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1. Genetic overlap between Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease at the MAPT locus

Author

Desikan, RS, Schork, AJ, Wang, Y, Witoelar, A, Sharma, M, McEvoy, LK, Holland, D, Brewer, JB, Chen, C-H, Thompson, WK, Harold, D, Williams, J, Owen, MJ, O'Donovan, MC, Pericak-Vance, MA, Mayeux, R, Haines, JL, Farrer, LA, Schellenberg, GD, Heutink, P, Singleton, AB, Brice, A, Wood, NW, Hardy, J, Martinez, M, Choi, SH, DeStefano, A, Ikram, MA, Bis, JC, Smith, A, Fitzpatrick, AL, Launer, L, van Duijn, C, Seshadri, S, Ulstein, ID, Aarsland, D, Fladby, T, Djurovic, S, Hyman, BT, Snaedal, J, Stefansson, H, Stefansson, K, Gasser, T, Andreassen, OA, and Dale, AM

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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Biological Psychology, Clinical and Health Psychology, Clinical Sciences, Psychology, Human Genome, Brain Disorders, Neurosciences, Neurodegenerative, Parkinson's Disease, Prevention, Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Genetics, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Acquired Cognitive Impairment, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Neurological, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alleles, Alzheimer Disease, Apolipoproteins E, Brain, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Female, Genetic Loci, Genetic Pleiotropy, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parkinson Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, tau Proteins, ADNI, ADGC, GERAD, CHARGE and IPDGC Investigators, Biological Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Psychiatry, Clinical sciences, Biological psychology, Clinical and health psychology
Abstract

We investigated the genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Using summary statistics (P-values) from large recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (total n=89 904 individuals), we sought to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associating with both AD and PD. We found and replicated association of both AD and PD with the A allele of rs393152 within the extended MAPT region on chromosome 17 (meta analysis P-value across five independent AD cohorts=1.65 × 10(-7)). In independent datasets, we found a dose-dependent effect of the A allele of rs393152 on intra-cerebral MAPT transcript levels and volume loss within the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. Our findings identify the tau-associated MAPT locus as a site of genetic overlap between AD and PD, and extending prior work, we show that the MAPT region increases risk of Alzheimer's neurodegeneration.

Published
2015

2. Hypothesis-independent pathway analysis implicates GABA and Acetyl-CoA metabolism in primary open-angle glaucoma and normal-pressure glaucoma

Author

Bailey, JNC, Yaspan, BL, Pasquale, LR, Hauser, MA, Kang, JH, Loomis, SJ, Brilliant, M, Budenz, DL, Christen, WG, Fingert, J, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Kraft, P, Lee, RK, Lichter, PR, Liu, Y, McCarty, CA, Moroi, SE, Richards, JE, Realini, T, Schuman, JS, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Vollrath, D, Wollstein, G, Zack, DJ, Zhang, K, Pericak-Vance, MA, Allingham, RR, Weinreb, RN, Haines, JL, and Wiggs, JL

Subjects
Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
Abstract

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Using genome-wide association single-nucleotide polymorphism data from the Glaucoma Genes and Environment study and National Eye Institute Glaucoma Human Genetics Collaboration comprising 3,108 cases and 3,430 controls, we assessed biologic pathways as annotated in the KEGG database for association with risk of POAG. After correction for genic overlap among pathways, we found 4 pathways, butanoate metabolism (hsa00650), hematopoietic cell lineage (hsa04640), lysine degradation (hsa00310) and basal transcription factors (hsa03022) related to POAG with permuted p

Published
2014

3. Vascular tone pathway polymorphisms in relation to primary open-angle glaucoma

Author

Kang, JH, Loomis, SJ, Yaspan, BL, Bailey, JC, Weinreb, RN, Lee, RK, Lichter, PR, Budenz, DL, Liu, Y, Realini, T, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Friedman, DS, McCarty, CA, Moroi, SE, Olson, L, Schuman, JS, Singh, K, Vollrath, D, Wollstein, G, Zack, DJ, Brilliant, M, Sit, AJ, Christen, WG, Fingert, J, Forman, JP, Buys, ES, Kraft, P, Zhang, K, Allingham, RR, Pericak-Vance, MA, Richards, JE, Hauser, MA, Haines, JL, Wiggs, JL, and Pasquale, LR

Subjects
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Ophthalmology and Optometry, Aging, Neurosciences, Genetics, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Neurodegenerative, Clinical Research, Cardiovascular, AMP-Activated Protein Kinases, Aged, Case-Control Studies, Caveolin 1, Dynamin II, Dynamins, Endothelium, Vascular, Female, GTP-Binding Proteins, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Glaucoma, Open-Angle, Humans, Inositol 1, 4, 5-Trisphosphate Receptors, Intraocular Pressure, Male, Middle Aged, Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptor, Endothelin B, Receptors, Endothelin, Signal Transduction, Clinical Sciences, Immunology, Opthalmology and Optometry, Ophthalmology & Optometry, Ophthalmology and optometry
Abstract

AimsVascular perfusion may be impaired in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG); thus, we evaluated a panel of markers in vascular tone-regulating genes in relation to POAG.MethodsWe used Illumina 660W-Quad array genotype data and pooled P-values from 3108 POAG cases and 3430 controls from the combined National Eye Institute Glaucoma Human Genetics Collaboration consortium and Glaucoma Genes and Environment studies. Using information from previous literature and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways, we compiled single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 186 vascular tone-regulating genes. We used the 'Pathway Analysis by Randomization Incorporating Structure' analysis software, which performed 1000 permutations to compare the overall pathway and selected genes with comparable randomly generated pathways and genes in their association with POAG.ResultsThe vascular tone pathway was not associated with POAG overall or POAG subtypes, defined by the type of visual field loss (early paracentral loss (n=224 cases) or only peripheral loss (n=993 cases)) (permuted P≥0.20). In gene-based analyses, eight were associated with POAG overall at permuted P

Published
2014

4. Evidence of novel fine-scale structural variation at autism spectrum disorder candidate loci

Author

Hedges, DJ, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Sacharow, SJ, Nations, L, Beecham, GW, Kozhekbaeva, ZM, Butler, BL, Cukier, HN, Whitehead, PL, Ma, D, Jaworski, JM, Nathanson, L, Lee, JM, Hauser, SL, Oksenberg, JR, Cuccaro, ML, Haines, JL, Gilbert, JR, and Pericak-Vance, MA

Abstract

Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) represent a group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by a core set of social-communicative and behavioral impairments. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, acting primarily via the GABA receptors (GABR). Multiple lines of evidence, including altered GABA and GABA receptor expression in autistic patients, indicate that the GABAergic system may be involved in the etiology of autism. Methods. As copy number variations (CNVs), particularly rare and de novo CNVs, have now been implicated in ASD risk, we examined the GABA receptors and genes in related pathways for structural variation that may be associated with autism. We further extended our candidate gene set to include 19 genes and regions that had either been directly implicated in the autism literature or were directly related (via function or ancestry) to these primary candidates. For the high resolution CNV screen we employed custom-designed 244 k comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) arrays. Collectively, our probes spanned a total of 11 Mb of GABA-related and additional candidate regions with a density of approximately one probe every 200 nucleotides, allowing a theoretical resolution for detection of CNVs of approximately 1 kb or greater on average. One hundred and sixty-eight autism cases and 149 control individuals were screened for structural variants. Prioritized CNV events were confirmed using quantitative PCR, and confirmed loci were evaluated on an additional set of 170 cases and 170 control individuals that were not included in the original discovery set. Loci that remained interesting were subsequently screened via quantitative PCR on an additional set of 755 cases and 1,809 unaffected family members. Results: Results include rare deletions in autistic individuals at JAKMIP1, NRXN1, Neuroligin4Y, OXTR, and ABAT. Common insertion/deletion polymorphisms were detected at several loci, including GABBR2 and NRXN3. Overall, statistically significant enrichment in affected vs. unaffected individuals was observed for NRXN1 deletions. Conclusions: These results provide additional support for the role of rare structural variation in ASD. © 2012 Hedges et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Published
2012

5. A knowledge-driven interaction analysis reveals potential neurodegenerative mechanism of multiple sclerosis susceptibility.

Author

Bush, WS, McCauley, JL, DeJager, PL, Dudek, SM, Hafler, DA, Gibson, RA, Matthews, PM, Kappos, L, Naegelin, Y, Polman, CH, Hauser, SL, Oksenberg, J, Haines, JL, Ritchie, MD, and International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium

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International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium, Cytoskeleton, Humans, Multiple Sclerosis, Disease Susceptibility, Calcium, Signal Transduction, Epistasis, Genetic, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci, Human Genome, Autoimmune Disease, Brain Disorders, Neurodegenerative, Neurosciences, Genetics, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Generic health relevance, Neurological, multiple sclerosis, knowledge-driven interaction, neurodegenerative mechanism, Immunology
Abstract

Gene-gene interactions are proposed as an important component of the genetic architecture of complex diseases, and are just beginning to be evaluated in the context of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). In addition to detecting epistasis, a benefit to interaction analysis is that it also increases power to detect weak main effects. We conducted a knowledge-driven interaction analysis of a GWAS of 931 multiple sclerosis (MS) trios to discover gene-gene interactions within established biological contexts. We identify heterogeneous signals, including a gene-gene interaction between CHRM3 (muscarinic cholinergic receptor 3) and MYLK (myosin light-chain kinase) (joint P=0.0002), an interaction between two phospholipase C-β isoforms, PLCβ1 and PLCβ4 (joint P=0.0098), and a modest interaction between ACTN1 (actinin alpha 1) and MYH9 (myosin heavy chain 9) (joint P=0.0326), all localized to calcium-signaled cytoskeletal regulation. Furthermore, we discover a main effect (joint P=5.2E-5) previously unidentified by single-locus analysis within another related gene, SCIN (scinderin), a calcium-binding cytoskeleton regulatory protein. This work illustrates that knowledge-driven interaction analysis of GWAS data is a feasible approach to identify new genetic effects. The results of this study are among the first gene-gene interactions and non-immune susceptibility loci for MS. Further, the implicated genes cluster within inter-related biological mechanisms that suggest a neurodegenerative component to MS.

Published
2011

6. Follow-up examination of linkage and association to chromosome 1q43 in multiple sclerosis

Author

McCauley, JL, Zuvich, RL, Bradford, Y, Kenealy, SJ, Schnetz-Boutaud, N, Gregory, SG, Hauser, SL, Oksenberg, JR, Mortlock, DP, Pericak-Vance, MA, and Haines, JL

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Biological Sciences, Genetics, Prevention, Brain Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Human Genome, Arthritis, Autoimmune Disease, Neurosciences, Neurodegenerative, Aetiology, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Inflammatory and immune system, Neurological, Alleles, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Gene Frequency, Genetic Linkage, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, RGS Proteins, multiple sclerosis, linkage, association, 1q43, RGS7, Immunology
Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a debilitating neuroimmunological and neurodegenerative disease affecting >4,00,000 individuals in the United States. Population and family-based studies have suggested that there is a strong genetic component. Numerous genomic linkage screens have identified regions of interest for MS loci. Our own second-generation genome-wide linkage study identified a handful of non-major histocompatibility complex regions with suggestive linkage. Several of these regions were further examined using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with average spacing between SNPs of approximately 1.0 Mb in a dataset of 173 multiplex families. The results of that study provided further evidence for the involvement of the chromosome 1q43 region. This region is of particular interest given linkage evidence in studies of other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. In this follow-up study, we saturated the region with approximately 700 SNPs (average spacing of 10 kb per SNP) in search of disease-associated variation within this region. We found preliminary evidence to suggest that common variation within the RGS7 locus may be involved in disease susceptibility.

Published
2009

8. REPORT on the Fifth International Workshop on Chromosome 9 held at Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK, September 4–6, 1996

Author

POVEY, S, ATTWOOD, J, CHADWICK, B, FREZAL, J, HAINES, JL, KNOWLES, M, KWIATKOWSKI, DJ, OLOPADE, OI, SLAUGENHAUPT, S, SPURR, NK, SMITH, M, STEEL, K, WHITE, JA, and PERICAK‐VANCE, MA

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Genetics, Animals, Chromosome Aberrations, Chromosome Disorders, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Computational Biology, Humans, Mice, Rats, Species Specificity, algorithm, animal cell, basal cell carcinoma, bladder cancer, cancer genetics, cardiomyopathy, chromosome 9, chromosome analysis, chromosome map, conference paper, consensus sequence, data analysis, ehlers danlos syndrome, friedreich ataxia, gene location, gene locus, gene mapping, hearing loss, human, human cell, hypoplasia, lymphatic leukemia, marker gene, meiosis, mouse, muscular dystrophy, neuropathy, nomenclature, nonhuman, priority journal, sex determination, tuberous sclerosis, tumor suppressor gene, workshop, Clinical Sciences, Genetics & Heredity
Abstract

The Fifth International workshop on chromosome 9 comprised a gathering of 36 scientists from seven countries and included a fairly even distribution of interests along chromosome 9 as well as a strong input from more global activities and from comparative mapping. At least eight groups had participated in the goal set at the previous workshop which was to improve the fine genetic mapping in different regions of chromosome 9 by meiotic breakpoint mapping in allocated regions and this has resulted in some greatly improved order information. Excellent computing facilities were available and all contributed maps were entered not only into SIGMA (and thence submitted to GDB) but also into a dedicated version of ACEDB which can be accessed on the Web in the form of one of 28 slices into which the chromosome has been arbitrarily divided. It was generally agreed that the amount of data is now overwhelming and that the integration and validation of all data is not only unrealistic in a short meeting but probably impossible until the whole chromosome has been sequenced and fully annotated. Sequence-ready contigs presented at the meeting totalled about 3 MB which is about one fiftieth of the estimated length. The single biggest barrier to integration of maps is the problem of non-standard nomenclature of loci. In the past 2 workshops efforts have been made to compare traditional 'consensus' maps made by human insight (still probably best for small specific regions) with those generated with some computer assistance (such as SIGMA) and those generated objectively by defined computer algorithms such as ldb. Since no single form of map or representation is entirely satisfactory for all purposes the maps reproduced in the published version of the report are confined to one of the genetic maps, in which Genethon and older markers have been incorporated, a Sigma map of the genes as symbols together with a listing of known 'disease' genes on chromosome 9, and a revised assessment of the mouse map together with a list of mouse loci predicted to be on human chromosome 9. One of the 25 ACEDB slices is also shown to illustrate strengths and weaknesses of this approach. Workshop files include not only all maps available at the time but also details of loci and details of the meiotic breakpoints in the CEPH families.

