1. Author Correction: Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases
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Iglesias, AI, Mishra, A, Vitart, V, Bykhovskaya, Y, Hoehn, R, Springelkamp, H, Cuellar-Partida, G, Gharahkhani, P, Bailey, JNC, Willoughby, CE, Li, X, Yazar, S, Nag, A, Khawaja, AP, Polasek, O, Siscovick, D, Mitchell, P, Tham, YC, Haines, JL, Kearns, LS, Hayward, C, Shi, Y, van Leeuwen, EM, Taylor, KD, Bonnemaijer, P, Rotter, JI, Martin, NG, Zeller, T, Mills, RA, Souzeau, E, Staffieri, SE, Jonas, JB, Schmidtmann, I, Boutin, T, Kang, JH, Lucas, SEM, Wong, TY, Beutel, ME, Wilson, JF, Uitterlinden, AG, Vithana, EN, Foster, PJ, Hysi, PG, Hewitt, AW, Khor, CC, Pasquale, LR, Montgomery, GW, Klaver, CCW, Aung, T, Pfeiffer, N, Mackey, DA, Hammond, CJ, Cheng, C-Y, Craig, JE, Rabinowitz, YS, Wiggs, JL, Burdon, KP, van Duijn, CM, MacGregor, S, Wang, JJ, Rochtchina, E, Attia, J, Scott, R, Holliday, EG, Baird, PN, Xie, J, Inouye, M, Viswanathan, A, Sim, X, Allingham, RR, Brilliant, MH, Budenz, DL, Christen, WG, Fingert, J, Friedman, DS, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Hauser, MA, Kraft, P, Lee, RK, Lichter, PR, Liu, Y, Loomis, SJ, Moroi, SE, Pericak-Vance, MA, Realini, A, Richards, JE, Schuman, JS, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Vollrath, D, Weinreb, RN, Wollstein, G, Zack, DJ, Zhang, K, Donnelly, P, Barroso, I, Blackwell, JM, Bramon, E, Brown, MA, Casas, JP, Corvin, A, Deloukas, P, Duncanson, A, Jankowski, J, Markus, HS, Mathew, CG, Palmer, CNA, Plomin, R, Rautanen, A, Sawcer, SJ, Trembath, RC, Wood, NW, Spencer, CCA, Band, G, Bellenguez, C, Freeman, C, Hellenthal, G, Giannoulatou, E, Pirinen, M, Pearson, R, Strange, A, Su, Z, Vukcevic, D, Langford, C, Hunt, SE, Edkins, S, Gwilliam, R, Blackburn, H, Bumpstead, SJ, Dronov, S, Gillman, M, Gray, E, Hammond, N, Jayakumar, A, McCann, OT, Liddle, J, Potter, SC, Ravindrarajah, R, Ricketts, M, Waller, M, Weston, P, Widaa, S, Whittaker, P, Grp, BMES-G, Consortium, N, and Control, WTC
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Lumican ,genetic structures ,Fibrillin-1 ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Gene Expression ,Q1 ,Corneal Diseases ,Marfan Syndrome ,Cornea ,ADAMTS Proteins ,Myopia ,Link (knot theory) ,lcsh:Science ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary ,Multidisciplinary ,Eye Diseases, Hereditary ,symbols ,NEIGHBORHOOD consortium ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,Proteoglycans ,Decorin ,Glaucoma, Open-Angle ,Science ,Quantitative Trait Loci ,Computational biology ,Biology ,Keratoconus ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,White People ,Article ,symbols.namesake ,Transforming Growth Factor beta2 ,Quantitative Trait, Heritable ,Asian People ,Genome-Wide Association Analysis ,Humans ,Author Correction ,Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision ,Loeys-Dietz Syndrome ,Genome, Human ,Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 ,Blue Mountains Eye Study - GWAS group ,General Chemistry ,Mendelian Randomization Analysis ,R1 ,eye diseases ,Mendelian inheritance ,Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome ,lcsh:Q ,sense organs ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait associated with complex eye diseases such as keratoconus and glaucoma. We perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis of CCT and identify 19 novel regions. In addition to adding support for known connective tissue-related pathways, pathway analyses uncover previously unreported gene sets. Remarkably, >20% of the CCT-loci are near or within Mendelian disorder genes. These included FBN1, ADAMTS2 and TGFB2 which associate with connective tissue disorders (Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos and Loeys-Dietz syndromes), and the LUM-DCN-KERA gene complex involved in myopia, corneal dystrophies and cornea plana. Using index CCT-increasing variants, we find a significant inverse correlation in effect sizes between CCT and keratoconus (r = −0.62, P = 5.30 × 10−5) but not between CCT and primary open-angle glaucoma (r = −0.17, P = 0.2). Our findings provide evidence for shared genetic influences between CCT and keratoconus, and implicate candidate genes acting in collagen and extracellular matrix regulation., Reduced central corneal thickness (CCT) is observed in common eye diseases as well as in rare Mendelian disorders. Here, in a cross-ancestry GWAS, the authors identify 19 novel genetic loci associated with CCT, a subset of which is involved in rare corneal or connective tissue disorders.
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