porteous, David J [0000-0003-1249-6106], Sayers, Ian [0000-0001-5601-5410], Smith, Blair H [0000-0002-5362-9430], Tal-Singer, Ruth [0000-0002-5275-8062], Timmers, Paul RHJ [0000-0002-5197-1267], Troyanskaya, Olga G [0000-0002-5676-5737], Rudan, Igor [0000-0001-6993-6884], Wilson, James F [0000-0001-5751-9178], Zeggini, Eleftheria [0000-0003-4238-659X], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Morris, Andrew P [0000-0002-6805-6014], Butterworth, Adam S [0000-0002-6915-9015], Walters, Robin G [0000-0002-9179-0321], Cho, Michael H [0000-0002-4907-1657], Strachan, David P [0000-0001-7854-1366], Tobin, Martin D [0000-0002-3596-7874], Wain, Louise V [0000-0003-4951-1867], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), UNIVERSITY OF OULU, and Commission of the European Communities

Subjects
Male, Smoking/genetics, LOCI, Genome-wide association study, VARIANTS, Bioinformatics, Genome-wide association studies, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, 0302 clinical medicine, Polymorphism (computer science), Risk Factors, GWAS, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, HERITABILITY, COPD, Lung, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Aged, 80 and over, 0303 health sciences, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Smoking, 1184 Genetics, developmental biology, physiology, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, 3. Good health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Meta-analysis, Genome-Wide Association Study/methods, Medical genetics, Female, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Understanding Society Scientific Group, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, Aged, Respiratory tract diseases, Science & Technology, Case-control study, Lung/physiopathology, 06 Biological Sciences, medicine.disease, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/genetics, respiratory tract diseases, Case-Control Studies, 3111 Biomedicine, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental Biology, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Reduced lung function predicts mortality and is key to the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In a genome-wide association study in 400,102 individuals of European ancestry, we define 279 lung function signals, 139 of which are new. In combination, these variants strongly predict COPD in independent patient populations. Furthermore, the combined effect of these variants showed generalizability across smokers and never-smokers, and across ancestral groups. We highlight biological pathways, known and potential drug targets for COPD and, in phenome-wide association studies, autoimmune-related and other pleiotropic effects of lung function associated variants. This new genetic evidence has potential to improve future preventive and therapeutic strategies for COPD., Editorial summary: A genome-wide association study in over 400,000 individuals identifies 139 new signals for lung function. These variants can predict chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in independent, trans-ethnic cohorts.

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2019
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22. Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

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Tom Palmer, Lars Lind, George Davey Smith, Ting Qi, Michael W. Nagle, Paul W. Franks, Bram P. Prins, Julie Lee, Jingyuan Fu, Niclas Eriksson, Peter K. Joshi, Chris Haley, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Jeremy D. Gale, Mika Ala-Korpela, Michael V. Holmes, Urmo Võsa, Adam S. Butterworth, Eric B. Fauman, Anette Kalnapenkis, Reedik Mägi, Åsa Johansson, James F. Wilson, Mikael Landén, Gunnar Engström, Johan Ärnlöv, Anders Hamsten, Ozren Polasek, Andres Ingason, Andrew J. Schork, Agneta Siegbahn, Lasse Folkersen, Qin Wang, Andrew P. Morris, Johan Sundström, Daria V. Zhernakova, Olle Melander, Erik Ingelsson, Federico De Masi, Lude Franke, James E. Peters, Alexandra Zhernakova, Seung Hoan Choi, Rasmus Wernersson, Thibaud Boutin, Karl Michaëlsson, Stefan Gustafsson, Bianca E. Suur, Karen Page, Yang Wu, Caroline Hayward, Marketa Sjögren, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Stefan Enroth, Tõnu Esko, Amira Quazi, John Danesh, Anders Mälarstig, Daniel Hvidberg Hansen, Åsa K Hedman, Jan Nilsson, Ulf Gyllensten, Vilmantas Giedraitis, J. Gustav Smith, Martin Magnusson, Marju Orho-Melander, Steven A. Lubitz, Erin Macdonald-Dunlop, Thomas Werge, Praveen