Published
1997

9. Report on the 1996 International chromosome 9 workshop

Author

Povey, S, Attvvood, J, Chadwick, B, Frezal, J, Haines, JL, Knowles, M, Kwiatkowski, DJ, Olopade, OI, Slaugenhaupt, S, Spurr, NK, Smith, M, Steel, K, White, JA, and Pericak-Vance, MA

Subjects
Genetics, algorithm, animal cell, basal cell carcinoma, bladder cancer, cancer genetics, cardiomyopathy, chromosome 9, chromosome analysis, chromosome map, conference paper, consensus sequence, data analysis, ehlers danlos syndrome, friedreich ataxia, gene location, gene locus, gene mapping, hearing loss, human, human cell, hypoplasia, lymphatic leukemia, marker gene, meiosis, mouse, muscular dystrophy, neuropathy, nomenclature, nonhuman, priority journal, sex determination, tuberous sclerosis, tumor suppressor gene, workshop, Genetics & Heredity, Clinical Sciences
Abstract

The Fifth International workshop on chromosome 9 comprised a gathering of 36 scientists from seven countries and included a fairly even distribution of interests along chromosome 9 as well as a strong input from more global activities and from comparative mapping. At least eight groups had participated in the goal set at the previous workshop which was to improve the fine genetic mapping in different regions of chromosome 9 by meiotic breakpoint mapping in allocated regions and this has resulted in some greatly improved order information. Excellent computing facilities were available and all contributed maps were entered not only into SIGMA (and thence submitted to GDB) but also into a dedicated version of ACEDB which can be accessed on the Web in the form of one of 28 slices into which the chromosome has been arbitrarily divided. It was generally agreed that the amount of data is now overwhelming and that the integration and validation of all data is not only unrealistic in a short meeting but probably impossible until the whole chromosome has been sequenced and fully annotated. Sequence-ready contigs presented at the meeting totalled about 3 MB which is about one fiftieth of the estimated length. The single biggest barrier to integration of maps is the problem of non-standard nomenclature of loci. In the past 2 workshops efforts have been made to compare traditional 'consensus' maps made by human insight (still probably best for small specific regions) with those generated with some computer assistance (such as SIGMA) and those generated objectively by defined computer algorithms such as ldb. Since no single form of map or representation is entirely satisfactory for all purposes the maps reproduced in the published version of the report are confined to one of the genetic maps, in which Genethon and older markers have been incorporated, a Sigma map of the genes as symbols together with a listing of known 'disease' genes on chromosome 9, and a revised assessment of the mouse map together with a list of mouse loci predicted to be on human chromosome 9. One of the 25 ACEDB slices is also shown to illustrate strengths and weaknesses of this approach. Workshop files include not only all maps available at the time but also details of loci and details of the meiotic breakpoints in the CEPH families.

Published
1997

10. Linkage of an important gene locus for tuberous sclerosis to a chromosome 16 marker for polycystic kidney disease

Author

Kandt, RS, Haines, JL, Smith, M, Northrup, H, Gardner, RJM, Short, MP, Dumars, K, Roach, ES, Steingold, S, Wall, S, Blanton, SH, Flodman, P, Kwiatkowski, DJ, Jewell, A, Weber, JL, Roses, AD, and Pericak-Vance, MA

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Biological Sciences, Genetics, Polycystic Kidney Disease, Brain Disorders, Rare Diseases, Tuberous Sclerosis, Kidney Disease, Alleles, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, Female, Genes, Dominant, Genetic Linkage, Genetic Markers, Humans, Lod Score, Male, Pedigree, Polycystic Kidney, Autosomal Dominant, allele, article, chromosome 16, dominant gene, female, genetic linkage, genetic marker, genetics, human, kidney polycystic disease, male, pedigree, tuberous sclerosis, Human, Linkage, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Medical and Health Sciences, Developmental Biology, Agricultural biotechnology, Bioinformatics and computational biology
Abstract

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder of unknown aetiology that affects numerous body systems including skin, brain and kidneys. Some TSC has been linked to chromosome 9, additional TSC genes on chromosomes 11 and 12 have been proposed, but the majority of TSC families remain unlinked. Using TSC families in which data had excluded linkage to chromosome 9, we failed to detect linkage with loci on chromosomes 11, 12 and others. One marker examined was D16S283, the closest locus on the proximal side of the polycystic kidney disease type 1 (PKD1) gene. Linkage between TSC and D16S283 demonstrated a lod score of 9.50 at theta = 0.02 with one family independently presenting a lod score of 4.44 at theta = 0.05. These data reveal an important TSC locus near the region of PKD1 on chromosome 16p13.

Published
1992

11. An Attempt to Map Two Genes for Tuberous Sclerosis Using Novel Two‐Point Methodsa

Author

POVEY, S, ATTWOOD, J, JANSSEN, LAJ, BURLEY, M, SMITH, M, FLODMAN, P, MORTON, NE, EDWARDS, JH, SAMPSON, JR, YATES, JRW, HAINES, JL, AMOS, J, SHORT, MP, SANDKUYL, LA, HALLEY, DJJ, FRYER, AE, BECH‐HANSEN, T, MUELLER, R, AL‐GHAZALI, L, SUPER, M, and OSBORNE, J

Subjects
Adult, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Genetic Linkage, Humans, Likelihood Functions, Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length, Tuberous Sclerosis, conference paper, family study, female, gene mapping, human, major clinical study, male, marker gene, priority journal, tuberous sclerosis, Human, Linkage, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, General Science & Technology
Published
1991

12. A Comparative Study on Genetic Heterogeneity in Tuberous Sclerosis: Evidence for One Gene on 9q34 and a Second Gene on 11q22–23a

Author

JANSSEN, LAJ, POVEY, S, ATTWOOD, J, SANDKUYL, LA, LINDHOUT, D, FLODMAN, P, SMITH, M, SAMPSON, JR, HAINES, JL, MERKENS, EC, FLEURY, P, SHORT, P, AMOS, J, and HALLEY, DJJ

Subjects
Biological Sciences, Genetics, Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, Genes, Genetic Linkage, Humans, Likelihood Functions, Tuberous Sclerosis, chromosome 11q, chromosome 9q, conference paper, female, genetic heterogeneity, genetic linkage, human, male, priority journal, tuberous sclerosis, Genes, Structural, Human, Linkage, Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, General Science & Technology
Published
1991

14. An Association Test of the Spatial Distribution of Rare Missense Variants within Protein Structures Improves Statistical Power of Sequencing Studies

Author

Richard Mayeux, Nicholas R. Wheeler, Schellenberg Gd, William S. Bush, John J. Farrell, Yuk Yee Leung, Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, John A. Capra, Li-San Wang, B. Jin, Badri N. Vardarajan, Haines Jl, Brian W. Kunkle, Adam C. Naj, Eden R. Martin, Penelope Benchek, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Dana C. Crawford, and Lindsay A. Farrer

Subjects
Candidate gene, Protein structure, Missense mutation, Context (language use), Computational biology, Biology, Phenotype, Allele frequency, Gene, Exome sequencing
Abstract

Over 90% of variants are rare, and 50% of them are singletons in the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Whole Exome Sequencing (ADSP WES) data. However, either single variant tests or unit-based tests are limited in the statistical power to detect the association between rare variants and phenotypes. To best utilize rare variants and investigate their biological effect, we exam their association with phenotypes in the context of protein. We developed a protein structure-based approach, POKEMON (Protein Optimized Kernel Evaluation of Missense Nucleotides), which evaluates rare missense variants based on their spatial distribution on the protein rather than allele frequency. The hypothesis behind this is that the three-dimensional spatial distribution of variants within a protein structure provides functional context and improves the power of association tests. POKEMON identified four candidate genes from the ADSP WES data, namely two known Alzheimer’s disease (AD) genes (TREM2 and SORL) and two novel genes (DUSP18 and CSF1R). For known AD genes, the signal from the spatial cluster is stable even if we exclude known AD risk variants, indicating the presence of additional low frequency risk variants within these genes. DUSP18 has a cluster of variants primarily shared by case subjects around the ligand-binding domain, and this cluster is further validated in a replication dataset with a larger sample size. POKEMON is an open-source tool available at https://github.com/bushlab-genomics/POKEMON.

Published
2021

15. Distribution of rare LOXL1 missense alleles, haplotypes and diplotypes suggests association with reduced risk of glaucoma-related exfoliation syndrome

Author

J. H. Kang, R. Ritch, Tyler G. Kinzy, Tin Aung, Richard K. Lee, Louis R. Pasquale, Robert P. Igo, Chiea Chuen Khor, J. N. Cooke Bailey, Haines Jl, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Janey L. Wiggs, and Arthur J. Sit

Subjects
Minor allele frequency, Genetics, Loss of heterozygosity, Exact test, Haplotype, Genotype, Missense mutation, Allele, Biology, Exome, eye diseases
Abstract

PurposeCommon LOXL1 protein-altering variants are significant genetic risk factors for exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and the related secondary glaucoma (XFG). A rare LOXL1 missense allele has been associated with protective effects in a Japanese cohort, suggesting that other rare alleles may also exhibit protective effects. The goal of this study was to assess the contributions of rare LOXL1 variants to XFS/XFG risk in cases and controls from the United States.MethodsLOXL1 rare (minor allele frequency less than 1%) variants were identified from Humanexome BeadArray (Illumina) data for 1118 XFS/XFG cases and 3661 controls. Distribution of rare variants, haplotypes (defined using IMPUTE2) and diplotypes were examined using the Fisher’s exact test. Rare variant allele distribution was confirmed in an independent set of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) controls and multi-ethnic datasets. Correlation of LOXL1 common allele homozygosity with disease risk used data from gnomAD (gnomad.broadinstitute.org/) and an existing multi-ethnic meta-analysis.ResultsFour rare LOXL1 missense alleles were identified, and all were more common in controls (combined P= 7.6E-4), with two of these located in a LOXL1 intrinsic disordered region (IDR) known to be involved in LOXL1 aggregation. Haplotypes that included the rare or minor variants were more common in controls compared to cases (OR= 0.33, P=1.7E-8). Heterozygous diplotypes were significantly associated with reduced risk overall (OR= 0.45 P= 1.7 E-89) with the largest effects observed for diplotypes with more than one heterozygous genotype (OR= 0.05, P= 1.0E-39). A homozygous diplotype was associated with increased disease risk (OR= 6.8, P= 4.7E-157) and homozygosity was correlated with disease risk for common LOXL1 variants across multi-ethnic populations (Pearson= 0.92, PConclusionsUsing exome array data from XFS/XFG cases and controls from the United States, we identify 4 rare protective LOXL1 missense variants and show that the distribution of the corresponding haplotypes and diplotypes are associated with reduced risk of XFS/XFG. The diplotype results also demonstrate that LOXL1 allelic heterozygosity is protective while homozygosity is associated with increased disease risk. These results suggest that LOXL1 minor allele frequency variation among populations, with corresponding variation in genotype heterozgyosity and homozygosity, determines the XFS/XFG association effects and that genotypic effects may also impact protein aggregation involving intrinsic disordered regions.

Published
2021

16. Preferential preservation of visuospatial memory over verbal memory in the Old Order Amish

Author

Jeffery M. Vance, William K. Scott, Alan J. Lerner, Ogrocki P, Jason E. Clouse, Sarada Fuzzell, Audrey Lynn, Laura Caywood, Renee Laux, Larry D. Adams, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Daniel A. Dorfsman, Fuzzell, Jairo Ramos, Michael L. Cuccaro, Haines Jl, Michael Prough, Kristy Miskimen, Osterman, Leighanne R. Main, Susan Slifer, Sharlene D. Herington, Hochstetler Sd, and Yeunjoo E. Song

Subjects
education.field_of_study, Cohort, Population, Old Order Amish, Constructional Praxis, Cognition, Verbal memory, Psychology, education, Spatial memory, Clinical psychology, Cognitive test
Abstract

BackgroundWhile studying cognition in the Old Order Amish (OOA), we have observed strong performance on the constructional praxis delayed recall (CPDR) as compared to other cognitive tests, independent of overall cognitive status. This may indicate a preferential preservation of visuospatial memory in this population. Here, we investigate this by comparing the CPDR to the word list delayed recall (WLDR) within the OOA, as well as by comparing these results to a non-Amish cohort.Method420 OOA individuals in Indiana/Ohio age 66-95 who had complete data for the CPDR and WLDR were included. From the non-Amish CERAD cohort, 401 individuals age 60-96 with the same tests were included. For both cohorts, education-adjusted Z-scores were calculated for the CPDR and WLDR. The difference between the CPDR Z-score and the WLDR Z-score was calculated as a measure of the preservation of visuospatial memory over verbal memory. T-tests were first used to compare the tests within both cohorts and then stratified by case/control status. Linear regression was then used to investigate the effects of age, sex, cognitive status, and cohort on the Z-scores and difference between Z-scores. Additional t-tests and regressions were then performed to further investigate the effect of sex and its interaction with cohort.ResultWe found a significantly better performance on CPDR over WLDR in every cognitive status group in the OOA, but not in all groups of the CERAD cohort. After controlling for age, sex, and cognitive status, this preferential preservation remains significantly higher in the Amish, with being in the Amish cohort increasing the difference between Z-scores by an average of 0.615 units when compared to being in the CERAD cohort. When adjusting for age, sex, cognitive status, and cohort, the interaction between cohort and sex is significant, with the Amish males exhibiting a greater difference between Z-scores compared to other groups, with a significant interaction value of 0.676.DiscussionOverall, these findings suggest that the OOA preferentially preserve visuospatial memory over verbal memory, regardless of cognitive status. This effect is particularly strong in OOA males. In summary, this study gives additional evidence that the Amish exhibit unique patterns of memory loss and aging, with a preferential preservation of visuospatial memory over verbal memory. Additional studies are needed to further explain this phenomenon.

Published
2021

17. Genetic variants in the SHISA6 gene are associated with delayed cognitive impairment in two family datasets

Author

Jeffery M. Vance, Larry D. Adams, St.George-Hyslop Ph, Yq Song, Sharlene D. Herington, Laura Caywood, Michael L. Cuccaro, Fuzzell, Jairo Ramos, Zaman Af, Leighanne R. Main, Laframboise O, Sarada Fuzzell, Tatiana Foroud, Michael Prough, Patrice L. Whitehead, Haines Jl, Hochstetler Sd, Jason E. Clouse, Renee Laux, Osterman, Paula Ogrocki, Richard Mayeux, Susan Slifer, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Alan J. Lerner, William K. Scott, and Kristy Miskimen

Subjects
Chromosome 17 (human), Genetics, Minor allele frequency, Candidate gene, education.field_of_study, Population, Genotype, Locus (genetics), Genome-wide association study, Allele, Biology, education
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BackgroundStudies of cognitive impairment (CI) in Amish communities have identified sibships containing multiple CI and cognitively unimpaired (CU; unaffected after age 75) individuals. We hypothesize that these CU individuals may carry protective alleles delaying age at onset (AAO) of CI, preserving cognition in older age despite increased genetic risk. As well, the genetic and cultural isolation in the Amish since the early 1800s may have reduced the complexity of the genetic architecture of CI, increasing the power to detect protective alleles in this population. With this in mind we conducted a genome-wide study (GWAS) to identify loci associated with AAO of CI in a sample of Amish adults over age 75.Methods1,522 individuals aged 43-99 (mean age 73.1, 42% men) screened at least once for CI using the Modified Mini-Mental State exam (3MS) were genotyped using Illumina chipsets. Genotypes were imputed for 7,815,951 single nucleotide variants (SNV) with minor allele frequency (MAF) > 1%. The outcome studied was age, defined as 1) age at the first 3MS result indicating impairment (AAO; 3MS =87, 1,160 CU individuals). Cox mixed-effects models examined association between age and each SNV, adjusting for sex and familial relationships. To replicate genome-wide significant findings, SNVs in a 1 Megabase region centered on the peak SNV were examined for association with age using these same methods in the NIA-LOAD family study dataset (1,785 AD cases, 1,565 unaffected controls, mean age 73.5.ResultsThree SNV were significantly associated (pConclusionsThe replicated genome-wide significant association with AAO on chromosome 17 suggest this may be novel locus associated with delayed onset of AD. The associated SNP is located in the SHISA6 gene, which is involved in post-synaptic transmission in the hippocampus and is a biologically plausible candidate gene for AD.

