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1. X-chromosome and kidney function: evidence from a multi-trait genetic analysis of 908,697 individuals reveals sex-specific and sex-differential findings in genes regulated by androgen response elements.

Author

Scholz, Markus, Horn, Katrin, Pott, Janne, Wuttke, Matthias, Kühnapfel, Andreas, Nasr, M, Kirsten, Holger, Li, Yong, Hoppmann, Anselm, Gorski, Mathias, Ghasemi, Sahar, Li, Man, Tin, Adrienne, Chai, Jin-Fang, Cocca, Massimiliano, Wang, Judy, Nutile, Teresa, Akiyama, Masato, Åsvold, Bjørn, Bansal, Nisha, Biggs, Mary, Boutin, Thibaud, Brenner, Hermann, Brumpton, Ben, Burkhardt, Ralph, Cai, Jianwen, Campbell, Archie, Campbell, Harry, Chalmers, John, Chasman, Daniel, Chee, Miao, Chen, Xu, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cifkova, Renata, Daviglus, Martha, Delgado, Graciela, Dittrich, Katalin, Edwards, Todd, Endlich, Karlhans, Michael Gaziano, J, Giri, Ayush, Giulianini, Franco, Gordon, Scott, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Hallan, Stein, Hamet, Pavel, Hartman, Catharina, Hayward, Caroline, Heid, Iris, Hellwege, Jacklyn, Holleczek, Bernd, Holm, Hilma, Hutri-Kähönen, Nina, Hveem, Kristian, Isermann, Berend, Jonas, Jost, Joshi, Peter, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kanai, Masahiro, Kastarinen, Mika, Khor, Chiea, Kiess, Wieland, Kleber, Marcus, Körner, Antje, Kovacs, Peter, Krajcoviechova, Alena, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard, Kuokkanen, Mikko, Kähönen, Mika, Lange, Leslie, Lash, James, Lehtimäki, Terho, Li, Hengtong, Lin, Bridget, Liu, Jianjun, Loeffler, Markus, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Magnusson, Patrik, Martin, Nicholas, Matsuda, Koichi, Milaneschi, Yuri, Mishra, Pashupati, Mononen, Nina, Montgomery, Grant, Mook-Kanamori, Dennis, Mychaleckyj, Josyf, März, Winfried, Nauck, Matthias, Nikus, Kjell, Nolte, Ilja, Noordam, Raymond, Okada, Yukinori, Olafsson, Isleifur, Oldehinkel, Albertine, Penninx, Brenda, Perola, Markus, Pirastu, Nicola, and Polasek, Ozren

Subjects
Humans, Male, Female, Androgens, Genome-Wide Association Study, Kidney, Chromosomes, Human, X, Response Elements, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Tetraspanins
Abstract

X-chromosomal genetic variants are understudied but can yield valuable insights into sexually dimorphic human traits and diseases. We performed a sex-stratified cross-ancestry X-chromosome-wide association meta-analysis of seven kidney-related traits (n = 908,697), identifying 23 loci genome-wide significantly associated with two of the traits: 7 for uric acid and 16 for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), including four novel eGFR loci containing the functionally plausible prioritized genes ACSL4, CLDN2, TSPAN6 and the female-specific DRP2. Further, we identified five novel sex-interactions, comprising male-specific effects at FAM9B and AR/EDA2R, and three sex-differential findings with larger genetic effect sizes in males at DCAF12L1 and MST4 and larger effect sizes in females at HPRT1. All prioritized genes in loci showing significant sex-interactions were located next to androgen response elements (ARE). Five ARE genes showed sex-differential expressions. This study contributes new insights into sex-dimorphisms of kidney traits along with new prioritized gene targets for further molecular research.

Published
2024

2. Selinexor in Advanced, Metastatic Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma: A Multinational, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Author

Gounder, Mrinal M, Razak, Albiruni Abdul, Somaiah, Neeta, Chawla, Sant, Martin-Broto, Javier, Grignani, Giovanni, Schuetze, Scott M, Vincenzi, Bruno, Wagner, Andrew J, Chmielowski, Bartosz, Jones, Robin L, Riedel, Richard F, Stacchiotti, Silvia, Loggers, Elizabeth T, Ganjoo, Kristen N, Le Cesne, Axel, Italiano, Antoine, del Muro, Xavier Garcia, Burgess, Melissa, Piperno-Neumann, Sophie, Ryan, Christopher, Mulcahy, Mary F, Forscher, Charles, Penel, Nicolas, Okuno, Scott, Elias, Anthony, Hartner, Lee, Philip, Tony, Alcindor, Thierry, Kasper, Bernd, Reichardt, Peter, Lapeire, Lore, Blay, Jean-Yves, Chevreau, Christine, Morales, Claudia Maria Valverde, Schwartz, Gary K, Chen, James L, Deshpande, Hari, Davis, Elizabeth J, Nicholas, Garth, Gröschel, Stefan, Hatcher, Helen, Duffaud, Florence, Herráez, Antonio Casado, Beveridge, Roberto Diaz, Badalamenti, Giuseppe, Eriksson, Mikael, Meyer, Christian, von Mehren, Margaret, Van Tine, Brian A, Götze, Katharina, Mazzeo, Filomena, Yakobson, Alexander, Zick, Aviad, Lee, Alexander, Gonzalez, Anna Estival, Napolitano, Andrea, Dickson, Mark A, Michel, Dayana, Meng, Changting, Li, Lingling, Liu, Jianjun, Ben-Shahar, Osnat, Van Domelen, Dane R, Walker, Christopher J, Chang, Hua, Landesman, Yosef, Shah, Jatin J, Shacham, Sharon, Kauffman, Michael G, and Attia, Steven

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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Clinical Research, Genetics, Clinical Trials and Supportive Activities, Patient Safety, 6.1 Pharmaceuticals, Cancer, Child, Double-Blind Method, Humans, Hydrazines, Liposarcoma, Triazoles, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

PurposeAntitumor activity in preclinical models and a phase I study of patients with dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DD-LPS) was observed with selinexor. We evaluated the clinical benefit of selinexor in patients with previously treated DD-LPS whose sarcoma progressed on approved agents.MethodsSEAL was a phase II-III, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Patients age 12 years or older with advanced DD-LPS who had received two-five lines of therapy were randomly assigned (2:1) to selinexor (60 mg) or placebo twice weekly in 6-week cycles (crossover permitted). The primary end point was progression-free survival (PFS). Patients who received at least one dose of study treatment were included for safety analysis (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02606461).ResultsTwo hundred eighty-five patients were enrolled (selinexor, n = 188; placebo, n = 97). PFS was significantly longer with selinexor versus placebo: hazard ratio (HR) 0.70 (95% CI, 0.52 to 0.95; one-sided P = .011; medians 2.8 v 2.1 months), as was time to next treatment: HR 0.50 (95% CI, 0.37 to 0.66; one-sided P < .0001; medians 5.8 v 3.2 months). With crossover, no difference was observed in overall survival. The most common treatment-emergent adverse events of any grade versus grade 3 or 4 with selinexor were nausea (151 [80.7%] v 11 [5.9]), decreased appetite (113 [60.4%] v 14 [7.5%]), and fatigue (96 [51.3%] v 12 [6.4%]). Four (2.1%) and three (3.1%) patients died in the selinexor and placebo arms, respectively. Exploratory RNA sequencing analysis identified that the absence of CALB1 expression was associated with longer PFS with selinexor compared with placebo (median 6.9 v 2.2 months; HR, 0.19; P = .001).ConclusionPatients with advanced, refractory DD-LPS showed improved PFS and time to next treatment with selinexor compared with placebo. Supportive care and dose reductions mitigated side effects of selinexor. Prospective validation of CALB1 expression as a predictive biomarker for selinexor in DD-LPS is warranted.

Published
2022

3. Determinants of penetrance and variable expressivity in monogenic metabolic conditions across 77,184 exomes.

Author

Goodrich, Julia K, Singer-Berk, Moriel, Son, Rachel, Sveden, Abigail, Wood, Jordan, England, Eleina, Cole, Joanne B, Weisburd, Ben, Watts, Nick, Caulkins, Lizz, Dornbos, Peter, Koesterer, Ryan, Zappala, Zachary, Zhang, Haichen, Maloney, Kristin A, Dahl, Andy, Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A, Atzmon, Gil, Barajas-Olmos, Francisco, Barzilai, Nir, Blangero, John, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bottinger, Erwin, Bowden, Donald W, Centeno-Cruz, Federico, Chambers, John C, Chami, Nathalie, Chan, Edmund, Chan, Juliana, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cho, Yoon Shin, Contreras-Cubas, Cecilia, Córdova, Emilio, Correa, Adolfo, DeFronzo, Ralph A, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Dupuis, Josée, Garay-Sevilla, Ma Eugenia, García-Ortiz, Humberto, Gieger, Christian, Glaser, Benjamin, González-Villalpando, Clicerio, Gonzalez, Ma Elena, Grarup, Niels, Groop, Leif, Gross, Myron, Haiman, Christopher, Han, Sohee, Hanis, Craig L, Hansen, Torben, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Henderson, Brian E, Hernandez, Juan Manuel Malacara, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Islas-Andrade, Sergio, Jørgensen, Marit E, Kang, Hyun Min, Kim, Bong-Jo, Kim, Young Jin, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kooner, Jaspal Singh, Kuusisto, Johanna, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Laakso, Markku, Lange, Leslie, Lee, Jong-Young, Lee, Juyoung, Lehman, Donna M, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Jianjun, Loos, Ruth JF, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Ma, Ronald CW, Martínez-Hernández, Angélica, Meigs, James B, Meitinger, Thomas, Mendoza-Caamal, Elvia, Mohlke, Karen L, Morris, Andrew D, Morrison, Alanna C, Ng, Maggie CY, Nilsson, Peter M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Orozco, Lorena, Palmer, Colin NA, Park, Kyong Soo, Post, Wendy S, Pedersen, Oluf, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Reiner, Alexander P, Revilla-Monsalve, Cristina, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Saleheen, Danish, Schurmann, Claudia, Sim, Xueling, Sladek, Rob, and Small, Kerrin S

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AMP-T2D-GENES Consortia, Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Risk Assessment, Genotype, Multifactorial Inheritance, Penetrance, Adult, Dyslipidemias, Exome, Biomarkers, Biological Variation, Population
Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of genetic variants have been reported to cause severe monogenic diseases, but the probability that a variant carrier develops the disease (termed penetrance) is unknown for virtually all of them. Additionally, the clinical utility of common polygenetic variation remains uncertain. Using exome sequencing from 77,184 adult individuals (38,618 multi-ancestral individuals from a type 2 diabetes case-control study and 38,566 participants from the UK Biobank, for whom genotype array data were also available), we apply clinical standard-of-care gene variant curation for eight monogenic metabolic conditions. Rare variants causing monogenic diabetes and dyslipidemias display effect sizes significantly larger than the top 1% of the corresponding polygenic scores. Nevertheless, penetrance estimates for monogenic variant carriers average 60% or lower for most conditions. We assess epidemiologic and genetic factors contributing to risk prediction in monogenic variant carriers, demonstrating that inclusion of polygenic variation significantly improves biomarker estimation for two monogenic dyslipidemias.

Published
2021

4. Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals

Author

Spracklen, Cassandra N, Horikoshi, Momoko, Kim, Young Jin, Lin, Kuang, Bragg, Fiona, Moon, Sanghoon, Suzuki, Ken, Tam, Claudia HT, Tabara, Yasuharu, Kwak, Soo-Heon, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Long, Jirong, Lim, Victor JY, Chai, Jin-Fang, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Yao, Jie, Choi, Hyeok Sun, Iyengar, Apoorva K, Perrin, Hannah J, Brotman, Sarah M, van de Bunt, Martijn, Gloyn, Anna L, Below, Jennifer E, Boehnke, Michael, Bowden, Donald W, Chambers, John C, Mahajan, Anubha, McCarthy, Mark I, Ng, Maggie CY, Petty, Lauren E, Zhang, Weihua, Morris, Andrew P, Adair, Linda S, Akiyama, Masato, Bian, Zheng, Chan, Juliana CN, Chang, Li-Ching, Chee, Miao-Li, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Du, Shufa, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gross, Myron, Guo, Xiuqing, Guo, Yu, Han, Sohee, Howard, Annie-Green, Huang, Wei, Hung, Yi-Jen, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Ichihara, Sahoko, Isono, Masato, Jang, Hye-Mi, Jiang, Guozhi, Jonas, Jost B, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kohara, Katsuhiko, Lee, Myung-Shik, Lee, Nanette R, Li, Liming, Liu, Jianjun, Luk, Andrea O, Lv, Jun, Okada, Yukinori, Pereira, Mark A, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Shi, Jinxiu, Shin, Dong Mun, So, Wing Yee, Takahashi, Atsushi, Tomlinson, Brian, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, van Dam, Rob M, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yamamoto, Ken, Yamauchi, Toshimasa, Yoon, Kyungheon, Yu, Canqing, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zhang, Liang, Zheng, Wei, Igase, Michiya, Cho, Yoon Shin, Rotter, Jerome I, Wang, Ya-Xing, Sheu, Wayne HH, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Wong, Tien-Yin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Kato, Norihiro, and Park, Kyong-Soo

Subjects
Human Genome, Diabetes, Biotechnology, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial, Alleles, Ankyrins, Asian People, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Europe, Eye Proteins, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Male, Nerve Tissue Proteins, RNA, Messenger, Transcription Factors, Transcription, Genetic, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 240 loci that are associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D)1,2; however, most of these loci have been identified in analyses of individuals with European ancestry. Here, to examine T2D risk in East Asian individuals, we carried out a meta-analysis of GWAS data from 77,418 individuals with T2D and 356,122 healthy control individuals. In the main analysis, we identified 301 distinct association signals at 183 loci, and across T2D association models with and without consideration of body mass index and sex, we identified 61 loci that are newly implicated in predisposition to T2D. Common variants associated with T2D in both East Asian and European populations exhibited strongly correlated effect sizes. Previously undescribed associations include signals in or near GDAP1, PTF1A, SIX3, ALDH2, a microRNA cluster, and genes that affect the differentiation of muscle and adipose cells3. At another locus, expression quantitative trait loci at two overlapping T2D signals affect two genes-NKX6-3 and ANK1-in different tissues4-6. Association studies in diverse populations identify additional loci and elucidate disease-associated genes, biology, and pathways.

Published
2020

5. Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

Author

Lam, Max, Chen, Chia-Yen, Li, Zhiqiang, Martin, Alicia R, Bryois, Julien, Ma, Xixian, Gaspar, Helena, Ikeda, Masashi, Benyamin, Beben, Brown, Brielin C, Liu, Ruize, Zhou, Wei, Guan, Lili, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kim, Sung-Wan, Kubo, Michiaki, Kusumawardhani, Agung AAA, Liu, Chih-Min, Ma, Hong, Periyasamy, Sathish, Takahashi, Atsushi, Xu, Zhida, Yu, Hao, Zhu, Feng, Chen, Wei J, Faraone, Stephen, Glatt, Stephen J, He, Lin, Hyman, Steven E, Hwu, Hai-Gwo, McCarroll, Steven A, Neale, Benjamin M, Sklar, Pamela, Wildenauer, Dieter B, Yu, Xin, Zhang, Dai, Mowry, Bryan J, Lee, Jimmy, Holmans, Peter, Xu, Shuhua, Sullivan, Patrick F, Ripke, Stephan, O’Donovan, Michael C, Daly, Mark J, Qin, Shengying, Sham, Pak, Iwata, Nakao, Hong, Kyung S, Schwab, Sibylle G, Yue, Weihua, Tsuang, Ming, Liu, Jianjun, Ma, Xiancang, Kahn, René S, Shi, Yongyong, and Huang, Hailiang

Subjects
Genetics, Human Genome, Serious Mental Illness, Schizophrenia, Brain Disorders, Mental Health, Prevention, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Mental health, Good Health and Well Being, Asian People, Case-Control Studies, Asia, Eastern, Genetics, Population, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Indonesia Schizophrenia Consortium, Genetic REsearch on schizophreniA neTwork-China and the Netherlands, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with approximately 1% lifetime risk globally. Large-scale schizophrenia genetic studies have reported primarily on European ancestry samples, potentially missing important biological insights. Here, we report the largest study to date of East Asian participants (22,778 schizophrenia cases and 35,362 controls), identifying 21 genome-wide-significant associations in 19 genetic loci. Common genetic variants that confer risk for schizophrenia have highly similar effects between East Asian and European ancestries (genetic correlation = 0.98 ± 0.03), indicating that the genetic basis of schizophrenia and its biology are broadly shared across populations. A fixed-effect meta-analysis including individuals from East Asian and European ancestries identified 208 significant associations in 176 genetic loci (53 novel). Trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the sets of candidate causal variants in 44 loci. Polygenic risk scores had reduced performance when transferred across ancestries, highlighting the importance of including sufficient samples of major ancestral groups to ensure their generalizability across populations.

Published
2019

6. Genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria.

Author

Teumer, Alexander, Li, Yong, Ghasemi, Sahar, Prins, Bram P, Wuttke, Matthias, Hermle, Tobias, Giri, Ayush, Sieber, Karsten B, Qiu, Chengxiang, Kirsten, Holger, Tin, Adrienne, Chu, Audrey Y, Bansal, Nisha, Feitosa, Mary F, Wang, Lihua, Chai, Jin-Fang, Cocca, Massimiliano, Fuchsberger, Christian, Gorski, Mathias, Hoppmann, Anselm, Horn, Katrin, Li, Man, Marten, Jonathan, Noce, Damia, Nutile, Teresa, Sedaghat, Sanaz, Sveinbjornsson, Gardar, Tayo, Bamidele O, van der Most, Peter J, Xu, Yizhe, Yu, Zhi, Gerstner, Lea, Ärnlöv, Johan, Bakker, Stephan JL, Baptista, Daniela, Biggs, Mary L, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brenner, Hermann, Burkhardt, Ralph, Carroll, Robert J, Chee, Miao-Li, Chee, Miao-Ling, Chen, Mengmeng, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cook, James P, Coresh, Josef, Corre, Tanguy, Danesh, John, de Borst, Martin H, De Grandi, Alessandro, de Mutsert, Renée, de Vries, Aiko PJ, Degenhardt, Frauke, Dittrich, Katalin, Divers, Jasmin, Eckardt, Kai-Uwe, Ehret, Georg, Endlich, Karlhans, Felix, Janine F, Franco, Oscar H, Franke, Andre, Freedman, Barry I, Freitag-Wolf, Sandra, Gansevoort, Ron T, Giedraitis, Vilmantas, Gögele, Martin, Grundner-Culemann, Franziska, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Hamet, Pavel, Harris, Tamara B, Hicks, Andrew A, Holm, Hilma, Foo, Valencia Hui Xian, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Ikram, M Arfan, Ingelsson, Erik, Jaddoe, Vincent WV, Jakobsdottir, Johanna, Josyula, Navya Shilpa, Jung, Bettina, Kähönen, Mika, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kiess, Wieland, Koenig, Wolfgang, Körner, Antje, Kovacs, Peter, Kramer, Holly, Krämer, Bernhard K, Kronenberg, Florian, Lange, Leslie A, Langefeld, Carl D, Lee, Jeannette Jen-Mai, Lehtimäki, Terho, Lieb, Wolfgang, Lim, Su-Chi, Lind, Lars, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Liu, Jianjun, and Loeffler, Markus

Subjects
Animals, Humans, Drosophila melanogaster, Albuminuria, Diabetes Mellitus, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Creatinine, Risk Factors, Chromosome Mapping, Gene Expression Regulation, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Phenomics
Abstract

Increased levels of the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) are associated with higher risk of kidney disease progression and cardiovascular events, but underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, we conduct trans-ethnic (n = 564,257) and European-ancestry specific meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies of UACR, including ancestry- and diabetes-specific analyses, and identify 68 UACR-associated loci. Genetic correlation analyses and risk score associations in an independent electronic medical records database (n = 192,868) reveal connections with proteinuria, hyperlipidemia, gout, and hypertension. Fine-mapping and trans-Omics analyses with gene expression in 47 tissues and plasma protein levels implicate genes potentially operating through differential expression in kidney (including TGFB1, MUC1, PRKCI, and OAF), and allow coupling of UACR associations to altered plasma OAF concentrations. Knockdown of OAF and PRKCI orthologs in Drosophila nephrocytes reduces albumin endocytosis. Silencing fly PRKCI further impairs slit diaphragm formation. These results generate a priority list of genes and pathways for translational research to reduce albuminuria.

Published
2019

7. Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls

Author

Flannick, Jason, Mercader, Josep M, Fuchsberger, Christian, Udler, Miriam S, Mahajan, Anubha, Wessel, Jennifer, Teslovich, Tanya M, Caulkins, Lizz, Koesterer, Ryan, Barajas-Olmos, Francisco, Blackwell, Thomas W, Boerwinkle, Eric, Brody, Jennifer A, Centeno-Cruz, Federico, Chen, Ling, Chen, Siying, Contreras-Cubas, Cecilia, Córdova, Emilio, Correa, Adolfo, Cortes, Maria, DeFronzo, Ralph A, Dolan, Lawrence, Drews, Kimberly L, Elliott, Amanda, Floyd, James S, Gabriel, Stacey, Garay-Sevilla, Maria Eugenia, García-Ortiz, Humberto, Gross, Myron, Han, Sohee, Heard-Costa, Nancy L, Jackson, Anne U, Jørgensen, Marit E, Kang, Hyun Min, Kelsey, Megan, Kim, Bong-Jo, Koistinen, Heikki A, Kuusisto, Johanna, Leader, Joseph B, Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-Ti, Liu, Jianjun, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Manning, Alisa K, Marcketta, Anthony, Malacara-Hernandez, Juan Manuel, Martínez-Hernández, Angélica, Matsuo, Karen, Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth, Mendoza-Caamal, Elvia, Mohlke, Karen L, Morrison, Alanna C, Ndungu, Anne, Ng, Maggie CY, O’Dushlaine, Colm, Payne, Anthony J, Pihoker, Catherine, Post, Wendy S, Preuss, Michael, Psaty, Bruce M, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Rayner, N William, Reiner, Alexander P, Revilla-Monsalve, Cristina, Robertson, Neil R, Santoro, Nicola, Schurmann, Claudia, So, Wing Yee, Soberón, Xavier, Stringham, Heather M, Strom, Tim M, Tam, Claudia HT, Thameem, Farook, Tomlinson, Brian, Torres, Jason M, Tracy, Russell P, van Dam, Rob M, Vujkovic, Marijana, Wang, Shuai, Welch, Ryan P, Witte, Daniel R, Wong, Tien-Yin, Atzmon, Gil, Barzilai, Nir, Blangero, John, Bonnycastle, Lori L, Bowden, Donald W, Chambers, John C, Chan, Edmund, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cho, Yoon Shin, Collins, Francis S, de Vries, Paul S, Duggirala, Ravindranath, Glaser, Benjamin, Gonzalez, Clicerio, Gonzalez, Ma Elena, Groop, Leif, Kooner, Jaspal Singh, and Kwak, Soo Heon

Subjects
Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Prevention, Biotechnology, Diabetes, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Animals, Case-Control Studies, Decision Support Techniques, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Exome, Female, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Mice, Mice, Knockout, Exome Sequencing, Broad Genomics Platform, DiscovEHR Collaboration, CHARGE, LuCamp, ProDiGY, GoT2D, ESP, SIGMA-T2D, T2D-GENES, AMP-T2D-GENES, General Science & Technology
Abstract

Protein-coding genetic variants that strongly affect disease risk can yield relevant clues to disease pathogenesis. Here we report exome-sequencing analyses of 20,791 individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and 24,440 non-diabetic control participants from 5 ancestries. We identify gene-level associations of rare variants (with minor allele frequencies of less than 0.5%) in 4 genes at exome-wide significance, including a series of more than 30 SLC30A8 alleles that conveys protection against T2D, and in 12 gene sets, including those corresponding to T2D drug targets (P = 6.1 × 10-3) and candidate genes from knockout mice (P = 5.2 × 10-3). Within our study, the strongest T2D gene-level signals for rare variants explain at most 25% of the heritability of the strongest common single-variant signals, and the gene-level effect sizes of the rare variants that we observed in established T2D drug targets will require 75,000-185,000 sequenced cases to achieve exome-wide significance. We propose a method to interpret these modest rare-variant associations and to incorporate these associations into future target or gene prioritization efforts.