Surendran, Yan Chen, Céline Fernandez, Weidong Zhang, Lars Wallentin, Andrew D. Bretherick, Jian Yang, Peter M. Nilsson, Jesper R. Gådin, Annique Claringbould, Sölve Elmståhl, Sarah E Bergen, Harm-Jan Westra, Erik Pålsson, Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Translational Immunology Groningen (TRIGR), Center for Liver, Digestive and Metabolic Diseases (CLDM), Stem Cell Aging Leukemia and Lymphoma (SALL), United Kingdom Research and Innovation, Folkersen, Lasse [0000-0003-0708-9530], Hansen, Daniel Hvidberg [0000-0003-3285-605X], Wu, Yang [0000-0002-0128-7280], Eriksson, Niclas [0000-0002-2152-4343], Bretherick, Andrew D [0000-0001-9258-3140], Enroth, Stefan [0000-0002-5056-9137], Lee, Julie [0000-0001-6090-6718], Ala-Korpela, Mika [0000-0001-5905-1206], Claringbould, Annique [0000-0002-9201-6557], Davey Smith, George [0000-0002-1407-8314], Fauman, Eric [0000-0002-9739-0249], Fernandez, Celine [0000-0003-1290-4982], Franke, Lude [0000-0002-5159-8802], Franks, Paul W [0000-0002-0520-7604], Giedraitis, Vilmantas [0000-0003-3423-2021], Haley, Chris [0000-0002-9811-0210], Johansson, Åsa [0000-0002-2915-4498], Lubitz, Steven [0000-0002-9599-4866], Palmer, Tom [0000-0003-4655-4511], Macdonald-Dunlop, Erin [0000-0001-6569-6086], Magnusson, Martin [0000-0003-1710-5936], Michaelsson, Karl [0000-0003-2815-1217], Nagle, Michael W [0000-0002-4677-7582], Nilsson, Peter M [0000-0002-5652-8459], Nilsson, Jan [0000-0002-9752-7479], Prins, Bram [0000-0001-5774-034X], Sundström, Johan [0000-0003-2247-8454], Werge, Thomas [0000-0003-1829-0766], Westra, Harm-Jan [0000-0001-7038-567X], Fu, Jingyuan [0000-0001-5578-1236], Esko, Tõnu [0000-0003-1982-6569], Hayward, Caroline [0000-0002-9405-9550], Landen, Mikael [0000-0002-4496-6451], Butterworth, Adam S [0000-0002-6915-9015], Holmes, Michael V [0000-0001-6617-0879], Ingelsson, Erik [0000-0003-2256-6972], Mälarstig, Anders [0000-0003-2608-1358], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and 30387078 - Magnusson, P. Martin

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Proteomics, Proteome, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Asthma, ATP Binding Cassette Transporter 1, Cardiovascular System, Chromosome Mapping, Drug Delivery Systems, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Humans, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Interleukin-1 Receptor-Like 1 Protein, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Linkage Disequilibrium, Mendelian Randomization Analysis, Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, Quantitative Trait Loci, Receptors, CCR2, Receptors, CCR5, Genome-wide association study, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Chemokine receptor, 0302 clinical medicine, RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST, GWAS, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems, 0303 health sciences, Molecular medicine, 3. Good health, Medical genetics, Medical Genetics, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Computational biology, Biology, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Physiology (medical), Mendelian randomization, Internal Medicine, medicine, 030304 developmental biology, Science & Technology, Cell Biology, GENE, ANTIBODY
Abstract

Circulating proteins are vital in human health and disease and are frequently used as biomarkers for clinical decision-making or as targets for pharmacological intervention. Here, we map and replicate protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) for 90 cardiovascular proteins in over 30,000 individuals, resulting in 451 pQTLs for 85 proteins. For each protein, we further perform pathway mapping to obtain trans-pQTL gene and regulatory designations. We substantiate these regulatory findings with orthogonal evidence for trans-pQTLs using mouse knockdown experiments (ABCA1 and TRIB1) and clinical trial results (chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5), with consistent regulation. Finally, we evaluate known drug targets, and suggest new target candidates or repositioning opportunities using Mendelian randomization. This identifies 11 proteins with causal evidence of involvement in human disease that have not previously been targeted, including EGF, IL-16, PAPPA, SPON1, F3, ADM, CASP-8, CHI3L1, CXCL16, GDF15 and MMP-12. Taken together, these findings demonstrate the utility of large-scale mapping of the genetics of the proteome and provide a resource for future precision studies of circulating proteins in human health.