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2021

18. The National Institute on Aging Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Family Based Study: A Critical Component of the International Effort to Understand Alzheimer’s Disease

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Debby W. Tsuang, Robert S. Wilson, Michael J. Chao, Alan E. Renton, Kelley Faber, Tatiana Foroud, Richard Mayeux, Allison Goate, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Robert A. Sweet, Badri N. Vardarajan, David A. Bennett, Roger N. Rosenberg, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, B. F. Boeve, Carlos Cruchaga, and Haines Jl

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Apolipoprotein E, Gerontology, business.industry, Genetic heterogeneity, Medicine, Dementia, SNP, Neuropathology, Disease, First-degree relatives, business, medicine.disease, Frontotemporal dementia
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INTRODUCTIONThe National Institute on Aging Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Family Based Study (NIA-LOAD FBS) was established to study the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).METHODSRecruitment focused on families with two living affected siblings and a third first degree relative similar in age with or without dementia. Uniform assessments were completed, DNA was obtained as was neuropathology, when possible. APOE genotypes, genome-wide SNP arrays and sequencing was completed in the majority of families.RESULTSA wide range in the age-at-onset in many large families was related to APOE genotype, but not in all. Variants typically associated with early-onset AD and frontotemporal dementia were also found.DISCUSSIONThe NIA-LOAD FBS is the largest collection of familial AD worldwide, and data or samples have been included in 126 publications addressing the genetic etiology of AD. Genetic heterogeneity and variability in the age-at-onset provides opportunities to investigate the complexity of familial AD.

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2021

19. Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Using Rare Variant Imputation in 65,602 Subjects Identifies Novel Rare Variant Locus NCK2: The International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP)

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Yuk Yee Leung, Lindsay A. Farrer, Yi Zhao, Amanda B. Kuzma, Jean-Charles Lambert, Alessandra Chesi, Xia R, Haines Jl, Haut J, Anita L. DeStefano, Chouraki, Julie Williams, William S. Bush, Leonenko G, Achilleas N. Pitsillides, John J. Farrell, Richard Mayeux, Fulton-Howard B, Xueqiu Jian, van Duijn C, Edward B. Lee, Sudha Seshadri, Sandra Barral, Li M, Jennifer E. Below, Rebecca Sims, Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, J. C. Bis, Céline Bellenguez, Struan F.A. Grant, Otto Valladares, B. Grenier-Boley, Schellenberg Gd, Peter Holmans, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Comic H, Maria Carolina Dalmasso, Badri N. Vardarajan, Penelope Benchek, Phillips-Cremins Je, Philippe Amouyel, Brian W. Kunkle, Adam C. Naj, Zhang Y, Alfredo Ramirez, Pavel P. Kuksa, Chen H, Jin Sha, Li-San Wang, Lee C, van der Lee Sj, and Josée Dupuis

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Genetics, 0303 health sciences, TREM2, Haplotype, Genome-wide association study, Locus (genetics), Biology, Minor allele frequency, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genotype, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Imputation (genetics), 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association
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Risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) is driven by multiple loci primarily identified by genome-wide association studies, many of which are common variants with minor allele frequencies (MAF)> 0.01. To identify additional common and rare LOAD risk variants, we performed a GWAS on 25,170 LOAD subjects and 41,052 cognitively normal controls in 44 datasets from the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP). Existing genotype data was imputed using the dense, high-resolution Haplotype Reference Consortium (HRC) r1.1 reference panel. Stage 1 associations of P−5 were meta-analyzed with the European Alzheimer’s Disease Biobank (EADB) (n=20,301 cases; 21,839 controls) (stage 2 combined IGAP and EADB). An expanded meta-analysis was performed using a GWAS of parental AD/dementia history in the UK Biobank (UKBB) (n=35,214 cases; 180,791 controls) (stage 3 combined IGAP, EADB, and UKBB). Common variant (MAF≥0.01) associations were identified for 29 loci in stage 2, including novel genome-wide significant associations at TSPAN14 (P=2.33×10−12), SHARPIN (P=1.56×10−9), and ATF5/SIGLEC11 (P=1.03×10−8), and newly significant associations without using AD proxy cases in MTSS1L/IL34 (P=1.80×10−8), APH1B (P=2.10×10−13), and CLNK (P=2.24×10−10). Rare variant (MAFAPOE and TREM2, and a novel association of a rare variant (rs143080277; MAF=0.0054; P=2.69×10−9) in NCK2, further strengthened with the inclusion of UKBB data in stage 3 (P=7.17×10−13). Single-nucleus sequence data shows that NCK2 is highly expressed in amyloid-responsive microglial cells, suggesting a role in LOAD pathology.

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2021

20. Sex differences in the genetic architecture underlying resilience in AD

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Eissman, JM, Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Kaczorowski, CC, Saucedo, HH, Widaman, KF, Buckley, RF, Properzi, MJ, Mormino, EC, Yang, H, Harrison, TM, Hedden, T, Nho, K, Andrews, SJ, Tommet, D, Hadad, N, Sanders, RE, Ruderfer, DM, Gifford, KA, Zhong, X, Raghavan, NS, Vardarajan, BN, Initiative, ADN, Consortium, ADG, Team, AS, Pericak‐Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L, Cruchaga, C, Schellenberg, GD, Cox, NJ, Haines, JL, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Cuccaro, ML, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ, Eissman, JM, Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Kaczorowski, CC, Saucedo, HH, Widaman, KF, Buckley, RF, Properzi, MJ, Mormino, EC, Yang, H, Harrison, TM, Hedden, T, Nho, K, Andrews, SJ, Tommet, D, Hadad, N, Sanders, RE, Ruderfer, DM, Gifford, KA, Zhong, X, Raghavan, NS, Vardarajan, BN, Initiative, ADN, Consortium, ADG, Team, AS, Pericak‐Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L, Cruchaga, C, Schellenberg, GD, Cox, NJ, Haines, JL, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Cuccaro, ML, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, Jefferson, AL, and Hohman, TJ

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Background Approximately 30% of older adults are cognitively normal at death despite presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology at autopsy. Studying these “resilient” individuals may lead to the discovery of novel therapeutic targets. In addition, growing evidence suggests sex differences in downstream neurodegenerative consequences of AD neuropathology, with recent studies highlighting notable sex-specific genetic drivers of AD pathogenesis. We sought to extend this work by elucidating sex-specific genetic factors underlying resilience to AD. Method We used our published genetic resilience pipeline to assess sex-specific genetic predictors (Dumitrescu et al., 2020). Briefly, we used modern psychometric approaches to harmonize cognitive measures across four cohorts of cognitive aging (N=5054), in-vivo amyloid PET across two studies, and leveraged autopsy measures of amyloidosis (CERAD staging) across two studies. A continuous measure of resilience was quantified using a latent variable framework whereby higher scores reflected better-than-predicted cognitive performance given amyloidosis level and lower scores reflected worse-than-predicted performance. We then performed sex-stratified GWASs and sex-interaction GWASs, covarying for age and the first three principal components and meta-analyzed across cohorts. Finally, we performed sex-stratified genetic correlation analyses (GNOVA) between our meta-analysis results and summary statistics from 63 complex traits. Result Among individuals with normal cognition, we identified a female-specific locus on chromosome 10 (rs827389, [p(females)=7.4E-09, p(males)=0.64, p(interaction)=8.3E-05, MAF=0.46]). This variant is a modest eQTL for KIN (p=0.003), a gene encoding a DNA/RNA binding protein (http://www.braineac.org). In our genetic correlation analyses, we observed male-specific correlations between resilience and two heart rate-related traits, whereby higher resilience was associated with lower genetic risk for po

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2021

21. Sex‐specific genetic predictors of memory performance

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Smith, AN, Dumitrescu, L, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, S, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Mahoney, ER, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Widaman, KF, Buckley, RF, Mormino, EC, Harrison, TM, Sanders, RE, Clark, LR, Gifford, KA, Vardarajan, BN, Initiative, ADN, Consortium, ADG, Team, AS, Project, TADS, Cuccaro, ML, Pericak‐Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L, Schellenberg, GD, Haines, JL, Jefferson, AL, Johnson, SC, Kukull, WA, Albert, MS, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, Hohman, TJ, Smith, AN, Dumitrescu, L, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, S, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Mahoney, ER, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Widaman, KF, Buckley, RF, Mormino, EC, Harrison, TM, Sanders, RE, Clark, LR, Gifford, KA, Vardarajan, BN, Initiative, ADN, Consortium, ADG, Team, AS, Project, TADS, Cuccaro, ML, Pericak‐Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L, Schellenberg, GD, Haines, JL, Jefferson, AL, Johnson, SC, Kukull, WA, Albert, MS, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, and Hohman, TJ

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Background There are notable sex differences in the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including differences in baseline and longitudinal changes in memory performance. However, sex-stratified models have not been routinely incorporated into genetic studies of cognitive performance or decline. We sought to identify sex-specific genetic predictors of memory performance in aging adults. Method We obtained harmonized memory scores from 11,601 females and 8,885 males from 7 cohorts of cognitive aging. We calculated scores using latent variable modeling techniques anchored on overlapping neuropsychological test items across datasets to perform both sex-stratified and sex-interaction genome-wide association studies in each cohort using mixed-effects regression models to assess genetic associations with baseline memory score and rate of memory decline. Covariates included age at baseline and population principal components. We then combined results in a fixed-effect meta-analysis. Results As expected, we observed robust associations at the APOE locus in males and females in both baseline and longitudinal models. Additionally, we identified a sex-specific locus for longitudinal memory performance (interaction-p=2.54e-6) on chromosome 7 within LINC-PINT that was genome-wide significant in males (index SNP= rs66754621; p=1.62e-8; MAF=0.20), but not females (p=0.65). This variant is in an enhancer region within several brain regions, as well as within a promoter-anchored chromatin interaction loop and a methylation eQTL in the prefrontal cortex. No female-specific loci were identified. Interestingly, we did observe nominal associations in baseline memory at some known AD loci, including male-specific effects at MS4A6A, FERMT2, and KAT8 (interaction ps=0.0026, 0.027, and 0.0058, respectively) and opposing effects between males and females at INPP5D (interaction p=0.0021). Conclusion These results highlight a novel male-specific locus of memory performance on ch

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2021

22. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries

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Gharahkhani, P, Jorgenson, E, Hysi, P, Khawaja, AP, Pendergrass, S, Han, X, Ong, JS, Hewitt, AW, Segre, A, Rouhana, JM, Hamel, AR, Igo, RP, Choquet, H, Qassim, A, Josyula, NS, Bailey, JNC, Bonnemaijer, PWM, Iglesias, A, Siggs, OM, Young, TL, Vitart, V, Thiadens, AAHJ, Karjalainen, J, Uebe, S, Melles, RB, Nair, KS, Luben, R, Simcoe, M, Amersinghe, N, Cree, AJ, Hohn, R, Poplawski, A, Chen, LJ, Rong, S-S, Aung, T, Vithana, EN, Tamiya, G, Shiga, Y, Yamamoto, M, Nakazawa, T, Currant, H, Birney, E, Wang, X, Auton, A, Lupton, MK, Martin, NG, Ashaye, A, Olawoye, O, Williams, SE, Akafo, S, Ramsay, M, Hashimoto, K, Kamatani, Y, Akiyama, M, Momozawa, Y, Foster, PJ, Khaw, PT, Morgan, JE, Strouthidis, NG, Kraft, P, Kang, JH, Pang, CP, Pasutto, F, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Palotie, A, van Duijn, C, Haines, JL, Hammond, C, Pasquale, LR, Klaver, CCW, Hauser, M, Khor, CC, Mackey, DA, Kubo, M, Cheng, C-Y, Craig, JE, MacGregor, S, Wiggs, JL, Gharahkhani, P, Jorgenson, E, Hysi, P, Khawaja, AP, Pendergrass, S, Han, X, Ong, JS, Hewitt, AW, Segre, A, Rouhana, JM, Hamel, AR, Igo, RP, Choquet, H, Qassim, A, Josyula, NS, Bailey, JNC, Bonnemaijer, PWM, Iglesias, A, Siggs, OM, Young, TL, Vitart, V, Thiadens, AAHJ, Karjalainen, J, Uebe, S, Melles, RB, Nair, KS, Luben, R, Simcoe, M, Amersinghe, N, Cree, AJ, Hohn, R, Poplawski, A, Chen, LJ, Rong, S-S, Aung, T, Vithana, EN, Tamiya, G, Shiga, Y, Yamamoto, M, Nakazawa, T, Currant, H, Birney, E, Wang, X, Auton, A, Lupton, MK, Martin, NG, Ashaye, A, Olawoye, O, Williams, SE, Akafo, S, Ramsay, M, Hashimoto, K, Kamatani, Y, Akiyama, M, Momozawa, Y, Foster, PJ, Khaw, PT, Morgan, JE, Strouthidis, NG, Kraft, P, Kang, JH, Pang, CP, Pasutto, F, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Palotie, A, van Duijn, C, Haines, JL, Hammond, C, Pasquale, LR, Klaver, CCW, Hauser, M, Khor, CC, Mackey, DA, Kubo, M, Cheng, C-Y, Craig, JE, MacGregor, S, and Wiggs, JL

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Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a heritable common cause of blindness world-wide. To identify risk loci, we conduct a large multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on a total of 34,179 cases and 349,321 controls, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and confirming 83 loci that were previously known. The majority of loci have broadly consistent effects across European, Asian and African ancestries. Cross-ancestry data improve fine-mapping of causal variants for several loci. Integration of multiple lines of genetic evidence support the functional relevance of the identified POAG risk loci and highlight potential contributions of several genes to POAG pathogenesis, including SVEP1, RERE, VCAM1, ZNF638, CLIC5, SLC2A12, YAP1, MXRA5, and SMAD6. Several drug compounds targeting POAG risk genes may be potential glaucoma therapeutic candidates.

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2021

23. Recruiting African American males in Alzheimer's disease education and genetics research

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Aja M. Scott, Grace Byfield, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Renee Laux, Michael L. Cuccaro, Brian W. Kunkle, Takiyah D. Starks, Gary W. Beecham, Jeffery M. Vance, Richard Mayeux, Christiane Reitz, Faina C. Lacroix, Christopher L. Edwards, Goldie S. Byrd, Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, Larry D. Adams, Haines Jl, and Jazmine Howard

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African american, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, business.industry, Health Policy, Disease, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Assessment methods, Medicine, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, business
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2020

24. Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility

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Patsopoulos, NA, Baranzini, SE, Santaniello, A, Shoostari, P, Cotsapas, C, Wong, G, Beecham, AH, James, T, Replogle, J, Vlachos, IS, McCabe, C, Pers, TH, Brandes, A, White, C, Keenan, B, Cimpean, M, Winn, P, Panteliadis, IP, Robbins, A, Andlauer, TFM, Zarzycki, O, Dubois, B, Goris, A, Sondergaard, HB, Sellebjerg, F, Sorensen, PS, Ullum, H, Thorner, LW, Saarela, J, Cournu-Rebeix, I, Damotte, V, Fontaine, B, Guillot-Noel, L, Lathrop, M, Vukusic, S, Berthele, A, Pongratz, V, Gasperi, C, Graetz, C, Grummel, V, Hemmer, B, Hoshi, M, Knier, B, Korn, T, Lill, CM, Luessi, F, Muhlau, M, Zipp, F, Dardiotis, E, Agliardi, C, Amoroso, A, Barizzone, N, Benedetti, MD, Bernardinelli, L, Cavalla, P, Clarelli, F, Comi, G, Cusi, D, Esposito, F, Ferre, L, Galimberti, D, Guaschino, C, Leone, MA, Martinelli, V, Moiola, L, Salvetti, M, Sorosina, M, Vecchio, D, Zauli, A, Santoro, S, Mancini, N, Zuccala, M, Mescheriakova, J, van Duijn, C, Bos, SD, Celius, EG, Spurkland, A, Comabella, M, Montalban, X, Alfredsson, L, Bomfim, IL, Gomez-Cabrero, D, Hillert, J, Jagodic, M, Linden, M, Piehl, F, Jelcic, I, Martin, R, Sospedra, M, Baker, A, Ban, M, Hawkins, C, Hysi, P, Kalra, S, Karpe, F, Khadake, J, Lachance, G, Molyneux, P, Neville, M, Thorpe, J, Bradshaw, E, Caillier, SJ, Calabresi, P, Cree, BAC, Cross, A, Davis, M, de Bakker, PWI, Delgado, S, Dembele, M, Edwards, K, Fitzgerald, K, Frohlich, IY, Gourraud, PA, Haines, JL, Hakonarson, H, Kimbrough, D, Isobe, N, Konidari, I, Lathi, E, Lee, MH, Li, T, An, D, Zimmer, A, Madireddy, L, Manrique, CP, Mitrovic, M, Olah, M, Patrick, E, Pericak-Vance, MA, Piccio, L, Schaefer, C, Weiner, H, Lage, K, Scott, RJ, Lechner-Scott, J, Leal, R, Moscato, P, Booth, DR, Stewart, GJ, Vucic, S, Pame, G, BamettO, M, Mason, D, GriffithS, L, Broadley, S, Tajouri, L, Baxter, A, Slee, M, Taylor, BV, Charlesworth, J, Kilpatrick, TJ, Rubio, J, Jokubaitis, V, Wiley, J, Butzkueven, H, Leslie, S, Motyer, A, Stankovich, J, Carroll, WM, Kermode, AG, Edrin, M, Barclay, M, Peyrin-Biroulet, L, Chamaillard, M, Colombe, JF, Cottone, M, Croft, A, D'Inca, R, Halfvarson, J, Hanigan, K, Henderson, P, Hugot, JP, Karban, A, Kennedy, NA, Khan, MA, Lemann, M, Levine, A, Massey, D, Milla, M, Motoey, GW, Ng, SME, Oikonomnou, J, Peeters, H, Proctor, DD, Rahier, JF, Roberts, R, Rutgeerts, P, Seibold, F, Stronati, L, Taylor, KM, Torkvist, L, Ublick, K, Van Limbergen, J, Van Gossum, A, Vatn, MH, Zhang, H, Zhang, W, Donnelly, P, Barroso, I, Blackwe, 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, Viswanathan, AC, Wood, NW, Spencer, CCA, Band, G, Bellenguez, C, Freeman, C, Hellenthal, G, Giannoulatou, E, Pirinen, M, Pearson, R, Strange, A, Sul, Z, Vukcevic, DA, 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, Compston, A, Hafler, D, Harbo, HF, Hauser, SL, Stewart, G, D'Alfonso, S, Hadjigeorgiou, G, Taylor, B, Barcellos, LF, Booth, D, Hintzen, R, Kockum, I, Martinelli-Boneschi, F, McCauley, JL, Oksenberg, JR, Oturai, A, Sawcer, S, Ivinson, AJ, Olsson, T, De Jager, PL, Patsopoulos, Na, Baranzini, Se, Santaniello, A, Shoostari, P, Cotsapas, C, Wong, G, Beecham, Ah, James, T, Replogle, J, Vlachos, I, Mccabe, C, Pers, Th, Brandes, A, White, C, Keenan, B, Cimpean, M, Winn, P, Panteliadis, Ip, Robbins, A, Andlauer, Tfm, Zarzycki, O, Dubois, B, Goris, A, Sondergaard, Hb, Sellebjerg, F, Sorensen, P, Ullum, H, Thorner, Lw, Saarela, J, Cournu-Rebeix, I, Damotte, V, Fontaine, B, Guillot-Noel, L, Lathrop, M, Vukusic, S, Berthele, A, Pongratz, V, Gasperi, C, Graetz, C, Grummel, V, Hemmer, B, Hoshi, M, Knier, B, Korn, T, Lill, Cm, Luessi, F, Muhlau, M, Zipp, F, Dardiotis, E, Agliardi, C, Amoroso, A, Barizzone, N, Benedetti, Md, Bernardinelli, L, Cavalla, P, Clarelli, F, Comi, G, Cusi, D, Esposito, F, Ferre, L, Galimberti, D, Guaschino, C, Leone, Ma, Martinelli, V, Moiola, L, Salvetti, M, Sorosina, M, Vecchio, D, Zauli, A, Santoro, S, Mancini, N, Zuccala, M, Mescheriakova, J, van Duijn, C, Bos, Sd, Celius, Eg, Spurkland, A, Comabella, M, Montalban, X, Alfredsson, L, Bomfim, Il, Gomez-Cabrero, D, Hillert, J, Jagodic, M, Linden, M, Piehl, F, Jelcic, I, Martin, R, Sospedra, M, Baker, A, Ban, M, Hawkins, C, Hysi, P, Kalra, S, Karpe, F, Khadake, J, Lachance, G, Molyneux, P, Neville, M, Thorpe, J, Bradshaw, E, Caillier, Sj, Calabresi, P, Cree, Bac, Cross, A, Davis, M, de Bakker, Pwi, Delgado, S, Dembele, M, Edwards, K, Fitzgerald, K, Frohlich, Iy, Gourraud, Pa, Haines, Jl, Hakonarson, H, Kimbrough, D, Isobe, N, Konidari, I, Lathi, E, Lee, Mh, Li, T, An, D, Zimmer, A, Madireddy, L, Manrique, Cp, Mitrovic, M, Olah, M, Patrick, E, Pericak-Vance, Ma, Piccio, L, Schaefer, C, Weiner, H, Lage, K, Scott, Rj, Lechner-Scott, J, Leal, R, Moscato, P, Booth, Dr, Stewart, Gj, Vucic, S, Pame, G, Bametto, M, Mason, D, Griffiths, L, Broadley, S, Tajouri, L, Baxter, A, Slee, M, Taylor, Bv, Charlesworth, J, Kilpatrick, Tj, Rubio, J, Jokubaitis, V, Wiley, J, Butzkueven, H, Leslie, S, Motyer, A, Stankovich, J, Carroll, Wm, Kermode, Ag, Edrin, M, Barclay, M, Peyrin-Biroulet, L, Chamaillard, M, Colombe, Jf, Cottone, M, Croft, A, D'Inca, R, Halfvarson, J, Hanigan, K, Henderson, P, Hugot, Jp, Karban, A, Kennedy, Na, Khan, Ma, Lemann, M, Levine, A, Massey, D, Milla, M, Motoey, Gw, Ng, Sme, Oikonomnou, J, Peeters, H, Proctor, Dd, Rahier, Jf, Roberts, R, Rutgeerts, P, Seibold, F, Stronati, L, Taylor, Km, Torkvist, L, Ublick, K, Van Limbergen, J, Van Gossum, A, Vatn, Mh, Zhang, H, Zhang, W, Donnelly, P, Barroso, I, Blackwe, Jm, Bramon, E, Brown, Ma, Casas, Jp, Corvin, A, Deloukas, P, Duncanson, A, Jankowski, J, Markus, H, Mathew, Cg, Palmer, Cna, Plomin, R, Rautanen, A, Sawcer, Sj, Trembath, Rc, Viswanathan, Ac, Wood, Nw, Spencer, Cca, Band, G, Bellenguez, C, Freeman, C, Hellenthal, G, Giannoulatou, E, Pirinen, M, Pearson, R, Strange, A, Sul, Z, Vukcevic, Da, 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, Compston, A, Hafler, D, Harbo, Hf, Hauser, Sl, Stewart, G, D'Alfonso, S, Hadjigeorgiou, G, Taylor, B, Barcellos, Lf, Booth, D, Hintzen, R, Kockum, I, Martinelli-Boneschi, F, Mccauley, Jl, Oksenberg, Jr, Oturai, A, Sawcer, S, Ivinson, Aj, Olsson, T, De Jager, Pl, Neurology, and Immunology

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0301 basic medicine, Multiple Sclerosis, Quantitative Trait Loci, Inheritance Patterns, Cell Cycle Proteins, Genome-wide association study, Biology, Major histocompatibility complex, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Major Histocompatibility Complex, Transcriptome, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Immune system, Gene Frequency, Autoimmune Process, medicine, Humans, RNA-Seq, X chromosome, Genetics, Chromosomes, Human, X, Multidisciplinary, Microglia, Multiple sclerosis, GTPase-Activating Proteins, Chromosome Mapping, Genomics, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Genetic Loci, Case-Control Studies, biology.protein, Genome-Wide Association Study, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Genetic roots of multiple sclerosis The genetics underlying who develops multiple sclerosis (MS) have been difficult to work out. Examining more than 47,000 cases and 68,000 controls with multiple genome-wide association studies, the International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium identified more than 200 risk loci in MS (see the Perspective by Briggs). Focusing on the best candidate genes, including a model of the major histocompatibility complex region, the authors identified statistically independent effects at the genome level. Gene expression studies detected that every major immune cell type is enriched for MS susceptibility genes and that MS risk variants are enriched in brain-resident immune cells, especially microglia. Up to 48% of the genetic contribution of MS can be explained through this analysis. Science , this issue p. eaav7188 ; see also p. 1383

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2019

25. Protein phosphatase 2A, complement component 4, and APOE genotype linked to Alzheimer’s disease using a systems biology approach

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Schellenberg Gd, Haines Jl, K. L. Lunetta, Lindsay A. Farrer, Gaoyuan Meng, Yang You, Jaeyoon Chung, Tatiana Foroud, Richard Mayeux, Tsuneya Ikezu, David A. Bennett, Li-San Wang, Rhoda Au, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Junming Hu, Congcong Zhu, Rebecca Panitch, Weiming Xia, Gyungah Jun, and Thor D. Stein

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Genetics, Apolipoprotein E, Complement component 4, Classical complement pathway, Genotype, medicine, Genome-wide association study, Protein phosphatase 2, Allele, Alzheimer's disease, Biology, medicine.disease
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BackgroundRecent reports suggest that the rare apolipoprotein E (APOE) Christchurch mutation and ε2 allele protect against Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology by reducing the burden of tau pathology. However, the mechanism(s) underlying the ε2 protective effect linking to tau is largely unknown.MethodsThe role of the ε2 allele in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was investigated a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for AD among 2,120 ε2 carriers from the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), and then prioritized by gene network analysis, differential gene expression analysis at tissue- and cell-levels as well as methylation profiling of CpG sites, in prefrontal cortex tissue from 761 brains of the Religious Orders Study and Memory and Aging Project (ROSMAP) and the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center (BUADC). The levels of two catalytic subunit proteins from protein phosphatase 2A (PPP2CA and PPP2CB) were validated in prefrontal cortex area of 193 of the FHS/BUADC brains. The findings from human autopsied brains were further validated by a co-culture experiment of human isogenic APOE induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) derived neurons and astrocytes.ResultsOf the significantly associated loci with AD among APOE ε2 carriers (P−6), PPP2CB (P=1.1×10−7) was the key node in the APOE ε2-related gene network and contained the most significant CpG site (P=7.3×10−4) located 2,814 base pair upstream of the top-ranked GWAS variant. Among APOE ε3/ε4 subjects, the level of Aβ42 was negatively correlated with protein levels of PPP2CA (P=9.9×10−3) and PPP2CB (P=2.4×10−3), and PPP2CA level was correlated with the level of pTau231 level (P=5.3×10−3). Significant correlations were also observed for PPP2CB with complement 4B (C4B) protein levels (P=3.3×10−7) and PPP2CA with cross reactive protein (CRP) levels (P=6.4×10−4). C1q level was not associated with Aβ42, pTau231, PPP2CB, or C4B levels. We confirmed the significant correlation of PPP2CB expression with pTau231/tTau ratio (P=0.01) and C4A/B (P=2.0×10−4) expression observed in brain tissue in a co-culture experiment of iPSC derived neurons and astrocytes.ConclusionWe demonstrated for the first time a molecular link between a tau phosphatase and the classical complement pathway, especially C4, and AD-related tau pathology.

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2020

26. Genetic variants and functional pathways associated with resilience to Alzheimer's disease

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Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Kaczorowski, C, Hernandez Saucedo, H, Widaman, KF, Buckley, R, Properzi, M, Mormino, E, Yang, H-S, Harrison, T, Hedden, T, Nho, K, Andrews, SJ, Tommet, D, Hadad, N, Sanders, RE, Ruderfer, DM, Gifford, KA, Moore, AM, Cambronero, F, Zhong, X, Raghavan, NS, Vardarajan, B, Pericak-Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L-S, Cruchaga, C, Schellenberg, G, Cox, NJ, Haines, JL, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, Jefferson, AL, Hohman, TJ, Dumitrescu, L, Mahoney, ER, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Bush, WS, Engelman, CD, Lu, Q, Fardo, DW, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Kaczorowski, C, Hernandez Saucedo, H, Widaman, KF, Buckley, R, Properzi, M, Mormino, E, Yang, H-S, Harrison, T, Hedden, T, Nho, K, Andrews, SJ, Tommet, D, Hadad, N, Sanders, RE, Ruderfer, DM, Gifford, KA, Moore, AM, Cambronero, F, Zhong, X, Raghavan, NS, Vardarajan, B, Pericak-Vance, MA, Farrer, LA, Wang, L-S, Cruchaga, C, Schellenberg, G, Cox, NJ, Haines, JL, Keene, CD, Saykin, AJ, Larson, EB, Sperling, RA, Mayeux, R, Bennett, DA, Schneider, JA, Crane, PK, Jefferson, AL, and Hohman, TJ

Abstract

Approximately 30% of older adults exhibit the neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease without signs of cognitive impairment. Yet, little is known about the genetic factors that allow these potentially resilient individuals to remain cognitively unimpaired in the face of substantial neuropathology. We performed a large, genome-wide association study (GWAS) of two previously validated metrics of cognitive resilience quantified using a latent variable modelling approach and representing better-than-predicted cognitive performance for a given level of neuropathology. Data were harmonized across 5108 participants from a clinical trial of Alzheimer's disease and three longitudinal cohort studies of cognitive ageing. All analyses were run across all participants and repeated restricting the sample to individuals with unimpaired cognition to identify variants at the earliest stages of disease. As expected, all resilience metrics were genetically correlated with cognitive performance and education attainment traits (P-values < 2.5 × 10-20), and we observed novel correlations with neuropsychiatric conditions (P-values < 7.9 × 10-4). Notably, neither resilience metric was genetically correlated with clinical Alzheimer's disease (P-values > 0.42) nor associated with APOE (P-values > 0.13). In single variant analyses, we observed a genome-wide significant locus among participants with unimpaired cognition on chromosome 18 upstream of ATP8B1 (index single nucleotide polymorphism rs2571244, minor allele frequency = 0.08, P = 2.3 × 10-8). The top variant at this locus (rs2571244) was significantly associated with methylation in prefrontal cortex tissue at multiple CpG sites, including one just upstream of ATPB81 (cg19596477; P = 2 × 10-13). Overall, this comprehensive genetic analysis of resilience implicates a putative role of vascular risk, metabolism, and mental health in protection from the cognitive consequences of neuropathology, while also providing evidence for a

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2020

27. Multitrait analysis of glaucoma identifies new risk loci and enables polygenic prediction of disease susceptibility and progression

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Craig, JE, Han, X, Qassim, A, Hassall, M, Bailey, JNC, Kinzy, TG, Khawaja, AP, An, J, Marshall, H, Gharahkhani, P, Igo, RP, Graham, SL, Healey, PR, Ong, J-S, Zhou, T, Siggs, O, Law, MH, Souzeau, E, Ridge, B, Hysi, PG, Burdon, KP, Mills, RA, Landers, J, Ruddle, JB, Agar, A, Galanopoulos, A, White, AJR, Willoughby, CE, Andrew, NH, Best, S, Vincent, AL, Goldberg, I, Radford-Smith, G, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW, Vitart, V, Hoehn, R, Wojciechowski, R, Jonas, JB, Aung, T, Pasquale, LR, Cree, AJ, Sivaprasad, S, Vallabh, NA, Viswanathan, AC, Pasutto, F, Haines, JL, Klaver, CCW, van Duijn, CM, Casson, RJ, Foster, PJ, Khaw, PT, Hammond, CJ, Mackey, DA, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Wiggs, JL, Hewitt, AW, MacGregor, S, Craig, JE, Han, X, Qassim, A, Hassall, M, Bailey, JNC, Kinzy, TG, Khawaja, AP, An, J, Marshall, H, Gharahkhani, P, Igo, RP, Graham, SL, Healey, PR, Ong, J-S, Zhou, T, Siggs, O, Law, MH, Souzeau, E, Ridge, B, Hysi, PG, Burdon, KP, Mills, RA, Landers, J, Ruddle, JB, Agar, A, Galanopoulos, A, White, AJR, Willoughby, CE, Andrew, NH, Best, S, Vincent, AL, Goldberg, I, Radford-Smith, G, Martin, NG, Montgomery, GW, Vitart, V, Hoehn, R, Wojciechowski, R, Jonas, JB, Aung, T, Pasquale, LR, Cree, AJ, Sivaprasad, S, Vallabh, NA, Viswanathan, AC, Pasutto, F, Haines, JL, Klaver, CCW, van Duijn, CM, Casson, RJ, Foster, PJ, Khaw, PT, Hammond, CJ, Mackey, DA, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Wiggs, JL, Hewitt, AW, and MacGregor, S

Abstract

Glaucoma, a disease characterized by progressive optic nerve degeneration, can be prevented through timely diagnosis and treatment. We characterize optic nerve photographs of 67,040 UK Biobank participants and use a multitrait genetic model to identify risk loci for glaucoma. A glaucoma polygenic risk score (PRS) enables effective risk stratification in unselected glaucoma cases and modifies penetrance of the MYOC variant encoding p.Gln368Ter, the most common glaucoma-associated myocilin variant. In the unselected glaucoma population, individuals in the top PRS decile reach an absolute risk for glaucoma 10 years earlier than the bottom decile and are at 15-fold increased risk of developing advanced glaucoma (top 10% versus remaining 90%, odds ratio = 4.20). The PRS predicts glaucoma progression in prospectively monitored, early manifest glaucoma cases (P = 0.004) and surgical intervention in advanced disease (P = 3.6 × 10-6). This glaucoma PRS will facilitate the development of a personalized approach for earlier treatment of high-risk individuals, with less intensive monitoring and treatment being possible for lower-risk groups.