Published
2019

8. A Genome-Wide Association Study of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes

Author

van Zuydam, Natalie R, Ahlqvist, Emma, Sandholm, Niina, Deshmukh, Harshal, Rayner, N William, Abdalla, Moustafa, Ladenvall, Claes, Ziemek, Daniel, Fauman, Eric, Robertson, Neil R, McKeigue, Paul M, Valo, Erkka, Forsblom, Carol, Harjutsalo, Valma, Perna, Annalisa, Rurali, Erica, Marcovecchio, M Loredana, Igo, Robert P, Salem, Rany M, Perico, Norberto, Lajer, Maria, Käräjämäki, Annemari, Imamura, Minako, Kubo, Michiaki, Takahashi, Atsushi, Sim, Xueling, Liu, Jianjun, van Dam, Rob M, Jiang, Guozhi, Tam, Claudia HT, Luk, Andrea OY, Lee, Heung Man, Lim, Cadmon KP, Szeto, Cheuk Chun, So, Wing Yee, Chan, Juliana CN, Ang, Su Fen, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Wang, Ling, Clara, Tan Si Hua, McKnight, Amy-Jayne, Duffy, Seamus, Pezzolesi, Marcus G, Marre, Michel, Gyorgy, Beata, Hadjadj, Samy, Hiraki, Linda T, Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S, Almgren, Peter, Schulz, Christina-Alexandra, Orho-Melander, Marju, Linneberg, Allan, Christensen, Cramer, Witte, Daniel R, Grarup, Niels, Brandslund, Ivan, Melander, Olle, Paterson, Andrew D, Tregouet, David, Maxwell, Alexander P, Lim, Su Chi, Ma, Ronald CW, Tai, E Shyong, Maeda, Shiro, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Tuomi, Tiinamaija, Krolewski, Andrzej S, Rich, Stephen S, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Florez, Jose C, Dunger, David, Pedersen, Oluf, Hansen, Torben, Rossing, Peter, Remuzzi, Giuseppe, Brosnan, Mary Julia, Palmer, Colin NA, Groop, Per-Henrik, Colhoun, Helen M, Groop, Leif C, McCarthy, Mark I, Koivula, S, Uggeldahl, T, Forslund, T, Halonen, A, Koistinen, A, Koskiaho, P, Laukkanen, M, Saltevo, J, Tiihonen, M, Forsen, M, Granlund, H, Jonsson, A-C, Nyroos, B, Kinnunen, P, Orvola, A, Salonen, T, Vähänen, A, Paldanius, Kotka R, and Riihelä, M

Subjects
Diabetes, Genetics, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Metabolic and endocrine, Good Health and Well Being, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Diabetic Nephropathies, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Finnish Diabetic Nephropathy Study, Hong Kong Diabetes Registry Theme-based Research Scheme Project Group, Warren 3 and Genetics of Kidneys in Diabetes (GoKinD) Study Group, GENIE (GEnetics of Nephropathy an International Effort) Consortium, Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC) Research Group, SUrrogate markers for Micro- and Macrovascular hard endpoints for Innovative diabetes Tools (SUMMIT) Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Abstract

Identification of sequence variants robustly associated with predisposition to diabetic kidney disease (DKD) has the potential to provide insights into the pathophysiological mechanisms responsible. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of DKD in type 2 diabetes (T2D) using eight complementary dichotomous and quantitative DKD phenotypes: the principal dichotomous analysis involved 5,717 T2D subjects, 3,345 with DKD. Promising association signals were evaluated in up to 26,827 subjects with T2D (12,710 with DKD). A combined T1D+T2D GWAS was performed using complementary data available for subjects with T1D, which, with replication samples, involved up to 40,340 subjects with diabetes (18,582 with DKD). Analysis of specific DKD phenotypes identified a novel signal near GABRR1 (rs9942471, P = 4.5 × 10-8) associated with microalbuminuria in European T2D case subjects. However, no replication of this signal was observed in Asian subjects with T2D or in the equivalent T1D analysis. There was only limited support, in this substantially enlarged analysis, for association at previously reported DKD signals, except for those at UMOD and PRKAG2, both associated with estimated glomerular filtration rate. We conclude that, despite challenges in addressing phenotypic heterogeneity, access to increased sample sizes will continue to provide more robust inference regarding risk variant discovery for DKD.

Published
2018

9. Immunochip Meta-Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Identifies Three Novel Loci and Four Novel Associations in Previously Reported Loci

Author

Hong, Myunghee, Ye, Byong Duk, Yang, Suk-Kyun, Jung, Seulgi, Lee, Ho-Su, Kim, Byoung Mok, Bin Lee, Soo, Hong, Jeonghoon, Baek, Jiwon, Park, Sang Hyoung, Han, Buhm, Li, Yi, Liu, Wenting, Haritunians, Talin, Taylor, Kent D, Rotter, Jerome I, Bang, So-Young, Kim, Tae-Hwan, McGovern, Dermot PB, Liu, Jianjun, and Song, Kyuyoung

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Digestive Diseases, Autoimmune Disease, Genetics, Crohn's Disease, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Inflammatory and immune system, Oral and gastrointestinal, Asian People, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Myosins, NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Nuclear Proteins, Phosphoproteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex, Protein Phosphatase 2, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Repressor Proteins, Republic of Korea, Ribonuclease P, Tetraspanins, Trans-Activators, White People, Inflammatory bowel disease, meta-analysis, trans-ethnic, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Clinical sciences
Abstract

Background and aimsRecent meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies have identified over 241 inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility loci. However, the known variants only account for a fraction of inflammatory bowel disease heritability. To identify additional susceptibility loci, we performed a trans-ethnic meta-analysis as well as an Asian-specific meta-analysis, using all published Immunochip association results of inflammatory bowel disease.MethodsAn inverse-variance fixed-effects meta-analysis was carried out across Korean and East Asian Immunochip datasets of 4156 cases and 4904 controls [Asian ancestry]. A trans-ethnic meta-analysis of inflammatory bowel disease was performed together with the European datasets of 38 155 cases and 48 485 controls genotyped on the immunochip using a Bayesian approach, Meta-Analysis of Trans-ethnic Association studies [MANTRA].ResultsWe identified seven novel associations, including three novel susceptibility loci at MYO10-BASP1, PPP2R3C/KIAA0391/PSMA6/NFKB1A and LRRK1 as well as four novel secondary associations within previously known loci at NCF4, TSPAN32, CIITA and VANGL2. The new loci further implicate alterations in B cell biology in Crohn's disease pathogenesis. The effects of five loci were universal across European and Asian ancestries, whereas the NCF4 and CIITA loci showed significant heterogeneity between European and East Asian populations. In addition, 103 previously known IBD loci showed supporting evidence of association with nominal significance [p < 0.05] in Asians.ConclusionsOur findings of new loci not previously associated with IBD support the importance of studying inflammatory bowel disease genetics in diverse populations.

Published
2018

10. Association analyses of East Asian individuals and trans-ancestry analyses with European individuals reveal new loci associated with cholesterol and triglyceride levels

Author

Spracklen, Cassandra N, Chen, Peng, Kim, Young Jin, Wang, Xu, Cai, Hui, Li, Shengxu, Long, Jirong, Wu, Ying, Wang, Ya Xing, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Jung, Keum-Ji, Hu, Cheng, Akiyama, Koichi, Zhang, Yonghong, Moon, Sanghoon, Johnson, Todd A, Li, Huaixing, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, He, Meian, Cannon, Maren E, Roman, Tamara S, Salfati, Elias, Lin, Keng-Hung, Guo, Xiuqing, Sheu, Wayne HH, Absher, Devin, Adair, Linda S, Assimes, Themistocles L, Aung, Tin, Cai, Qiuyin, Chang, Li-Ching, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chien, Li-Hsin, Chuang, Lee-Ming, Chuang, Shu-Chun, Du, Shufa, Fan, Qiao, Fann, Cathy SJ, Feranil, Alan B, Friedlander, Yechiel, Gordon-Larsen, Penny, Gu, Dongfeng, Gui, Lixuan, Guo, Zhirong, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Hixson, James, Hou, Xuhong, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Hu, Yao, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-Min, Isono, Masato, Juang, Jyh-Ming Jimmy, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Kim, Yun Kyoung, Koh, Woon-Puay, Kubo, Michiaki, Lee, I-Te, Lee, Sun-Ju, Lee, Wen-Jane, Liang, Kae-Woei, Lim, Blanche, Lim, Sing-Hui, Liu, Jianjun, Nabika, Toru, Pan, Wen-Harn, Peng, Hao, Quertermous, Thomas, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sandow, Kevin, Shi, Jinxiu, Sun, Liang, Tan, Pok Chien, Tan, Shu-Pei, Taylor, Kent D, Teo, Yik-Ying, Toh, Sue-Anne, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, van Dam, Rob M, Wang, Aili, Wang, Feijie, Wang, Jie, Bin Wei, Wen, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yao, Jie, Yuan, Jian-Min, Zhang, Rong, Zhao, Wanting, Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Rich, Stephen S, Rotter, Jerome I, Wang, Tzung-Dau, Wu, Tangchun, Lin, Xu, Han, Bok-Ghee, Tanaka, Toshihiro, Cho, Yoon Shin, Katsuya, Tomohiro, and Jia, Weiping

Subjects
Genetics, Human Genome, Atherosclerosis, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Adult, Alleles, Asian People, Cholesterol, Ethnicity, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Association Studies, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Lipids, Lipoproteins, HDL, Lipoproteins, LDL, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Triglycerides, White People, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Large-scale meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >175 loci associated with fasting cholesterol levels, including total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglycerides (TG). With differences in linkage disequilibrium (LD) structure and allele frequencies between ancestry groups, studies in additional large samples may detect new associations. We conducted staged GWAS meta-analyses in up to 69,414 East Asian individuals from 24 studies with participants from Japan, the Philippines, Korea, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. These meta-analyses identified (P

Published
2017

11. Genome-Wide Association Study Meta-Analysis of Long-Term Average Blood Pressure in East Asians

Author

Li, Changwei, Kim, Yun Kyoung, Dorajoo, Rajkumar, Li, Huaixing, Lee, I-Te, Cheng, Ching-Yu, He, Meian, Sheu, Wayne H-H, Guo, Xiuqing, Ganesh, Santhi K, He, Jiang, Lee, Juyoung, Liu, Jianjun, Hu, Yao, Rao, Dabeeru C, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Koh, Jia Yu, Hu, Hua, Liang, Kae-Woei, Palmas, Walter, Hixson, James E, Han, Sohee, Teo, Yik-Ying, Wang, Yiqin, Chen, Jing, Lu, Chieh Hsiang, Zheng, Yingfeng, Gui, Lixuan, Lee, Wen-Jane, Yao, Jie, Gu, Dongfeng, Han, Bok-Ghee, Sim, Xueling, Sun, Liang, Zhao, Jinying, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Kumari, Neelam, He, Yunfeng, Taylor, Kent D, Raffel, Leslie J, Moon, Sanghoon, Rotter, Jerome I, Ida Chen, Yii-der, Wu, Tangchun, Wong, Tien Yin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Lin, Xu, Tai, E-Shyong, Kim, Bong-Jo, and Kelly, Tanika N

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Human Genome, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Cardiovascular, Asian People, Blood Pressure, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, arterial pressure, blood pressure, epidemiology, genome-wide association study, Medical Biotechnology, Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, Cardiovascular System & Hematology, Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Abstract

BackgroundGenome-wide single marker and gene-based meta-analyses of long-term average (LTA) blood pressure (BP) phenotypes may reveal novel findings for BP.Methods and resultsWe conducted genome-wide analysis among 18 422 East Asian participants (stage 1) followed by replication study of ≤46 629 participants of European ancestry (stage 2). Significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms and genes were determined by a P

Published
2017

12. Prediction of breast cancer risk based on profiling with common genetic variants.

Author

Mavaddat, Nasim, Pharoah, Paul, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan, Brook, Mark, Bolla, Manjeet, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Dunning, Alison, Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Bojesen, Stig, Nordestgaard, Børge, Nielsen, Sune, Flyger, Henrik, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Dudbridge, Frank, Johnson, Nichola, Schmidt, Marjanka, Broeks, Annegien, Verhoef, Senno, Rutgers, Emiel, Swerdlow, Anthony, Ashworth, Alan, Orr, Nick, Schoemaker, Minouk, Figueroa, Jonine, Chanock, Stephen, Brinton, Louise, Lissowska, Jolanta, Couch, Fergus, Olson, Janet, Vachon, Celine, Pankratz, Vernon, Lambrechts, Diether, Wildiers, Hans, Van Ongeval, Chantal, van Limbergen, Erik, Kristensen, Vessela, Grenaker Alnæs, Grethe, Nord, Silje, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Fasching, Peter, Haeberle, Lothar, Ekici, Arif, Beckmann, Matthias, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Trentham-Dietz, Amy, Newcomb, Polly, Titus, Linda, Egan, Kathleen, Hunter, David, Lindstrom, Sara, Tamimi, Rulla, Kraft, Peter, Rahman, Nazneen, Turnbull, Clare, Renwick, Anthony, Seal, Sheila, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Humphreys, Keith, Benitez, Javier, Pilar Zamora, M, Arias Perez, Jose, Menéndez, Primitiva, Jakubowska, Anna, Lubinski, Jan, Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna, Durda, Katarzyna, Bogdanova, Natalia, Antonenkova, Natalia, Dörk, Thilo, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Neuhausen, Susan, Ziogas, Argyrios, Bernstein, Leslie, Devilee, Peter, Tollenaar, Robert, Seynaeve, Caroline, van Asperen, Christi, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon, and Reed, Malcolm

Subjects
Adult, Aged, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Europe, Female, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Humans, Middle Aged, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Predictive Value of Tests, Receptors, Estrogen, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Data for multiple common susceptibility alleles for breast cancer may be combined to identify women at different levels of breast cancer risk. Such stratification could guide preventive and screening strategies. However, empirical evidence for genetic risk stratification is lacking. METHODS: We investigated the value of using 77 breast cancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for risk stratification, in a study of 33 673 breast cancer cases and 33 381 control women of European origin. We tested all possible pair-wise multiplicative interactions and constructed a 77-SNP polygenic risk score (PRS) for breast cancer overall and by estrogen receptor (ER) status. Absolute risks of breast cancer by PRS were derived from relative risk estimates and UK incidence and mortality rates. RESULTS: There was no strong evidence for departure from a multiplicative model for any SNP pair. Women in the highest 1% of the PRS had a three-fold increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with women in the middle quintile (odds ratio [OR] = 3.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.95 to 3.83). The ORs for ER-positive and ER-negative disease were 3.73 (95% CI = 3.24 to 4.30) and 2.80 (95% CI = 2.26 to 3.46), respectively. Lifetime risk of breast cancer for women in the lowest and highest quintiles of the PRS were 5.2% and 16.6% for a woman without family history, and 8.6% and 24.4% for a woman with a first-degree family history of breast cancer. CONCLUSIONS: The PRS stratifies breast cancer risk in women both with and without a family history of breast cancer. The observed level of risk discrimination could inform targeted screening and prevention strategies. Further discrimination may be achievable through combining the PRS with lifestyle/environmental factors, although these were not considered in this report.

Published
2015

13. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of adult height in East Asians identifies 17 novel loci

Author

He, Meian, Xu, Min, Zhang, Ben, Liang, Jun, Chen, Peng, Lee, Jong-Young, Johnson, Todd A, Li, Huaixing, Yang, Xiaobo, Dai, Juncheng, Liang, Liming, Gui, Lixuan, Qi, Qibin, Huang, Jinyan, Li, Yanping, Adair, Linda S, Aung, Tin, Cai, Qiuyin, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Cho, Myeong-Chan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Chu, Minjie, Cui, Bin, Gao, Yu-Tang, Go, Min Jin, Gu, Dongfeng, Gu, Weiqiong, Guo, Huan, Hao, Yongchen, Hong, Jie, Hu, Zhibin, Hu, Yanling, Huang, Jianfeng, Hwang, Joo-Yeon, Ikram, Mohammad Kamran, Jin, Guangfu, Kang, Dae-Hee, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Kim, Bong-Jo, Kim, Hung Tae, Kubo, Michiaki, Lee, Jeannette, Lee, Juyoung, Lee, Nanette R, Li, Ruoying, Li, Jun, Liu, JianJun, Longe, Jirong, Lu, Wei, Lu, Xiangfeng, Miao, Xiaoping, Okada, Yukinori, Ong, Rick Twee-Hee, Qiu, Gaokun, Seielstad, Mark, Sim, Xueling, Song, Huaidong, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Tanaka, Toshihiro, Taylor, Phil R, Wang, Laiyuan, Wang, Weiqing, Wang, Yiqin, Wu, Chen, Wu, Ying, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Yamamoto, Ken, Yang, Handong, Liao, Ming, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Young, Terri, Zhang, Xiaomin, Kato, Norihiro, Wang, Qing K, Zheng, Wei, Hu, Frank B, Lin, Dongxin, Shen, Hongbing, Teo, Yik Ying, Mo, Zengnan, Wong, Tien Yin, Lin, Xu, Mohlke, Karen L, Ning, Guang, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Han, Bok-Ghee, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Tai, E Shyong, Wu, Tangchun, and Qi, Lu

Subjects
Prevention, Genetics, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Asian People, Body Height, Asia, Eastern, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, White People, Young Adult, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Human height is associated with risk of multiple diseases and is profoundly determined by an individual's genetic makeup and shows a high degree of ethnic heterogeneity. Large-scale genome-wide association (GWA) analyses of adult height in Europeans have identified nearly 180 genetic loci. A recent study showed high replicability of results from Europeans-based GWA studies in Asians; however, population-specific loci may exist due to distinct linkage disequilibrium patterns. We carried out a GWA meta-analysis in 93 926 individuals from East Asia. We identified 98 loci, including 17 novel and 81 previously reported loci, associated with height at P < 5 × 10(-8), together explaining 8.89% of phenotypic variance. Among the newly identified variants, 10 are commonly distributed (minor allele frequency, MAF > 5%) in Europeans, with comparable frequencies with in Asians, and 7 single-nucleotide polymorphisms are with low frequency (MAF < 5%) in Europeans. In addition, our data suggest that novel biological pathway such as the protein tyrosine phosphatase family is involved in regulation of height. The findings from this study considerably expand our knowledge of the genetic architecture of human height in Asians.

Published
2015

14. Fine-mapping of the HNF1B multicancer locus identifies candidate variants that mediate endometrial cancer risk

Author

Painter, Jodie N, O'Mara, Tracy A, Batra, Jyotsna, Cheng, Timothy, Lose, Felicity A, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Ahmed, Shahana, Ferguson, Kaltin, Healey, Catherine S, Kaufmann, Susanne, Hillman, Kristine M, Walpole, Carina, Moya, Leire, Pollock, Pamela, Jones, Angela, Howarth, Kimberley, Martin, Lynn, Gorman, Maggie, Hodgson, Shirley, De Polanco, Ma Magdalena Echeverry, Sans, Monica, Carracedo, Angel, Castellvi-Bel, Sergi, Rojas-Martinez, Augusto, Santos, Erika, Teixeira, Manuel R, Carvajal-Carmona, Luis, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Long, Jirong, Zheng, Wei, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Montgomery, Grant W, Webb, Penelope M, Scott, Rodney J, McEvoy, Mark, Attia, John, Holliday, Elizabeth, Martin, Nicholas G, Nyholt, Dale R, Henders, Anjali K, Fasching, Peter A, Hein, Alexander, Beckmann, Matthias W, Renner, Stefan P, Dörk, Thilo, Hillemanns, Peter, Dürst, Matthias, Runnebaum, Ingo, Lambrechts, Diether, Coenegrachts, Lieve, Schrauwen, Stefanie, Amant, Frederic, Winterhoff, Boris, Dowdy, Sean C, Goode, Ellen L, Teoman, Attila, Salvesen, Helga B, Trovik, Jone, Njolstad, Tormund S, Werner, Henrica MJ, Ashton, Katie, Proietto, Tony, Otton, Geoffrey, Tzortzatos, Gerasimos, Mints, Miriam, Tham, Emma, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Li, Jingmei, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Ekici, Arif B, Ruebner, Matthias, Johnson, Nicola, Peto, Julian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Meindl, Alfons, Brauch, Hiltrud, Lindblom, Annika, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Moisse, Matthieu, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Giles, Graham G, Bruinsma, Fiona, Cunningham, Julie M, Fridley, Brooke L, Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Kristensen, Vessela N, Cox, Angela, Swerdlow, Anthony J, and Orr, Nicholas

Subjects
Cancer, Biotechnology, Human Genome, Prevention, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Alleles, Case-Control Studies, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromosome Mapping, Computational Biology, Databases, Genetic, Endometrial Neoplasms, Epigenesis, Genetic, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Haplotypes, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-beta, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA, Messenger, Risk Factors, White People, National Study of Endometrial Cancer Genetics Group, CHIBCHA Consortium, Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group, RENDOCAS, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, GENICA Network, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Common variants in the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 homeobox B (HNF1B) gene are associated with the risk of Type II diabetes and multiple cancers. Evidence to date indicates that cancer risk may be mediated via genetic or epigenetic effects on HNF1B gene expression. We previously found single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at the HNF1B locus to be associated with endometrial cancer, and now report extensive fine-mapping and in silico and laboratory analyses of this locus. Analysis of 1184 genotyped and imputed SNPs in 6608 Caucasian cases and 37 925 controls, and 895 Asian cases and 1968 controls, revealed the best signal of association for SNP rs11263763 (P = 8.4 × 10(-14), odds ratio = 0.86, 95% confidence interval = 0.82-0.89), located within HNF1B intron 1. Haplotype analysis and conditional analyses provide no evidence of further independent endometrial cancer risk variants at this locus. SNP rs11263763 genotype was associated with HNF1B mRNA expression but not with HNF1B methylation in endometrial tumor samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Genetic analyses prioritized rs11263763 and four other SNPs in high-to-moderate linkage disequilibrium as the most likely causal SNPs. Three of these SNPs map to the extended HNF1B promoter based on chromatin marks extending from the minimal promoter region. Reporter assays demonstrated that this extended region reduces activity in combination with the minimal HNF1B promoter, and that the minor alleles of rs11263763 or rs8064454 are associated with decreased HNF1B promoter activity. Our findings provide evidence for a single signal associated with endometrial cancer risk at the HNF1B locus, and that risk is likely mediated via altered HNF1B gene expression.

Published
2015

15. Characterization of Large Structural Genetic Mosaicism in Human Autosomes

Author

Machiela, Mitchell J, Zhou, Weiyin, Sampson, Joshua N, Dean, Michael C, Jacobs, Kevin B, Black, Amanda, Brinton, Louise A, Chang, I-Shou, Chen, Chu, Chen, Constance, Chen, Kexin, Cook, Linda S, Bou, Marta Crous, De Vivo, Immaculata, Doherty, Jennifer, Friedenreich, Christine M, Gaudet, Mia M, Haiman, Christopher A, Hankinson, Susan E, Hartge, Patricia, Henderson, Brian E, Hong, Yun-Chul, Hosgood, H Dean, Hsiung, Chao A, Hu, Wei, Hunter, David J, Jessop, Lea, Kim, Hee Nam, Kim, Yeul Hong, Kim, Young Tae, Klein, Robert, Kraft, Peter, Lan, Qing, Lin, Dongxin, Liu, Jianjun, Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lissowska, Jolanta, Lu, Lingeng, Magliocco, Anthony M, Matsuo, Keitaro, Olson, Sara H, Orlow, Irene, Park, Jae Yong, Pooler, Loreall, Prescott, Jennifer, Rastogi, Radhai, Risch, Harvey A, Schumacher, Fredrick, Seow, Adeline, Setiawan, Veronica Wendy, Shen, Hongbing, Sheng, Xin, Shin, Min-Ho, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Berg, David VanDen, Wang, Jiu-Cun, Wentzensen, Nicolas, Wong, Maria Pik, Wu, Chen, Wu, Tangchun, Wu, Yi-Long, Xia, Lucy, Yang, Hannah P, Yang, Pan-Chyr, Zheng, Wei, Zhou, Baosen, Abnet, Christian C, Albanes, Demetrius, Aldrich, Melinda C, Amos, Christopher, Amundadottir, Laufey T, Berndt, Sonja I, Blot, William J, Bock, Cathryn H, Bracci, Paige M, Burdett, Laurie, Buring, Julie E, Butler, Mary A, Carreón, Tania, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Chung, Charles C, Cook, Michael B, Cullen, Michael, Davis, Faith G, Ding, Ti, Duell, Eric J, Epstein, Caroline G, Fan, Jin-Hu, Figueroa, Jonine D, Fraumeni, Joseph F, Freedman, Neal D, Fuchs, Charles S, Gao, Yu-Tang, Gapstur, Susan M, Patiño-Garcia, Ana, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Gaziano, J Michael, Giles, Graham G, and Gillanders, Elizabeth M

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Aged, Chromosome Aberrations, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mosaicism, Neoplasms, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Analyses of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data have revealed that detectable genetic mosaicism involving large (>2 Mb) structural autosomal alterations occurs in a fraction of individuals. We present results for a set of 24,849 genotyped individuals (total GWAS set II [TGSII]) in whom 341 large autosomal abnormalities were observed in 168 (0.68%) individuals. Merging data from the new TGSII set with data from two prior reports (the Gene-Environment Association Studies and the total GWAS set I) generated a large dataset of 127,179 individuals; we then conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the patterns of detectable autosomal mosaicism (n = 1,315 events in 925 [0.73%] individuals). Restricting to events >2 Mb in size, we observed an increase in event frequency as event size decreased. The combined results underscore that the rate of detectable mosaicism increases with age (p value = 5.5 × 10(-31)) and is higher in men (p value = 0.002) but lower in participants of African ancestry (p value = 0.003). In a subset of 47 individuals from whom serial samples were collected up to 6 years apart, complex changes were noted over time and showed an overall increase in the proportion of mosaic cells as age increased. Our large combined sample allowed for a unique ability to characterize detectable genetic mosaicism involving large structural events and strengthens the emerging evidence of non-random erosion of the genome in the aging population.