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2020
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23. Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

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Olle Melander, Niek Verweij, Uwe Völker, Morris A. Swertz, Seppo Koskinen, David Conen, Lars Lind, Rossella Sorice, Philippe Amouyel, Andres Metspalu, David J. Stott, Marty Larson, Francis S. Collins, Ozren Polasek, Paul F. O'Reilly, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Evangelos Evangelou, Pekka Jousilahti, Michela Traglia, Tineka Blake, John Attia, Bruce M. Psaty, Massimo Mangino, Alison Pattie, Marco Brumat, Dorret I. Boomsma, Harry Campbell, Daniel I. Chasman, Tõnu Esko, Wei-Yu Lin, Rodney J. Scott, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Guillaume Paré, Adriana M. Hung, Marina Evangelou, Quang Tri Nguyen, Markus Perola, Kenneth Rice, Yong Qian, Antonietta Robino, Anne U. Jackson, Ian J. Deary, Mika Kähönen, Cristina Menni, Veronique Vitart, Igor Rudan, Ganesh Chauhan, Aravinda Chakravarti, Jennifer E. Huffman, John M. Starr, Anubha Mahajan, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Peter Almgren, Yuri Milaneschi, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Roby Joehanes, Christopher P. Nelson, Eleftheria Zeggini, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Peter J. van der Most, Annette Peters, Paul M. Ridker, Michael Boehnke, Joris Deelen, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Neil Poulter, Renée de Mutsert, Rick Jansen, Fu Liang Ng, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Ilja M. Nolte, Meixia Ren, Gail Davies, John M. C. Connell, Jian'an Luan, Todd L. Edwards, Benjamin Lehne, K. Witkowska, Lili Milani, Stéphanie Debette, Georgios Ntritsos, Claudia P. Cabrera, Paolo Gasparini, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Antti-Pekka Sarin, Kelly Cho, Robert A. Scott, Veikko Salomaa, Niki Dimou, David C. Liewald, Pim van der Harst, Teemu J. Niiranen, Denis C. Shields, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Andrew P. Morris, Murielle Bochud, Helena Schmidt, Bernard Keavney, Christopher Oldmeadow, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Louise V. Wain, Reedik Mägi, Christian Gieger, Caterina Barbieri, Aki S. Havulinna, Fabiola Del Greco M, Dragana Vuckovic, Alan F. Wright, J. Wouter Jukema, Reinhold Schmidt, Marcus Dörr, Franco Giulianini, Evan Tzanis, Erwin P. Bottinger, David Mosen-Ansorena, Ruth J. F. Loos, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Teresa Nutile, Alice Stanton, Jun Ding, Yingchang Lu, Roberto Elosua, Walter Palmas, James F. Wilson, Edith Hofer, Giorgia Girotto, Bram P. Prins, Anna Morgan, Anuj Goel, Edward G. Lakatta, Alex S. F. Doney, Najaf Amin, Lenore J. Launer, Siim Sõber, Nicholas J. Wareham, Adam S. Butterworth, Ilaria Gandin, Xiuqing Guo, Kent D. Taylor, Andrew D. Morris, Paul Knekt, Cinzia Sala, Peter P. Pramstaller, Joshua C. Bis, Archie Campbell, Raha Pazoki, Hugh Watkins, Csaba P. Kovesdy, Yan V. Sun, Lynda M. Rose, Jaspal S. Kooner, Maciej Tomaszewski, Massimiliano Cocca, Claudia Langenberg, Gonneke Willemsen, Eco J. C. de Geus, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ahmad Vaez, Albert Hofman, Kristin L. Ayers, Sara M. Willems, Germaine C. Verwoert, Christophe Tzourio, Martin Farrall, Albert V. Smith, Joanna M. M. Howson, Daniela Toniolo, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Antti Jula, Stefan Enroth, Ruifang Li-Gao, Nabi Shah, Weihua Zhang, Paul Elliott, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Tatijana Zemunik, Shih-Jen Hwang, Helen R. Warren, Peter J. Munson, He Gao, Ivana Kolcic, Peter S. Braund, Tamara B. Harris, Raymond Noordam, Stella Trompet, Markku Laakso, Peter K. Joshi, Zoltán Kutalik, Sébastien Thériault, Åsa Johansson, Rainer Rettig, Sarah H. Wild, Patricia B. Munroe, John Danesh, Anders Hamsten, Mark J. Caulfield, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Praveen Surendran, Peter