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2020

28. Correction: Whole exome sequencing study identifies novel rare and common Alzheimer's-Associated variants involved in immune response and transcriptional regulation.

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Bis, JC, Jian, X, Kunkle, BW, Chen, Y, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Bush, WS, Salerno, WJ, Lancour, D, Ma, Y, Renton, AE, Marcora, E, Farrell, JJ, Zhao, Y, Qu, L, Ahmad, S, Amin, N, Amouyel, P, Beecham, GW, Below, JE, Campion, D, Cantwell, L, Charbonnier, C, Chung, J, Crane, PK, Cruchaga, C, Cupples, LA, Dartigues, J-F, Debette, S, Deleuze, J-F, Fulton, L, Gabriel, SB, Genin, E, Gibbs, RA, Goate, A, Grenier-Boley, B, Gupta, N, Haines, JL, Havulinna, AS, Helisalmi, S, Hiltunen, M, Howrigan, DP, Ikram, MA, Kaprio, J, Konrad, J, Kuzma, A, Lander, ES, Lathrop, M, Lehtimäki, T, Lin, H, Mattila, K, Mayeux, R, Muzny, DM, Nasser, W, Neale, B, Nho, K, Nicolas, G, Patel, D, Pericak-Vance, MA, Perola, M, Psaty, BM, Quenez, O, Rajabli, F, Redon, R, Reitz, C, Remes, AM, Salomaa, V, Sarnowski, C, Schmidt, H, Schmidt, M, Schmidt, R, Soininen, H, Thornton, TA, Tosto, G, Tzourio, C, van der Lee, SJ, van Duijn, CM, Valladares, O, Vardarajan, B, Wang, L-S, Wang, W, Wijsman, E, Wilson, RK, Witten, D, Worley, KC, Zhang, X, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Bellenguez, C, Lambert, J-C, Kurki, MI, Palotie, A, Daly, M, Boerwinkle, E, Lunetta, KL, Destefano, AL, Dupuis, J, Martin, ER, Schellenberg, GD, Seshadri, S, Naj, AC, Fornage, M, Farrer, LA, Bis, JC, Jian, X, Kunkle, BW, Chen, Y, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Bush, WS, Salerno, WJ, Lancour, D, Ma, Y, Renton, AE, Marcora, E, Farrell, JJ, Zhao, Y, Qu, L, Ahmad, S, Amin, N, Amouyel, P, Beecham, GW, Below, JE, Campion, D, Cantwell, L, Charbonnier, C, Chung, J, Crane, PK, Cruchaga, C, Cupples, LA, Dartigues, J-F, Debette, S, Deleuze, J-F, Fulton, L, Gabriel, SB, Genin, E, Gibbs, RA, Goate, A, Grenier-Boley, B, Gupta, N, Haines, JL, Havulinna, AS, Helisalmi, S, Hiltunen, M, Howrigan, DP, Ikram, MA, Kaprio, J, Konrad, J, Kuzma, A, Lander, ES, Lathrop, M, Lehtimäki, T, Lin, H, Mattila, K, Mayeux, R, Muzny, DM, Nasser, W, Neale, B, Nho, K, Nicolas, G, Patel, D, Pericak-Vance, MA, Perola, M, Psaty, BM, Quenez, O, Rajabli, F, Redon, R, Reitz, C, Remes, AM, Salomaa, V, Sarnowski, C, Schmidt, H, Schmidt, M, Schmidt, R, Soininen, H, Thornton, TA, Tosto, G, Tzourio, C, van der Lee, SJ, van Duijn, CM, Valladares, O, Vardarajan, B, Wang, L-S, Wang, W, Wijsman, E, Wilson, RK, Witten, D, Worley, KC, Zhang, X, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Bellenguez, C, Lambert, J-C, Kurki, MI, Palotie, A, Daly, M, Boerwinkle, E, Lunetta, KL, Destefano, AL, Dupuis, J, Martin, ER, Schellenberg, GD, Seshadri, S, Naj, AC, Fornage, M, and Farrer, LA

Abstract

A correction to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

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2020

29. A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

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Jun, G, Ibrahim-Verbaas, CA, Vronskaya, M, Lambert, J-C, Chung, J, Naj, AC, Kunkle, BW, Wang, L-S, Bis, JC, Bellenguez, C, Harold, D, Lunetta, KL, Destefano, AL, Grenier-Boley, B, Sims, R, Beecham, GW, Smith, AV, Chouraki, V, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Ikram, MA, Fievet, N, Denning, N, Martin, ER, Schmidt, H, Kamatani, Y, Dunstan, ML, Valladares, O, Laza, AR, Zelenika, D, Ramirez, A, Foroud, TM, Choi, S-H, Boland, A, Becker, T, Kukull, WA, Van Der Lee, SJ, Pasquier, F, Cruchaga, C, Beekly, D, Fitzpatrick, AL, Hanon, O, Gill, M, Barber, R, Gudnason, V, Campion, D, Love, S, Bennett, DA, Amin, N, Berr, C, Tsolaki, Magda, Buxbaum, JD, Lopez, OL, Deramecourt, V, Fox, NC, Cantwell, LB, Tárraga, L, Dufouil, C, Hardy, J, Crane, PK, Eiriksdottir, G, Hannequin, D, Clarke, R, Evans, D, Mosley, TH, Letenneur, L, Brayne, C, Maier, W, De Jager, P, Emilsson, V, Dartigues, J-F, Hampel, H, Kamboh, MI, De Bruijn, RFAG, Tzourio, C, Pastor, P, Larson, EB, Rotter, JI, O'Donovan, MC, Montine, TJ, Nalls, MA, Mead, S, Reiman, EM, Jonsson, PV, Holmes, C, St George-Hyslop, PH, Boada, M, Passmore, P, Wendland, Schmidt, R, Morgan, K, Winslow, AR, Powell, JF, Carasquillo, M, Younkin, SG, Jakobsdóttir, J, Kauwe, JSK, Wilhelmsen, KC, Rujescu, D, Nöthen, MM, Hofman, A, Jones, L, IGAP Consortium, Haines, JL, Psaty, BM, Van Broeckhoven, C, Holmans, P, Launer, LJ, Mayeux, R, Lathrop, M, Goate, AM, Escott-Price, V, Seshadri, S, Pericak-Vance, MA, Amouyel, P, Williams, J, Van Duijn, CM, Schellenberg, GD, Farrer, LA, Chouraki, V [0000-0002-4698-1794], Amouyel, P [0000-0001-9088-234X], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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Alzheimer Disease, Apolipoprotein E4, Humans, tau Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract

APOE ɛ4, the most significant genetic risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD), may mask effects of other loci. We re-analyzed genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project (IGAP) Consortium in APOE ɛ4+ (10 352 cases and 9207 controls) and APOE ɛ4- (7184 cases and 26 968 controls) subgroups as well as in the total sample testing for interaction between a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and APOE ɛ4 status. Suggestive associations (P

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2019
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30. 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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2019

31. Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates A beta, tau, immunity and lipid processing (vol 51, pg 414, 2019)

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Kunkle, BW, Grenier-Boley, B, Sims, R, Bis, JC, Damotte, V, Naj, AC, Boland, A, Vronskaya, M, van der Lee, SJ, Amlie-Wolf, A, Bellenguez, C, Frizatti, A, Chouraki, V, Martin, ER, Sleegers, K, Badarinarayan, N, Jakobsdottir, J, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Moreno-Grau, S, Olaso, R, Raybould, R, Chen, YN, Kuzma, AB, Hiltunen, M, Morgan, T, Ahmad, S, Vardarajan, BN, Epelbaum, J, Hoffmann, P, Boada, M, Beecham, GW, Garnier, JG, Harold, D, Fitzpatrick, AL, Valladares, O, Moutet, ML, Gerrish, A, Smith, AV, Qu, LM, Bacq, D, Denning, N, Jian, XQ, Zhao, Y, Del Zompo, M, Fox, NC, Choi, SH, Mateo, I, Hughes, JT, Adams, HH, Malamon, J, Sanchez-Garcia, F, Patel, Y, Brody, JA, Dombroski, BA, Naranjo, MCD, Daniilidou, M, Eiriksdottir, G, Mukherjee, S, Wallon, D, Uphill, J, Aspelund, T, Cantwell, LB, Garzia, F, Galimberti, D, Hofer, E, Butkiewicz, M, Fin, B, Scarpini, E, Sarnowski, C, Bush, WS, Meslage, S, Kornhuber, J, White, CC, Song, Y, Barber, RC, Engelborghs, S, Sordon, S, Voijnovic, D, Adams, PM, Vandenberghe, R, Mayhaus, M, Cupples, LA, Albert, MS, De Deyn, PP, Gu, W, Himali, JJ, Beekly, D, Squassina, A, Hartmann, AM, Orellana, A, Blacker, D, Rodriguez-Rodriguez, E, Lovestone, S, Garcia, ME, Doody, RS, Munoz-Fernadez, C, Sussams, R, Lin, HH, Fairchild, TJ, Benito, YA, Holmes, C, Karamujic-Comic, H, Frosch, MP, Thonberg, H, Maier, W, Roshchupkin, G, Ghetti, B, Giedraitis, V, Kawalia, A, Li, S, Huebinger, RM, Kilander, L, Moebus, S, Hernandez, I, Kamboh, MI, Brundin, R, Turton, J, Yang, Q, Katz, MJ, Concari, L, Lord, J, Beiser, AS, Keene, CD, Helisalmi, S, Kloszewska, I, Kukull, WA, Koivisto, AM, Lynch, A, Tarraga, L, Larson, EB, Haapasalo, A, Lawlor, B, Mosley, TH, Lipton, RB, Solfrizzi, V, Gill, M, Longstreth, WT, Montine, TJ, Frisardi, V, Diez-Fairen, M, Rivadeneira, F, Petersen, RC, Deramecourt, V, Alvarez, I, Salani, F, Ciaramella, A, Boerwinkle, E, Reiman, EM, Fievet, N, Rotter, JI, Reisch, JS, Hanon, O, Cupidi, C, Uitterlinden, AGA, Royall, DR, Dufouil, C, Maletta, RG, de Rojas, I, Sano, M, Brice, A, Cecchetti, R, St George-Hyslop, P, Ritchie, K, Tsolaki, M, Tsuang, DW, Dubois, B, Craig, D, Wu, CK, Soininen, H, Avramidou, D, Albin, RL, Fratiglioni, L, Germanou, A, Apostolova, LG, Keller, L, Koutroumani, M, Arnold, SE, Panza, F, Gkatzima, O, Asthana, S, Hannequin, D, Whitehead, P, Atwood, CS, Caffarra, P, Hampel, H, Quintela, I, Carracedo, A, Lannfelt, L, Rubinsztein, DC, Barnes, LL, Pasquier, F, Frolich, L, Barral, S, McGuinness, B, Beach, TG, Johnston, JA, Becker, JT, Passmore, P, Bigio, EH, Schott, JM, Bird, TD, Warren, JD, Boeve, BF, Lupton, MK, Bowen, JD, Proitsi, P, Boxer, A, Powell, JF, Burke, JR, Kauwe, JSK, Burns, JM, Mancuso, M, Buxbaum, JD, Bonuccelli, U, Cairns, NJ, McQuillin, A, Cao, CH, Livingston, G, Carlson, CS, Bass, NJ, Carlsson, CM, Hardy, J, Carney, RM, Bras, J, Carrasquillo, MM, Guerreiro, R, Allen, M, Chui, HC, Fisher, E, Masullo, C, Crocco, EA, DeCarli, C, Bisceglio, G, Dick, M, Ma, L, Duara, R, Graff-Radford, NR, Evans, DA, Hodges, A, Faber, KM, Scherer, M, Fallon, KB, Riemenschneider, M, Fardo, DW, Heun, R, Farlow, MR, Kolsch, H, Ferris, S, Leber, M, Foroud, TM, Heuser, I, Galasko, DR, Giegling, I, Gearing, M, Hull, M, Geschwind, DH, Gilbert, JR, Morris, J, Green, RC, Mayo, K, Growdon, JH, Feulner, T, Hamilton, RL, Harrell, LE, Drichel, D, Honig, LS, Cushion, TD, Huentelman, MJ, Hollingworth, P, Hulette, CM, Hyman, BT, Marshall, R, Jarvik, GP, Meggy, A, Abner, E, Menzies, GE, Jin, LW, Leonenko, G, Real, LM, Jun, GR, Baldwin, CT, Grozeva, D, Karydas, A, Russo, G, Kaye, JA, Kim, R, Jessen, F, Kowall, NW, Vellas, B, Kramer, JH, Vardy, E, LaFerla, FM, Jockel, KH, Lah, JJ, Dichgans, M, Leverenz, JB, Mann, D, Levey, AI, Pickering-Brown, S, Lieberman, AP, Klopp, N, Lunetta, KL, Wichmann, HE, Lyketsos, CG, Morgan, K, Marson, DC, Brown, K, Martiniuk, F, Medway, C, Mash, DC, Nothen, MM, Masliah, E, Hooper, NM, McCormick, WC, Daniele, A, McCurry, SM, Bayer, A, McDavid, AN, Gallacher, J, Mckee, AC, van den Bussche, H, Mesulam, M, Brayne, C, Miller, BL, Riedel-Heller, S, Miller, CA, Miller, JW, Al-Chalabi, A, Morris, JC, Shaw, CE, Myers, AJ, Wiltfang, J, O'Bryant, S, Olichney, JM, Alvarez, V, Parisi, JE, Singleton, AB, Paulson, HL, Collinge, J, Perry, WR, Mead, S, Peskind, E, Cribbs, DH, Rossor, M, Pierce, A, Ryan, NS, Poon, WW, Nacmias, B, Potter, H, Sorbi, S, Quinn, JF, Sacchinelli, E, Raj, A, Spalletta, G, Raskind, M, Caltagirone, C, Bossu, P, Orfei, MD, Reisberg, B, Clarke, R, Reitz, C, Smith, AD, Ringman, JM, Warden, D, Roberson, ED, Wilcock, G, Rogaeva, E, Bruni, AC, Rosen, HJ, Gallo, M, Rosenberg, RN, Ben-Shlomo, Y, Sager, MA, Mecocci, P, Saykin, AJ, Pastor, P, Cuccaro, ML, Vance, JM, Schneider, JA, Schneider, LS, Slifer, S, Seeley, WW, Smith, AG, Sonnen, JA, Spina, S, Stern, RA, Swerdlow, RH, Tang, M, Tanzi, RE, Trojanowski, JQ, Troncoso, JC, Van Deerlin, VM, Van Eldik, LJ, Vinters, HV, Vonsattel, JP, Weintraub, S, Welsh-Bohmer, KA, Wilhelmsen, KC, Williamson, J, Wingo, TS, Woltjer, RL, Wright, CB, Yu, CE, Yu, L, Saba, Y, Pilotto, A, Bullido, MJ, Peters, O, Crane, PK, Bennett, D, Bosco, P, Coto, E, Boccardi, V, De Jager, PL, Lleo, A, Warner, N, Lopez, OL, Ingelsson, M, Deloukas, P, Cruchaga, C, Graff, C, Gwilliam, R, Fornage, M, Goate, AM, Sanchez-Juan, P, Kehoe, PG, Amin, N, Ertekin-Taner, N, Berr, C, Debette, S, Love, S, Launer, LJ, Younkin, SG, Dartigues, JF, Corcoran, C, Ikram, MA, Dickson, DW, Nicolas, G, Campion, D, Tschanz, J, Schmidt, H, Hakonarson, H, Clarimon, J, Munger, R, Schmidt, R, Farrer, LA, Van Broeckhoven, C, O'Donovan, MC, DeStefano, AL, Jones, L, Haines, JL, Deleuze, JF, Owen, MJ, Gudnason, V, Mayeux, R, Escott-Price, V, Psaty, BM, Ramirez, A, Wang, LS, Ruiz, A, van Duijn, CM, Holmans, PA, Seshadri, S, Williams, J, Amouyel, P, Schellenberg, GD, Lambert, JC, Pericak-Vance, MA, ADGC, EADI, Cohorts Heart Aging Res Genomic, and Genetic Environm Risk AD Defining