Published
2015

16. Candidate locus analysis of the TERT–CLPTM1L cancer risk region on chromosome 5p15 identifies multiple independent variants associated with endometrial cancer risk

Author

Carvajal-Carmona, Luis G, O’Mara, Tracy A, Painter, Jodie N, Lose, Felicity A, Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Tyrer, Jonathan P, Ahmed, Shahana, Ferguson, Kaltin, Healey, Catherine S, Pooley, Karen, Beesley, Jonathan, Cheng, Timothy, Jones, Angela, Howarth, Kimberley, Martin, Lynn, Gorman, Maggie, Hodgson, Shirley, National Study of Endometrial Cancer Genetics Group (NSECG), The Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group (ANECS), Wentzensen, Nicholas, Fasching, Peter A, Hein, Alexander, Beckmann, Matthias W, Renner, Stefan P, Dörk, Thilo, Hillemanns, Peter, Dürst, Matthias, Runnebaum, Ingo, Lambrechts, Diether, Coenegrachts, Lieve, Schrauwen, Stefanie, Amant, Frederic, Winterhoff, Boris, Dowdy, Sean C, Goode, Ellen L, Teoman, Attila, Salvesen, Helga B, Trovik, Jone, Njolstad, Tormund S, Werner, Henrica MJ, Scott, Rodney J, Ashton, Katie, Proietto, Tony, Otton, Geoffrey, Wersäll, Ofra, Mints, Miriam, Tham, Emma, RENDOCAS, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Li, Jingmei, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study (AOCS), Ekici, Arif B, Ruebner, Matthias, Johnson, Nichola, Peto, Julian, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Brenner, Hermann, Dieffenbach, Aida K, Meindl, Alfons, Brauch, Hiltrud, The GENICA Network, Lindblom, Annika, Depreeuw, Jeroen, Moisse, Matthieu, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Giles, Graham G, Bruinsma, Fiona, Cunningham, Julie M, Fridley, Brooke L, Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Kristensen, Vessela N, Cox, Angela, Swerdlow, Anthony J, Orr, Nicholas, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Weber, Rachel Palmieri, Chen, Zhihua, Shah, Mitul, Pharoah, Paul DP, Dunning, Alison M, Tomlinson, Ian, Easton, Douglas F, Spurdle, Amanda B, and Thompson, Deborah J

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Genetic Testing, Human Genome, Prevention, Cancer, Uterine Cancer, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5, Databases, Nucleic Acid, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Genetic Loci, Haplotypes, Humans, Membrane Proteins, Models, Genetic, Neoplasm Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Risk Factors, Telomerase, National Study of Endometrial Cancer Genetics Group, Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group, RENDOCAS, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study, GENICA Network, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, Genetics & Heredity, Reproductive medicine
Abstract

Several studies have reported associations between multiple cancer types and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 5p15, which harbours TERT and CLPTM1L, but no such association has been reported with endometrial cancer. To evaluate the role of genetic variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L region in endometrial cancer risk, we carried out comprehensive fine-mapping analyses of genotyped and imputed SNPs using a custom Illumina iSelect array which includes dense SNP coverage of this region. We examined 396 SNPs (113 genotyped, 283 imputed) in 4,401 endometrial cancer cases and 28,758 controls. Single-SNP and forward/backward logistic regression models suggested evidence for three variants independently associated with endometrial cancer risk (P = 4.9 × 10(-6) to P = 7.7 × 10(-5)). Only one falls into a haplotype previously associated with other cancer types (rs7705526, in TERT intron 1), and this SNP has been shown to alter TERT promoter activity. One of the novel associations (rs13174814) maps to a second region in the TERT promoter and the other (rs62329728) is in the promoter region of CLPTM1L; neither are correlated with previously reported cancer-associated SNPs. Using TCGA RNASeq data, we found significantly increased expression of both TERT and CLPTM1L in endometrial cancer tissue compared with normal tissue (TERT P = 1.5 × 10(-18), CLPTM1L P = 1.5 × 10(-19)). Our study thus reports a novel endometrial cancer risk locus and expands the spectrum of cancer types associated with genetic variation at 5p15, further highlighting the importance of this region for cancer susceptibility.

Published
2015

17. Immunochip Analysis Identification of 6 Additional Susceptibility Loci for Crohn's Disease in Koreans

Author

Yang, Suk-Kyun, Hong, Myunghee, Choi, Hyunchul, Zhao, Wanting, Jung, Yusun, Haritunians, Talin, Ye, Byong Duk, Kim, Kyung-Jo, Park, Sang Hyoung, Lee, Inchul, Kim, Won Ho, Cheon, Jae Hee, Kim, Young-Ho, Jang, Byung Ik, Kim, Hyun-Soo, Choi, Jai Hyun, Koo, Ja Seol, Lee, Ji Hyun, Jung, Sung-Ae, Shin, Hyoung Doo, Kang, Daehee, Youn, Hee-Shang, Taylor, Kent D, Rotter, Jerome I, Liu, Jianjun, McGovern, Dermot PB, and Song, Kyuyoung

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences, Digestive Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Human Genome, Autoimmune Disease, Crohn's Disease, Genetics, Clinical Research, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Adolescent, Adult, Asian People, Biomarkers, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Crohn Disease, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Male, Odds Ratio, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Prognosis, Young Adult, Crohn's disease, genetics, ImmunoChip, Korean, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Clinical sciences
Abstract

BackgroundCrohn's disease (CD) is an intractable inflammatory bowel disease of unknown cause. Recent genome-wide association studies of CD in Korean and Japanese populations suggested marginal sharing of susceptibility loci between Caucasian and Asian populations. As the 7 identified loci altogether explain 5.31% of the risk for CD, the objective of this study was to identify additional CD susceptibility loci in the Korean population.MethodsUsing the ImmunoChip custom single-nucleotide polymorphism array designed for dense genotyping of 186 loci identified through GWAS, we analyzed 722 individuals with CD and 461 controls for 96,048 SNP markers in the discovery stage, followed by validation in an additional 948 affected individuals and 977 controls.ResultsWe confirmed 6 previously reported loci in Caucasian: GPR35 at 2q37 (rs3749172; P = 5.30 × 10, odds ratio [OR] = 1.45), ZNF365 at 10q21 (rs224143; P = 2.20 × 10, OR = 1.38), ZMIZ1 at 10q22 (rs1250569; P = 3.05 × 10, OR = 1.30), NKX2-3 at 10q24 (rs4409764; P = 7.93 × 10, OR = 1.32), PTPN2 at 18p11 (rs514000; P = 9.00 × 10, OR = 1.33), and USP25 at 21q11 (rs2823256; P = 2.49 × 10, OR = 1.35), bringing the number of known CD loci (including 3 in the HLA) in Koreans to 15. The 6 additional loci increased the total genetic variance for CD risk from 5.31% to 7.27% in Koreans.ConclusionsAlthough the different genetic backgrounds of CD between Asian and Western countries has been well established for the major susceptibility genes, our findings of overlapping associations offer new insights into the genetic architecture of CD.

Published
2015

18. Genetic variation in mitotic regulatory pathway genes is associated with breast tumor grade.

Author

Purrington, Kristen, Slettedahl, Seth, Bolla, Manjeet, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Czene, Kamila, Nevanlinna, Heli, Bojesen, Stig, Andrulis, Irene, Cox, Angela, Hall, Per, Carpenter, Jane, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Haiman, Christopher, Fasching, Peter, Mannermaa, Arto, Winqvist, Robert, Brenner, Hermann, Lindblom, Annika, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Benitez, Javier, Swerdlow, Anthony, Kristensen, Vessela, Guénel, Pascal, Meindl, Alfons, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Fagerholm, Rainer, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Nordestgaard, Børge, Nielsen, Sune, Flyger, Henrik, Wang, Xianshu, Olswold, Curtis, Olson, Janet, Mulligan, Anna, Knight, Julia, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Reed, Malcolm, Cross, Simon, Liu, Jianjun, Li, Jingmei, Humphreys, Keith, Clarke, Christine, Scott, Rodney, Fostira, Florentia, Fountzilas, George, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Henderson, Brian, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Ekici, Arif, Hartmann, Arndt, Beckmann, Matthias, Hartikainen, Jaana, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kataja, Vesa, Jukkola-Vuorinen, Arja, Pylkäs, Katri, Kauppila, Saila, Dieffenbach, Aida, Stegmaier, Christa, Arndt, Volker, Margolin, Sara, Balleine, Rosemary, Arias Perez, Jose, Pilar Zamora, M, Menéndez, Primitiva, Ashworth, Alan, Jones, Michael, Orr, Nick, Arveux, Patrick, Kerbrat, Pierre, Truong, Thérèse, Bugert, Peter, Toland, Amanda, Ambrosone, Christine, Labrèche, France, Goldberg, Mark, Dumont, Martine, Ziogas, Argyrios, Lee, Eunjung, Dite, Gillian, Apicella, Carmel, Southey, Melissa, Long, Jirong, Shrubsole, Martha, Deming-Halverson, Sandra, Ficarazzi, Filomena, Barile, Monica, Peterlongo, Paolo, Durda, Katarzyna, Jaworska-Bieniek, Katarzyna, Tollenaar, Robert, Seynaeve, Caroline, Brüning, Thomas, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Van Deurzen, Carolien, Martens, John, and Kriege, Mieke

Subjects
Breast Neoplasms, Carrier Proteins, Case-Control Studies, Female, Genetic Variation, Haplotypes, Humans, Neoplasm Staging, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 2, Risk Factors, Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Abstract

Mitotic index is an important component of histologic grade and has an etiologic role in breast tumorigenesis. Several small candidate gene studies have reported associations between variation in mitotic genes and breast cancer risk. We measured associations between 2156 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 194 mitotic genes and breast cancer risk, overall and by histologic grade, in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC) iCOGS study (n = 39 067 cases; n = 42 106 controls). SNPs in TACC2 [rs17550038: odds ratio (OR) = 1.24, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.16-1.33, P = 4.2 × 10(-10)) and EIF3H (rs799890: OR = 1.07, 95% CI 1.04-1.11, P = 8.7 × 10(-6)) were significantly associated with risk of low-grade breast cancer. The TACC2 signal was retained (rs17550038: OR = 1.15, 95% CI 1.07-1.23, P = 7.9 × 10(-5)) after adjustment for breast cancer risk SNPs in the nearby FGFR2 gene, suggesting that TACC2 is a novel, independent genome-wide significant genetic risk locus for low-grade breast cancer. While no SNPs were individually associated with high-grade disease, a pathway-level gene set analysis showed that variation across the 194 mitotic genes was associated with high-grade breast cancer risk (P = 2.1 × 10(-3)). These observations will provide insight into the contribution of mitotic defects to histological grade and the etiology of breast cancer.

Published
2014

19. Genome-wide Association Study Identifies Five Susceptibility Loci for Follicular Lymphoma outside the HLA Region

Author

Skibola, Christine F, Berndt, Sonja I, Vijai, Joseph, Conde, Lucia, Wang, Zhaoming, Yeager, Meredith, de Bakker, Paul IW, Birmann, Brenda M, Vajdic, Claire M, Foo, Jia-Nee, Bracci, Paige M, Vermeulen, Roel CH, Slager, Susan L, de Sanjose, Silvia, Wang, Sophia S, Linet, Martha S, Salles, Gilles, Lan, Qing, Severi, Gianluca, Hjalgrim, Henrik, Lightfoot, Tracy, Melbye, Mads, Gu, Jian, Ghesquières, Hervé, Link, Brian K, Morton, Lindsay M, Holly, Elizabeth A, Smith, Alex, Tinker, Lesley F, Teras, Lauren R, Kricker, Anne, Becker, Nikolaus, Purdue, Mark P, Spinelli, John J, Zhang, Yawei, Giles, Graham G, Vineis, Paolo, Monnereau, Alain, Bertrand, Kimberly A, Albanes, Demetrius, Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne, Gabbas, Attilio, Chung, Charles C, Burdett, Laurie, Hutchinson, Amy, Lawrence, Charles, Montalvan, Rebecca, Liang, Liming, Huang, Jinyan, Ma, Baoshan, Liu, Jianjun, Adami, Hans-Olov, Glimelius, Bengt, Ye, Yuanqing, Nowakowski, Grzegorz S, Dogan, Ahmet, Thompson, Carrie A, Habermann, Thomas M, Novak, Anne J, Liebow, Mark, Witzig, Thomas E, Weiner, George J, Schenk, Maryjean, Hartge, Patricia, De Roos, Anneclaire J, Cozen, Wendy, Zhi, Degui, Akers, Nicholas K, Riby, Jacques, Smith, Martyn T, Lacher, Mortimer, Villano, Danylo J, Maria, Ann, Roman, Eve, Kane, Eleanor, Jackson, Rebecca D, North, Kari E, Diver, W Ryan, Turner, Jenny, Armstrong, Bruce K, Benavente, Yolanda, Boffetta, Paolo, Brennan, Paul, Foretova, Lenka, Maynadie, Marc, Staines, Anthony, McKay, James, Brooks-Wilson, Angela R, Zheng, Tongzhang, Holford, Theodore R, Chamosa, Saioa, Kaaks, Rudolph, Kelly, Rachel S, Ohlsson, Bodil, Travis, Ruth C, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Clavel, Jacqueline, Giovannucci, Edward, Kraft, Peter, and Virtamo, Jarmo

Subjects
Hematology, Cancer, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Lymphoma, Genetics, Rare Diseases, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Alleles, Biomarkers, Tumor, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, HLA Antigens, Haplotypes, Humans, Lymphoma, Follicular, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of follicular lymphoma (FL) have previously identified human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variants. To identify additional FL susceptibility loci, we conducted a large-scale two-stage GWAS in 4,523 case subjects and 13,344 control subjects of European ancestry. Five non-HLA loci were associated with FL risk: 11q23.3 (rs4938573, p = 5.79 × 10(-20)) near CXCR5; 11q24.3 (rs4937362, p = 6.76 × 10(-11)) near ETS1; 3q28 (rs6444305, p = 1.10 × 10(-10)) in LPP; 18q21.33 (rs17749561, p = 8.28 × 10(-10)) near BCL2; and 8q24.21 (rs13254990, p = 1.06 × 10(-8)) near PVT1. In an analysis of the HLA region, we identified four linked HLA-DRβ1 multiallelic amino acids at positions 11, 13, 28, and 30 that were associated with FL risk (pomnibus = 4.20 × 10(-67) to 2.67 × 10(-70)). Additional independent signals included rs17203612 in HLA class II (odds ratio [OR(per-allele)] = 1.44; p = 4.59 × 10(-16)) and rs3130437 in HLA class I (OR(per-allele) = 1.23; p = 8.23 × 10(-9)). Our findings further expand the number of loci associated with FL and provide evidence that multiple common variants outside the HLA region make a significant contribution to FL risk.

Published
2014

20. Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation.

Author

Ghoussaini, Maya, Edwards, Stacey L, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Nord, Silje, Cowper-Sal Lari, Richard, Desai, Kinjal, Kar, Siddhartha, Hillman, Kristine M, Kaufmann, Susanne, Glubb, Dylan M, Beesley, Jonathan, Dennis, Joe, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dicks, Ed, Guo, Qi, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Klevebring, Daniel, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether, Thienpont, Bernard, Neven, Patrick, Wildiers, Hans, Broeks, Annegien, Van't Veer, Laura J, Th Rutgers, Emiel J, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Hallberg, Emily, Vachon, Celine, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Rudolph, Anja, Seibold, Petra, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Peto, Julian, Dos-Santos-Silva, Isabel, Gibson, Lorna, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Hall, Per, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Humphreys, Keith, Kang, Daehee, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Park, Sue K, Noh, Dong-Young, Matsuo, Keitaro, Ito, Hidemi, Iwata, Hiroji, Yatabe, Yasushi, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, Sanchez, Marie, Burwinkel, Barbara, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Wu, Anna H, Tseng, Chiu-Chen, Van Den Berg, David, Stram, Daniel O, Benitez, Javier, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Menéndez, Primitiva, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Lu, Wei, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cai, Qiuyin, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Andrulis, Irene L, Knight, Julia A, Glendon, Gord, Tchatchou, Sandrine, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, Haiman, Christopher A, Henderson, Brian E, Schumacher, Fredrick, Le Marchand, Loic, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, and Teo, Soo Hwang

Subjects
Australian Ovarian Cancer Management Group, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Chromatin, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 5, RNA, Messenger, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Female, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 3-alpha, Promoter Regions, Genetic, MCF-7 Cells, Cell Line, Tumor, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA, Messenger
Abstract

GWAS have identified a breast cancer susceptibility locus on 2q35. Here we report the fine mapping of this locus using data from 101,943 subjects from 50 case-control studies. We genotype 276 SNPs using the 'iCOGS' genotyping array and impute genotypes for a further 1,284 using 1000 Genomes Project data. All but two, strongly correlated SNPs (rs4442975 G/T and rs6721996 G/A) are excluded as candidate causal variants at odds against >100:1. The best functional candidate, rs4442975, is associated with oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) disease with an odds ratio (OR) in Europeans of 0.85 (95% confidence interval=0.84-0.87; P=1.7 × 10(-43)) per t-allele. This SNP flanks a transcriptional enhancer that physically interacts with the promoter of IGFBP5 (encoding insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 5) and displays allele-specific gene expression, FOXA1 binding and chromatin looping. Evidence suggests that the g-allele confers increased breast cancer susceptibility through relative downregulation of IGFBP5, a gene with known roles in breast cell biology.

Published
2014

21. Multiple nonglycemic genomic loci are newly associated with blood level of glycated hemoglobin in East Asians.

Author

Chen, Peng, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Lee, Jong-Young, Li, Huaixing, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Liang, Jun, Long, Jirong, Tabara, Yasuharu, Goodarzi, Mark, Pereira, Mark, Kim, Young, Go, Min, Stram, Daniel, Vithana, Eranga, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Liu, Jianjun, Liao, Jiemin, Ye, Xingwang, Wang, Yiqin, Lu, Ling, Young, Terri, Lee, Jeannette, Thai, Ah, Cheng, Ching-Yu, van Dam, Rob, Friedlander, Yechiel, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Koh, Woon-Puay, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Chang, Li-Ching, Pan, Wen-Harn, Qi, Qibin, Isono, Masato, Zheng, Wei, Cai, Qiuyin, Gao, Yutang, Yamamoto, Ken, Ohnaka, Keizo, Takayanagi, Ryoichi, Kita, Yoshikuni, Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Hsiung, Chao, Cui, Jinrui, Sheu, Wayne, Chen, Yii-Der, Hsu, Chris, Okada, Yukinori, Kubo, Michiaki, Takahashi, Atsushi, Tanaka, Toshihiro, van Rooij, Frank, Ganesh, Santhi, Huang, Jinyan, Huang, Tao, Yuan, Jianmin, Hwang, Joo-Yeon, Gross, Myron, Assimes, Themistocles, Miki, Tetsuro, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Qi, Lu, Chen, Yuan-Tson, Lin, Xu, Aung, Tin, Wong, Tien-Yin, Teo, Yik-Ying, Kim, Bong-Jo, Kato, Norihiro, Tai, E-Shyong, and Rotter, Jerome

Subjects
Adult, Aged, Asian People, Blood Glucose, Cohort Studies, Asia, Eastern, Female, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glycated Hemoglobin, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Abstract

Glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is used as a measure of glycemic control and also as a diagnostic criterion for diabetes. To discover novel loci harboring common variants associated with HbA1c in East Asians, we conducted a meta-analysis of 13 genome-wide association studies (GWAS; N = 21,026). We replicated our findings in three additional studies comprising 11,576 individuals of East Asian ancestry. Ten variants showed associations that reached genome-wide significance in the discovery data set, of which nine (four novel variants at TMEM79 [P value = 1.3 × 10(-23)], HBS1L/MYB [8.5 × 10(-15)], MYO9B [9.0 × 10(-12)], and CYBA [1.1 × 10(-8)] as well as five variants at loci that had been previously identified [CDKAL1, G6PC2/ABCB11, GCK, ANK1, and FN3KI]) showed consistent evidence of association in replication data sets. These variants explained 1.76% of the variance in HbA1c. Several of these variants (TMEM79, HBS1L/MYB, CYBA, MYO9B, ANK1, and FN3K) showed no association with either blood glucose or type 2 diabetes. Among individuals with nondiabetic levels of fasting glucose (

Published
2014

22. Gene-Age Interactions in Blood Pressure Regulation: A Large-Scale Investigation with the CHARGE, Global BPgen, and ICBP Consortia

Author

Simino, Jeannette, Shi, Gang, Bis, Joshua C, Chasman, Daniel I, Ehret, Georg B, Gu, Xiangjun, Guo, Xiuqing, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Sijbrands, Eric, Smith, Albert V, Verwoert, Germaine C, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L, Cadby, Gemma, Chen, Peng, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Corre, Tanguy, de Boer, Rudolf A, Goel, Anuj, Johnson, Toby, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Study, LifeLines Cohort, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z, Boezen, H Marike, Bruinenberg, Marcel, Franke, Lude, van der Harst, Pim, Hillege, Hans L, van der Klauw, Melanie M, Navis, Gerjan, Ormel, Johan, Postma, Dirkje S, Rosmalen, Judith GM, Slaets, Joris P, Snieder, Harold, Stolk, Ronald P, Wolffenbuttel, Bruce HR, Wijmenga, Cisca, Lluís-Ganella, Carla, Luan, Jian’an, Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka, Nolte, Ilja M, Sim, Xueling, Sõber, Siim, van der Most, Peter J, Verweij, Niek, Zhao, Jing Hua, Amin, Najaf, Boerwinkle, Eric, Bouchard, Claude, Dehghan, Abbas, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Elosua, Roberto, Franco, Oscar H, Gieger, Christian, Harris, Tamara B, Hercberg, Serge, Hofman, Albert, James, Alan L, Johnson, Andrew D, Kähönen, Mika, Khaw, Kay-Tee, Kutalik, Zoltan, Larson, Martin G, Launer, Lenore J, Li, Guo, Liu, Jianjun, Liu, Kiang, Morrison, Alanna C, Ong, Rick Twee-Hee, Papanicolau, George J, Penninx, Brenda W, Psaty, Bruce M, Raffel, Leslie J, Raitakari, Olli T, Rice, Kenneth, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Rose, Lynda M, Sanna, Serena, Scott, Robert A, Siscovick, David S, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Vaidya, Dhananjay, Vasan, Ramachandran S, Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie, Völker, Uwe, Völzke, Henry, Watkins, Hugh, Young, Terri L, Aung, Tin, Bochud, Murielle, Farrall, Martin, Hartman, Catharina A, Laan, Maris, Lakatta, Edward G, Lehtimäki, Terho, and Loos, Ruth JF

Subjects
Epidemiology, Biological Sciences, Health Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Aging, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Blood Pressure, Cohort Studies, Humans, Middle Aged, Young Adult, LifeLines Cohort Study, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Abstract

Although age-dependent effects on blood pressure (BP) have been reported, they have not been systematically investigated in large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs). We leveraged the infrastructure of three well-established consortia (CHARGE, GBPgen, and ICBP) and a nonstandard approach (age stratification and metaregression) to conduct a genome-wide search of common variants with age-dependent effects on systolic (SBP), diastolic (DBP), mean arterial (MAP), and pulse (PP) pressure. In a two-staged design using 99,241 individuals of European ancestry, we identified 20 genome-wide significant (p ≤ 5 × 10(-8)) loci by using joint tests of the SNP main effect and SNP-age interaction. Nine of the significant loci demonstrated nominal evidence of age-dependent effects on BP by tests of the interactions alone. Index SNPs in the EHBP1L1 (DBP and MAP), CASZ1 (SBP and MAP), and GOSR2 (PP) loci exhibited the largest age interactions, with opposite directions of effect in the young versus the old. The changes in the genetic effects over time were small but nonnegligible (up to 1.58 mm Hg over 60 years). The EHBP1L1 locus was discovered through gene-age interactions only in whites but had DBP main effects replicated (p = 8.3 × 10(-4)) in 8,682 Asians from Singapore, indicating potential interethnic heterogeneity. A secondary analysis revealed 22 loci with evidence of age-specific effects (e.g., only in 20 to 29-year-olds). Age can be used to select samples with larger genetic effect sizes and more homogenous phenotypes, which may increase statistical power. Age-dependent effects identified through novel statistical approaches can provide insight into the biology and temporal regulation underlying BP associations.

Published
2014

23. Genome-wide association study identifies 25 known breast cancer susceptibility loci as risk factors for triple-negative breast cancer.

Author

Purrington, Kristen, Slager, Susan, Eccles, Diana, Yannoukakos, Drakoulis, Fasching, Peter, Miron, Penelope, Carpenter, Jane, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Martin, Nicholas, Montgomery, Grant, Kristensen, Vessela, Goodfellow, Paul, Tapper, William, Rafiq, Sajjad, Gerty, Susan, Durcan, Lorraine, Konstantopoulou, Irene, Fostira, Florentia, Vratimos, Athanassios, Apostolou, Paraskevi, Konstanta, Irene, Kotoula, Vassiliki, Lakis, Sotiris, Dimopoulos, Meletios, Skarlos, Dimosthenis, Pectasides, Dimitrios, Fountzilas, George, Beckmann, Matthias, Hein, Alexander, Ruebner, Matthias, Ekici, Arif, Hartmann, Arndt, Schulz-Wendtland, Ruediger, Renner, Stefan, Janni, Wolfgang, Rack, Brigitte, Scholz, Christoph, Neugebauer, Julia, Andergassen, Ulrich, Lux, Michael, Haeberle, Lothar, Clarke, Christine, Pathmanathan, Nirmala, Rudolph, Anja, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Nickels, Stefan, Olson, Janet, Ingle, James, Olswold, Curtis, Slettedahl, Seth, Eckel-Passow, Jeanette, Anderson, S, Visscher, Daniel, Cafourek, Victoria, Sicotte, Hugues, Prodduturi, Naresh, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Bernstein, Leslie, Ivanovich, Jennifer, Giles, Graham, Baglietto, Laura, Southey, Melissa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Fischer, Hans-Peter, Reed, Malcom, Cross, Simon, Deming-Halverson, Sandra, Shrubsole, Martha, Cai, Qiuyin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Daly, Mary, Weaver, Joellen, Ross, Eric, Klemp, Jennifer, Sharma, Priyanka, Torres, Diana, Rüdiger, Thomas, Wölfing, Heidrun, Ulmer, Hans-Ulrich, Försti, Asta, Khoury, Thaer, Kumar, Shicha, Pilarski, Robert, Shapiro, Charles, Greco, Dario, Heikkilä, Päivi, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Irwanto, Astrid, Liu, Jianjun, Pankratz, Vernon, Wang, Xianshu, Severi, Gianluca, Mannermaa, Arto, Easton, Douglas, Hall, Per, Brauch, Hiltrud, Cox, Angela, Zheng, Wei, and Godwin, Andrew

Subjects
Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Young Adult
Abstract

Triple-negative (TN) breast cancer is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer associated with a unique set of epidemiologic and genetic risk factors. We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of TN breast cancer (stage 1: 1529 TN cases, 3399 controls; stage 2: 2148 cases, 1309 controls) to identify loci that influence TN breast cancer risk. Variants in the 19p13.1 and PTHLH loci showed genome-wide significant associations (P < 5 × 10(-) (8)) in stage 1 and 2 combined. Results also suggested a substantial enrichment of significantly associated variants among the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) analyzed in stage 2. Variants from 25 of 74 known breast cancer susceptibility loci were also associated with risk of TN breast cancer (P < 0.05). Associations with TN breast cancer were confirmed for 10 loci (LGR6, MDM4, CASP8, 2q35, 2p24.1, TERT-rs10069690, ESR1, TOX3, 19p13.1, RALY), and we identified associations with TN breast cancer for 15 additional breast cancer loci (P < 0.05: PEX14, 2q24.1, 2q31.1, ADAM29, EBF1, TCF7L2, 11q13.1, 11q24.3, 12p13.1, PTHLH, NTN4, 12q24, BRCA2, RAD51L1-rs2588809, MKL1). Further, two SNPs independent of previously reported signals in ESR1 [rs12525163 odds ratio (OR) = 1.15, P = 4.9 × 10(-) (4)] and 19p13.1 (rs1864112 OR = 0.84, P = 1.8 × 10(-) (9)) were associated with TN breast cancer. A polygenic risk score (PRS) for TN breast cancer based on known breast cancer risk variants showed a 4-fold difference in risk between the highest and lowest PRS quintiles (OR = 4.03, 95% confidence interval 3.46-4.70, P = 4.8 × 10(-) (69)). This translates to an absolute risk for TN breast cancer ranging from 0.8% to 3.4%, suggesting that genetic variation may be used for TN breast cancer risk prediction.