S. Sever, David S. Siscovick, Terho Lehtimäki, Priyanka Nandakumar, Aarno Palotie, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Chiara Batini, Nick Shrine, Harold Snieder, Cumhur Y Demirkale, Teresa Ferreira, André G. Uitterlinden, Sekar Kathiresan, Mattias Frånberg, Lorna M. Lopez, J. Michael Gaziano, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Maris Laan, Samuli Ripatti, John C. Chambers, Martin H. de Borst, Johan Sundström, Alan J. Gow, Caroline Hayward, Oscar H. Franco, Yongmei Liu, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Ibrahim Karaman, Georg Ehret, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Mike A. Nalls, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Daniela Ruggiero, Erik Ingelsson, Colin N. A. Palmer, Alan James, Elin Org, Kati Kristiansson, Alexander Teumer, Ulf Gyllensten, Joanne Knight, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Jerome I. Rotter, Yasaman Saba, Daniel Levy, Li Lin, Janina S. Ried, Michael R. Barnes, Harriëtte Riese, Andrew D. Johnson, David P. Strachan, Martin D. Tobin, Lorenz Risch, Rona J. Strawbridge, Jing Hua Zhao, Vilmundur Gudnason, Borbala Mifsud, Eric Boerwinkle, Catharina A. Hartman, Ben A. Oostra, Dan E. Arking, Andrew A. Hicks, Peter Vollenweider, Thibaud Boutin, Philip S. Tsao, Jie Yao, Ayush Giri, Marina Ciullo, Morris J. Brown, Alanna C. Morrison, Kay-Tee Khaw, Francesco Cucca, Jonathan Marten, Olli T. Raitakari, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Jaume Marrugat, Tim D. Spector, Heather J. Cordell, Nilesh J. Samani, Simon Thom, Sarah E. Harris, UNIVERSITY OF OULU, Commission of the European Communities, Home Office, Action on Hearing Loss, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding, National Institute for Health Research, British Heart Foundation, Medical Research Council (MRC), UK DRI Ltd, Epidemiology, Internal Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), Biological Psychology, APH - Mental Health, APH - Methodology, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, APH - Personalized Medicine, Ehret, Georg Benedikt, Lin, Li, Bordeaux population health (BPH), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Santé Publique, d'Épidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Evangelou, Evangelo, Warren, Helen R, Mosen-Ansorena, David, Mifsud, Borbala, Pazoki, Raha, Gao, He, Ntritsos, Georgio, Dimou, Niki, Cabrera, Claudia P, Karaman, Ibrahim, Ng, Fu Liang, Evangelou, Marina, Witkowska, Katarzyna, Tzanis, Evan, Hellwege, Jacklyn N, Giri, Ayush, Velez Edwards, Digna R, Sun, Yan V, Cho, Kelly, Gaziano, J Michael, Wilson, Peter W F, Tsao, Philip S, Kovesdy, Csaba P, Esko, Tonu, Mägi, Reedik, Milani, Lili, Almgren, Peter, Boutin, Thibaud, Debette, Stéphanie, Ding, Jun, Giulianini, Franco, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Jackson, Anne U, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Lin, Wei-Yu, Luan, Jian'An, Mangino, Massimo, Oldmeadow, Christopher, Prins, Bram Peter, Qian, Yong, Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan, Shah, Nabi, Surendran, Praveen, Thériault, Sébastien, Verweij, Niek, Willems, Sara M, Zhao, Jing-Hua, Amouyel, Philippe, Connell, John, de Mutsert, Renée, Doney, Alex S F, Farrall, Martin, Menni, Cristina, Morris, Andrew D, Noordam, Raymond, Paré, Guillaume, Poulter, Neil R, Shields, Denis C, Stanton, Alice, Thom, Simon, Abecasis, Gonçalo, Amin, Najaf, Arking, Dan E, Ayers, Kristin L, Barbieri, Caterina M, Batini, Chiara, Bis, Joshua C, Blake, Tineka, Bochud, Murielle, Boehnke, Michael, Boerwinkle, Eric, Boomsma, Dorret I, Bottinger, Erwin P, Braund, Peter S, Brumat, Marco, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chakravarti, Aravinda, Chambers, John C, Chauhan, Ganesh, Ciullo, Marina, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Franci, Cordell, Heather J, Davies, Gail, Borst, Martin H de, Geus, Eco J de, Deary, Ian J, Deelen, Jori, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf, Dörr, Marcu, Ehret, Georg