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2019

32. Pathway Analysis Integrating Genome-Wide and Functional Data Identifies PLCG2 as a Candidate Gene for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Author

Waksmunski, AR, Grunin, M, Kinzy, TG, Igo, RP, Haines, JL, Bailey, JNC, Buitendijk, Gabriëlle, Duijn, Cornelia, Klaver, Caroline, Abecasis, GR, Heid, IM, Epidemiology, and Ophthalmology

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Male, Candidate gene, Databases, Factual, Genotype, Genomics, Genome-wide association study, Computational biology, Biology, Genome, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Biological pathway, 03 medical and health sciences, Macular Degeneration, 0302 clinical medicine, phospholipase C gamma 2, Genetics, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, KEGG, age-related macular degeneration, database, Genetic association, Aged, genome-wide association study, Phospholipase C gamma, eye diseases, 3. Good health, pathway analysis, 030104 developmental biology, Case-Control Studies, Female, Candidate Disease Gene, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Author(s): Waksmunski, Andrea R; Grunin, Michelle; Kinzy, Tyler G; Igo, Robert P; Haines, Jonathan L; Cooke Bailey, Jessica N; International Age-Related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium | Abstract: Purpose:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the worldwide leading cause of blindness among the elderly. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified AMD risk variants, their roles in disease etiology are not well-characterized, and they only explain a portion of AMD heritability. Methods:We performed pathway analyses using summary statistics from the International AMD Genomics Consortium's 2016 GWAS and multiple pathway databases to identify biological pathways wherein genetic association signals for AMD may be aggregating. We determined which genes contributed most to significant pathway signals across the databases. We characterized these genes by constructing protein-protein interaction networks and performing motif analysis. Results:We determined that eight genes (C2, C3, LIPC, MICA, NOTCH4, PLCG2, PPARA, and RAD51B) "drive" the statistical signals observed across pathways curated in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), Reactome, and Gene Ontology (GO) databases. We further refined our definition of statistical driver gene to identify PLCG2 as a candidate gene for AMD due to its significant gene-level signals (P l 0.0001) across KEGG, Reactome, GO, and NetPath pathways. Conclusions:We performed pathway analyses on the largest available collection of advanced AMD cases and controls in the world. Eight genes strongly contributed to significant pathways from the three larger databases, and one gene (PLCG2) was central to significant pathways from all four databases. This is, to our knowledge, the first study to identify PLCG2 as a candidate gene for AMD based solely on genetic burden. Our findings reinforce the utility of integrating in silico genetic and biological pathway data to investigate the genetic architecture of AMD.

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2019

33. Multi-trait genome-wide association study identifies new loci associated with optic disc parameters

Author

Bonnemaijer, PWM, van Leeuwen, EM, Iglesias, AI, Gharahkhani, P, Vitart, V, Khawaja, AP, Simcoe, M, Hoehn, R, Cree, AJ, Igo, RP, Burdon, KP, Craig, JE, Hewitt, AW, Jonas, J, Khor, C-C, Pasutto, F, Mackey, DA, Mitchell, P, Mishra, A, Pang, C, Pasquale, LR, Springelkamp, H, Thorleifsson, G, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Viswanathan, AC, Wojciechowski, R, Wong, T, Young, TL, Zeller, T, Atan, D, Aslam, T, Barman, SA, Barrett, JH, Bishop, P, Blows, P, Bunce, C, Carare, RO, Chakravarthy, U, Chan, M, Chua, SYL, Crabb, DP, Cumberland, PM, Day, A, Desai, P, Dhillon, B, Dick, AD, Egan, C, Ennis, S, Foster, P, Fruttiger, M, Gallacher, JEJ, Garway, DF, Gibson, J, Gore, D, Guggenheim, JA, Hardcastle, A, Harding, SP, Hogg, RE, Keane, PA, Khaw, PT, Lascaratos, G, Macgillivray, T, Mackie, S, Martin, K, McGaughey, M, McGuinness, B, Mckay, GJ, McKibbin, M, Mitry, D, Moore, T, Morgan, JE, Muthy, ZA, O'Sullivan, E, Owen, CG, Patel, P, Paterson, E, Peto, T, Petzold, A, Rahi, JS, Rudnikca, AR, Self, J, Sivaprasad, S, Steel, D, Stratton, I, Strouthidis, N, Sudlow, C, Thomas, D, Trucco, E, Tufail, A, Vernon, SA, Williams, C, Williams, K, Woodside, JV, Yates, MM, Yip, J, Zheng, Y, Allingham, R, Budenz, D, Bailey, JC, Fingert, J, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Haines, JL, Hark, L, Hauser, M, Kang, JH, Kraft, P, Lee, R, Lichter, P, Liu, Y, Moroi, S, Pericak, M, Realini, A, Rhee, D, Richards, JR, Ritch, R, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, A, Vollrath, D, Weinreb, R, Wollstein, G, Wilmer, DZ, Gerhold-Ay, A, Nickels, S, Wilson, JF, Hayward, C, Boutin, TS, Polasek, O, Aung, T, Khor, CC, Amin, N, Lotery, AJ, Wiggs, JL, Cheng, C-Y, Hysi, PG, Hammond, CJ, Thiadens, AAHJ, MacGregor, S, Klaver, CCW, van Duijn, CM, Bonnemaijer, PWM, van Leeuwen, EM, Iglesias, AI, Gharahkhani, P, Vitart, V, Khawaja, AP, Simcoe, M, Hoehn, R, Cree, AJ, Igo, RP, Burdon, KP, Craig, JE, Hewitt, AW, Jonas, J, Khor, C-C, Pasutto, F, Mackey, DA, Mitchell, P, Mishra, A, Pang, C, Pasquale, LR, Springelkamp, H, Thorleifsson, G, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Viswanathan, AC, Wojciechowski, R, Wong, T, Young, TL, Zeller, T, Atan, D, Aslam, T, Barman, SA, Barrett, JH, Bishop, P, Blows, P, Bunce, C, Carare, RO, Chakravarthy, U, Chan, M, Chua, SYL, Crabb, DP, Cumberland, PM, Day, A, Desai, P, Dhillon, B, Dick, AD, Egan, C, Ennis, S, Foster, P, Fruttiger, M, Gallacher, JEJ, Garway, DF, Gibson, J, Gore, D, Guggenheim, JA, Hardcastle, A, Harding, SP, Hogg, RE, Keane, PA, Khaw, PT, Lascaratos, G, Macgillivray, T, Mackie, S, Martin, K, McGaughey, M, McGuinness, B, Mckay, GJ, McKibbin, M, Mitry, D, Moore, T, Morgan, JE, Muthy, ZA, O'Sullivan, E, Owen, CG, Patel, P, Paterson, E, Peto, T, Petzold, A, Rahi, JS, Rudnikca, AR, Self, J, Sivaprasad, S, Steel, D, Stratton, I, Strouthidis, N, Sudlow, C, Thomas, D, Trucco, E, Tufail, A, Vernon, SA, Williams, C, Williams, K, Woodside, JV, Yates, MM, Yip, J, Zheng, Y, Allingham, R, Budenz, D, Bailey, JC, Fingert, J, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Haines, JL, Hark, L, Hauser, M, Kang, JH, Kraft, P, Lee, R, Lichter, P, Liu, Y, Moroi, S, Pericak, M, Realini, A, Rhee, D, Richards, JR, Ritch, R, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, A, Vollrath, D, Weinreb, R, Wollstein, G, Wilmer, DZ, Gerhold-Ay, A, Nickels, S, Wilson, JF, Hayward, C, Boutin, TS, Polasek, O, Aung, T, Khor, CC, Amin, N, Lotery, AJ, Wiggs, JL, Cheng, C-Y, Hysi, PG, Hammond, CJ, Thiadens, AAHJ, MacGregor, S, Klaver, CCW, and van Duijn, CM

Abstract

A new avenue of mining published genome-wide association studies includes the joint analysis of related traits. The power of this approach depends on the genetic correlation of traits, which reflects the number of pleiotropic loci, i.e. genetic loci influencing multiple traits. Here, we applied new meta-analyses of optic nerve head (ONH) related traits implicated in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG); intraocular pressure and central corneal thickness using Haplotype reference consortium imputations. We performed a multi-trait analysis of ONH parameters cup area, disc area and vertical cup-disc ratio. We uncover new variants; rs11158547 in PPP1R36-PLEKHG3 and rs1028727 near SERPINE3 at genome-wide significance that replicate in independent Asian cohorts imputed to 1000 Genomes. At this point, validation of these variants in POAG cohorts is hampered by the high degree of heterogeneity. Our results show that multi-trait analysis is a valid approach to identify novel pleiotropic variants for ONH.

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2019

34. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases (vol 9, 1864, 2018)

Author

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, 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, and Whittaker, P

Abstract

Emmanuelle Souzeau, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this Article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

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2019

35. P1‐156: GENE‐BASED ANALYSES IN WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING OF FAMILIAL LATE‐ONSET ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Author

Anita L. DeStefano, Badri N. Vardarajan, Timothy A. Thornton, Elizabeth Blue, James M. Jaworski, Rafael Lantigua, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Li-San Wang, Haines Jl, Martin Medrano, Gary W. Beecham, Ellen M. Wijsman, Giuseppe Tosto, Eric Boerwinkle, Gerard D. Schellenberg, William S. Bush, Richard Mayeux, Sandra Barral, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Alison Goate, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Adam C. Naj, Lisa M. Brown, Lindsay A. Farrer, and Eden R. Martin

Subjects
Whole genome sequencing, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Health Policy, Late onset, Neurology (clinical), Disease, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Biology, Gene
Published
2018

36. Meta-analysis of genetic association with diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies novel risk loci and implicates Abeta, Tau, immunity and lipid processing

Author

Kunkle, BW, Grenier-Boley, B, Sims, R, Bis, JC, Naj, AC, Boland, A, Vronskaya, M, van der Lee, SJ, Amlie-Wolf, A, Bellenguez, C, Frizatti, A, Chouraki, V, Martin, ER, Sleegers, K, Badarinarayan, N, Jakobsdottir, J, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Aloso, R, Raybould, R, Chen, Y, Kuzma, AB, Hiltunen, M, Morgan, T, Ahmad, S, Vardarajan, BN, Epelbaum, J, Hoffmann, P, Boada, M, Beecham, GW, Garnier, JG, Harold, D, Fitzpatrick, AL, Valladares, O, Moutet, ML, Gerrish, A, Smith, AV, Qu, L, Bacq, D, Denning, N, Jian, X, Zhao, Y, Zompo, MD, Fox, NC, Grove, ML, Choi, SH, Mateo, I, Hughes, JT, Adams, HH, Malamon, J, Garcia, FS, Patel, Y, Brody, JA, Dombroski, B, Naranjo, MCD, Daniilidou, M, Eiriksdottir, G, Mukherjee, S, Wallon, D, Uphill, J, Aspelund, T, Cantwell, LB, Garzia, F, Galimberti, D, Hofer, E, Butkiewics, M, Fin, B, Scarpini, E, Sarnowski, C, Bush, W, Meslage, S, Kornhuber, J, White, CC, Song, Y, Barber, RC, Engelborghs, S, Pichler, S, Voijnovic, D, Adams, PM, Vandenberghe, R, Mayhaus, M, Cupples, LA, Albert, MS, De Deyn, PP, Gu, W, Himali, JJ, Beekly, D, Squassina, A, Hartmann, AM, Orellana, A, Blacker, D, Rodriguez-Rodriguez, E, Lovestone, S, Garcia, ME, Doody, RS, Fernadez, CM, Sussams, R, Lin, H, Fairchild, TJ, Benito, YA, Holmes, C, Comic, H, Frosch, MP, Thonberg, H, Maier, W, Roschupkin, G, Ghetti, B, Giedraitis, V, Kawalia, A, Li, S, Huebinger, RM, Kilander, L, Moebus, S, Hernández, I, Kamboh, MI, Brundin, R, Turton, J, Yang, Q, Katz, MJ, Concari, L, Lord, J, Beiser, AS, Keene, CD, Helisalmi, S, Kloszewska, I, Kukull, WA, Koivisto, AM, Lynch, A, Tarraga, L, Larson, EB, Haapasalo, A, Lawlor, B, Mosley, TH, Lipton, RB, Solfrizzi, V, Gill, M, Longstreth Jr, WT, Montine, TJ, Frisardi, V, Ortega-Cubero, S, Rivadeneira, F, Petersen, RC, Deramecourt, V, Ciaramella, A, Boerwinkle, E, Reiman, EM, Fievet, N, Caltagirone, C, Rotter, JI, Reisch, JS, Hanon, O, Cupidi, C, Uitterlinden, AG, Royall, DR, Dufouil, C, Maletta, RG, Moreno-Grau, S, Sano, M, Brice, A, Cecchetti, R, St 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Aging, 4202 Epidemiology, Genome-wide association study, Disease, Neurodegenerative, Biology, 3101 Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Alzheimer's Disease, 3105 Genetics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Clinical Research, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Genetics, medicine, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Dementia, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic association, 2 Aetiology, 0303 health sciences, Prevention, Human Genome, 42 Health Sciences, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), Lipid metabolism, medicine.disease, Brain Disorders, 3. Good health, Meta-analysis, Neurological, Alzheimer's disease, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, 31 Biological Sciences
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IntroductionLate-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD, onset age > 60 years) is the most prevalent dementia in the elderly1, and risk is partially driven by genetics2. Many of the loci responsible for this genetic risk were identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS)3–8. To identify additional LOAD risk loci, the we performed the largest GWAS to date (89,769 individuals), analyzing both common and rare variants. We confirm 20 previous LOAD risk loci and identify four new genome-wide loci (IQCK, ACE, ADAM10, and ADAMTS1). Pathway analysis of these data implicates the immune system and lipid metabolism, and for the first time tau binding proteins and APP metabolism. These findings show that genetic variants affecting APP and Aβ processing are not only associated with early-onset autosomal dominant AD but also with LOAD. Analysis of AD risk genes and pathways show enrichment for rare variants (P = 1.32 × 10−7) indicating that additional rare variants remain to be identified.