Published
2014

24. Joint effects of known type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci in genome-wide association study of Singapore Chinese: the Singapore Chinese health study.

Author

Chen, Zhanghua, Pereira, Mark, Koh, Woon-Puay, Tai, E, Teo, Yik-Ying, Liu, Jianjun, Hsu, Chris, Wang, Renwei, Thyagarajan, Bharat, Koratkar, Revati, Yuan, Jian-Min, Gross, Myron, Stram, Daniel, Seielstad, Mark, and Odegaard, Andrew

Subjects
Aged, Asian People, Case-Control Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Health, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Singapore
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic factors in type 2 diabetes (T2D), mostly among individuals of European ancestry. We tested whether previously identified T2D-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) replicate and whether SNPs in regions near known T2D SNPs were associated with T2D within the Singapore Chinese Health Study. METHODS: 2338 cases and 2339 T2D controls from the Singapore Chinese Health Study were genotyped for 507,509 SNPs. Imputation extended the genotyped SNPs to 7,514,461 with high estimated certainty (r(2)>0.8). Replication of known index SNP associations in T2D was attempted. Risk scores were computed as the sum of index risk alleles. SNPs in regions ± 100 kb around each index were tested for associations with T2D in conditional fine-mapping analysis. RESULTS: Of 69 index SNPs, 20 were genotyped directly and genotypes at 35 others were well imputed. Among the 55 SNPs with data, disease associations were replicated (at p

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2014

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

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Lynch, Julie A, Tsao, Philip S, Chang, Kyong-Mi, Cho, Kelly, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Gaziano, John M, Wilson, Peter, Mohlke, Karen L, Frayling, Timothy M, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Kathiresan, Sekar, Boehnke, Michael, Struan Grant, Null, Natarajan, Pradeep, Sun, Yan V, Morris, Andrew P, Deloukas, Pano, Peloso, Gina, Assimes, Themistocles L, Willer, Cristen J, Zhu, Xiang, Brown, Christopher D, Epidemiology and Data Science, ACS - Diabetes & metabolism, ACS - Heart failure & arrhythmias, APH - Health Behaviors & Chronic Diseases, Psychiatry, APH - Mental Health, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, General practice, APH - Aging & Later Life, APH - Digital Health, Million Veterans Program, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, Biological Psychology, APH - Personalized Medicine, APH - Methodology, AMS - Ageing & Vitality, and AMS - Sports

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regulatory mechanism, Vascular damage Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 16], post-GWAS, Medizin, complex traits, fine-mapping, functional genomics, lipid biology, variant prioritization, Medical and Health Sciences, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Article, INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS, WIDE ASSOCIATION, 3D GENOME, VARIANTS, CHOLESTEROL, ANNOTATION, OBESITY, COMMON, LOCI, EXPRESSION, functional genomic, Genetics, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Polymorphism, Aetiology, Genetics (clinical), Genetics & Heredity, Chromatin/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genomics, Lipids/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Human Genome, Million Veterans Program, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, Single Nucleotide, Biological Sciences, Lipids, Chromatin, complex trait, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], 3111 Biomedicine, Biotechnology
Abstract

A major challenge of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to translate phenotypic associations into biological insights. Here, we integrate a large GWAS on blood lipids involving 1.6 million individuals from five ancestries with a wide array of functional genomic datasets to discover regulatory mechanisms underlying lipid associations. We first prioritize lipid-associated genes with expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) colocalizations and then add chromatin interaction data to narrow the search for functional genes. Polygenic enrichment analysis across 697 annotations from a host of tissues and cell types confirms the central role of the liver in lipid levels and highlights the selective enrichment of adipose-specific chromatin marks in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides. Overlapping transcription factor (TF) binding sites with lipid-associated loci identifies TFs relevant in lipid biology. In addition, we present an integrative framework to prioritize causal variants at GWAS loci, producing a comprehensive list of candidate causal genes and variants with multiple layers of functional evidence. We highlight two of the prioritized genes, CREBRF and RRBP1, which show convergent evidence across functional datasets supporting their roles in lipid biology. Xiang Zhu is supported by the Stein Fellowship from Stanford University and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences Seed Grant from The Pennsylvania State University. C.D.B. is supported by the NIH (R01-HL133218). Funding for the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium was provided by the NIH (R01-HL127564). This research was conducted using the UK Biobank Resource under application number 24460. This research is based on data from the Million Veteran Program, Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, and was supported by awards 2I01BX003362-03A1 and 1I01BX004821-01A1. This publication does not represent the views of the Department of Veteran Affairs or the United States Government. We thank Bethany Klunder for administrative support. Study-specific acknowledgments are provided in the supplemental information.

Published
2022

26. Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

Author

Michailidou, Kyriaki, Hall, Per, Gonzalez-Neira, Anna, Ghoussaini, Maya, Dennis, Joe, Milne, Roger L, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Bojesen, Stig E, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dicks, Ed, Lee, Andrew, Turnbull, Clare, Rahman, Nazneen, Fletcher, Olivia, Peto, Julian, Gibson, Lorna, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Nevanlinna, Heli, Muranen, Taru A, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Czene, Kamila, Irwanto, Astrid, Liu, Jianjun, Waisfisz, Quinten, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne, Adank, Muriel, van der Luijt, Rob B, Hein, Rebecca, Dahmen, Norbert, Beckman, Lars, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Lichtner, Peter, Hopper, John L, Southey, Melissa C, Makalic, Enes, Schmidt, Daniel F, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Hofman, Albert, Hunter, David J, Chanock, Stephen J, Vincent, Daniel, Bacot, François, Tessier, Daniel C, Canisius, Sander, Wessels, Lodewyk FA, Haiman, Christopher A, Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Luccarini, Craig, Schoof, Nils, Humphreys, Keith, Li, Jingmei, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Couch, Fergus J, Wang, Xianshu, Vachon, Celine, Stevens, Kristen N, Lambrechts, Diether, Moisse, Matthieu, Paridaens, Robert, Christiaens, Marie-Rose, Rudolph, Anja, Nickels, Stefan, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Johnson, Nichola, Aitken, Zoe, Aaltonen, Kirsimari, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Broeks, Annegien, Veer, Laura J Van't, van der Schoot, C Ellen, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Laurent-Puig, Pierre, Menegaux, Florence, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Burwinkel, Barbara, Zamora, M Pilar, Perez, Jose Ignacio Arias, Pita, Guillermo, Alonso, M Rosario, Cox, Angela, Brock, Ian W, Cross, Simon S, Reed, Malcolm WR, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael J, Miller, Nicola, and Henderson, Brian E

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Human Genome, Prevention, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Cooperative Behavior, Female, Gene-Environment Interaction, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility Collaboration, Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Research Group Netherlands, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, GENICA (Gene Environment Interaction and Breast Cancer in Germany) Network, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Common variants at 27 loci have been identified as associated with susceptibility to breast cancer, and these account for ∼9% of the familial risk of the disease. We report here a meta-analysis of 9 genome-wide association studies, including 10,052 breast cancer cases and 12,575 controls of European ancestry, from which we selected 29,807 SNPs for further genotyping. These SNPs were genotyped in 45,290 cases and 41,880 controls of European ancestry from 41 studies in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). The SNPs were genotyped as part of a collaborative genotyping experiment involving four consortia (Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study, COGS) and used a custom Illumina iSelect genotyping array, iCOGS, comprising more than 200,000 SNPs. We identified SNPs at 41 new breast cancer susceptibility loci at genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10(-8)). Further analyses suggest that more than 1,000 additional loci are involved in breast cancer susceptibility.

Published
2013

27. A genome-wide association study to identify genetic susceptibility loci that modify ductal and lobular postmenopausal breast cancer risk associated with menopausal hormone therapy use: a two-stage design with replication

Author

Hein, Rebecca, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Dahmen, Norbert, Beckmann, Lars, Lindström, Sara, Schoof, Nils, Czene, Kamila, Mittelstraß, Kirstin, Illig, Thomas, Seibold, Petra, Behrens, Sabine, Humphreys, Keith, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Olson, Janet E, Wang, Xianshu, Hankinson, Susan E, Truong, Thérèse, Menegaux, Florence, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Johnson, Nichola, The GENICA Network, Chen, Shou-Tung, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Ziogas, Argyrios, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Mannermaa, Arto, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Shen, Chen-Yang, Brauch, Hiltrud, Peto, Julian, Guénel, Pascal, Kraft, Peter, Couch, Fergus J, Easton, Douglas F, Hall, Per, and Chang-Claude, Jenny

Subjects
Cancer, Aging, Prevention, Breast Cancer, Genetics, Human Genome, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Breast Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, Carcinoma, Lobular, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Estrogen Replacement Therapy, Estrogens, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Postmenopause, Progestins, Risk Factors, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Postmenopausal breast cancer risk, Menopausal hormone therapy, Polymorphisms, Gene-environment interaction, Genome-wide association study, Case-only study, GENICA Network, Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is associated with an elevated risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. To identify genetic loci that modify breast cancer risk related to MHT use in postmenopausal women, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) with replication. In stage I, we performed a case-only GWAS in 731 invasive breast cancer cases from the German case-control study Mammary Carcinoma Risk Factor Investigation (MARIE). The 1,200 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showing the lowest P values for interaction with current MHT use (within 6 months prior to breast cancer diagnosis), were carried forward to stage II, involving pooled case-control analyses including additional MARIE subjects (1,375 cases, 1,974 controls) as well as 795 cases and 764 controls of a Swedish case-control study. A joint P value was calculated for a combined analysis of stages I and II. Replication of the most significant interaction of the combined stage I and II was performed using 5,795 cases and 5,390 controls from nine studies of the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). The combined stage I and II yielded five SNPs on chromosomes 2, 7, and 18 with joint P values

Published
2013

28. Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals without Diabetes

Author

Jensen, Richard A, Sim, Xueling, Li, Xiaohui, Cotch, Mary Frances, Ikram, M Kamran, Holliday, Elizabeth G, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Harris, Tamara B, Jonasson, Fridbert, Klein, Barbara EK, Launer, Lenore J, Smith, Albert Vernon, Boerwinkle, Eric, Cheung, Ning, Hewitt, Alex W, Liew, Gerald, Mitchell, Paul, Wang, Jie Jin, Attia, John, Scott, Rodney, Glazer, Nicole L, Lumley, Thomas, McKnight, Barbara, Psaty, Bruce M, Taylor, Kent, Hofman, Albert, de Jong, Paulus TVM, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Tay, Wan-Ting, Teo, Yik Ying, Seielstad, Mark, Liu, Jianjun, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Saw, Seang-Mei, Aung, Tin, Ganesh, Santhi K, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Nalls, Mike A, Wiggins, Kerri L, Kuo, Jane Z, team, The Blue Mountains Eye Study GWAS, Consortium, CKDGen, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Klein, Ronald, Siscovick, David S, Rotter, Jerome I, Tai, E Shong, Vingerling, Johannes, and Wong, Tien Y

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Epidemiology, Health Sciences, Human Genome, Hypertension, Diabetes, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Metabolic and endocrine, Cardiovascular, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Histone Deacetylases, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Repressor Proteins, Retinal Diseases, Blue Mountains Eye Study GWAS Team, CKDGen Consortium, General Science & Technology
Abstract

BackgroundMild retinopathy (microaneurysms or dot-blot hemorrhages) is observed in persons without diabetes or hypertension and may reflect microvascular disease in other organs. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of mild retinopathy in persons without diabetes.MethodsA working group agreed on phenotype harmonization, covariate selection and analytic plans for within-cohort GWAS. An inverse-variance weighted fixed effects meta-analysis was performed with GWAS results from six cohorts of 19,411 Caucasians. The primary analysis included individuals without diabetes and secondary analyses were stratified by hypertension status. We also singled out the results from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously shown to be associated with diabetes and hypertension, the two most common causes of retinopathy.ResultsNo SNPs reached genome-wide significance in the primary analysis or the secondary analysis of participants with hypertension. SNP, rs12155400, in the histone deacetylase 9 gene (HDAC9) on chromosome 7, was associated with retinopathy in analysis of participants without hypertension, -1.3±0.23 (beta ± standard error), p = 6.6×10(-9). Evidence suggests this was a false positive finding. The minor allele frequency was low (∼2%), the quality of the imputation was moderate (r(2) ∼0.7), and no other common variants in the HDAC9 gene were associated with the outcome. SNPs found to be associated with diabetes and hypertension in other GWAS were not associated with retinopathy in persons without diabetes or in subgroups with or without hypertension.ConclusionsThis GWAS of retinopathy in individuals without diabetes showed little evidence of genetic associations. Further studies are needed to identify genes associated with these signs in order to help unravel novel pathways and determinants of microvascular diseases.

Published
2013

29. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of breast cancer identifies two novel susceptibility loci at 6q14 and 20q11

Author

Siddiq, Afshan, Couch, Fergus J, Chen, Gary K, Lindström, Sara, Eccles, Diana, Millikan, Robert C, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Stram, Daniel O, Beckmann, Lars, Rhie, Suhn Kyong, Ambrosone, Christine B, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Amiano, Pilar, Apicella, Carmel, Investigators, Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank, Baglietto, Laura, Bandera, Elisa V, Beckmann, Matthias W, Berg, Christine D, Bernstein, Leslie, Blomqvist, Carl, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brinton, Louise, Bui, Quang M, Buring, Julie E, Buys, Saundra S, Campa, Daniele, Carpenter, Jane E, Chasman, Daniel I, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chen, Constance, Clavel-Chapelon, Françoise, Cox, Angela, Cross, Simon S, Czene, Kamila, Deming, Sandra L, Diasio, Robert B, Diver, W Ryan, Dunning, Alison M, Durcan, Lorraine, Ekici, Arif B, Fasching, Peter A, Study, Familial Breast Cancer, Feigelson, Heather Spencer, Fejerman, Laura, Figueroa, Jonine D, Fletcher, Olivia, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Gaudet, Mia M, Consortium, The GENICA, Gerty, Susan M, Rodriguez-Gil, Jorge L, Giles, Graham G, van Gils, Carla H, Godwin, Andrew K, Graham, Nikki, Greco, Dario, Hall, Per, Hankinson, Susan E, Hartmann, Arndt, Hein, Rebecca, Heinz, Judith, Hoover, Robert N, Hopper, John L, Hu, Jennifer J, Huntsman, Scott, Ingles, Sue A, Irwanto, Astrid, Isaacs, Claudine, Jacobs, Kevin B, John, Esther M, Justenhoven, Christina, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kolonel, Laurence N, Coetzee, Gerhard A, Lathrop, Mark, Le Marchand, Loic, Lee, Adam M, Lee, I-Min, Lesnick, Timothy, Lichtner, Peter, Liu, Jianjun, Lund, Eiliv, Makalic, Enes, Martin, Nicholas G, McLean, Catriona A, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne, Meindl, Alfons, Miron, Penelope, Monroe, Kristine R, Montgomery, Grant W, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Nickels, Stefan, Nyante, Sarah J, Olswold, Curtis, Overvad, Kim, Palli, Domenico, Park, Daniel J, Palmer, Julie R, and Pathak, Harsh

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Clinical Research, Aging, Human Genome, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Estrogen, Australian Breast Cancer Tissue Bank Investigators, Familial Breast Cancer Study, GENICA Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of breast cancer defined by hormone receptor status have revealed loci contributing to susceptibility of estrogen receptor (ER)-negative subtypes. To identify additional genetic variants for ER-negative breast cancer, we conducted the largest meta-analysis of ER-negative disease to date, comprising 4754 ER-negative cases and 31 663 controls from three GWAS: NCI Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (BPC3) (2188 ER-negative cases; 25 519 controls of European ancestry), Triple Negative Breast Cancer Consortium (TNBCC) (1562 triple negative cases; 3399 controls of European ancestry) and African American Breast Cancer Consortium (AABC) (1004 ER-negative cases; 2745 controls). We performed in silico replication of 86 SNPs at P ≤ 1 × 10(-5) in an additional 11 209 breast cancer cases (946 with ER-negative disease) and 16 057 controls of Japanese, Latino and European ancestry. We identified two novel loci for breast cancer at 20q11 and 6q14. SNP rs2284378 at 20q11 was associated with ER-negative breast cancer (combined two-stage OR = 1.16; P = 1.1 × 10(-8)) but showed a weaker association with overall breast cancer (OR = 1.08, P = 1.3 × 10(-6)) based on 17 869 cases and 43 745 controls and no association with ER-positive disease (OR = 1.01, P = 0.67) based on 9965 cases and 22 902 controls. Similarly, rs17530068 at 6q14 was associated with breast cancer (OR = 1.12; P = 1.1 × 10(-9)), and with both ER-positive (OR = 1.09; P = 1.5 × 10(-5)) and ER-negative (OR = 1.16, P = 2.5 × 10(-7)) disease. We also confirmed three known loci associated with ER-negative (19p13) and both ER-negative and ER-positive breast cancer (6q25 and 12p11). Our results highlight the value of large-scale collaborative studies to identify novel breast cancer risk loci.

Published
2012

30. CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity in women with breast cancer associated with early death, breast cancer-specific death, and increased risk of a second breast cancer.

Author

Weischer, Maren, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Pharoah, Paul, Bolla, Manjeet K, Nevanlinna, Heli, Van't Veer, Laura J, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Hopper, John L, Hall, Per, Andrulis, Irene L, Devilee, Peter, Fasching, Peter A, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Lambrechts, Diether, Hooning, Maartje, Cox, Angela, Giles, Graham G, Burwinkel, Barbara, Lindblom, Annika, Couch, Fergus J, Mannermaa, Arto, Grenaker Alnæs, Grethe, John, Esther M, Dörk, Thilo, Flyger, Henrik, Dunning, Alison M, Wang, Qin, Muranen, Taru A, van Hien, Richard, Figueroa, Jonine, Southey, Melissa C, Czene, Kamila, Knight, Julia A, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ziogas, Argyrios, Christiaens, Marie-Rose, Collée, Johanna Margriet, Reed, Malcolm WR, Severi, Gianluca, Marme, Frederik, Margolin, Sara, Olson, Janet E, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Kristensen, Vessela N, Miron, Alexander, Bogdanova, Natalia, Shah, Mitul, Blomqvist, Carl, Broeks, Annegien, Sherman, Mark, Phillips, Kelly-Anne, Li, Jingmei, Liu, Jianjun, Glendon, Gord, Seynaeve, Caroline, Ekici, Arif B, Leunen, Karin, Kriege, Mieke, Cross, Simon S, Baglietto, Laura, Sohn, Christof, Wang, Xianshu, Kataja, Vesa, Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Meyer, Andreas, Easton, Douglas F, Schmidt, Marjanka K, and Bojesen, Stig E

Subjects
Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Neoplasms, Second Primary, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Prognosis, Case-Control Studies, Prospective Studies, Genotype, Heterozygote, Germ-Line Mutation, Middle Aged, Female, Checkpoint Kinase 2, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Breast Cancer, Clinical Research, Cancer, Prevention, Genetics, Estrogen, Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

PurposeWe tested the hypotheses that CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity is associated with increased risk of early death, breast cancer-specific death, and risk of a second breast cancer in women with a first breast cancer.Patients and methodsFrom 22 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, 25,571 white women with invasive breast cancer were genotyped for CHEK2*1100delC and observed for up to 20 years (median, 6.6 years). We examined risk of early death and breast cancer-specific death by estrogen receptor status and risk of a second breast cancer after a first breast cancer in prospective studies.ResultsCHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity was found in 459 patients (1.8%). In women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, multifactorially adjusted hazard ratios for heterozygotes versus noncarriers were 1.43 (95% CI, 1.12 to 1.82; log-rank P = .004) for early death and 1.63 (95% CI, 1.24 to 2.15; log-rank P < .001) for breast cancer-specific death. In all women, hazard ratio for a second breast cancer was 2.77 (95% CI, 2.00 to 3.83; log-rank P < .001) increasing to 3.52 (95% CI, 2.35 to 5.27; log-rank P < .001) in women with estrogen receptor-positive first breast cancer only.ConclusionAmong women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, CHEK2*1100delC heterozygosity was associated with a 1.4-fold risk of early death, a 1.6-fold risk of breast cancer-specific death, and a 3.5-fold risk of a second breast cancer. This is one of the few examples of a genetic factor that influences long-term prognosis being documented in an extensive series of women with breast cancer.

Published
2012

31. Meta-analysis identifies multiple loci associated with kidney function–related traits in east Asian populations

Author

Okada, Yukinori, Sim, Xueling, Go, Min Jin, Wu, Jer-Yuarn, Gu, Dongfeng, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Takahashi, Atsushi, Maeda, Shiro, Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko, Chen, Peng, Lim, Su-Chi, Wong, Tien-Yin, Liu, Jianjun, Young, Terri L, Aung, Tin, Seielstad, Mark, Teo, Yik-Ying, Kim, Young Jin, Lee, Jong-Young, Han, Bok-Ghee, Kang, Daehee, Chen, Chien-Hsiun, Tsai, Fuu-Jen, Chang, Li-Ching, Fann, S-J Cathy, Mei, Hao, Rao, Dabeeru C, Hixson, James E, Chen, Shufeng, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Isono, Masato, Ogihara, Toshio, Chambers, John C, Zhang, Weihua, Kooner, Jaspal S, Albrecht, Eva, Yamamoto, Kazuhiko, Kubo, Michiaki, Nakamura, Yusuke, Kamatani, Naoyuki, Kato, Norihiro, He, Jiang, Chen, Yuan-Tsong, Cho, Yoon Shin, Tai, E-Shyong, and Tanaka, Toshihiro

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Kidney Disease, Human Genome, Renal and urogenital, Asian People, Blood Urea Nitrogen, Cohort Studies, Creatinine, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glomerular Filtration Rate, Humans, Kidney, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Uric Acid, KidneyGen Consortium, CKDGen Consortium, GUGC consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), impairment of kidney function, is a serious public health problem, and the assessment of genetic factors influencing kidney function has substantial clinical relevance. Here, we report a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for kidney function-related traits, including 71,149 east Asian individuals from 18 studies in 11 population-, hospital- or family-based cohorts, conducted as part of the Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network (AGEN). Our meta-analysis identified 17 loci newly associated with kidney function-related traits, including the concentrations of blood urea nitrogen, uric acid and serum creatinine and estimated glomerular filtration rate based on serum creatinine levels (eGFRcrea) (P < 5.0 × 10(-8)). We further examined these loci with in silico replication in individuals of European ancestry from the KidneyGen, CKDGen and GUGC consortia, including a combined total of ∼110,347 individuals. We identify pleiotropic associations among these loci with kidney function-related traits and risk of CKD. These findings provide new insights into the genetics of kidney function.