B, Elosua, Roberto, Enroth, Stefan, Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut, Ferreira, Teresa, Frånberg, Mattia, Franco, Oscar H, Gandin, Ilaria, Gasparini, Paolo, Giedraitis, Vilmanta, Gieger, Christian, Girotto, Giorgia, Goel, Anuj, Gow, Alan J, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Gyllensten, Ulf, Hamsten, Ander, Harris, Tamara B, Harris, Sarah E, Hartman, Catharina A, Havulinna, Aki S, Hicks, Andrew A, Hofer, Edith, Hofman, Albert, Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Huffman, Jennifer E, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Ingelsson, Erik, James, Alan, Jansen, Rick, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Joehanes, Roby, Johansson, Åsa, Johnson, Andrew D, Joshi, Peter K, Jousilahti, Pekka, Jukema, J Wouter, Jula, Antti, Kähönen, Mika, Kathiresan, Sekar, Keavney, Bernard D, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Knekt, Paul, Knight, Joanne, Kolcic, Ivana, Kooner, Jaspal S, Koskinen, Seppo, Kristiansson, Kati, Kutalik, Zoltan, Laan, Mari, Larson, Marty, Launer, Lenore J, Lehne, Benjamin, Lehtimäki, Terho, Liewald, David C M, Lind, Lar, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Liu, Yongmei, Loos, Ruth J F, Lopez, Lorna M, Lu, Yingchang, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto, Marrugat, Jaume, Marten, Jonathan, Milaneschi, Yuri, Morgan, Anna, Morris, Andrew P, Morrison, Alanna C, Munson, Peter J, Nalls, Mike A, Nandakumar, Priyanka, Nelson, Christopher P, Niiranen, Teemu, Nolte, Ilja M, Nutile, Teresa, Oldehinkel, Albertine J, Oostra, Ben A, O'Reilly, Paul F, Org, Elin, Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Palmas, Walter, Palotie, Aarno, Pattie, Alison, Penninx, Brenda W J H, Perola, Marku, Peters, Annette, Polasek, Ozren, Pramstaller, Peter P, Nguyen, Quang Tri, Raitakari, Olli T, Ren, Meixia, Rettig, Rainer, Rice, Kenneth, Ridker, Paul M, Ried, Janina S, Riese, Harriëtte, Ripatti, Samuli, Robino, Antonietta, Rose, Lynda M, Rotter, Jerome I, Rudan, Igor, Ruggiero, Daniela, Saba, Yasaman, Sala, Cinzia F, Salomaa, Veikko, Samani, Nilesh J, Sarin, Antti-Pekka, Schmidt, Reinhold, Schmidt, Helena, Shrine, Nick, Siscovick, David, Smith, Albert V, Snieder, Harold, Sõber, Siim, Sorice, Rossella, Starr, John M, Stott, David J, Strachan, David P, Strawbridge, Rona J, Sundström, Johan, Swertz, Morris A, Taylor, Kent D, Teumer, Alexander, Tobin, Martin D, Tomaszewski, Maciej, Toniolo, Daniela, Traglia, Michela, Trompet, Stella, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tzourio, Christophe, Uitterlinden, André G, Vaez, Ahmad, van der Most, Peter J, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Vergnaud, Anne-Claire, Verwoert, Germaine C, Vitart, Veronique, Völker, Uwe, Vollenweider, Peter, Vuckovic, Dragana, Watkins, Hugh, Wild, Sarah H, Willemsen, Gonneke, Wilson, James F, Wright, Alan F, Yao, Jie, Zemunik, Tatijana, Zhang, Weihua, Attia, John R, Butterworth, Adam S, Chasman, Daniel I, Conen, David, Cucca, Francesco, Danesh, John, Hayward, Caroline, Howson, Joanna M M, Laakso, Markku, Lakatta, Edward G, Langenberg, Claudia, Melander, Olle, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O, Palmer, Colin N A, Risch, Lorenz, Scott, Robert A, Scott, Rodney J, Sever, Peter, Spector, Tim D, van der Harst, Pim, Wareham, Nicholas J, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Levy, Daniel, Munroe, Patricia B, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Brown, Morris J, Metspalu, Andre, Hung, Adriana M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Edwards, Todd L, Psaty, Bruce M, Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Barnes, Michael R, Wain, Louise V, Elliott, Paul, Caulfield, Mark J, Groningen Kidney Center (GKC), Lifestyle Medicine (LM), Interdisciplinary Centre Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (ICPE), Life Course Epidemiology (LCE), Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI), Cardiovascular Centre (CVC), Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT), VU University medical center, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, APH - Digital Health, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Research Programme of Molecular Medicine, Research Programs Unit, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, University of Helsinki, Clinicum, Samuli Olli Ripatti / Principal Investigator, Biostatistics Helsinki, Department of Public Health, Complex Disease Genetics, and Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Population/methods, Genome Informatics, Blood Pressure, Genome-wide association study, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE RISK, UK BIOBANK, HYPERTENSION, VARIANTS, METAANALYSIS, COMMON, HEALTH, RARE, HYPERALDOSTERONISM, Disease, Bioinformatics, Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology/genetics, Risk Factors, 80 and over, GWAS, Cells, Cultured, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, ddc:616, Genetics & Heredity, Aged, 80 and over, Cultured, medicine.diagnostic_test, CARDIOVASCULAR RISK, Genetic analysis, Million Veteran Program, Genetics, Population/methods, Single Nucleotide, Middle Aged, PREVALENCE, 3. Good health, Pulse pressure, VINTAGE, Cardiovascular Diseases, Blood pressure, Medical genetics, Female, Medical Genetics, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Genetic Testing/methods, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Blood Pressure/genetics, Cells, Quantitative Trait Loci, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Medicine [Science], Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Testing, Polymorphism, HEALTHY, Life Style, Medicinsk genetik, Aged, Genetic testing, Genetic association, Science & Technology, Cardiovascular Diseases/epidemiology, 06 Biological Sciences, Genetic architecture, Genetics, Population, 030104 developmental biology, Genetic Loci, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, 3111 Biomedicine, Hypertension/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Developmental Biology
Abstract

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

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2018
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24. Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

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Warren, Helen R., Evangelou, Evangelos, Cabrera, Claudia P., Gao, Ren, Meixia, Mifsud, Borbala, Ntalla, Ioanna, Surendran, Praveen, Liu, Chunyu, Cook, James P., Kraja, Aldi T., Drenos, Fotios, Loh, Marie, Verweij, Niek, Marten, Jonathan, Karaman, Ibrahim, Lepe, Marcelo P. Segura, O'Reilly, Paul F., Knight, Joanne, Snieder, Harold, Kato, Norihiro, Jiang, Tai, E. Shyong, Said, M. Abdullah, Porteous, David, Alver, Maris, Poulter, Neil, Farrall, Martin, Gansevoort, Ron T., Padmanabhan, Sandosh, Magi, Reedik, Stanton, Alice, Connell, John, Bakker, Stephan J. L., Metspalu, Andres, Shields, Denis C., Thom, Simon, Brown, Morris, Sever, Peter, Esko, Tonu, Hayward, Caroline, van der Harst, Pim, Saleheen, Danish, Chowdhury, Rajiv, Chambers, John C., Chasman, Daniel I., Chakravarti, Aravinda, Newton-Cheh, Christopher, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Levy, Daniel, Kooner, Jaspal S., Keavney, Bernard, Tomaszewski, Maciej, Samani, Nilesh J., Howson, Joanna M. M., Tobin, Martin D., Munroe, Patricia B., Ehret, Georg B., Wain, Louise V., Barnes, Michael R., Tzoulaki, Joanna, Caulfield, Mark J., Elliott, Paul, Vaez, Ahmad, Jansen, Rick, Joehanes, Roby, van der Most, Peter J., Erzurumluoglu, A. Mesut, Rose, Lynda M., Verwoert, Germaine C., Hottenga, Jouke-Jan, Strawbridge, Rona J., Arking, Dan E., Hwang, Shih-Jen, Guo, Xiuqing, Kutalik, Zoltan, Trompet, Stella, Shrine, Nick, Teumer, Alexander, Ried, Janina S., Bis, Joshua C., Smith, Albert V., Amin, Najaf, Nolte, Ilja M., Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka, Mahajan, Anubha, Wareham, Nicholas J., Hofer, Edith, Joshi, Peter