1. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries
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Gharahkhani, Puya, Jorgenson, Eric, Hysi, Pirro, Khawaja, Anthony P, Pendergrass, Sarah, Han, Xikun, Ong, Jue Sheng, Hewitt, Alex W, Segrè, Ayellet V, Rouhana, John M, Hamel, Andrew R, Igo, Robert P, Choquet, Helene, Qassim, Ayub, Josyula, Navya S, Cooke Bailey, Jessica N, Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM, Iglesias, Adriana, Siggs, Owen M, Young, Terri L, Vitart, Veronique, Thiadens, Alberta AHJ, Karjalainen, Juha, Uebe, Steffen, Melles, Ronald B, Nair, K Saidas, Luben, Robert, Simcoe, Mark, Amersinghe, Nishani, Cree, Angela J, Hohn, Rene, Poplawski, Alicia, Chen, Li Jia, Rong, Shi-Song, Aung, Tin, Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, ANZRAG consortium, Biobank Japan project, FinnGen study, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, GIGA study group, 23 and Me Research Team, Tamiya, Gen, Shiga, Yukihiro, Yamamoto, Masayuki, Nakazawa, Toru, Currant, Hannah, Birney, Ewan, Wang, Xin, Auton, Adam, Lupton, Michelle K, Martin, Nicholas G, Ashaye, Adeyinka, Olawoye, Olusola, Williams, Susan E, Akafo, Stephen, Ramsay, Michele, Hashimoto, Kazuki, Kamatani, Yoichiro, Akiyama, Masato, Momozawa, Yukihide, Foster, Paul J, Khaw, Peng T, Morgan, James E, Strouthidis, Nicholas G, Kraft, Peter, Kang, Jae H, Pang, Chi Pui, Pasutto, Francesca, Mitchell, Paul, Lotery, Andrew J, Palotie, Aarno, van Duijn, Cornelia, Haines, Jonathan L, Hammond, Chris, Pasquale, Louis R, Klaver, Caroline CW, Hauser, Michael, Khor, Chiea Chuen, Mackey, David A, Kubo, Michiaki, Cheng, Ching-Yu, Craig, Jamie E, MacGregor, Stuart, Wiggs, Janey L, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, Clinical Genetics, Gharahkhani, Puya [0000-0002-4203-5952], Jorgenson, Eric [0000-0002-5829-8191], Hysi, Pirro [0000-0001-5752-2510], Khawaja, Anthony P [0000-0001-6802-8585], Han, Xikun [0000-0002-3823-7308], Ong, Jue Sheng [0000-0002-6062-710X], Hewitt, Alex W [0000-0002-5123-5999], Rouhana, John M [0000-0002-8599-0271], Igo, Robert P [0000-0002-0024-1993], Choquet, Helene [0000-0001-9839-8667], Josyula, Navya S [0000-0003-2782-8812], Cooke Bailey, Jessica N [0000-0002-4001-8702], Bonnemaijer, Pieter WM [0000-0001-5154-6765], Iglesias, Adriana [0000-0001-5532-764X], Siggs, Owen M [0000-0003-2840-4851], Young, Terri L [0000-0001-6994-9941], Vitart, Veronique [0000-0002-4991-3797], Thiadens, Alberta AHJ [0000-0002-4911-9462], Luben, Robert [0000-0002-5088-6343], Simcoe, Mark [0000-0003-2432-0810], Cree, Angela J [0000-0002-1987-8900], Poplawski, Alicia [0000-0003-2527-0763], Rong, Shi-Song [0000-0001-8352-6363], Vithana, Eranga Nishanthie [0000-0002-8898-0095], Yamamoto, Masayuki [0000-0002-9073-9436], Currant, Hannah [0000-0003-2764-6787], Birney, Ewan [0000-0001-8314-8497], Wang, Xin [0000-0001-7242-357X], Martin, Nicholas G [0000-0003-4069-8020], Olawoye, Olusola [0000-0003-2357-8924], Williams, Susan E [0000-0002-4479-8638], Ramsay, Michele [0000-0002-4156-4801], Kamatani, Yoichiro [0000-0001-8748-5597], Foster, Paul J [0000-0002-4755-177X], Khaw, Peng T [0000-0002-8087-2268], Kraft, Peter [0000-0002-4472-8103], Kang, Jae H [0000-0003-4812-0557], Pasutto, Francesca [0000-0002-0026-5362], Lotery, Andrew J [0000-0001-5541-4305], Haines, Jonathan L [0000-0002-4351-4728], Hammond, Chris [0000-0002-3227-2620], Pasquale, Louis R [0000-0002-5835-3496], Klaver, Caroline CW [0000-0002-2355-5258], Khor, Chiea Chuen [0000-0002-1128-4729], Cheng, Ching-Yu [0000-0003-0655-885X], MacGregor, Stuart [0000-0001-6731-8142], Wiggs, Janey L [0000-0003-1890-3278], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Centre of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics, Aarno Palotie / Principal Investigator, Genomics of Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, HUSLAB, HUS Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, APH - Mental Health, APH - Methodology, and Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neuroinfection & -inflammation
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0301 basic medicine ,Aging ,genetic structures ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Glaucoma ,PROTEIN ,Genome-wide association study ,Neurodegenerative ,Genome ,ANNOTATION ,Genome-wide association studies ,Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12] ,0302 clinical medicine ,Polymorphism (computer science) ,Genotype ,2.1 Biological and endogenous factors ,ANZRAG consortium ,Aetiology ,GENE-EXPRESSION ,Genetics ,HUMAN-DISEASES ,RISK ,Multidisciplinary ,and Me Research Team ,Single Nucleotide ,ASSOCIATION ,GIGA study group ,Biobank Japan project ,3. Good health ,PREVALENCE ,Open-Angle ,Meta-analysis ,NEIGHBORHOOD consortium ,Optic nerve diseases ,Glaucoma, Open-Angle ,Asian Continental Ancestry Group ,Open angle glaucoma ,Science ,European Continental Ancestry Group ,FinnGen study ,Biology ,GENOTYPE IMPUTATION ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium ,Article ,White People ,03 medical and health sciences ,Asian People ,medicine ,Humans ,Genetic Predisposition to Disease ,3125 Otorhinolaryngology, ophthalmology ,Polymorphism ,Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision ,Genetic association ,MUTATIONS ,Human Genome ,General Chemistry ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,030104 developmental biology ,Genetic Loci ,DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,sense organs ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
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., Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is highly heritable, yet not well understood from a genetic perspective. Here, the authors perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in 34,179 POAG cases, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and mapping effects across multiple ethnicities.
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- 2021
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