Published
2012

32. Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

Author

Ghoussaini, Maya, Fletcher, Olivia, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Turnbull, Clare, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Dicks, Ed, Dennis, Joe, Wang, Qin, Humphreys, Manjeet K, Luccarini, Craig, Baynes, Caroline, Conroy, Don, Maranian, Melanie, Ahmed, Shahana, Driver, Kristy, Johnson, Nichola, Orr, Nicholas, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Waisfisz, Quinten, Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne, Uitterlinden, Andre G, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Irwanto, Astrid, Liu, Jianjun, Nevanlinna, Heli, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Lichtner, Peter, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Hein, Rebecca, Nickels, Stefan, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Tsimiklis, Helen, Makalic, Enes, Schmidt, Daniel, Bui, Minh, Hopper, John L, Apicella, Carmel, Park, Daniel J, Southey, Melissa, Hunter, David J, Chanock, Stephen J, Broeks, Annegien, Verhoef, Senno, Hogervorst, Frans BL, Fasching, Peter A, Lux, Michael P, Beckmann, Matthias W, Ekici, Arif B, Sawyer, Elinor, Tomlinson, Ian, Kerin, Michael, Marme, Frederik, Schneeweiss, Andreas, Sohn, Christof, Burwinkel, Barbara, Guénel, Pascal, Truong, Thérèse, Cordina-Duverger, Emilie, Menegaux, Florence, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Nielsen, Sune F, Flyger, Henrik, Milne, Roger L, Alonso, M Rosario, González-Neira, Anna, Benítez, Javier, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogas, Argyrios, Bernstein, Leslie, Dur, Christina Clarke, Brenner, Hermann, Müller, Heiko, Arndt, Volker, Stegmaier, Christa, Justenhoven, Christina, Brauch, Hiltrud, Brüning, Thomas, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Eilber, Ursula, Dörk, Thilo, Schürmann, Peter, Bremer, Michael, Hillemanns, Peter, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Rogov, Yuri I, Karstens, Johann H, Bermisheva, Marina, Prokofieva, Darya, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, and Mannermaa, Arto

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Estrogen, Human Genome, Prevention, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Breast Neoplasms, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Logistic Models, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Principal Component Analysis, White People, Netherlands Collaborative Group on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Familial Breast Cancer Study, Gene Environment Interaction of Breast Cancer in Germany (GENICA) Network, kConFab Investigators, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for ∼8% of the heritability of the disease. We attempted to replicate 72 promising associations from two independent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in ∼70,000 cases and ∼68,000 controls from 41 case-control studies and 9 breast cancer GWAS. We identified three new breast cancer risk loci at 12p11 (rs10771399; P = 2.7 × 10(-35)), 12q24 (rs1292011; P = 4.3 × 10(-19)) and 21q21 (rs2823093; P = 1.1 × 10(-12)). rs10771399 was associated with similar relative risks for both estrogen receptor (ER)-negative and ER-positive breast cancer, whereas the other two loci were associated only with ER-positive disease. Two of the loci lie in regions that contain strong plausible candidate genes: PTHLH (12p11) has a crucial role in mammary gland development and the establishment of bone metastasis in breast cancer, and NRIP1 (21q21) encodes an ER cofactor and has a role in the regulation of breast cancer cell growth.

Published
2012

33. Genome-wide meta-analysis of five Asian cohorts identifies PDGFRA as a susceptibility locus for corneal astigmatism.

Author

Fan, Qiao, Zhou, Xin, Khor, Chiea-Chuen, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Goh, Liang-Kee, Sim, Xueling, Tay, Wan-Ting, Li, Yi-Ju, Ong, Rick Twee-Hee, Suo, Chen, Cornes, Belinda, Ikram, Mohammad Kamran, Chia, Kee-Seng, Seielstad, Mark, Liu, Jianjun, Vithana, Eranga, Young, Terri L, Tai, E-Shyong, Wong, Tien-Yin, Aung, Tin, Teo, Yik-Ying, and Saw, Seang-Mei

Subjects
Humans, Corneal Diseases, Refractive Errors, Astigmatism, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha, Case-Control Studies, Cohort Studies, Genotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Middle Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Infant, Asia, Male, Genome-Wide Association Study, and over, Preschool, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha, Genetics, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Corneal astigmatism refers to refractive abnormalities and irregularities in the curvature of the cornea, and this interferes with light being accurately focused at a single point in the eye. This ametropic condition is highly prevalent, influences visual acuity, and is a highly heritable trait. There is currently a paucity of research in the genetic etiology of corneal astigmatism. Here we report the results from five genome-wide association studies of corneal astigmatism across three Asian populations, with an initial discovery set of 4,254 Chinese and Malay individuals consisting of 2,249 cases and 2,005 controls. Replication was obtained from three surveys comprising of 2,139 Indians, an additional 929 Chinese children, and an independent 397 Chinese family trios. Variants in PDGFRA on chromosome 4q12 (lead SNP: rs7677751, allelic odds ratio = 1.26 (95% CI: 1.16-1.36), P(meta) = 7.87×10(-9)) were identified to be significantly associated with corneal astigmatism, exhibiting consistent effect sizes across all five cohorts. This highlights the potential role of variants in PDGFRA in the genetic etiology of corneal astigmatism across diverse Asian populations.

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2011

34. Pathway-based analysis using reduced gene subsets in genome-wide association studies

Author

Zhao, Jingyuan, Gupta, Simone, Seielstad, Mark, Liu, Jianjun, and Thalamuthu, Anbupalam

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Autoimmune Disease, Clinical Research, Human Genome, Psoriasis, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Genes, Genetic Variation, Genome, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Mathematical Sciences, Information and Computing Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biological sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Abstract

BackgroundSingle Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) analysis only captures a small proportion of associated genetic variants in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) partly due to small marginal effects. Pathway level analysis incorporating prior biological information offers another way to analyze GWAS's of complex diseases, and promises to reveal the mechanisms leading to complex diseases. Biologically defined pathways are typically comprised of numerous genes. If only a subset of genes in the pathways is associated with disease then a joint analysis including all individual genes would result in a loss of power. To address this issue, we propose a pathway-based method that allows us to test for joint effects by using a pre-selected gene subset. In the proposed approach, each gene is considered as the basic unit, which reduces the number of genetic variants considered and hence reduces the degrees of freedom in the joint analysis. The proposed approach also can be used to investigate the joint effect of several genes in a candidate gene study.ResultsWe applied this new method to a published GWAS of psoriasis and identified 6 biologically plausible pathways, after adjustment for multiple testing. The pathways identified in our analysis overlap with those reported in previous studies. Further, using simulations across a range of gene numbers and effect sizes, we demonstrate that the proposed approach enjoys higher power than several other approaches to detect associated pathways.ConclusionsThe proposed method could increase the power to discover susceptibility pathways and to identify associated genes using GWAS. In our analysis of genome-wide psoriasis data, we have identified a number of relevant pathways for psoriasis.

Published
2011

35. 7q21-rs6964587 and breast cancer risk: an extended case–control study by the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

Author

Milne, Roger L, Lorenzo-Bermejo, Justo, Burwinkel, Barbara, Malats, Núria, Arias, Jose Ignacio, Zamora, M Pilar, Benítez, Javier, Humphreys, Manjeet K, García-Closas, Montserrat, Chanock, Stephen J, Lissowska, Jolanta, Sherman, Mark E, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Nevanlinna, Heli, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogas, Argyrios, Devilee, Peter, van Asperen, Christie J, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Irwanto, Astrid K, Kang, Daehee, Yoo, Keun-Young, Noh, Dong-Young, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Wang, Xianshu, Fredericksen, Zachary, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Bojesen, Stig E, Flyger, Henrik, Margolin, Sara, Lindblom, Annika, Fasching, Peter A, Schulz-Wendtland, Ruediger, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Shen, Chen-Yang, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Hsu, Huan-Ming, Wu, Pei-Ei, Giles, Graham G, Severi, Gianluca, Baglietto, Laura, English, Dallas R, Cox, Angela, Brock, Ian, Elliott, Graeme, Reed, Malcolm WR, Beesley, Jonathan, Chen, Xiaoqing, Investigators, kConFab, Group, AOCS, Fletcher, Olivia, Gibson, Lorna, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Peto, Julian, Frank, Bernd, Heil, Joerg, Meindl, Alfons, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Hein, Rebecca, Vrieling, Alina, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Southey, Melissa C, Smith, Letitia, Apicella, Carmel, Hopper, John L, Dunning, Alison M, Pooley, Karen A, Pharoah, Paul DP, Hamann, Ute, Pesch, Beate, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Network, The GENICA, Easton, Douglas F, and Chenevix-Trench, Georgia

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Genetics, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Breast Cancer, Clinical Research, Cancer, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, A Kinase Anchor Proteins, Alleles, Asian People, Breast Neoplasms, Case-Control Studies, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7, Cytoskeletal Proteins, Female, Genes, Recessive, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Logistic Models, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, White People, AOCS Group, GENICA Network, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity, Clinical sciences
Abstract

BackgroundUsing the Breast Cancer Association Consortium, the authors previously reported that the single nucleotide polymorphism 7q21-rs6964587 (AKAP9-M463I) is associated with breast cancer risk. The authors have now assessed this association more comprehensively using 16 independent case-control studies.MethodsThe authors genotyped 14,843 invasive case patients and 19,852 control subjects with white European ancestry and 2595 invasive case patients and 2192 control subjects with Asian ancestry. ORs were estimated by logistic regression, adjusted for study. Heterogeneity in ORs was assessed by fitting interaction terms or by subclassifying case patients and applying polytomous logistic regression.ResultsFor white European women, the minor T allele of 7q21-rs6964587 was associated with breast cancer risk under a recessive model (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.13, p = 0.04). Results were inconclusive for Asian women. From a combined analysis of 24 154 case patients and 33,376 control subjects of white European ancestry from the present and previous series, the best-fitting model was recessive, with an estimated OR of 1.08 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.13, p = 0.001). The OR was greater at younger ages (p trend = 0.01).ConclusionThis may be the first common susceptibility allele for breast cancer to be identified with a recessive mode of inheritance.

Published
2011

36. Transferability of type 2 diabetes implicated loci in multi-ethnic cohorts from Southeast Asia.

Author

Sim, Xueling, Ong, Rick Twee-Hee, Suo, Chen, Tay, Wan-Ting, Liu, Jianjun, Ng, Daniel Peng-Keat, Boehnke, Michael, Chia, Kee-Seng, Wong, Tien-Yin, Seielstad, Mark, Teo, Yik-Ying, and Tai, E-Shyong

Subjects
Humans, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Kinesin, tRNA Methyltransferases, Case-Control Studies, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, Asia, Southeastern, Female, Male, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Asia, Southeastern, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genetics, Developmental Biology
Abstract

Recent large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified multiple loci which harbor genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), many of which encode proteins not previously suspected to be involved in the pathogenesis of T2D. Most GWAS for T2D have focused on populations of European descent, and GWAS conducted in other populations with different ancestry offer a unique opportunity to study the genetic architecture of T2D. We performed genome-wide association scans for T2D in 3,955 Chinese (2,010 cases, 1,945 controls), 2,034 Malays (794 cases, 1,240 controls), and 2,146 Asian Indians (977 cases, 1,169 controls). In addition to the search for novel variants implicated in T2D, these multi-ethnic cohorts serve to assess the transferability and relevance of the previous findings from European descent populations in the three major ethnic populations of Asia, comprising half of the world's population. Of the SNPs associated with T2D in previous GWAS, only variants at CDKAL1 and HHEX/IDE/KIF11 showed the strongest association with T2D in the meta-analysis including all three ethnic groups. However, consistent direction of effect was observed for many of the other SNPs in our study and in those carried out in European populations. Close examination of the associations at both the CDKAL1 and HHEX/IDE/KIF11 loci provided some evidence of locus and allelic heterogeneity in relation to the associations with T2D. We also detected variation in linkage disequilibrium between populations for most of these loci that have been previously identified. These factors, combined with limited statistical power, may contribute to the failure to detect associations across populations of diverse ethnicity. These findings highlight the value of surveying across diverse racial/ethnic groups towards the fine-mapping efforts for the casual variants and also of the search for variants, which may be population-specific.

Published
2011

37. GWAS of follicular lymphoma reveals allelic heterogeneity at 6p21.32 and suggests shared genetic susceptibility with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Author

Smedby, Karin, Foo, Jia, Skibola, Christine, Darabi, Hatef, Conde, Lucia, Hjalgrim, Henrik, Kumar, Vikrant, Chang, Ellen, Rothman, Nathaniel, Cerhan, James, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Rehnberg, Emil, Irwan, Ishak, Ryder, Lars, Brown, Peter, Bracci, Paige, Agana, Luz, Riby, Jacques, Cozen, Wendy, Davis, Scott, Hartge, Patricia, Morton, Lindsay, Severson, Richard, Wang, Sophia, Slager, Susan, Fredericksen, Zachary, Novak, Anne, Kay, Neil, Habermann, Thomas, Armstrong, Bruce, Kricker, Anne, Milliken, Sam, Purdue, Mark, Vajdic, Claire, Boyle, Peter, Lan, Qing, Zahm, Shelia, Zhang, Yawei, Zheng, Tongzhang, Leach, Stephen, Spinelli, John, Smith, Martyn T., Chanock, Stephen, Padyukov, Leonid, Alfredsson, Lars, Klareskog, Lars, Glimelius, Bengt, Melbye, Mads, Liu, Edison, Adami, Hans-Olov, Humphreys, Keith, and Liu, Jianjun

Subjects
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Denmark, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Haplotypes, Histocompatibility Antigens Class II, Humans, Lymphoma, Follicular, Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Factors, Sweden
Abstract

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) represents a diverse group of hematological malignancies, of which follicular lymphoma (FL) is a prevalent subtype. A previous genome-wide association study has established a marker, rs10484561 in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II region on 6p21.32 associated with increased FL risk. Here, in a three-stage genome-wide association study, starting with a genome-wide scan of 379 FL cases and 791 controls followed by validation in 1,049 cases and 5,790 controls, we identified a second independent FL-associated locus on 6p21.32, rs2647012 (OR(combined)  = 0.64, P(combined)  = 2 × 10(-21)) located 962 bp away from rs10484561 (r(2)

Published
2011

38. Associations of breast cancer risk factors with tumor subtypes: a pooled analysis from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium studies.

Author

Yang, Xiaohong R, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Goode, Ellen L, Couch, Fergus J, Nevanlinna, Heli, Milne, Roger L, Gaudet, Mia, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Broeks, Annegien, Cox, Angela, Fasching, Peter A, Hein, Rebecca, Spurdle, Amanda B, Blows, Fiona, Driver, Kristy, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Heinz, Judith, Sinn, Peter, Vrieling, Alina, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Heikkilä, Päivi, Blomqvist, Carl, Lissowska, Jolanta, Peplonska, Beata, Chanock, Stephen, Figueroa, Jonine, Brinton, Louise, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Humphreys, Keith, Darabi, Hatef, Liu, Jianjun, Van 't Veer, Laura J, van Leeuwen, Flora E, Andrulis, Irene L, Glendon, Gord, Knight, Julia A, Mulligan, Anna Marie, O'Malley, Frances P, Weerasooriya, Nayana, John, Esther M, Beckmann, Matthias W, Hartmann, Arndt, Weihbrecht, Sebastian B, Wachter, David L, Jud, Sebastian M, Loehberg, Christian R, Baglietto, Laura, English, Dallas R, Giles, Graham G, McLean, Catriona A, Severi, Gianluca, Lambrechts, Diether, Vandorpe, Thijs, Weltens, Caroline, Paridaens, Robert, Smeets, Ann, Neven, Patrick, Wildiers, Hans, Wang, Xianshu, Olson, Janet E, Cafourek, Victoria, Fredericksen, Zachary, Kosel, Matthew, Vachon, Celine, Cramp, Helen E, Connley, Daniel, Cross, Simon S, Balasubramanian, Sabapathy P, Reed, Malcolm WR, Dörk, Thilo, Bremer, Michael, Meyer, Andreas, Karstens, Johann H, Ay, Aysun, Park-Simon, Tjoung-Won, Hillemanns, Peter, Arias Pérez, Jose Ignacio, Menéndez Rodríguez, Primitiva, Zamora, Pilar, Benítez, Javier, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Fischer, Hans-Peter, Hamann, Ute, Pesch, Beate, Brüning, Thomas, Justenhoven, Christina, Brauch, Hiltrud, Eccles, Diana M, Tapper, William J, Gerty, Sue M, Sawyer, Elinor J, Tomlinson, Ian P, Jones, Angela, Kerin, Michael, Miller, Nicola, McInerney, Niall, Anton-Culver, Hoda, and Ziogas, Argyrios

Subjects
Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Obesity, Receptor, erbB-2, Receptors, Estrogen, Receptors, Progesterone, Body Mass Index, Logistic Models, Odds Ratio, Risk Factors, Case-Control Studies, Age Factors, Parity, Parturition, Menarche, Female, Keratin-5, ErbB Receptors, Biomarkers, Tumor, Receptor, ErbB-2, Prevention, Cancer, Aging, Breast Cancer, Clinical Research, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis
Abstract

BackgroundPrevious studies have suggested that breast cancer risk factors are associated with estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) expression status of the tumors.MethodsWe pooled tumor marker and epidemiological risk factor data from 35,568 invasive breast cancer case patients from 34 studies participating in the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Logistic regression models were used in case-case analyses to estimate associations between epidemiological risk factors and tumor subtypes, and case-control analyses to estimate associations between epidemiological risk factors and the risk of developing specific tumor subtypes in 12 population-based studies. All statistical tests were two-sided.ResultsIn case-case analyses, of the epidemiological risk factors examined, early age at menarche (≤12 years) was less frequent in case patients with PR(-) than PR(+) tumors (P = .001). Nulliparity (P = 3 × 10(-6)) and increasing age at first birth (P = 2 × 10(-9)) were less frequent in ER(-) than in ER(+) tumors. Obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m(2)) in younger women (≤50 years) was more frequent in ER(-)/PR(-) than in ER(+)/PR(+) tumors (P = 1 × 10(-7)), whereas obesity in older women (>50 years) was less frequent in PR(-) than in PR(+) tumors (P = 6 × 10(-4)). The triple-negative (ER(-)/PR(-)/HER2(-)) or core basal phenotype (CBP; triple-negative and cytokeratins [CK]5/6(+) and/or epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR](+)) accounted for much of the heterogeneity in parity-related variables and BMI in younger women. Case-control analyses showed that nulliparity, increasing age at first birth, and obesity in younger women showed the expected associations with the risk of ER(+) or PR(+) tumors but not triple-negative (nulliparity vs parity, odds ratio [OR] = 0.94, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.75 to 1.19, P = .61; 5-year increase in age at first full-term birth, OR = 0.95, 95% CI = 0.86 to 1.05, P = .34; obesity in younger women, OR = 1.36, 95% CI = 0.95 to 1.94, P = .09) or CBP tumors.ConclusionsThis study shows that reproductive factors and BMI are most clearly associated with hormone receptor-positive tumors and suggest that triple-negative or CBP tumors may have distinct etiology.

Published
2011

39. Genome-wide association study of follicular lymphoma identifies a risk locus at 6p21.32

Author

Conde, Lucia, Halperin, Eran, Akers, Nicholas K, Brown, Kevin M, Smedby, Karin E, Rothman, Nathaniel, Nieters, Alexandra, Slager, Susan L, Brooks-Wilson, Angela, Agana, Luz, Riby, Jacques, Liu, Jianjun, Adami, Hans-Olov, Darabi, Hatef, Hjalgrim, Henrik, Low, Hui-Qi, Humphreys, Keith, Melbye, Mads, Chang, Ellen T, Glimelius, Bengt, Cozen, Wendy, Davis, Scott, Hartge, Patricia, Morton, Lindsay M, Schenk, Maryjean, Wang, Sophia S, Armstrong, Bruce, Kricker, Anne, Milliken, Sam, Purdue, Mark P, Vajdic, Claire M, Boyle, Peter, Lan, Qing, Zahm, Shelia H, Zhang, Yawei, Zheng, Tongzhang, Becker, Nikolaus, Benavente, Yolanda, Boffetta, Paolo, Brennan, Paul, Butterbach, Katja, Cocco, Pierluigi, Foretova, Lenka, Maynadié, Marc, de Sanjosé, Silvia, Staines, Anthony, Spinelli, John J, Achenbach, Sara J, Call, Timothy G, Camp, Nicola J, Glenn, Martha, Caporaso, Neil E, Cerhan, James R, Cunningham, Julie M, Goldin, Lynn R, Hanson, Curtis A, Kay, Neil E, Lanasa, Mark C, Leis, Jose F, Marti, Gerald E, Rabe, Kari G, Rassenti, Laura Z, Spector, Logan G, Strom, Sara S, Vachon, Celine M, Weinberg, J Brice, Holly, Elizabeth A, Chanock, Stephen, Smith, Martyn T, Bracci, Paige M, and Skibola, Christine F

Subjects
Lymphoma, Prevention, Cancer, Human Genome, Genetics, Rare Diseases, Hematology, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Disease Susceptibility, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell, Lymphoma, Follicular, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Risk Factors, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology
Abstract

To identify susceptibility loci for non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes, we conducted a three-stage genome-wide association study. We identified two variants associated with follicular lymphoma at 6p21.32 (rs10484561, combined P = 1.12 x 10(-29) and rs7755224, combined P = 2.00 x 10(-19); r(2) = 1.0), supporting the idea that major histocompatibility complex genetic variation influences follicular lymphoma susceptibility. We also found confirmatory evidence of a previously reported association between chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma and rs735665 (combined P = 4.24 x 10(-9)).

Published
2010

40. Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and non-diabetic individuals

Author

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

Subjects
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics, EXPRESSION, Diabetic Nephropathies/genetics, 610 Medizin, LOCI, Medicine (miscellaneous), EFFICIENT, Lifelines cohort study, Kidney, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, DISEASE, QUALITY-CONTROL, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Diabetic Nephropathy, Diabetes Mellitus, Humans, Medicine [Science], Diabetic Nephropathies, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, Biology, DiscovEHR/MyCode study, METAANALYSIS, Glomerular Filtration Rate/genetics, Medicinsk genetik, ddc:610, Science & Technology, genetic, effects, kidney, diabetic, JOINT, Klinisk medicin, Diabetes Mellitu, 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION, Creatinine, VA Million Veteran Program, Science & Technology - Other Topics, 3111 Biomedicine, Clinical Medicine, SMOKING, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Medical Genetics, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glomerular Filtration Rate
Abstract

Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) can progress to kidney failure. Risk factors include genetics and diabetes mellitus (DM), but little is known about their interaction. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses for estimated GFR based on serum creatinine (eGFR), separately for individuals with or without DM (nDM = 178,691, nnoDM = 1,296,113). Our genome-wide searches identified (i) seven eGFR loci with significant DM/noDM-difference, (ii) four additional novel loci with suggestive difference and (iii) 28 further novel loci (including CUBN) by allowing for potential difference. GWAS on eGFR among DM individuals identified 2 known and 27 potentially responsible loci for diabetic kidney disease. Gene prioritization highlighted 18 genes that may inform reno-protective drug development. We highlight the existence of DM-only and noDM-only effects, which can inform about the target group, if respective genes are advanced as drug targets. Largely shared effects suggest that most drug interventions to alter eGFR should be effective in DM and noDM. Published version The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) supported the meta-analysis—Project-ID 387509280—SFB1350 (Subproject C6 to I.M.H.). A.M.H., B.R., and R.T. were supported by VACSR&D MVP grant CX001897. This research is based on data from the Million Veteran Program, Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, and was supported by VACSR&D MVP grant CX001897 (A.M.H.). This publication does not represent the views of the Department of Veteran Affairs or the United States Government. We conducted this research using the UK Biobank resource under the application number 20272.

Published
2022

41. Risk of Estrogen Receptor–Positive and –Negative Breast Cancer and Single–Nucleotide Polymorphism 2q35-rs13387042

Author

Milne, Roger L, Benítez, Javier, Nevanlinna, Heli, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Blomqvist, Carl, Arias, José Ignacio, Zamora, M Pilar, Burwinkel, Barbara, Bartram, Claus R, Meindl, Alfons, Schmutzler, Rita K, Cox, Angela, Brock, Ian, Elliott, Graeme, Reed, Malcolm WR, Southey, Melissa C, Smith, Letitia, Spurdle, Amanda B, Hopper, John L, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Wang, Xianshu, Fredericksen, Zachary, Schürmann, Peter, Bremer, Michael, Hillemanns, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Devilee, Peter, van Asperen, Christie J, Tollenaar, Rob AEM, Seynaeve, Caroline, Hall, Per, Czene, Kamila, Liu, Jianjun, Li, Yuqing, Ahmed, Shahana, Dunning, Alison M, Maranian, Melanie, Pharoah, Paul DP, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Beesley, Jonathan, Investigators, kConFab, Group, AOCS, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Zalutsky, Iosif V, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogas, Argyrios, Brauch, Hiltrud, Justenhoven, Christina, Ko, Yon-Dschun, Haas, Susanne, Fasching, Peter A, Strick, Reiner, Ekici, Arif B, Beckmann, Matthias W, Giles, Graham G, Severi, Gianluca, Baglietto, Laura, English, Dallas R, Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Peto, Julian, Turnbull, Clare, Hines, Sarah, Renwick, Anthony, Rahman, Nazneen, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Bojesen, Stig E, Flyger, Henrik, Kang, Daehee, Yoo, Keun-Young, Noh, Dong-Young, Mannermaa, Arto, Kataja, Vesa, Kosma, Veli-Matti, García-Closas, Montserrat, Chanock, Stephen, Lissowska, Jolanta, Brinton, Louise A, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Wang-Gohrke, Shan, Shen, Chen-Yang, Wang, Hui-Chun, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Chen, Sou-Tong, Bermisheva, Marina, Nikolaeva, Tatjana, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Humphreys, Manjeet K, Morrison, Jonathan, Platte, Radka, Easton, Douglas F, and Consortium, on behalf of the Breast Cancer Association

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Genetics, Breast Cancer, Clinical Research, Cancer, Human Genome, Estrogen, Adult, Aged, Asian People, Biomarkers, Tumor, Breast Neoplasms, Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast, Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating, Case-Control Studies, Confidence Intervals, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Female, Gene Frequency, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Hormone-Dependent, Odds Ratio, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Estrogen, Receptors, Progesterone, White People, kConFab Investigators, AOCS Group, Breast Cancer Association Consortium, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, Oncology and carcinogenesis
Abstract

BackgroundA recent genome-wide association study identified single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) 2q35-rs13387042 as a marker of susceptibility to estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer. We attempted to confirm this association using the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.Methods2q35-rs13387042 SNP was genotyped for 31 510 women with invasive breast cancer, 1101 women with ductal carcinoma in situ, and 35 969 female control subjects from 25 studies. Odds ratios (ORs) were estimated by logistic regression, adjusted for study. Heterogeneity in odds ratios by each of age, ethnicity, and study was assessed by fitting interaction terms. Heterogeneity by each of invasiveness, family history, bilaterality, and hormone receptor status was assessed by subclassifying case patients and applying polytomous logistic regression. All statistical tests were two-sided.ResultsWe found strong evidence of association between rs13387042 and breast cancer in white women of European origin (per-allele OR = 1.12, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.09 to 1.15; P(trend) = 1.0 x 10(-19)). The odds ratio was lower than that previously reported (P = .02) and did not vary by age or ethnicity (all P > or = .2). However, it was higher when the analysis was restricted to case patients who were selected for a strong family history (P = .02). An association was observed for both ER-positive (OR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.10 to 1.17; P = 10(-15)) and ER-negative disease (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.04 to 1.15; P = .0003) and both progesterone receptor (PR)-positive (OR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.11 to 1.19; P = 5 x 10(-14)) and PR-negative disease (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.06 to 1.15; P = .00002).ConclusionThe rs13387042 is associated with both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancer in European women.