K., Kristiansson, Kati, Traglia, Michela, Havulinna, Aki S., Goel, Anuj, Nalls, Mike A., Sober, Siim, Vuckovic, Dragana, Luan, Jian'an, Del Greco M, Fabiola, Ayers, Kristin L., Marrugat, Jaume, Ruggiero, Daniela, Lopez, Lorna M., Niiranen, Teemu, Enroth, Stefan, Jackson, Anne U., Nelson, Christopher P., Huffman, Jennifer E., Zhang, Weihua, Gandin, Ilaria, Harris, Sarah E., Zemonik, Tatijana, Yingchang, Shah, Nabi, de Borst, Martin H., Mangino, Massimo, Prins, Bram P., Campbell, Archie, Li-Gao, Ruifang, Chauhan, Ganesh, Oldmeadow, Abecasis, Goncalo, Abedi, Maryam, Barbieri, Caterina M., Batini, Chiara, Blake, Tineka, Boehnke, Michael, Bottinger, Erwin P., Braund, Peter S., Brumat, Marco, Harry, Cocca, Massimiliano, Collins, Francis, Cordell, Heather J., Damman, Jeffrey J., Davies, Gail, de Geus, Eco J., de Mutsert, Renee, Deelen, Joris, Demirkale, Yusuf, Doney, Alex S. F., Dorr, Marcus, Ferreira, Teresa, Franberg, Mattias, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Gieger, Christian, Giulianini, Franco, Gow, Alan J., Hamsten, Anders, Tamara B., Hofman, Albert, Holliday, Elizabeth G., Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Johansson, Asa, Johnson, Andrew D., Jousilahti, Pekka, Jula, Antti, Kahonen, Mika, Kathiresan, Sekar, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kolcic, Ivana, Koskinen, Seppo, Langenberg, Claudia, Larson, Marty, Launer, Lenore J., Lehne, Benjamin, Liewald, David C. M., Lin, Lind, Lars, Mach, Francois, Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto, Menni, Cristina, Milaneschi, Yuri, Morgan, Anna, Morrison, Alanna C., Munson, Nandakumar, Priyanka, Quang Tri Nguyen, Nutile, Oldehinkel, Albertine J., Oostra, Ben A., Org, Elin, Palotie, Aarno, Pare, Guillaume, Pattie, Alison, Penninx, Brenda W. J. 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Netherlands Twin Register (NTR), Male, 0301 basic medicine, Blood Pressure, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Bioinformatics, Risk Factors, NADPH OXIDASE, health care economics and organizations, IN-VIVO, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Middle Aged, Biobank, 3. Good health, Pulse pressure, ENDOTHELIAL-CELL, Cardiovascular Diseases, Hypertension, CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE, Medical genetics, Female, KEY ROLE, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR, HYPERTENSION, COMMON, GENE, NOX4, METAANALYSIS, INHIBITION, European Continental Ancestry Group, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, UK BIOBANK, Journal Article, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk factor, Genetic association, ta1184, ta3121, 06 Biological Sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Blood pressure, MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION, Genetic Loci, genome-wide association studies, Genome-Wide Association Study, Cardiovascular Risk, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Elevated blood pressure is the leading heritable risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide. We report genetic association of blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure) among UK Biobank participants of European ancestry with independent replication in other cohorts, and robust validation of 107 independent loci. We also identify new independent variants at 11 previously reported blood pressure loci. In combination with results from a range of in silico functional analyses and wet bench experiments, our findings highlight new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation enriched for genes expressed in vascular tissues and identify potential therapeutic targets for hypertension. Results from genetic risk score models raise the possibility of a precision medicine approach through early lifestyle intervention to offset the impact of blood pressure-raising genetic variants on future cardiovascular disease risk.

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2017
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