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2018
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37. Testosterone Pathway Genetic Polymorphisms in Relation to Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: analysis in Two Large Datasets

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Bailey, JNC, Gharahkhani, P, Kang, JH, Butkiewicz, M, Sullivan, DA, Weinreb, RN, Aschard, H, Allingham, RR, Ashley-Koch, A, Lee, RK, Moroi, SE, Brilliant, MH, Wollstein, G, Schuman, JS, Fingert, JH, Budenz, DL, Realini, T, Gaasterland, T, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Igo, RP, Song, YE, Hark, L, Ritch, R, Rhee, DJ, Vollrath, D, Zack, DJ, Medeiros, F, Vajaranant, TS, Chasman, DI, Christen, WG, Pericak-Vance, MA, Liu, Y, Kraft, P, Richards, JE, Rosner, BA, Hauser, MA, Craig, JE, Burdon, KP, Hewitt, AW, Mackey, DA, Haines, JL, MacGregor, S, Wiggs, JL, Pasquale, LR, Bailey, JNC, Gharahkhani, P, Kang, JH, Butkiewicz, M, Sullivan, DA, Weinreb, RN, Aschard, H, Allingham, RR, Ashley-Koch, A, Lee, RK, Moroi, SE, Brilliant, MH, Wollstein, G, Schuman, JS, Fingert, JH, Budenz, DL, Realini, T, Gaasterland, T, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Igo, RP, Song, YE, Hark, L, Ritch, R, Rhee, DJ, Vollrath, D, Zack, DJ, Medeiros, F, Vajaranant, TS, Chasman, DI, Christen, WG, Pericak-Vance, MA, Liu, Y, Kraft, P, Richards, JE, Rosner, BA, Hauser, MA, Craig, JE, Burdon, KP, Hewitt, AW, Mackey, DA, Haines, JL, MacGregor, S, Wiggs, JL, and Pasquale, LR

Abstract

PURPOSE: Sex hormones may be associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), although the mechanisms are unclear. We previously observed that gene variants involved with estrogen metabolism were collectively associated with POAG in women but not men; here we assessed gene variants related to testosterone metabolism collectively and POAG risk. METHODS: We used two datasets: one from the United States (3853 cases and 33,480 controls) and another from Australia (1155 cases and 1992 controls). Both datasets contained densely called genotypes imputed to the 1000 Genomes reference panel. We used pathway- and gene-based approaches with Pathway Analysis by Randomization Incorporating Structure (PARIS) software to assess the overall association between a panel of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in testosterone metabolism genes and POAG. In sex-stratified analyses, we evaluated POAG overall and POAG subtypes defined by maximum IOP (high-tension [HTG] or normal tension glaucoma [NTG]). RESULTS: In the US dataset, the SNP panel was not associated with POAG (permuted P = 0.77), although there was an association in the Australian sample (permuted P = 0.018). In both datasets, the SNP panel was associated with POAG in men (permuted P ≤ 0.033) and not women (permuted P ≥ 0.42), but in gene-based analyses, there was no consistency on the main genes responsible for these findings. In both datasets, the testosterone pathway association with HTG was significant (permuted P ≤ 0.011), but again, gene-based analyses showed no consistent driver gene associations. CONCLUSIONS: Collectively, testosterone metabolism pathway SNPs were consistently associated with the high-tension subtype of POAG in two datasets.

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2018

38. 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, 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, 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, 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, and MacGregor, S

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.

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2018

39. Analysis combining correlated glaucoma traits identifies five new risk loci for open-angle glaucoma

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Gharahkhani, P, Burdon, KP, Bailey, JNC, Hewitt, AW, Law, MH, Pasquale, LR, Kang, JH, Haines, JL, Souzeau, E, Zhou, T, Siggs, OM, Landers, J, Awadalla, M, Sharma, S, Mills, RA, Ridge, B, Lynn, D, Casson, R, Graham, SL, Goldberg, I, White, A, Healey, PR, Grigg, J, Lawlor, M, Mitchell, P, Ruddle, J, Coote, M, Walland, M, Best, S, Vincent, A, Gale, J, RadfordSmith, G, Whiteman, DC, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG, Mackey, DA, Wiggs, JL, MacGregor, S, Craig, JE, Gharahkhani, P, Burdon, KP, Bailey, JNC, Hewitt, AW, Law, MH, Pasquale, LR, Kang, JH, Haines, JL, Souzeau, E, Zhou, T, Siggs, OM, Landers, J, Awadalla, M, Sharma, S, Mills, RA, Ridge, B, Lynn, D, Casson, R, Graham, SL, Goldberg, I, White, A, Healey, PR, Grigg, J, Lawlor, M, Mitchell, P, Ruddle, J, Coote, M, Walland, M, Best, S, Vincent, A, Gale, J, RadfordSmith, G, Whiteman, DC, Montgomery, GW, Martin, NG, Mackey, DA, Wiggs, JL, MacGregor, S, and Craig, JE

Abstract

Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) is a major cause of blindness worldwide. To identify new risk loci for OAG, we performed a genome-wide association study in 3,071 OAG cases and 6,750 unscreened controls, and meta-analysed the results with GWAS data for intraocular pressure (IOP) and optic disc parameters (the overall meta-analysis sample size varying between 32,000 to 48,000 participants), which are glaucoma-related traits. We identified and independently validated four novel genome-wide significant associations within or near MYOF and CYP26A1, LINC02052 and CRYGS, LMX1B, and LMO7 using single variant tests, one additional locus (C9) using gene-based tests, and two genetic pathways - "response to fluid shear stress" and "abnormal retina morphology" - in pathway-based tests. Interestingly, some of the new risk loci contribute to risk of other genetically-correlated eye diseases including myopia and age-related macular degeneration. To our knowledge, this study is the first integrative study to combine genetic data from OAG and its correlated traits to identify new risk variants and genetic pathways, highlighting the future potential of combining genetic data from genetically-correlated eye traits for the purpose of gene discovery and mapping.

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2018

40. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

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Iglesias Gonzalez, Adriana, Mishra, A, Vitart, V, Bykhovskaya, Y, Hohn, R, Springelkamp, Henriët, Cuellar-Partida, G, Gharahkhani, P, Bailey, JNC, Willoughby, CE, Li, XH, Yazar, S, Nag, A, Khawaja, AP, Polasek, O, Siscovick, D, Mitchell, P, Tham, YC, Haines, JL, Kearns, LS, Hayward, C, Shi, Y, Leeuwen, Elisa, Taylor, KD, Bonnemaijer, Pieter, Rotter, JI, Martin, NG, Zeller, T, Mills, RA, Staffieri, SE, Jonas, JB, Schmidtmann, I, Boutin, T, Kang, JH, Lucas, SEM, Wong, TY, Beutel, ME, Wilson, JF, Uitterlinden, André, Vithana, EN, Foster, PJ, Hysi, PG, Hewitt, AW, Khor, CC, Pasquale, LR, Montgomery, GW, Klaver, Caroline, Aung, T, Pfeiffer, N, Mackey, DA, Hammond, CJ, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Craig, JE, Rabinowitz, YS, Wiggs, JL, Burdon, KP, Duijn, Cornelia, Macgregor, S, Iglesias Gonzalez, Adriana, Mishra, A, Vitart, V, Bykhovskaya, Y, Hohn, R, Springelkamp, Henriët, Cuellar-Partida, G, Gharahkhani, P, Bailey, JNC, Willoughby, CE, Li, XH, Yazar, S, Nag, A, Khawaja, AP, Polasek, O, Siscovick, D, Mitchell, P, Tham, YC, Haines, JL, Kearns, LS, Hayward, C, Shi, Y, Leeuwen, Elisa, Taylor, KD, Bonnemaijer, Pieter, Rotter, JI, Martin, NG, Zeller, T, Mills, RA, Staffieri, SE, Jonas, JB, Schmidtmann, I, Boutin, T, Kang, JH, Lucas, SEM, Wong, TY, Beutel, ME, Wilson, JF, Uitterlinden, André, Vithana, EN, Foster, PJ, Hysi, PG, Hewitt, AW, Khor, CC, Pasquale, LR, Montgomery, GW, Klaver, Caroline, Aung, T, Pfeiffer, N, Mackey, DA, Hammond, CJ, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Craig, JE, Rabinowitz, YS, Wiggs, JL, Burdon, KP, Duijn, Cornelia, and Macgregor, S

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2018

41. [P2–075]: INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGED FAMILY CONNECTOR IN RECRUITING AND ASCERTAINING AFRICAN AMERICANS’ FAMILY MEMBERS FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH

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Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Michael L. Cuccaro, Jeffery M. Vance, Larry D. Adams, Christopher J Edwards, Richard Mayeux, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Grace Byfield, Patrice L. Whitehead, Haines Jl, Gary W. Beecham, Goldie S. Byrd, Christiane Reitz, and Takiyah D. Starks

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Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, business.industry, Health Policy, Genomic research, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Family medicine, Medicine, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology, business
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2017

42. P2-135: THE TOMM40 REPEAT DOES NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FOR AD FOR APOE4 CARRIERS WITH LOCAL GENOMIC AFRICAN ANCESTRY (LGA)

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Anthony J. Griswold, Haines Jl, Kara L. Hamilton-Nelson, Jeffery M. Vance, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Juan Young, Parker Bussies, Patrice L. Whitehead, Goldie S. Byrd, Michael L. Cuccaro, and Farid Rajabli

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Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Health Policy, Neurology (clinical), Geriatrics and Gerontology
Published
2019

43. Joint Analysis of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Variants in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Identifies Novel Loci TRPM1 and ABHD2/RLBP1

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Persad, PJ, Heid, IM, Weeks, DE, Baird, PN, de Jong, EK, Haines, JL, Pericak-Vance, MA, Scott, WK, Persad, PJ, Heid, IM, Weeks, DE, Baird, PN, de Jong, EK, Haines, JL, Pericak-Vance, MA, and Scott, WK

Abstract

PURPOSE: Presently, 52 independent nuclear single nucleotide polymorphisms (nSNPs) have been associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but their effects do not explain all its variance. Genetic interactions between the nuclear and mitochondrial (mt) genome may unearth additional genetic loci previously unassociated with AMD risk. METHODS: Joint effects of nSNPs and selected mtSNPs were analyzed by two degree of freedom (2df) joint tests of association in the International AMD Genomics Consortium (IAMDGC) dataset (17,832 controls and 16,144 advanced AMD cases of European ancestry). Subjects were genotyped on the Illumina HumanCoreExome array. After imputation using MINIMAC and the 1000 Genomes Project Phase I reference panel, pairwise linkage disequilibrium pruning, and quality control, 3.9 million nSNPs were analyzed for interaction with mtSNPs chosen based on association in this dataset or publications: A4917G, T5004C, G12771A, and C16069T. RESULTS: Novel locus TRPM1 was identified with genome-wide significant joint effects (P < 5.0 × 10-8) of two intronic TRPM1 nSNPs and AMD-associated nonsynonymous MT-ND2 mtSNP A4917G. Stratified analysis by mt allele identified an association only in 4917A (major allele) carriers (P = 4.4 × 10-9, odds ratio [OR] = 0.90, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.87-0.93). Intronic and intergenic ABHD2/RLBP1 nSNPs demonstrated genome-wide significant joint effects (2df joint test P values from 1.8 × 10-8 to 4.9 × 10-8) and nominally statistically significant interaction effects with MT-ND5 synonymous mtSNP G12771A. Although a positive association was detected in both strata, the association was stronger in 12771A subjects (P = 0.0020, OR = 2.17, 95% CI = 1.34-3.60). CONCLUSIONS: These results show that joint tests of main effects and gene-gene interaction reveal associations at some novel loci that were missed when considering main effects alone.

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2017

44. New insights into the genetics of primary open-angle glaucoma based on meta-analyses of intraocular pressure and optic disc characteristics

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Springelkamp, Henriët, Iglesias Gonzalez, Adriana, Mishra, A, Hohn, R, Wojciechowski, R, Khawaja, AP, Nag, A, Wang, YX, Wang, JJ, Cuellar-Partida, G, Gibson, J, Bailey, JNC, Vithana, EN, Gharahkhani, P, Boutin, T, Ramdas, Wishal, Zeller, T, Luben, RN, Yonova-Doing, E, Viswanathan, AC, Yazar, S, Cree, AJ, Haines, JL, Koh, JY, Souzeau, E, Wilson, JF, Amin, Najaf, Muller, C, Venturini, C, Kearns, LS, Kang, JH, Tham, YC, Zhou, T, van Leeuwen, EM, Nickels, S, Sanfilippo, P, Liao, JM, van der Linde, HC, Zhao, WT, Koolwijk, Leonieke, Zheng, L, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Baskaran, M, van der Lee, Sven, Perera, S, Jong, P, Oostra, Ben, Uitterlinden, André, Fan, Q, Hofman, Bert, Tai, ES, Vingerling, Hans, Sim, XL, Wolfs, R.C.W., Teo, YY, Lemij, HG, Khor, CC, Willemsen, Rob, Lackner, KJ, Aung, T, Jansonius, NM, Montgomery, G, Wild, PS, Young, TL, Burdon, KP, Hysi, PG, Pasquale, LR, Wong, TY, Klaver, Caroline, Hewitt, AW, Jonas, JB, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Foster, PJ, Vitart, V, Pfeiffer, N, Craig, JE, Mackey, DA, Hammond, CJ, Wiggs, JL, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Duijn, Cornelia, Macgregor, S, Springelkamp, Henriët, Iglesias Gonzalez, Adriana, Mishra, A, Hohn, R, Wojciechowski, R, Khawaja, AP, Nag, A, Wang, YX, Wang, JJ, Cuellar-Partida, G, Gibson, J, Bailey, JNC, Vithana, EN, Gharahkhani, P, Boutin, T, Ramdas, Wishal, Zeller, T, Luben, RN, Yonova-Doing, E, Viswanathan, AC, Yazar, S, Cree, AJ, Haines, JL, Koh, JY, Souzeau, E, Wilson, JF, Amin, Najaf, Muller, C, Venturini, C, Kearns, LS, Kang, JH, Tham, YC, Zhou, T, van Leeuwen, EM, Nickels, S, Sanfilippo, P, Liao, JM, van der Linde, HC, Zhao, WT, Koolwijk, Leonieke, Zheng, L, Rivadeneira, Fernando, Baskaran, M, van der Lee, Sven, Perera, S, Jong, P, Oostra, Ben, Uitterlinden, André, Fan, Q, Hofman, Bert, Tai, ES, Vingerling, Hans, Sim, XL, Wolfs, R.C.W., Teo, YY, Lemij, HG, Khor, CC, Willemsen, Rob, Lackner, KJ, Aung, T, Jansonius, NM, Montgomery, G, Wild, PS, Young, TL, Burdon, KP, Hysi, PG, Pasquale, LR, Wong, TY, Klaver, Caroline, Hewitt, AW, Jonas, JB, Mitchell, P, Lotery, AJ, Foster, PJ, Vitart, V, Pfeiffer, N, Craig, JE, Mackey, DA, Hammond, CJ, Wiggs, JL, Cheng, CY (Ching-Yu), Duijn, Cornelia, and Macgregor, S

Published
2017

46. A meta-analysis of genomic screens in multiple sclerosis. The Transatlantic Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Cooperative

Author

Pericak-Vance, MA, Rimmler, JB, Saunders, AM, Martin, ER, Haines, JL, Garcia, ME, Oksenberg, JR, Barcellos, LF, Lincoln, R, Goodkin, DE, Hauser, SL, Compston, DAS, Sawcer, SJ, Clayton, D, Jones, HB, Walker, N, Goodfellow, PPN, Bulman, D, Sadovnick, D, Ebers, GC, Dyment, D, Willer, C, Risch, N, and Transatlantic, MSG

Abstract

We combined the raw genotyping data from three large multiple sclerosis genome screens and performed a global meta-analysis in order to compare and summarize the linkage results from the different studies. In alphabetical order, the screens provided data from 442 markers typed in 52 multiplex families with a total of 133 affected individuals (the American screen), 314 markers typed in 128 families with 264 affecteds (the British screen) and 257 markers typed in 61 families with a total of 139 affected subjects (the Canadian screen). Multipoint analysis of these data was performed using the GENEHUNTER program. The highest non-parametric linkage (NPL) score in the meta-analysis was observed on chromosome 17q11 (NPL score 2.58), although this score falls short of genome-wide significance. A total of eight regions had NPL scores greater than 2.0. One of the regions with an NPL score greater than 2.0 was the HLA region on chromosome 6p21 (NPL=2.2). This region is known, from association studies, to be involved in MS susceptibility, but the modest linkage result observed here suggests the encoded susceptibility effect is not large compared with the high familial recurrence in MS (lambda approximately 20). Overall, our linkage results suggest that MS is likely to be multigenic in its genetic susceptibility.