Published
2009

42. Association of ESR1 gene tagging SNPs with breast cancer risk

Author

Dunning, Alison M, Healey, Catherine S, Baynes, Caroline, Maia, Ana-Teresa, Scollen, Serena, Vega, Ana, Rodríguez, Raquel, Barbosa-Morais, Nuno L, Ponder, Bruce AJ, Low, Yen-Ling, Bingham, Sheila, Haiman, Christopher A, Le Marchand, Loic, Broeks, Annegien, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Hopper, John, Southey, Melissa, Beckmann, Matthias W, Fasching, Peter A, Peto, Julian, Johnson, Nichola, Bojesen, Stig E, Nordestgaard, Børge, Milne, Roger L, Benitez, Javier, Hamann, Ute, Ko, Yon, Schmutzler, Rita K, Burwinkel, Barbara, Schürmann, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Heikkinen, Tuomas, Nevanlinna, Heli, Lindblom, Annika, Margolin, Sara, Mannermaa, Arto, Kosma, Veli-Matti, Chen, Xiaoqing, Spurdle, Amanda, Change-Claude, Jenny, Flesch-Janys, Dieter, Couch, Fergus J, Olson, Janet E, Severi, Gianluca, Baglietto, Laura, Børresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, Kristensen, Vessela, Hunter, David J, Hankinson, Susan E, Devilee, Peter, Vreeswijk, Maaike, Lissowska, Jolanta, Brinton, Louise, Liu, Jianjun, Hall, Per, Kang, Daehee, Yoo, Keun-Young, Shen, Chen-Yang, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogoas, Argyrios, Sigurdson, Alice, Struewing, Jeff, Easton, Douglas F, Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Humphreys, Manjeet K, Morrison, Jonathan, Pharoah, Paul DP, Pooley, Karen A, and Chenevix-Trench, Georgia

Subjects
Genetics, Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prevention, Clinical Research, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Breast Neoplasms, Estrogen Receptor alpha, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Haplotypes, Humans, Neoplasm Staging, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, RNA, Neoplasm, SEARCH, EPIC, MEC, ABCS, ABCFS, BBCC, BBCS, CGPS, CNIO-BCS, GENICA, GC-HBOC, HABCS, HEBCS, KARBAC, KBCS, kConFab and the AOCS Management Group, MARIE, for MCBCS, MCCS, NBCS, NHS, ORIGO, PBCS, SASBAC, SEBCS, TWBCS, UCIBCS, USRTS, BCAC, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

We have conducted a three-stage, comprehensive single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-tagging association study of ESR1 gene variants (SNPs) in more than 55,000 breast cancer cases and controls from studies within the Breast Cancer Association Consortium (BCAC). No large risks or highly significant associations were revealed. SNP rs3020314, tagging a region of ESR1 intron 4, is associated with an increase in breast cancer susceptibility with a dominant mode of action in European populations. Carriers of the c-allele have an odds ratio (OR) of 1.05 [95% Confidence Intervals (CI) 1.02-1.09] relative to t-allele homozygotes, P = 0.004. There is significant heterogeneity between studies, P = 0.002. The increased risk appears largely confined to oestrogen receptor-positive tumour risk. The region tagged by SNP rs3020314 contains sequence that is more highly conserved across mammalian species than the rest of intron 4, and it may subtly alter the ratio of two mRNA splice forms.

Published
2009

43. Genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma in East Asia and comparison with a European population

Author

Shi, Jianxin, Shiraishi, Kouya, Choi, Jiyeon, Matsuo, Keitaro, Chen, Tzu-Yu, Dai, Juncheng, Hung, Rayjean J, Chen, Kexin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Kim, Young Tae, Landi, Maria Teresa, Lin, Dongxin, Zheng, Wei, Yin, Zhihua, Zhou, Baosen, Song, Bao, Wang, Jiucun, Seow, Wei Jie, Song, Lei, Chang, I-Shou, Hu, Wei, Chien, Li-Hsin, Cai, Qiuyin, Hong, Yun-Chul, Kim, Hee Nam, Wu, Yi-Long, Wong, Maria Pik, Richardson, Brian Douglas, Funderburk, Karen M, Li, Shilan, Zhang, Tongwu, Breeze, Charles, Wang, Zhaoming, Blechter, Batel, Bassig, Bryan A, Kim, Jin Hee, Albanes, Demetrius, Wong, Jason Y Y, Shin, Min-Ho, Chung, Lap Ping, Yang, Yang, An, She-Juan, Zheng, Hong, Yatabe, Yasushi, Zhang, Xu-Chao, Kim, Young-Chul, Caporaso, Neil E, Chang, Jiang, Ho, James Chung Man, Kubo, Michiaki, Daigo, Yataro, Song, Minsun, Momozawa, Yukihide, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kobayashi, Masashi, Okubo, Kenichi, Honda, Takayuki, Hosgood, Dean H, Kunitoh, Hideo, Patel, Harsh, Watanabe, Shun-Ichi, Miyagi, Yohei, Nakayama, Haruhiko, Matsumoto, Shingo, Horinouchi, Hidehito, Tsuboi, Masahiro, Hamamoto, Ryuji, Goto, Koichi, Ohe, Yuichiro, Takahashi, Atsushi, Goto, Akiteru, Minamiya, Yoshihiro, Hara, Megumi, Nishida, Yuichiro, Takeuchi, Kenji, Wakai, Kenji, Matsuda, Koichi, Murakami, Yoshinori, Shimizu, Kimihiro, Suzuki, Hiroyuki, Saito, Motonobu, Ohtaki, Yoichi, Tanaka, Kazumi, Wu, Tangchun, Wei, Fusheng, Dai, Hongji, Machiela, Mitchell J, Su, Jian, Kim, Yeul Hong, Oh, In-Jae, Lee, Victor Ho Fun, Chang, Gee-Chen, Tsai, Ying-Huang, Chen, Kuan-Yu, Huang, Ming-Shyan, Su, Wu-Chou, Chen, Yuh-Min, Seow, Adeline, Park, Jae Yong, Kweon, Sun-Seog, Chen, Kun-Chieh, Gao, Yu-Tang, Qian, Biyun, Wu, Chen, Lu, Daru, Liu, Jianjun, Schwartz, Ann G, Houlston, Richard, Spitz, Margaret R, Gorlov, Ivan P, Wu, Xifeng, Yang, Ping, Lam, Stephen, Tardon, Adonina, Chen, Chu, Bojesen, Stig E, Johansson, Mattias, Risch, Angela, Bickeböller, Heike, Ji, Bu-Tian, Wichmann, H-Erich, Christiani, David C, Rennert, Gadi, Arnold, Susanne, Brennan, Paul, McKay, James, Field, John K, Shete, Sanjay S, Le Marchand, Loic, Liu, Geoffrey, Andrew, Angeline, Kiemeney, Lambertus A, Zienolddiny-Narui, Shan, Grankvist, Kjell, Johansson, Mikael, Cox, Angela, Taylor, Fiona, Yuan, Jian-Min, Lazarus, Philip, Schabath, Matthew B, Aldrich, Melinda C, Jeon, Hyo-Sung, Jiang, Shih Sheng, Sung, Jae Sook, Chen, Chung-Hsing, Hsiao, Chin-Fu, Jung, Yoo Jin, Guo, Huan, Hu, Zhibin, Burdett, Laurie, Yeager, Meredith, Hutchinson, Amy, Hicks, Belynda, Liu, Jia, Zhu, Bin, Berndt, Sonja I, Wu, Wei, Wang, Junwen, Li, Yuqing, Choi, Jin Eun, Park, Kyong Hwa, Sung, Sook Whan, Liu, Li, Kang, Chang Hyun, Wang, Wen-Chang, Xu, Jun, Guan, Peng, Tan, Wen, Yu, Chong-Jen, Yang, Gong, Sihoe, Alan Dart Loon, Chen, Ying, Choi, Yi Young, Kim, Jun Suk, Yoon, Ho-Il, Park, In Kyu, Xu, Ping, He, Qincheng, Wang, Chih-Liang, Hung, Hsiao-Han, Vermeulen, Roel C H, Cheng, Iona, Wu, Junjie, Lim, Wei-Yen, Tsai, Fang-Yu, Chan, John K C, Li, Jihua, Chen, Hongyan, Lin, Hsien-Chih, Jin, Li, Liu, Jie, Sawada, Norie, Yamaji, Taiki, Wyatt, Kathleen, Li, Shengchao A, Ma, Hongxia, Zhu, Meng, Wang, Zhehai, Cheng, Sensen, Li, Xuelian, Ren, Yangwu, Chao, Ann, Iwasaki, Motoki, Zhu, Junjie, Jiang, Gening, Fei, Ke, Wu, Guoping, Chen, Chih-Yi, Chen, Chien-Jen, Yang, Pan-Chyr, Yu, Jinming, Stevens, Victoria L, Fraumeni, Joseph F, Chatterjee, Nilanjan, Gorlova, Olga Y, Hsiung, Chao Agnes, Amos, Christopher I, Shen, Hongbing, Chanock, Stephen J, Rothman, Nathaniel, Kohno, Takashi, Lan, Qing, and IRAS OH Epidemiology Chemical Agents

Subjects
Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Asia, Eastern/epidemiology, Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adenocarcinoma of Lung/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common type of lung cancer. Known risk variants explain only a small fraction of lung adenocarcinoma heritability. Here, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of lung adenocarcinoma of East Asian ancestry (21,658 cases and 150,676 controls; 54.5% never-smokers) and identified 12 novel susceptibility variants, bringing the total number to 28 at 25 independent loci. Transcriptome-wide association analyses together with colocalization studies using a Taiwanese lung expression quantitative trait loci dataset (n = 115) identified novel candidate genes, including FADS1 at 11q12 and ELF5 at 11p13. In a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of East Asian and European studies, four loci were identified at 2p11, 4q32, 16q23, and 18q12. At the same time, most of our findings in East Asian populations showed no evidence of association in European populations. In our studies drawn from East Asian populations, a polygenic risk score based on the 25 loci had a stronger association in never-smokers vs. individuals with a history of smoking (P interaction = 0.0058). These findings provide new insights into the etiology of lung adenocarcinoma in individuals from East Asian populations, which could be important in developing translational applications.

Published
2023

44. Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

Author

Trubetskoy, Vassily, Panagiotaropoulou, Georgia, Awasthi, Swapnil, Braun, Alice, Kraft, Julia, Skarabis, Nora, Walter, Henrik, Ripke, Stephan, Pardiñas, Antonio F., Dennison, Charlotte A., Hall, Lynsey S., Harwood, Janet C., Richards, Alexander L., Legge, Sophie E., Lynham, Amy, Williams, Nigel M., Bray, Nicholas J., Escott-Price, Valentina, Kirov, George, Holmans, Peter A., Pocklington, Andrew J., Owen, Michael J., Walters, James T. R., O’Donovan, Michael C., Qi, Ting, Sidorenko, Julia, Wu, Yang, Zeng, Jian, Gratten, Jacob, Visscher, Peter M., Yang, Jian, Wray, Naomi R., Bigdeli, Tim B., Fanous, Ayman H., Bryois, Julien, Bergen, Sarah E., Kähler, Anna K., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Hultman, Christina M., Sullivan, Patrick F., Chen, Chia-Yen, Atkinson, Elizabeth G., Goldstein, Jacqueline I., Howrigan, Daniel P., Martin, Alicia R., Daly, Mark J., Huang, Hailiang, Neale, Benjamin M., Ge, Tian, Lam, Max, Belliveau, Richard A., Chambert, Kimberley D., Genovese, Giulio, Lee, Phil H., Pietiläinen, Olli, McCarroll, Steven A., Moran, Jennifer L., Smoller, Jordan W., Brown, Tyler C., Feng, Guoping, Hyman, Steven E., Sheng, Morgan, Chong, Siow Ann, Subramaniam, Mythily, Lencz, Todd, Malhotra, Anil K., Watanabe, Kyoko, Frei, Oleksandr, Agartz, Ingrid, Athanasiu, Lavinia, Melle, Ingrid, Andreassen, Ole A., Steen, Nils Eiel, DeLisi, Lynn E., Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I., Seidman, Larry J., Koopmans, Frank, Magnusson, Sigurdur, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Stefansson, Kari, Grove, Jakob, Agerbo, Esben, Als, Thomas D., Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas, Demontis, Ditte, Hougaard, David M., Mors, Ole, Mortensen, Preben B., Nordentoft, Merete, Børglum, Anders D., Mattheisen, Manuel, Kim, Minsoo, Gandal, Michael J., Li, Zhiqiang, Shi, Yongyong, Zhou, Wei, Qin, Shengying, Voloudakis, Georgios, Zhang, Wen, Roussos, Panos, Adams, Mark, McIntosh, Andrew, Söderman, Erik, Jönsson, Erik G., McGrath, John J., Al Eissa, Mariam, Bass, Nicholas J., Fiorentino, Alessia, O’Brien, Niamh Louise, Pimm, Jonathan, Sharp, Sally Isabel, McQuillin, Andrew, Albus, Margot, Alexander, Madeline, Alizadeh, Behrooz Z., Bruggeman, Richard, Alptekin, Köksal, Amin, Farooq, Arolt, Volker, Lencer, Rebecca, Rothermundt, Matthias, Baune, Bernhard T., Arrojo, Manuel, Azevedo, Maria Helena, Bacanu, Silviu A., Webb, Bradley T., Wormley, Brandon K., Riley, Brien P., Kendler, Kenneth S., Begemann, Martin, Mitjans, Marina, Steixner-Kumar, Agnes A., Ehrenreich, Hannelore, Bene, Judit, Benyamin, Beben, Blasi, Giuseppe, Rampino, Antonio, Torretta, Silvia, Bertolino, Alessandro, Bobes, Julio, Bonassi, Stefano, Bressan, Rodrigo Affonseca, Gadelha, Ary, Noto, Cristiano, Ota, Vanessa Kiyomi, Santoro, Marcos Leite, Belangero, Sintia Iole, Bromet, Evelyn J., Buckley, Peter F., Buckner, Randy L., Cahn, Wiepke, Kahn, René S., Cairns, Murray J., Scott, Rodney J., Tooney, Paul A., Schall, Ulrich, Calkins, Monica E., Gur, Raquel E., Gur, Ruben C., Turetsky, Bruce I., Carr, Vaughan J., Castle, David, Harvey, Carol, Catts, Stanley V., Chan, Raymond C. 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C., Cohen, David, Consoli, Angèle, Giannitelli, Marianna, Laurent-Levinson, Claudine, Cordeiro, Quirino, Costas, Javier, Curtis, Charles, Quattrone, Diego, Breen, Gerome, Collier, David A., Di Forti, Marta, Vassos, Evangelos, Mondelli, Valeria, van Amelsvoort, Therese, Murray, Robin M., Davidson, Michael, Davis, Kenneth L., Haroutunian, Vahram, Malaspina, Dolores, Reichenberg, Abraham, Siever, Larry J., Silverman, Jeremy M., Buxbaum, Joseph D., de Haan, Lieuwe, Degenhardt, Franziska, Forstner, Andreas, Nöthen, Markus M., Dickerson, Faith, Dikeos, Dimitris, Papadimitriou, George N., Dinan, Timothy, Djurovic, Srdjan, Duan, Jubao, Gejman, Pablo V., Sanders, Alan R., Ducci, Giuseppe, Dudbridge, Frank, Eriksson, Johan G., Fañanás, Lourdes, Peñas, Javier González, González-Pinto, Ana, Molto, María Dolores, Moreno, Carmen, Parellada, Mara, Sanjuan, Julio, Crepo-Facorro, Benedicto, Mata, Ignacio, Arango, Celso, Faraone, Stephen V., Frank, Josef, Streit, Fabian, Witt, Stephanie H., Rietschel, Marcella, Freimer, Nelson B., Ophoff, Roel A., Fromer, Menachem, Stahl, Eli A., Frustaci, Alessandra, Gershon, Elliot S., Giegling, Ina, Hartmann, Annette M., Konte, Bettina, Rujescu, Dan, Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola, Szatkiewicz, Jin P., Godard, Stephanie, González Peñas, Javier, Gopal, Srihari, Savitz, Adam, Li, Qingqin S., Green, Michael F., Nuechterlein, Keith H., Sugar, Catherine A., Greenwood, Tiffany A., Light, Gregory A., Swerdlow, Neal R., Braff, David, Guillin, Olivier, Campion, Dominique, Gülöksüz, Sinan, Luykx, Jurjen J., Rutten, Bart P. F., van Winkel, Ruud, Gutiérrez, Blanca, Hahn, Eric, Hakonarson, Hakon, Pellegrino, Renata, Pantelis, Christos, Hayward, Caroline, Henskens, Frans A., Kelly, Brian J., Herms, Stefan, Hoffmann, Per, Ikeda, Masashi, Iwata, Nakao, Iyegbe, Conrad, van Os, Jim, Joa, Inge, Julià, Antonio, Marsal, Sara, Kam-Thong, Tony, Rautanen, Anna, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Toncheva, Draga, Keller, Matthew C., Khrunin, Andrey, Limborska, Svetlana, Slominsky, Petr, Kim, Sung-Wan, Klovins, Janis, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Kondratiev, Nikolay, Golimbet, Vera, Kubo, Michiaki, Kučinskas, Vaidutis, Kučinskiene, Zita Ausrele, Kusumawardhani, Agung, Kuzelova-Ptackova, Hana, Landi, Stefano, Lazzeroni, Laura C., Levinson, Douglas F., Petryshen, Tracey L., Lehrer, Douglas S., Lerer, Bernard, Li, Miaoxin, Lieberman, Jeffrey, Stroup, T. Scott, Liu, Chih-Min, Hwu, Hai-Gwo, Lönnqvist, Jouko, Loughland, Carmel M., Lubinski, Jan, Bakker, Steven, Kahn, René, Macek, Milan, Mackinnon, Andrew, Maher, Brion S., Maier, Wolfgang, Atbaşoğlu, Eşref Cem, Mallet, Jacques, Marder, Stephen R., Martorell, Lourdes, Muntané, Gerard, Vilella, Elisabet, Meier, Sandra, Schulze, Thomas G., McCarley, Robert W., McDonald, Colm, Donohoe, Gary, Morris, Derek W., Periyasamy, Sathish, Mowry, Bryan J., Medeiros, Helena, Sobell, Janet L., Melegh, Bela, Metspalu, Andres, Milani, Lili, Esko, Tõnu, Michie, Patricia T., Milanova, Vihra, Molden, Espen, Molina, Esther, Morley, Christopher P., Murphy, Kieran C., Myin-Germeys, Inez, Nenadić, Igor, Nestadt, Gerald, Pulver, Ann E., O’Neill, F. Anthony, Oh, Sang-Yun, Olincy, Ann, Freedman, Robert, Paunio, Tiina, Perkins, Diana O., Pfuhlmann, Bruno, Benner, Christian, Pirinen, Matti, Palotie, Aarno, Porteous, David, Powell, John, Quested, Digby, Radant, Allen D., Tsuang, Debby W., Rapaport, Mark H., Roe, Cheryl, Liu, Chunyu, Roffman, Joshua L., Roth, Julian, Gawlik, Micha, Saker-Delye, Safaa, Salomaa, Veikko, Suvisaari, Jaana, Shi, Jianxin, Sigurdsson, Engilbert, Sim, Kang, So, Hon-Cheong, Stain, Helen J., Stögmann, Elisabeth, Zimprich, Fritz, Stone, William S., Straub, Richard E., Hyde, Thomas, Jaffe, Andrew, Weinberger, Daniel R., Strengman, Eric, Svrakic, Dragan M., Cloninger, C. Robert, Ta, Thi Minh Tam, Takahashi, Atsushi, Terao, Chikashi, Thibaut, Florence, Tosato, Sarah, Tura, Gian Battista, Üçok, Alp, Vaaler, Arne, Veijola, Juha, Waddington, John, Waterreus, Anna, Morgan, Vera A., Jablensky, Assen V., Weiser, Mark, Wu, Jing Qin, Xu, Zhida, Yolken, Robert, Zai, Clement C., Kennedy, James L., Zhu, Feng, Saka, Meram C., Ayub, Muhammad, Black, Donald W., Buccola, Nancy G., Byerley, William F., Chen, Wei J., Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto, Galletly, Cherrie, Gennarelli, Massimo, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Neil, Amanda L., Pato, Michele T., Pato, Carlos N., Wang, Shi-Heng, Xu, Shuhua, Adolfsson, Rolf, Bramon, Elvira, Cervilla, Jorge A., Cichon, Sven, Corvin, Aiden, Gill, Michael, Curtis, David, Domenici, Enrico, Gareeva, Anna, Khusnutdinova, Elza, Glatt, Stephen J., Hong, Kyung Sue, Knowles, James A., Lee, Jimmy, Liu, Jianjun, Malhotra, Dheeraj, Menezes, Paulo R., Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit, Paciga, Sara A., Rivera, Margarita, Schwab, Sibylle G., Serretti, Alessandro, Sham, Pak C., Clair, David St, Tsuang, Ming T., Vawter, Marquis P., Werge, Thomas, Wildenauer, Dieter B., Yu, Xin, Yue, Weihua, Verhage, Matthijs, Sahasrabudhe, Dnyanada, Toonen, Ruud F., Posthuma, Danielle, Dai, Nan, Wenwen, Qin, Wildenauer, D. 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Subjects
Genetics of the nervous system, Schizophrenia/genetics, VARIANTS, PROFILE, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-wide association studies, Article, DISEASE, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Alleles, Genomics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Schizophrenia, Polymorphism, RISK, ARCHITECTURE, Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary, MUTATIONS, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Settore BIO/13, Single Nucleotide, ASSOCIATION, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, STATISTICS, Multidisciplinary Sciences, INDIVIDUALS, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Diseases of the nervous system, ddc:500, Single Nucleotide/genetics, INTEGRATION
Abstract

Schizophrenia has a heritability of 60-80%1, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles. Here, in a two-stage genome-wide association study of up to 76,755 individuals with schizophrenia and 243,649 control individuals, we report common variant associations at 287 distinct genomic loci. Associations were concentrated in genes that are expressed in excitatory and inhibitory neurons of the central nervous system, but not in other tissues or cell types. Using fine-mapping and functional genomic data, we identify 120 genes (106 protein-coding) that are likely to underpin associations at some of these loci, including 16 genes with credible causal non-synonymous or untranslated region variation. We also implicate fundamental processes related to neuronal function, including synaptic organization, differentiation and transmission. Fine-mapped candidates were enriched for genes associated with rare disruptive coding variants in people with schizophrenia, including the glutamate receptor subunit GRIN2A and transcription factor SP4, and were also enriched for genes implicated by such variants in neurodevelopmental disorders. We identify biological processes relevant to schizophrenia pathophysiology; show convergence of common and rare variant associations in schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders; and provide a resource of prioritized genes and variants to advance mechanistic studies., The work at Cardiff University was additionally supported by Medical Research Council Centre grant no. MR/L010305/1 and program grant no. G0800509. S. Xu also gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) grants (31525014, 91731303, 31771388, 31961130380 and 32041008), the UK Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship (NAF\R1\191094), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (QYZDJ-SSW-SYS009) and the Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB38000000) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major Project (2017SHZDZX01). O. A. Andreassen was supported by the Research Council of Norway (283798, 262656, 248980, 273291, 248828, 248778, 223273); KG Jebsen Stiftelsen, South-East Norway Health Authority, EU H2020 no. 847776. B. Melegh was supported in part by the National Scientific Research Program (NKFIH) K 138669. S. V. Faraone is supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 602805, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements 667302 and 728018 and NIMH grants 5R01MH101519 and U01 MH109536-01. S. I. Belangero was supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo), grant numbers: 2010/08968-6; 2014/07280-1 2011/50740-5 (including R. A. Bressan). The Singapore team (J. Lee, J. Liu, K. Sim, S. A. Chong and M. Subramanian) acknowledges the National Medical Research Council Translational and Clinical Research Flagship Programme (grant no.: NMRC/TCR/003/2008). M. Macek was supported by LM2018132, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0015515 and IP6003 –VZFNM00064203. C. Arango has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (SAM16PE07CP1, PI16/02012, PI19/024), co-financed by ERDF Funds from the European Commission, ‘A way of making Europe’, CIBERSAM, Madrid Regional Government (B2017/BMD-3740 AGES-CM-2), European Union Structural Funds, European Union Seventh Framework Program and European Union H2020 Program under the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (grant agreement no 115916, project PRISM; and grant agreement no. 777394, project AIMS-2-TRIALS), Fundación Familia Alonso and Fundación Alicia Koplowitz. E. Bramon acknowledges support from the National Institute of Health Research UK (grant NIHR200756); Mental Health Research UK John Grace QC Scholarship 2018; an ESRC collaborative award 2020; BMA Margaret Temple Fellowship 2016; Medical Research Council New Investigator Award (G0901310); MRC Centenary Award (G1100583); MRC project grant G1100583; National Institute of Health Research UK post-doctoral fellowship (PDA/02/06/016); NARSAD Young Investigator awards 2005 and 2008; Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium awards (085475/B/08/Z, 085475/Z/08/Z); European Commission Horizon 2020 (747429); NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London; and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University College London (UCLH BRC - Mental Health Theme). D. Molto is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)–Valencian Community 2014–2020, Spain. E. G. Atkinson was supported by the NIMH K01MH121659.

Published
2022

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

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Pano, Justice, Anne E, Lindgren, Cecilia M, Loos, Ruth J F, Mohlke, Karen L, North, Kari E, Stefansson, Kari, Walters, Robin G, Winkler, Thomas W, Young, Kristin L, Loh, Po-Ru, Yang, Jian, Esko, Tõnu, Assimes, Themistocles L, Auton, Adam, Abecasis, Goncalo R, Willer, Cristen J, Locke, Adam E, Berndt, Sonja I, Lettre, Guillaume, Frayling, Timothy M, Okada, Yukinori, Wood, Andrew R, and Visscher, Peter M

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multi-ancestry, lnfectious Diseases and Global Health Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 4], Medizin, 45/43, Genome-wide association studies, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], Linkage Disequilibrium, Gene Frequency, RARE, IMPUTATION, PRACTICAL Consortium, GWAS, genes, ARCHITECTURE, Genome, Human/genetics, Multidisciplinary, Body Height/genetics, HERITABILITY, SCORES, article, Chromosome Mapping, 631/208/721, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, Nutritional Biology, Europe, Phenotype, Gene Frequency/genetics, Urological cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 15], VA Million Veteran Program, Molecular and Laser Physics, dimorphism, blood, lipid, Medical Genetics, Single Nucleotide/genetics, genetic variant, Understanding Society Scientific Group, height, genetic, Haplotypes/genetics, 631/208/205/2138, saturated map, 23andMe Research Team, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), Europe/ethnology, Lifelines Cohort Study, RESOURCE, UK BIOBANK, REVEALS, Life Science, DiscovEHR (DiscovEHR and MyCode Community Health Initiative), Humans, Linkage Disequilibrium/genetics, genomic regions, Polymorphism, GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION, gene, genetic variants, human height, 631/208/480, VLAG, Medicinsk genetik, eMERGE (Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network), Genome, Human, Spectroscopy of Cold Molecules, Quantitative traits, Genome, Human/genetics, Genome-Wide Association Study, Sample Size, Body Height, 3141 Health care science, Haplotypes, Genetic markers, 3111 Biomedicine
Abstract

Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40-50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes(1). Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are significantly associated with height account for nearly all of the common SNP-based heritability. These SNPs are clustered within 7,209 non-overlapping genomic segments with a mean size of around 90 kb, covering about 21% of the genome. The density of independent associations varies across the genome and the regions of increased density are enriched for biologically relevant genes. In out-of-sample estimation and prediction, the 12,111 SNPs (or all SNPs in the HapMap 3 panel(2)) account for 40% (45%) of phenotypic variance in populations of European ancestry but only around 10-20% (14-24%) in populations of other ancestries. Effect sizes, associated regions and gene prioritization are similar across ancestries, indicating that reduced prediction accuracy is likely to be explained by linkage disequilibrium and differences in allele frequency within associated regions. Finally, we show that the relevant biological pathways are detectable with smaller sample sizes than are needed to implicate causal genes and variants. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive map of specific genomic regions that contain the vast majority of common height-associated variants. Although this map is saturated for populations of European ancestry, further research is needed to achieve equivalent saturation in other ancestries. A large genome-wide association study of more than 5 million individuals reveals that 12,111 single-nucleotide polymorphisms account for nearly all the heritability of height attributable to common genetic variants.

Published
2022

46. A polygenic resilience score moderates the genetic risk for schizophrenia

Author

Hess, Jonathan L, Tylee, Daniel S, Mors, Ole, Duan, Jubao, Dudbridge, Frank, Duncanson, Audrey, Durmishi, Naser, Edkins, Sarah, Ehrenreich, Hannelore, Eichhammer, Peter, Eriksson, Johan, Escott-Price, Valentina, Esko, Tõnu, Nordentoft, Merete, Essioux, Laurent, Fanous, Ayman H, Farh, Kai-How, Farrell, Martilias S, Frank, Josef, Franke, Lude, Freedman, Robert, Freeman, Colin, Freimer, Nelson B, Friedl, Marion, Hougaard, David M, Friedman, Joseph I, Fromer, Menachem, Gejman, Pablo V, Genovese, Giulio, Georgieva, Lyudmila, Giannoulatou, Eleni, Giegling, Ina, Gill, Michael, Gillman, Matthew, Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola, Byberg-Grauholm, Jonas, Godard, Stephanie, Goldstein, Jacqueline I, Golimbet, Vera, Gopal, Srihari, Gratten, Jacob, Gray, Emma, Gurling, Hugh, Gwilliam, Rhian, de Haan, Lieuwe, Hall, Jeremy, Bækvad-Hansen, Marie, Hammer, Christian, Hammond, Naomi, Hamshere, Marian L, Hansen, Mark, Hansen, Thomas, Haroutunian, Vahram, Hartmann, Annette M, Hellenthal, Garrett, Henskens, Frans A, Herms, Stefan, Greenwood, Tiffany A, Hirschhorn, Joel N, Hoffmann, Per, Hofman, Andrea, Hollegaard, Mads V, Huang, Hailiang, Hultman, Christina M, Hunt, Sarah E, Ikeda, Masashi, Iwata, Nakao, Iyegbe, Conrad, Tsuang, Ming T, Jablensky, Assen V, Jankowski, Janusz, Jayakumar, Alagurevathi, Joa, Inge, Jönsson, Erik G, Julià, Antonio, Kähler, Anna K, Kahn, René S, Kalaydjieva, Luba, Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Curtis, David, Karjalainen, Juha, Kavanagh, David, Keller, Matthew C, Kendler, Kenneth S, Kennedy, James L, Khrunin, Andrey, Kim, Yunjung, Kirov, George, Klovins, Janis, Knight, Jo, Steinberg, Stacy, Knowles, James A, Konte, Bettina, Kucinskas, Vaidutis, Kucinskiene, Zita Ausrele, Kuzelova-Ptackova, Hana, Langford, Cordelia, Laurent, Claudine, Lawrie, Stephen, Lee, S Hong, Lee, Phil, Sigurdsson, Engilbert, Lee, Jimmy, Legge, Sophie E, Lencz, Todd, Lerer, Bernard, Levinson, Douglas F, Lewis, Cathryn M, Li, Tao, Li, Qingqin S, Li, Miaoxin, Liang, Kung-Yee, Mattheisen, Manuel, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Liddle, Jennifer, Lieberman, Jeffrey, Limborska, Svetlana, Lin, Kuang, Linszen, Don H, Liu, Jianjun, Lönnqvist, Jouko, Loughland, Carmel M, Lubinski, Jan, Macek, Milan, Stefánsson, Kári, Magnusson, Patrik K E, Maher, Brion S, Maier, Wolfgang, Malhotra, Anil K, Mallet, Jacques, Markus, Hugh S, Marsal, Sara, Mata, Ignacio, Mathew, Christopher G, Mattingsdal, Morten, Edenberg, Howard J, McCann, Owen T, McCarley, Robert W, McCarroll, Steven A, McCarthy, Mark I, McDonald, Colm, McIntosh, Andrew M, McQuillin, Andrew, Meier, Sandra, Meijer, Carin J, Melegh, Bela, Holmans, Peter, Melle, Ingrid, Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I, Metspalu, Andres, Michie, Patricia T, Milani, Lili, Milanova, Vihra, Mokrab, Younes, Moran, Jennifer L, Morris, Derek W, Mowry, Bryan J, Faraone, Stephen V, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Murphy, Kieran C, Murray, Robin M, Myin-Germeys, Inez, Neale, Benjamin M, Nelis, Mari, Nenadic, Igor, Nertney, Deborah A, Nestadt, Gerald, Nicodemus, Kristin K, Glatt, Stephen J, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Nisenbaum, Laura, Nordin, Annelie, Nöthen, Markus M, O'Callaghan, Eadbhard, O'Donovan, Michael C, O'Dushlaine, Colm, O'Neill, F Anthony, Oh, Sang-Yun, Olincy, Ann, Adolfsson, Rolf, Olsen, Line, Ophoff, Roel A, Van Os, Jim, Owen, Michael J, Palmer, Colin N A, Palotie, Aarno, Pantelis, Christos, Papadimitriou, George N, Papiol, Sergi, Parkhomenko, Elena, Agartz, Ingrid, Pato, Michele T, Pato, Carlos N, Paunio, Tiina, Pearson, Richard, Cairns, Murray J, DeLisi, Lynn E, Gershon, Elliot S, Kelly, Brian J, Lam, Max, Norgren, Nina, Agerbo, Esben, Paciga, Sara A, Tooney, Paul A, Wu, Jing Qin, Pejovic-Milovancevic, Milica, Perkins, Diana O, Pers, Tune H, Petryshen, Tracey L, Pietiläinen, Olli, Pimm, Jonathan, Pirinen, Matti, Albus, Margot, Plomin, Robert, Pocklington, Andrew J, Posthuma, Danielle, Potter, Simon C, Powell, John, Price, Alkes, Pulver, Ann E, Purcell, Shaun M, Quested, Digby, Rasmussen, Henrik B, Consortium, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics, Alexander, Madeline, Rautanen, Anna, Ravindrarajah, Radhi, Reichenberg, Abraham, Reimers, Mark A, Richards, Alexander L, Ricketts, Michelle, Rietschel, Marcella, Riley, Brien P, Ripke, Stephan, Roffman, Joshua L, Amin, Farooq, Roussos, Panos, Ruderfer, Douglas M, Rujescu, Dan, Salomaa, Veikko, Sanders, Alan R, Sawcer, Stephen J, Schall, Ulrich, Schubert, Christian R, Schulze, Thomas G, Schwab, Sibylle G, Andreassen, Ole A, Scolnick, Edward M, Scott, Rodney J, Seidman, Larry J, Sham, Pak C, Shi, Jianxin, Silagadze, Teimuraz, Silverman, Jeremy M, Sim, Kang, Sklar, Pamela, Arranz, Maria J, Slominsky, Petr, Smoller, Jordan W, So, Hon-Cheong, Söderman, Erik, Spencer, Chris C A, Clair, David St, Stahl, Eli A, Stogmann, Elisabeth, Strange, Amy, Straub, Richard E, Bacanu, Silviu A, Strengman, Eric, Strohmaier, Jana, Stroup, T Scott, Su, Zhan, Subramaniam, Mythily, Sullivan, Patrick F, Suvisaari, Jaana, Svrakic, Dragan M, Szatkiewicz, Jin P, Tashakkori-Ghanbaria, Avazeh, Bakker, Steven, Thirumalai, Srinivas, Toncheva, Draga, Tosato, Sarah, Trembath, Richard C, Veijola, Juha, Visscher, Peter M, Viswanathan, Ananth C, Vukcevic, Damjan, Waddington, John, Waller, Matthew, Band, Gavin, Walsh, Dermot, Walshe, Muriel, Walters, James T R, Wang, Qiang, Wang, Dai, Webb, Bradley T, Weinberger, Daniel R, Weisbrod, Matthias, Weiser, Mark, Wendland, Jens R, Barroso, Ines, Weston, Paul, Whittaker, Pamela, Widaa, Sara, Wiersma, Durk, Wildenauer, Dieter B, Williams, Stephanie, Williams, Nigel M, Witt, Stephanie H, Wolen, Aaron R, Wong, Emily H M, Begemann, Martin, Wood, Nicholas W, Wormley, Brandon K, Wray, Naomi R, Xi, Hualin Simon, Zai, Clement C, Zheng, Xuebin, Zimprich, Fritz, Bellenguez, Céline, Research, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric, Belliveau, Richard A, Bender, Stephan, Bene, Judit, Bergen, Sarah E, Bevilacqua, Elizabeth, Bigdeli, Tim B, Black, Donald W, Blackburn, Hannah, Blackwell, Jenefer M, Blackwood, Douglas H R, Børglum, Anders D, Bramon, Elvira, Brown, Matthew A, Bruggeman, Richard, Buccola, Nancy G, Buckner, Randy L, Bulik-Sullivan, Brendan, Bumpstead, Suzannah J, Buxbaum, Joseph D, Byerley, William, Cahn, Wiepke, Als, Thomas D, Cai, Guiqing, Campion, Dominique, Cantor, Rita M, Carr, Vaughan J, Carrera, Noa, Casas, Juan P, Catts, Stanley V, Chambert, Kimberley D, Chan, Ronald Y L, Chan, Raymond C K, Grove, Jakob, Chen, Eric Y H, Cheng, Wei, Cheung, Eric F C, Chong, Siow Ann, Cichon, Sven, Cloninger, C Robert, Cohen, David, Cohen, Nadine, Collier, David A, Cormican, Paul, Werge, Thomas, Corvin, Aiden, Craddock, Nick, Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto, Crowley, James J, Daly, Mark J, Darvasi, Ariel, Davidson, Michael, Davis, Kenneth L, Degenhardt, Franziska, Del Favero, Jurgen, Mortensen, Preben Bo, Deloukas, Panos, Demontis, Ditte, Dikeos, Dimitris, Dinan, Timothy, Djurovic, Srdjan, Domenici, Enrico, Donnelly, Peter, Donohoe, Gary, Drapeau, Elodie, Dronov, Serge, Læknadeild (HÍ), Faculty of Medicine (UI), Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Health Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, Adult Psychiatry, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, ANS - Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Stress & Sleep, APH - Mental Health, Hess, Jonathan L, Tylee, Daniel S, Mattheisen, Manuel, Borglum, Anders D, Glatt, Stephen J, Lee, Sand Hong, Schizophrenia Working Group of thePsychiatric Genomics Consortium, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Complex Trait Genetics, and Myin-Germeys, Inez

Subjects
Multifactorial Inheritance, Schizophrenia/genetics, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Medical and Health Sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, schizophrenia, genetics, risk, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, genetics, polygenic score, Aetiology, genome wide association study, risk, Genetics, Psychiatry, 0303 health sciences, Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, Single Nucleotide, Genomics, Biological Sciences, Serious Mental Illness, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Penetrance, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mental Health, Mendelian disease, Erfðarannsóknir, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming), high risk, Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Geðklofi, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Allele, Polymorphism, Resilience (network), Molecular Biology, resilience, Multifactorial Inheritance/genetics, Alleles, 030304 developmental biology, Science & Technology, Prevention, Human Genome, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Neurosciences, Brain Disorders, Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, schizophrenia, Good Health and Well Being, Schizophrenia, Neurosciences & Neurology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

Publisher's version (útgefin grein), Based on the discovery by the Resilience Project (Chen R. et al. Nat Biotechnol 34:531–538, 2016) of rare variants that confer resistance to Mendelian disease, and protective alleles for some complex diseases, we posited the existence of genetic variants that promote resilience to highly heritable polygenic disorders1,0 such as schizophrenia. Resilience has been traditionally viewed as a psychological construct, although our use of the term resilience refers to a different construct that directly relates to the Resilience Project, namely: heritable variation that promotes resistance to disease by reducing the penetrance of risk loci, wherein resilience and risk loci operate orthogonal to one another. In this study, we established a procedure to identify unaffected individuals with relatively high polygenic risk for schizophrenia, and contrasted them with risk-matched schizophrenia cases to generate the first known “polygenic resilience score” that represents the additive contributions to SZ resistance by variants that are distinct from risk loci. The resilience score was derived from data compiled by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, and replicated in three independent samples. This work establishes a generalizable framework for finding resilience variants for any complex, heritable disorder., SJG is supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (5R01MH101519, 5R01AG054002), the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation, and NARSAD: The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. SVF is supported by the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement number 602805, the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 667302 and NIMH grants 5R01MH101519 and U01 MH109536-01. HJE is supported by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (U10 AA008401; U01 MH109532). Statistical analyses were conducted on the Genetic Cluster Computer, which is financially supported by the Netherlands Scientific Organization (NOW; 480-05-003) along with a supplement from the Dutch Brain Foundation and VU University. The Danish iPSYCH (The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research) and GEMS2 teams acknowledge funding from The Lundbeck Foundation (grant no R102-A9118 and R155-2014-1724), the Stanley Medical Research Institute, an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (project no: 294838), the Danish Strategic Research Council and grants from Aarhus University to the iSEQ and CIRRAU centers. The Danish National Biobank resource at Statens Serum Institut was supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Computational resources for handling and statistical analysis of iPSYCH data on the GenomeDK HPC facility were provided by the iSEQ center, Aarhus University, Denmark (grant to ADB).

Published
2021

47. Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation

Author

Mahajan, Anubha, Spracklen, Cassandra N., Zhang, Weihua, Ng, Maggie C. Y., Petty, Lauren E., Kitajima, Hidetoshi, Yu, Grace Z., Rüeger, Sina, Speidel, Leo, Kim, Young Jin, Horikoshi, Momoko, Mercader, Josep M., Taliun, Daniel, Moon, Sanghoon, Kwak, Soo-heon, Robertson, Neil R., Rayner, Nigel W., Loh, Marie, Kim, Bong-jo, Chiou, Joshua, Miguel-escalada, Irene, Della Briotta Parolo, Pietro, Lin, Kuang, Bragg, Fiona, Preuss, Michael H., Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Nano, Jana, Guo, Xiuqing, Lamri, Amel, Nakatochi, Masahiro, Scott, Robert A., Lee, Jung-jin, Huerta-chagoya, Alicia, Graff, Mariaelisa, Chai, Jin-fang, Parra, Esteban J., Yao, Jie, Bielak, Lawrence F., Tabara, Yasuharu, Hai, Yang, Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur, Cook, James P., Kals, Mart, Grarup, Niels, Schmidt, Ellen M., Pan, Ian, Sofer, Tamar, Wuttke, Matthias, Sarnowski, Chloe, Gieger, Christian, Nousome, Darryl, Trompet, Stella, Long, Jirong, Sun, Meng, Tong, Lin, Chen, Wei-min, Ahmad, Meraj, Noordam, Raymond, Lim, Victor J. Y., Tam, Claudia H. T., Joo, Yoonjung Yoonie, Chen, Chien-hsiun, Raffield, Laura M., Lecoeur, Cécile, Prins, Bram Peter, Nicolas, Aude, Yanek, Lisa R., Chen, Guanjie, Jensen, Richard A., Tajuddin, Salman, Kabagambe, Edmond K., An, Ping, Xiang, Anny H., Choi, Hyeok Sun, Cade, Brian E., Tan, Jingyi, Flanagan, Jack, Abaitua, Fernando, Adair, Linda S., Adeyemo, Adebowale, Aguilar-salinas, Carlos A., Akiyama, Masato, Anand, Sonia S., Bertoni, Alain, Bian, Zheng, Bork-jensen, Jette, Brandslund, Ivan, Brody, Jennifer A., Brummett, Chad M., Buchanan, Thomas A., Canouil, Mickaël, Chan, Juliana C. N., Chang, Li-ching, Chee, Miao-li, Chen, Ji, Chen, Shyh-huei, Chen, Yuan-tsong, Chen, Zhengming, Chuang, Lee-ming, Cushman, Mary, Das, Swapan K., De Silva, H. Janaka, Dedoussis, George, Dimitrov, Latchezar, Doumatey, Ayo P., Du, Shufa, Duan, Qing, Eckardt, Kai-uwe, Emery, Leslie S., Evans, Daniel S., Evans, Michele K., Fischer, Krista, Floyd, James S., Ford, Ian, Fornage, Myriam, Franco, Oscar H., Frayling, Timothy M., Freedman, Barry I., Fuchsberger, Christian, Genter, Pauline, Gerstein, Hertzel C., Giedraitis, Vilmantas, González-villalpando, Clicerio, González-villalpando, Maria Elena, Goodarzi, Mark O., Gordon-larsen, Penny, Gorkin, David, Gross, Myron, Guo, Yu, Hackinger, Sophie, Han, Sohee, Hattersley, Andrew T., Herder, Christian, Howard, Annie-green, Hsueh, Willa, Huang, Mengna, Huang, Wei, Hung, Yi-jen, Hwang, Mi Yeong, Hwu, Chii-min, Ichihara, Sahoko, Ikram, Mohammad Arfan, Ingelsson, Martin, Islam, Md Tariqul, Isono, Masato, Jang, Hye-mi, Jasmine, Farzana, Jiang, Guozhi, Jonas, Jost B., Jørgensen, Marit E., Jørgensen, Torben, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Kandeel, Fouad R., Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katsuya, Tomohiro, Kaur, Varinderpal, Kawaguchi, Takahisa, Keaton, Jacob M., Kho, Abel N., Khor, Chiea-chuen, Kibriya, Muhammad G., Kim, Duk-hwan, Kohara, Katsuhiko, Kriebel, Jennifer, Kronenberg, Florian, Kuusisto, Johanna, Läll, Kristi, Lange, Leslie A., Lee, Myung-shik, Lee, Nanette R., Leong, Aaron, Li, Liming, Li, Yun, Li-gao, Ruifang, Ligthart, Symen, Lindgren, Cecilia M., Linneberg, Allan, Liu, Ching-ti, Liu, Jianjun, Locke, Adam E., Louie, Tin, Luan, Jian’an, Luk, Andrea O., Luo, Xi, Lv, Jun, Lyssenko, Valeriya, Mamakou, Vasiliki, Mani, K. Radha, Meitinger, Thomas, Metspalu, Andres, Morris, Andrew D., Nadkarni, Girish N., Nadler, Jerry L., Nalls, Michael A., Nayak, Uma, Nongmaithem, Suraj S., Ntalla, Ioanna, Okada, Yukinori, Orozco, Lorena, Patel, Sanjay R., Pereira, Mark A., Peters, Annette, Pirie, Fraser J., Porneala, Bianca, Prasad, Gauri, Preissl, Sebastian, Rasmussen-torvik, Laura J., Reiner, Alexander P., Roden, Michael, Rohde, Rebecca, Roll, Kathryn, Sabanayagam, Charumathi, Sander, Maike, Sandow, Kevin, Sattar, Naveed, Schönherr, Sebastian, Schurmann, Claudia, Shahriar, Mohammad, Shi, Jinxiu, Shin, Dong Mun, Shriner, Daniel, Smith, Jennifer A., So, Wing Yee, Stančáková, Alena, Stilp, Adrienne M., Strauch, Konstantin, Suzuki, Ken, Takahashi, Atsushi, Taylor, Kent D., Thorand, Barbara, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Tomlinson, Brian, Torres, Jason M., Tsai, Fuu-jen, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Tusie-luna, Teresa, Udler, Miriam S., Valladares-salgado, Adan, Van Dam, Rob M., Van Klinken, Jan B., Varma, Rohit, Vujkovic, Marijana, Wacher-rodarte, Niels, Wheeler, Eleanor, Whitsel, Eric A., Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Van Dijk, Ko Willems, Witte, Daniel R., Yajnik, Chittaranjan S., Yamamoto, Ken, Yamauchi, Toshimasa, Yengo, Loïc, Yoon, Kyungheon, Yu, Canqing, Yuan, Jian-min, Yusuf, Salim, Zhang, Liang, Zheng, Wei, Hayes, M. Geoffrey, Raffel, Leslie J., Igase, Michiya, Ipp, Eli, Redline, Susan, Cho, Yoon Shin, Lind, Lars, Province, Michael A., Hanis, Craig L., Peyser, Patricia A., Ingelsson, Erik, Zonderman, Alan B., Psaty, Bruce M., Wang, Ya-xing, Rotimi, Charles N., Becker, Diane M., Matsuda, Fumihiko, Liu, Yongmei, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Yokota, Mitsuhiro, Rich, Stephen S., Kooperberg, Charles, Pankow, James S., Engert, James C., Chen, Yii-der Ida, Froguel, Philippe, Wilson, James G., Sheu, Wayne H. H., Kardia, Sharon L. R., Wu, Jer-yuarn, Ma, Ronald C. W., Wong, Tien-yin, Groop, Leif, Mook-kanamori, Dennis O., Chandak, Giriraj R., Collins, Francis S., Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan, Paré, Guillaume, Sale, Michèle M., Ahsan, Habibul, Motala, Ayesha A., Shu, Xiao-ou, Park, Kyong-soo, Jukema, J. Wouter, Cruz, Miguel, Mckean-cowdin, Roberta, Grallert, Harald, Cheng, Ching-yu, Bottinger, Erwin P., Dehghan, Abbas, Tai, E-shyong, Dupuis, Josée, Kato, Norihiro, Laakso, Markku, Köttgen, Anna, Koh, Woon-puay, Palmer, Colin N. A., Liu, Simin, Abecasis, Goncalo, Kooner, Jaspal S., Loos, Ruth J. F., North, Kari E., Haiman, Christopher A., Florez, Jose C., Saleheen, Danish, Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf, Mägi, Reedik, Langenberg, Claudia, Wareham, Nicholas J., Maeda, Shiro, Kadowaki, Takashi, Lee, Juyoung, Millwood, Iona Y., Walters, Robin G., Stefansson, Kari, Myers, Simon R., Ferrer, Jorge, Gaulton, Kyle J., Meigs, James B., Mohlke, Karen L., Gloyn, Anna L., Bowden, Donald W., Below, Jennifer E., Chambers, John C., Sim, Xueling, Boehnke, Michael, Rotter, Jerome I., Mccarthy, Mark I., Morris, Andrew P., Epidemiology, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Laboratory for General Clinical Chemistry, and AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism

Subjects
endocrine system diseases, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, R1, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/epidemiology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Risk Factors, Ethnicity, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, human activities, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non-European descent) through the Diabetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies (DIAMANTE) Consortium. Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identified 237 loci attaining stringent genome-wide significance (P < 5 x 10(-9)), which were delineated to 338 distinct association signals. Fine-mapping of these signals was enhanced by the increased sample size and expanded population diversity of the multi-ancestry meta-analysis, which localized 54.4% of T2D associations to a single variant with >50% posterior probability. This improved fine-mapping enabled systematic assessment of candidate causal genes and molecular mechanisms through which T2D associations are mediated, laying the foundations for functional investigations. Multi-ancestry genetic risk scores enhanced transferability of T2D prediction across diverse populations. Our study provides a step toward more effective clinical translation of T2D GWAS to improve global health for all, irrespective of genetic background.Genome-wide association and fine-mapping analyses in ancestrally diverse populations implicate candidate causal genes and mechanisms underlying type 2 diabetes. Trans-ancestry genetic risk scores enhance transferability across populations.