Published
2016

47. O2‐06‐03: Tissue‐Specific Genome‐Wide Predictions of Genetically Regulated Expression in Alzheimer's Disease

Author

Ellen M. Wijsman, Anita L. DeStefano, Chad D. Huff, Joshua C. Bis, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Richard Mayeux, Lauren E. Petty, Hao Hu, Jennifer E. Below, Sudha Seshadri, Eric Boerwinkle, Haines Jl, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Cornelia M. van Duijn, and Myriam Fornage

Subjects
Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Expression (architecture), Epidemiology, Health Policy, Tissue specific, Neurology (clinical), Disease, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Biology, Genome
Published
2016

48. Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Identifies Novel Loci Associated With Optic Disc Morphology

Author

Springelkamp, H, Mishra, A, Hysi, PG, Gharahkhani, P, Höhn, R, Khor, CC, Cooke Bailey, JN, Luo, X, Ramdas, WD, Vithana, E, Koh, V, Yazar, S, Xu, L, Forward, H, Kearns, LS, Amin, N, Iglesias, AI, Sim, KS, van Leeuwen, EM, Demirkan, A, van der Lee, S, Loon, SC, Rivadeneira, F, Nag, A, Sanfilippo, PG, Schillert, A, de Jong, PTVM, Oostra, BA, Uitterlinden, AG, Hofman, A, Zhou, T, Burdon, KP, Spector, TD, Lackner, KJ, Saw, SM, Vingerling, JR, Teo, YY, Pasquale, LR, Wolfs, RCW, Lemij, HG, Tai, ES, Jonas, JB, Cheng, CY, Aung, T, Jansonius, NM, Klaver, CCW, Craig, JE, Young, TL, Haines, JL, Macgregor, S, Mackey, DA, Pfeiffer, N, Wong, TY, Wiggs, JL, Hewitt, AW, van Duijn, CM, Hammond, CJ, Allingham, RR, Brilliant, MH, Budenz, DL, Bailey, JNC, Christen, WG, and Fingert, J

Subjects
genetic structures, sense organs, eye diseases
Abstract

© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Primary open-angle glaucoma is the most common optic neuropathy and an important cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. The optic nerve head or optic disc is divided in two parts: a central cup (without nerve fibers) surrounded by the neuroretinal rim (containing axons of the retinal ganglion cells). The International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies consisting of 17,248 individuals of European ancestry and 6,841 individuals of Asian ancestry. The outcomes of the genome-wide association studies were disc area and cup area. These specific measurements describe optic nerve morphology in another way than the vertical cup-disc ratio, which is a clinically used measurement, and may shed light on new glaucoma mechanisms. We identified 10 new loci associated with disc area (CDC42BPA, F5, DIRC3, RARB, ABI3BP, DCAF4L2, ELP4, TMTC2, NR2F2, and HORMAD2) and another 10 new loci associated with cup area (DHRS3, TRIB2, EFEMP1, FLNB, FAM101, DDHD1, ASB7, KPNB1, BCAS3, and TRIOBP). The new genes participate in a number of pathways and future work is likely to identify more functions related to the pathogenesis of glaucoma.

Published
2015

49. A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

Author

Fritsche, LG, Igl, W, Bailey, JNC, Grassmann, F, Sengupta, S, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Burdon, KP, Hebbring, SJ, Wen, C, Gorski, M, Kim, IK, Cho, D, Zack, D, Souied, E, Scholl, HPN, Bala, E, Lee, KE, Hunter, DJ, Sardell, RJ, Mitchell, P, Merriam, JE, Cipriani, V, Hoffman, JD, Schick, T, Lechanteur, YTE, Guymer, RH, Johnson, MP, Jiang, Y, Stanton, CM, Buitendijk, GHS, Zhan, X, Kwong, AM, Boleda, A, Brooks, M, Gieser, L, Ratnapriya, R, Branham, KE, Foerster, JR, Heckenlively, JR, Othman, MI, Vote, BJ, Liang, HH, Souzeau, E, McAllister, IL, Isaacs, T, Hall, J, Lake, S, Mackey, DA, Constable, IJ, Craig, JE, Kitchner, TE, Yang, Z, Su, Z, Luo, H, Chen, D, Hong, O, Flagg, K, Lin, D, Mao, G, Ferreyra, H, Starke, K, von Strachwitz, CN, Wolf, A, Brandl, C, Rudolph, G, Olden, M, Morrison, MA, Morgan, DJ, Schu, M, Ahn, J, Silvestri, G, Tsironi, EE, Park, KH, Farrer, LA, Orlin, A, Brucker, A, Li, M, Curcio, CA, Mohand-Said, S, Sahel, J-M, Audo, I, Benchaboune, M, Cree, AJ, Rennie, CA, Goverdhan, SV, Grunin, M, Hagbi-Levi, S, Campochiaro, P, Katsanis, N, Holz, FG, Blond, F, Blanche, H, Deleuze, J-F, Igo, RP, Truitt, B, Peachey, NS, Meuer, SM, Myers, CE, Moore, EL, Klein, R, Hauser, MA, Postel, EA, Courtenay, MD, Schwartz, SG, Kovach, JL, Scott, WK, Liew, G, Tan, AG, Gopinath, B, Merriam, JC, Smith, RT, Khan, JC, Shahid, H, Moore, AT, McGrath, JA, Laux, R, Brantley, MA, Agarwal, A, Ersoy, L, Caramoy, A, Langmann, T, Saksens, NTM, de Jong, EK, Hoyng, CB, Cain, MS, Richardson, AJ, Martin, TM, Blangero, J, Weeks, DE, Dhillon, B, van Duijn, CM, Doheny, KF, Romm, J, Klaver, CCW, Hayward, C, Gorin, MB, Klein, ML, Baird, PN, den Hollander, AI, Fauser, S, Yates, JRW, Allikmets, R, Wang, JJ, Schaumberg, DA, Klein, BEK, Hagstrom, SA, Chowers, I, Lotery, AJ, Leveillard, T, Zhang, K, Brilliant, MH, Hewitt, AW, Swaroop, A, Chew, EY, Pericak-Vance, MA, DeAngelis, M, Stambolian, D, Haines, JL, Iyengar, SK, Weber, BHF, Abecasis, GR, Heid, IM, Fritsche, LG, Igl, W, Bailey, JNC, Grassmann, F, Sengupta, S, Bragg-Gresham, JL, Burdon, KP, Hebbring, SJ, Wen, C, Gorski, M, Kim, IK, Cho, D, Zack, D, Souied, E, Scholl, HPN, Bala, E, Lee, KE, Hunter, DJ, Sardell, RJ, Mitchell, P, Merriam, JE, Cipriani, V, Hoffman, JD, Schick, T, Lechanteur, YTE, Guymer, RH, Johnson, MP, Jiang, Y, Stanton, CM, Buitendijk, GHS, Zhan, X, Kwong, AM, Boleda, A, Brooks, M, Gieser, L, Ratnapriya, R, Branham, KE, Foerster, JR, Heckenlively, JR, Othman, MI, Vote, BJ, Liang, HH, Souzeau, E, McAllister, IL, Isaacs, T, Hall, J, Lake, S, Mackey, DA, Constable, IJ, Craig, JE, Kitchner, TE, Yang, Z, Su, Z, Luo, H, Chen, D, Hong, O, Flagg, K, Lin, D, Mao, G, Ferreyra, H, Starke, K, von Strachwitz, CN, Wolf, A, Brandl, C, Rudolph, G, Olden, M, Morrison, MA, Morgan, DJ, Schu, M, Ahn, J, Silvestri, G, Tsironi, EE, Park, KH, Farrer, LA, Orlin, A, Brucker, A, Li, M, Curcio, CA, Mohand-Said, S, Sahel, J-M, Audo, I, Benchaboune, M, Cree, AJ, Rennie, CA, Goverdhan, SV, Grunin, M, Hagbi-Levi, S, Campochiaro, P, Katsanis, N, Holz, FG, Blond, F, Blanche, H, Deleuze, J-F, Igo, RP, Truitt, B, Peachey, NS, Meuer, SM, Myers, CE, Moore, EL, Klein, R, Hauser, MA, Postel, EA, Courtenay, MD, Schwartz, SG, Kovach, JL, Scott, WK, Liew, G, Tan, AG, Gopinath, B, Merriam, JC, Smith, RT, Khan, JC, Shahid, H, Moore, AT, McGrath, JA, Laux, R, Brantley, MA, Agarwal, A, Ersoy, L, Caramoy, A, Langmann, T, Saksens, NTM, de Jong, EK, Hoyng, CB, Cain, MS, Richardson, AJ, Martin, TM, Blangero, J, Weeks, DE, Dhillon, B, van Duijn, CM, Doheny, KF, Romm, J, Klaver, CCW, Hayward, C, Gorin, MB, Klein, ML, Baird, PN, den Hollander, AI, Fauser, S, Yates, JRW, Allikmets, R, Wang, JJ, Schaumberg, DA, Klein, BEK, Hagstrom, SA, Chowers, I, Lotery, AJ, Leveillard, T, Zhang, K, Brilliant, MH, Hewitt, AW, Swaroop, A, Chew, EY, Pericak-Vance, MA, DeAngelis, M, Stambolian, D, Haines, JL, Iyengar, SK, Weber, BHF, Abecasis, GR, and Heid, IM

Abstract

Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, with limited therapeutic options. Here we report on a study of >12 million variants, including 163,714 directly genotyped, mostly rare, protein-altering variants. Analyzing 16,144 patients and 17,832 controls, we identify 52 independently associated common and rare variants (P < 5 × 10(-8)) distributed across 34 loci. Although wet and dry AMD subtypes exhibit predominantly shared genetics, we identify the first genetic association signal specific to wet AMD, near MMP9 (difference P value = 4.1 × 10(-10)). Very rare coding variants (frequency <0.1%) in CFH, CFI and TIMP3 suggest causal roles for these genes, as does a splice variant in SLC16A8. Our results support the hypothesis that rare coding variants can pinpoint causal genes within known genetic loci and illustrate that applying the approach systematically to detect new loci requires extremely large sample sizes.

Published
2016

50. Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

Author

Bailey, JNC, Loomis, SJ, Kang, JH, Allingham, RR, Gharahkhani, P, Khor, CC, Burdon, KP, Aschard, H, Chasman, DI, Igo, RP, Hysi, PG, Glastonbury, CA, Ashley-Koch, A, Brilliant, M, Brown, AA, Budenz, DL, Buil, A, Cheng, C-Y, Choi, H, Christen, WG, Curhan, G, De Vivo, I, Fingert, JH, Foster, PJ, Fuchs, C, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Hewitt, AW, Hu, F, Hunter, DJ, Khawaja, AP, Lee, RK, Li, Z, Lichter, PR, Mackey, DA, McGuffin, P, Mitchell, P, Moroi, SE, Perera, SA, Pepper, KW, Qi, Q, Realini, T, Richards, JE, Ridker, PM, Rimm, E, Ritch, R, Ritchie, M, Schuman, JS, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Song, YE, Tamimi, RM, Topouzis, F, Viswanathan, AC, Verma, SS, Vollrath, D, Wang, JJ, Weisschuh, N, Wissinger, B, Wollstein, G, Wong, TY, Yaspan, BL, Zack, DJ, Zhang, K, Weinreb, RN, Pericak-Vance, MA, Small, K, Hammond, CJ, Aung, T, Liu, Y, Vithana, EN, MacGregor, S, Craig, JE, Kraftl, P, Howell, G, Hauser, MA, Pasguale, LR, Haines, JL, Wiggs, JL, Bailey, JNC, Loomis, SJ, Kang, JH, Allingham, RR, Gharahkhani, P, Khor, CC, Burdon, KP, Aschard, H, Chasman, DI, Igo, RP, Hysi, PG, Glastonbury, CA, Ashley-Koch, A, Brilliant, M, Brown, AA, Budenz, DL, Buil, A, Cheng, C-Y, Choi, H, Christen, WG, Curhan, G, De Vivo, I, Fingert, JH, Foster, PJ, Fuchs, C, Gaasterland, D, Gaasterland, T, Hewitt, AW, Hu, F, Hunter, DJ, Khawaja, AP, Lee, RK, Li, Z, Lichter, PR, Mackey, DA, McGuffin, P, Mitchell, P, Moroi, SE, Perera, SA, Pepper, KW, Qi, Q, Realini, T, Richards, JE, Ridker, PM, Rimm, E, Ritch, R, Ritchie, M, Schuman, JS, Scott, WK, Singh, K, Sit, AJ, Song, YE, Tamimi, RM, Topouzis, F, Viswanathan, AC, Verma, SS, Vollrath, D, Wang, JJ, Weisschuh, N, Wissinger, B, Wollstein, G, Wong, TY, Yaspan, BL, Zack, DJ, Zhang, K, Weinreb, RN, Pericak-Vance, MA, Small, K, Hammond, CJ, Aung, T, Liu, Y, Vithana, EN, MacGregor, S, Craig, JE, Kraftl, P, Howell, G, Hauser, MA, Pasguale, LR, Haines, JL, and Wiggs, JL

Abstract

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. To identify new susceptibility loci, we performed meta-analysis on genome-wide association study (GWAS) results from eight independent studies from the United States (3,853 cases and 33,480 controls) and investigated the most significantly associated SNPs in two Australian studies (1,252 cases and 2,592 controls), three European studies (875 cases and 4,107 controls) and a Singaporean Chinese study (1,037 cases and 2,543 controls). A meta-analysis of the top SNPs identified three new associated loci: rs35934224[T] in TXNRD2 (odds ratio (OR) = 0.78, P = 4.05 × 10(-11)) encoding a mitochondrial protein required for redox homeostasis; rs7137828[T] in ATXN2 (OR = 1.17, P = 8.73 × 10(-10)); and rs2745572[A] upstream of FOXC1 (OR = 1.17, P = 1.76 × 10(-10)). Using RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry, we show TXNRD2 and ATXN2 expression in retinal ganglion cells and the optic nerve head. These results identify new pathways underlying POAG susceptibility and suggest new targets for preventative therapies.

Published
2016

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