Published
2022

48. RNA-binding protein p54nrb/NONO potentiates nuclear EGFR-mediated tumorigenesis of triple-negative breast cancer

Author

Shen, Mengqin, Zhang, Ruixue, Jia, Wenzhi, Zhu, Zongping, Zhao, Li, Huang, Gang, and Liu, Jianjun

Subjects
Cancer Research, Molecular biology, Carcinogenesis, Immunology, Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms, Article, Cell growth, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Line, Tumor, Bone cancer, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Cell Proliferation, Cell Nucleus, QH573-671, Protein Stability, RNA-Binding Proteins, Cell Biology, Middle Aged, CREB-Binding Protein, DNA-Binding Proteins, ErbB Receptors, Disease Progression, Female, Cytology, E1A-Associated p300 Protein, Protein Binding, Signal Transduction
Abstract

Nuclear-localized epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) highly correlates with the malignant progression and may be a promising therapeutic target for breast cancer. However, molecular mechanisms of nuclear EGFR in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have not been fully elucidated. Here, we performed gene-annotation enrichment analysis for the interactors of nuclear EGFR and found that RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) were closely associated with nuclear EGFR. We further demonstrated p54nrb/NONO, one of the RBPs, significantly interacted with nuclear EGFR. NONO was upregulated in 80 paired TNBC tissues and indicated a poor prognosis. Furthermore, NONO knockout significantly inhibited TNBC proliferation in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, NONO increased the stability of nuclear EGFR and recruited CREB binding protein (CBP) and its accompanying E1A binding protein p300, thereby enhancing the transcriptional activity of EGFR. In turn, EGFR positively regulated the affinity of NONO to mRNAs of nuclear EGFR downstream genes. Furthermore, the results indicated that the nuclear EGFR/NONO complex played a critical role in tumorigenesis and chemotherapy resistance. Taken together, our findings indicate that NONO enhances nuclear EGFR-mediated tumorigenesis and may be a potential therapeutic target for TNBC patients with nuclear EGFR expression.

Published
2022

49. Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia

Author

Pardiñas, Antonio F., Smart, Sophie E., Corvin, Aiden, Freimer, Nelson B., Friedl, Marion, Friedman, Joseph I., Fromer, Menachem, Genovese, Giulio, Georgieva, Lyudmila, Gershon, Elliot S., Giegling, Ina, Giusti-Rodríguez, Paola, Godard, Stephanie, Fanous, Ayman H., Goldstein, Jacqueline I., Golimbet, Vera, Gopal, Srihari, Gratten, Jacob, Haan, Lieuwe de, Hammer, Christian, Hamshere, Marian L., Hansen, Mark, Hansen, Thomas, Haroutunian, Vahram, Frank, Josef, Hartmann, Annette M., Henskens, Frans A., Herms, Stefan, Hirschhorn, Joel N., Hoffmann, Per, Hofman, Andrea, Hollegaard, Mads V., Hougaard, David M., Ikeda, Masashi, Joa, Inge, Kelly, Brian, Julià, Antonio, Kahn, René S., Kalaydjieva, Luba, Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Karjalainen, Juha, Kavanagh, David, Keller, Matthew C., Kennedy, James L., Khrunin, Andrey, Kim, Yunjung, McQuillin, Andrew, Klovins, Janis, Knowles, James A., Konte, Bettina, Kucinskas, Vaidutis, Kucinskiene, Zita Ausrele, Kuzelova-Ptackova, Hana, Kähler, Anna K., Laurent, Claudine, Keong, Jimmy Lee Chee, Lee, S. Hong, Melle, Ingrid, Lerer, Bernard, Li, Miaoxin, Li, Tao, Liang, Kung-Yee, Lieberman, Jeffrey, Limborska, Svetlana, Loughland, Carmel M., Lubinski, Jan, Lönnqvist, Jouko, Macek, Milan, Mortensen, Preben B., Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Maher, Brion S., Maier, Wolfgang, Mallet, Jacques, Marsal, Sara, Mattheisen, Manuel, Mattingsdal, Morten, McCarley, Robert W., McDonald, Colm, McIntosh, Andrew M., Mowry, Bryan J., Meier, Sandra, Meijer, Carin J., Melegh, Bela, Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I., Metspalu, Andres, Michie, Patricia T., Milani, Lili, Milanova, Vihra, Mokrab, Younes, Pato, Carlos N., Morris, Derek W., Mors, Ole, Murphy, Kieran C., Myin-Germeys, Inez, Müller-Myhsok, Bertram, Nelis, Mari, Nenadic, Igor, Nertney, Deborah A., Nestadt, Gerald, Nicodemus, Kristin K., Periyasamy, Sathish, Nikitina-Zake, Liene, Nisenbaum, Laura, Nordin, Annelie, O’Callaghan, Eadbhard, O’Dushlaine, Colm, O’Neill, F. Anthony, Oh, Sang-Yun, Olincy, Ann, Olsen, Line, Os, Jim Van, Willcocks, Isabella R., Rietschel, Marcella, Pantelis, Christos, Papadimitriou, George N., Papiol, Sergi, Parkhomenko, Elena, Pato, Michele T., Paunio, Tiina, Pejovic-Milovancevic, Milica, Perkins, Diana O., Pietiläinen, Olli, Pimm, Jonathan, Rujescu, Dan, Pocklington, Andrew J., Powell, John, Price, Alkes, Pulver, Ann E., Purcell, Shaun M., Quested, Digby, Rasmussen, Henrik B., Reichenberg, Abraham, Reimers, Mark A., Richards, Alexander L., Simonsen, Carmen, Roffman, Joshua L., Roussos, Panos, Ruderfer, Douglas M., Salomaa, Veikko, Sanders, Alan R., Schall, Ulrich, Schubert, Christian R., Schulze, Thomas G., Schwab, Sibylle G., Scolnick, Edward M., St Clair, David, Scott, Rodney J., Seidman, Larry J., Shi, Jianxin, Sigurdsson, Engilbert, Silagadze, Teimuraz, Silverman, Jeremy M., Sim, Kang, Slominsky, Petr, Smoller, Jordan W., So, Hon-Cheong, Tooney, Paul, Spencer, Chris C. A., Stahl, Eli A., Stefansson, Hreinn, Steinberg, Stacy, Stogmann, Elisabeth, Straub, Richard E., Strengman, Eric, Strohmaier, Jana, Stroup, T. Scott, Subramaniam, Mythily, Wu, Jing Qin, Suvisaari, Jaana, Svrakic, Dragan M., Szatkiewicz, Jin P., Söderman, Erik, Thirumalai, Srinivas, Toncheva, Draga, Tosato, Sarah, Veijola, Juha, Waddington, John, Walsh, Dermot, Andreassen, Ole A., Wang, Dai, Wang, Qiang, Webb, Bradley T., Weiser, Mark, Wildenauer, Dieter B., Williams, Nigel M., Williams, Stephanie, Witt, Stephanie H., Wolen, Aaron R., Wong, Emily H. M., Kowalec, Kaarina, Wormley, Brandon K., Xi, Hualin Simon, Zai, Clement C., Zheng, Xuebin, Zimprich, Fritz, Wray, Naomi R., Stefansson, Kari, Visscher, Peter M., Adolfsson, Rolf, Blackwood, Douglas H. R., Sullivan, Patrick F., Bramon, Elvira, Buxbaum, Joseph D., Børglum, Anders D., Cichon, Sven, Darvasi, Ariel, Domenici, Enrico, Ehrenreich, Hannelore, Esko, Tõnu, Gejman, Pablo V., Gill, Michael, Murray, Robin M., Gurling, Hugh, Hultman, Christina M., Iwata, Nakao, Jablensky, Assen V., Jönsson, Erik G., Kendler, Kenneth S., Kirov, George, Knight, Jo, Lencz, Todd, Levinson, Douglas F., Holmans, Peter A., Owen, Michael J., Li, Qingqin S., Liu, Jianjun, Malhotra, Anil K., McCarroll, Steven A., Moran, Jennifer L., Nöthen, Markus M., Ophoff, Roel A., Palotie, Aarno, Petryshen, Tracey L., MacCabe, James H., Posthuma, Danielle, Riley, Brien P., Sham, Pak C., Sklar, Pamela, Clair, David St, Weinberger, Daniel R., Wendland, Jens R., Werge, Thomas, Daly, Mark J., Agbedjro, Deborah, O’Donovan, Michael C., Stahl, Daniel, Kapur, Shitij, Millgate, Edward, Kepinska, Adrianna, Kravariti, Eugenia, Ajnakina, Olesya, Alameda, Luis, Barnes, Thomas R. E., Berardi, Domenico, Bonora, Elena, Walters, James T. R., Camporesi, Sara, Cleusix, Martine, Conus, Philippe, Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto, D’Andrea, Giuseppe, Demjaha, Arsime, Do, Kim Q., Doody, Gillian A., Eap, Chin B., Ferchiou, Aziz, Ripke, Stephan, Di Forti, Marta, Guidi, Lorenzo, Homman, Lina, Jenni, Raoul, Joyce, Eileen M., Kassoumeri, Laura, Khadimallah, Inès, Lastrina, Ornella, Muratori, Roberto, Noyan, Handan, Neale, Benjamin M., O’Neill, Francis A., Pignon, Baptiste, Restellini, Romeo, Richard, Jean-Romain, Schürhoff, Franck, Španiel, Filip, Szöke, Andrei, Tarricone, Ilaria, Tortelli, Andrea, Üçok, Alp, Farh, Kai-How, Vázquez-Bourgon, Javier, Lee, Phil, Bulik-Sullivan, Brendan, Collier, David A., Dennison, Charlotte A., Huang, Hailiang, Pers, Tune H., Agartz, Ingrid, Agerbo, Esben, Albus, Margot, Alexander, Madeline, Amin, Farooq, Bacanu, Silviu A., Begemann, Martin, Belliveau, Richard A ., Lynham, Amy J., Bene, Judit, Bergen, Sarah E., Bevilacqua, Elizabeth, Black, Donald W., Bruggeman, Richard, Buccola, Nancy G., Buckner, Randy L., Byerley, William, Cahn, Wiepke, Cai, Guiqing, Legge, Sophie E., Campion, Dominique, Cantor, Rita M., Carr, Vaughan J., Carrera, Noa, Catts, Stanley V., Chambert, Kimberly D., Chan, Raymond C. K., Chen, Ronald Y. L., Chen, Eric Y. H., Cheng, Wei, Baune, Bernhard T., Cheung, Eric F. C., Chong, Siow Ann, Cloninger, C. Robert, Cohen, David, Cohen, Nadine, Cormican, Paul, Craddock, Nick, Crowley, James J., Curtis, David, Davidson, Michael, Bigdeli, Tim B., Davis, Kenneth L., Degenhardt, Franziska, Favero, Jurgen Del, DeLisi, Lynn E., Demontis, Ditte, Dikeos, Dimitris, Dinan, Timothy, Djurovic, Srdjan, Donohoe, Gary, Drapeau, Elodie, Cairns, Murray J., Duan, Jubao, Dudbridge, Frank, Durmishi, Naser, Eichhammer, Peter, Eriksson, Johan, Escott-Price, Valentina, Essioux, Laurent, Farrell, Martilias S., Franke, Lude, Freedman, Robert, Genetics Workstream of the Schizophrenia Treatment Resistance and Therapeutic Advances (STRATA) Consortium and the Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), Ripke, S., Neale, B.M., Farh, K.H., Lee, P., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Collier, D.A., Huang, H., Pers, T.H., Agartz, I., Agerbo, E., Albus, M., Alexander, M., Amin, F., Bacanu, S.A., Begemann, M., Belliveau, R.A., Bene, J., Bergen, S.E., Bevilacqua, E., Black, D.W., Bruggeman, R., Buccola, N.G., Buckner, R.L., Byerley, W., Cahn, W., Cai, G., Campion, D., Cantor, R.M., Carr, V.J., Carrera, N., Catts, S.V., Chambert, K.D., Chan, RCK, Chen, RYL, Chen, EYH, Cheng, W., Cheung, EFC, Chong, S.A., Cloninger, C.R., Cohen, D., Cohen, N., Cormican, P., Craddock, N., Crowley, J.J., Curtis, D., Davidson, M., Davis, K.L., Degenhardt, F., Favero, J.D., DeLisi, L.E., Demontis, D., Dikeos, D., Dinan, T., Djurovic, S., Donohoe, G., Drapeau, E., Duan, J., Dudbridge, F., Durmishi, N., Eichhammer, P., Eriksson, J., Escott-Price, V., Essioux, L., Farrell, M.S., Franke, L., Freedman, R., Freimer, N.B., Friedl, M., Friedman, J.I., Fromer, M., Genovese, G., Georgieva, L., Gershon, E.S., Giegling, I., Giusti-Rodríguez, P., Godard, S., Goldstein, J.I., Golimbet, V., Gopal, S., Gratten, J., Haan, L., Hammer, C., Hamshere, M.L., Hansen, M., Hansen, T., Haroutunian, V., Hartmann, A.M., Henskens, F.A., Herms, S., Hirschhorn, J.N., Hoffmann, P., Hofman, A., Hollegaard, M.V., Hougaard, D.M., Ikeda, M., Joa, I., Julià, A., Kahn, R.S., Kalaydjieva, L., Karachanak-Yankova, S., Karjalainen, J., Kavanagh, D., Keller, M.C., Kennedy, J.L., Khrunin, A., Kim, Y., Klovins, J., Knowles, J.A., Konte, B., Kucinskas, V., Kucinskiene, Z.A., Kuzelova-Ptackova, H., Kähler, A.K., Laurent, C., Keong, JLC, Lee, S.H., Lerer, B., Li, M., Li, T., Liang, K.Y., Lieberman, J., Limborska, S., Loughland, C.M., Lubinski, J., Lönnqvist, J., Macek, M., Magnusson, PKE, Maher, B.S., Maier, W., Mallet, J., Marsal, S., Mattheisen, M., Mattingsdal, M., McCarley, R.W., McDonald, C., McIntosh, A.M., Meier, S., Meijer, C.J., Melegh, B., Melle, I., Mesholam-Gately, R.I., Metspalu, A., Michie, P.T., Milani, L., Milanova, V., Mokrab, Y., Morris, D.W., Mors, O., Murphy, K.C., Myin-Germeys, I., Müller-Myhsok, B., Nelis, M., Nenadic, I., Nertney, D.A., Nestadt, G., Nicodemus, K.K., Nikitina-Zake, L., Nisenbaum, L., Nordin, A., O'Callaghan, E., O'Dushlaine, C., O'Neill, F.A., Oh, S.Y., Olincy, A., Olsen, L., Os, J.V., Pantelis, C., Papadimitriou, G.N., Papiol, S., Parkhomenko, E., Pato, M.T., Paunio, T., Pejovic-Milovancevic, M., Perkins, D.O., Pietiläinen, O., Pimm, J., Pocklington, A.J., Powell, J., Price, A., Pulver, A.E., Purcell, S.M., Quested, D., Rasmussen, H.B., Reichenberg, A., Reimers, M.A., Richards, A.L., Roffman, J.L., Roussos, P., Ruderfer, D.M., Salomaa, V., Sanders, A.R., Schall, U., Schubert, C.R., Schulze, T.G., Schwab, S.G., Scolnick, E.M., Scott, R.J., Seidman, L.J., Shi, J., Sigurdsson, E., Silagadze, T., Silverman, J.M., Sim, K., Slominsky, P., Smoller, J.W., So, H.C., Spencer, CCA, Stahl, E.A., Stefansson, H., Steinberg, S., Stogmann, E., Straub, R.E., Strengman, E., Strohmaier, J., Stroup, T.S., Subramaniam, M., Suvisaari, J., Svrakic, D.M., Szatkiewicz, J.P., Söderman, E., Thirumalai, S., Toncheva, D., Tosato, S., Veijola, J., Waddington, J., Walsh, D., Wang, D., Wang, Q., Webb, B.T., Weiser, M., Wildenauer, D.B., Williams, N.M., Williams, S., Witt, S.H., Wolen, A.R., Wong, EHM, Wormley, B.K., Xi, H.S., Zai, C.C., Zheng, X., Zimprich, F., Wray, N.R., Stefansson, K., Visscher, P.M., Adolfsson, R., Blackwood, DHR, Bramon, E., Buxbaum, J.D., Børglum, A.D., Cichon, S., Darvasi, A., Domenici, E., Ehrenreich, H., Esko, T., Gejman, P.V., Gill, M., Gurling, H., Hultman, C.M., Iwata, N., Jablensky, A.V., Jönsson, E.G., Kendler, K.S., Kirov, G., Knight, J., Lencz, T., Levinson, D.F., Li, Q.S., Liu, J., Malhotra, A.K., McCarroll, S.A., Moran, J.L., Mortensen, P.B., Nöthen, M.M., Ophoff, R.A., Palotie, A., Petryshen, T.L., Posthuma, D., Riley, B.P., Sham, P.C., Sklar, P., Clair, D.S., Weinberger, D.R., Wendland, J.R., Werge, T., Daly, M.J., Agbedjro, D., Stahl, D., Kapur, S., Millgate, E., Kepinska, A., Kravariti, E., Medical Research Council (UK), Cardiff University, Welsh Government, Health and Care Research Wales, European Commission, Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), Research Council of Norway, K. G. Jebsen Centres for Medical Research, National Institute for Health Research (UK), University College London, Government of Canada, University of Manitoba, Swedish Research Council, National Institute of Mental Health (US), Kings College London, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), The Psychiatry Research Trust, Maudsley Charity, Swiss National Science Foundation, Fondation Alamaya, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Plan Nacional sobre Drogas (España), Fundació Seny, Fundación Marques de Valdecilla, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Wellcome Trust, and Universidad de Cantabria

Subjects
Male, endocrine system, Multifactorial Inheritance, animal structures, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Online First, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, ddc:610, Neurogenetics, Medicinsk genetik, Original Investigation, Research, Schizophrenia Sprectum and Other Psychotic Disorders, Featured, Genetics and genomics, Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology, Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Female, Medical Genetics, hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists, Comments, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

[Importance] About 20% to 30% of people with schizophrenia have psychotic symptoms that do not respond adequately to first-line antipsychotic treatment. This clinical presentation, chronic and highly disabling, is known as treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS). The causes of treatment resistance and their relationships with causes underlying schizophrenia are largely unknown. Adequately powered genetic studies of TRS are scarce because of the difficulty in collecting data from well-characterized TRS cohorts., [Objective] To examine the genetic architecture of TRS through the reassessment of genetic data from schizophrenia studies and its validation in carefully ascertained clinical samples., [Design, Setting, and Participants] Two case-control genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of schizophrenia were performed in which the case samples were defined as individuals with TRS (n = 10 501) and individuals with non-TRS (n = 20 325). The differences in effect sizes for allelic associations were then determined between both studies, the reasoning being such differences reflect treatment resistance instead of schizophrenia. Genotype data were retrieved from the CLOZUK and Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) schizophrenia studies. The output was validated using polygenic risk score (PRS) profiling of 2 independent schizophrenia cohorts with TRS and non-TRS: a prevalence sample with 817 individuals (Cardiff Cognition in Schizophrenia [CardiffCOGS]) and an incidence sample with 563 individuals (Genetics Workstream of the Schizophrenia Treatment Resistance and Therapeutic Advances [STRATA-G])., [Main Outcomes and Measures] GWAS of treatment resistance in schizophrenia. The results of the GWAS were compared with complex polygenic traits through a genetic correlation approach and were used for PRS analysis on the independent validation cohorts using the same TRS definition., [Results] The study included a total of 85 490 participants (48 635 [56.9%] male) in its GWAS stage and 1380 participants (859 [62.2%] male) in its PRS validation stage. Treatment resistance in schizophrenia emerged as a polygenic trait with detectable heritability (1% to 4%), and several traits related to intelligence and cognition were found to be genetically correlated with it (genetic correlation, 0.41-0.69). PRS analysis in the CardiffCOGS prevalence sample showed a positive association between TRS and a history of taking clozapine (r2 = 2.03%; P = .001), which was replicated in the STRATA-G incidence sample (r2 = 1.09%; P = .04)., [Conclusions and Relevance] In this GWAS, common genetic variants were differentially associated with TRS, and these associations may have been obscured through the amalgamation of large GWAS samples in previous studies of broadly defined schizophrenia. Findings of this study suggest the validity of meta-analytic approaches for studies on patient outcomes, including treatment resistance., This work was supported by Medical Research Council Centre grant MR/L010305/1, Medical Research Council Program grant MR/P005748/1, and Medical Research Council Project grants MR/L011794/1 and MC_PC_17212 to Cardiff University and by the National Centre for Mental Health, funded by the Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales. This work acknowledges the support of the Supercomputing Wales project, which is partially funded by the European Regional Development Fund via the Welsh Government. Dr Pardiñas was supported by an Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award (SBF005\1083). Dr Andreassen was supported by the Research Council of Norway (grants 283798, 262656, 248980, 273291, 248828, 248778, and 223273); KG Jebsen Stiftelsen, South-East Norway Health Authority, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant 847776). Dr Ajnakina was supported by an National Institute for Health Research postdoctoral fellowship (PDF-2018-11-ST2-020). Dr Joyce was supported by the University College London Hospitals/UCL University College London Biomedical Research Centre. Dr Kowalec received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement (793530) from the government of Canada Banting postdoctoral fellowship programme and the University of Manitoba. Dr Sullivan was supported by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, D0886501), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (COSYN, 610307) and the US National Institute of Mental Health (U01 MH109528 and R01 MH077139). The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium was partly supported by the National Institute Of Mental Health (grants R01MH124873). The Sweden Schizophrenia Study was supported by the National Institute Of Mental Health (grant R01MH077139). The STRATA consortium was supported by a Stratified Medicine Programme grant to Dr MacCabe from the Medical Research Council (grant MR/L011794/1), which funded the research and supported Drs Pardiñas, Smart, Kassoumeri, Murray, Walters, and MacCabe. Dr Smart was supported by a Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South London at King’s College Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust. The AESOP (US) cohort was funded by the UK Medical Research Council (grant G0500817). The Belfast (UK) cohort was funded by the Research and Development Office of Northern Ireland. The Bologna (Italy) cohort was funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework program (HEALTH-F2-2010–241909, project EU-GEI). The Genetics and Psychosis project (London, UK) cohort was funded by the UK National Institute of Health Research Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and the Maudsley National Health Service Mental Health Foundation Trust (SLAM) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London; Psychiatry Research Trust; Maudsley Charity Research Fund; and the European Community’s Seventh Framework program (HEALTH-F2-2009-241909, project EU-GEI). The Lausanne (Switzerland) cohort was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grants 320030_135736/1, 320030-120686, 324730-144064, 320030-173211, and 171804); the National Center of Competence in Research Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 51AU40_125759); and Fondation Alamaya. The Oslo (Norway) cohort was funded by the Research Council of Norway (grant 223273/F50, under the Centers of Excellence funding scheme, 300309, 283798) and the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (grants 2006233, 2006258, 2011085, 2014102, 2015088, and 2017-112). The Paris (France) cohort was funded by European Community’s Seventh Framework program (HEALTH-F2-2010–241909, project EU-GEI). The Prague (Czech Republic) cohort was funded by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (grant NU20-04-00393). The Santander (Spain) cohort was funded by the following grants to Dr Crespo-Facorro: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (grants FIS00/3095, PI020499, PI050427, and PI060507), Plan Nacional de Drogas Research (grant 2005-Orden sco/3246/2004), SENY Fundatio Research (grant 2005-0308007), Fundacion Marques de Valdecilla (grant A/02/07, API07/011) and Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Fund for Regional Development (grants SAF2016-76046-R and SAF2013-46292-R). The West London (UK) cohort was funded by The Wellcome Trust (grants 042025, 052247, and 064607).

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2022

50. Racial Disparities in Survival of Breast Cancer Patients After Surgery

Author

Wang, Shuhan, Tang, Weifang, Wang, Shengying, Hong, Shikai, and Liu, Jianjun

Subjects
Asian People, Racial Groups, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Humans, Breast Neoplasms, Female, Mastectomy, SEER Program
Abstract

IntroductionThe racial disparities of opportunity to receive the appropriate intervention and lower insurance coverage may result in survival disparities in different races. This study aims to provide a perspective on racial disparities in the survival of breast cancer patients after surgery.MethodsThrough data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, this study estimated the survival of breast cancer patients of different races from 1998 to 2017. Inverse probability weighting (IPW) was utilized to adjust the imbalanced clinicopathological features of patients of different races.ResultsThis study analyzed 214,965 breast cancer patients after surgery. Among them, 130,746 patients received BCS, and the remaining 84,219 breast cancer patients underwent mastectomy. Although Asian or Pacific Islander (API) patients after surgery showed higher survival benefit than that of white patients in the primary data, after adjusting for age at diagnosis, luminal subtype, grade, T stage, and N stage in different races, white individuals had the longest period of survival was higher than that of the minority groups in BCS group [breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS): HRWhitevs.API = 0.402, HRWhitevs.Black = 0.132; P < 0.001; overall survival (OS): HRWhitevs.API = 0.689, HRWhitevs.Black = 0.254; all P < 0.001] and mastectomy group (BCSS: HRWhitevs.API = 0.325, HRWhitevs.Black = 0.128; P < 0.001; OS: HRWhitevs.API = 0.481, HRWhitevs.Black = 0.206; all P < 0.001)ConclusionsWe first identified that the survival benefit of the minority group after surgery was lower than that of white individuals, regardless of tumor chrematistics and surgery types.

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2021

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