%0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2019 %T Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution. %A Justice, Anne E %A Karaderi, Tugce %A Highland, Heather M %A Young, Kristin L %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Lu, Yingchang %A Turcot, Valérie %A Auer, Paul L %A Fine, Rebecca S %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Lempradl, Adelheid %A Marouli, Eirini %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Locke, Adam E %A Medina-Gomez, Carolina %A Esko, Tõnu %A Vedantam, Sailaja %A Giri, Ayush %A Lo, Ken Sin %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Mudgal, Poorva %A Ng, Maggie C Y %A Heard-Costa, Nancy L %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Manning, Alisa K %A Willems, Sara M %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Alam, Dewan S %A Allison, Matthew %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Arzumanyan, Zorayr %A Balkau, Beverley %A Bastarache, Lisa %A Bergmann, Sven %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Blüher, Matthias %A Boehnke, Michael %A Boeing, Heiner %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Böger, Carsten A %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Bowden, Donald W %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Broer, Linda %A Burt, Amber A %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Cesana, Giancarlo %A Chambers, John C %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Christensen, Cramer %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Collins, Francis S %A Cook, James P %A Cox, Amanda J %A Crosslin, David S %A Danesh, John %A de Bakker, Paul I W %A Denus, Simon de %A Mutsert, Renée de %A Dedoussis, George %A Demerath, Ellen W %A Dennis, Joe G %A Denny, Josh C %A Di Angelantonio, Emanuele %A Dörr, Marcus %A Drenos, Fotios %A Dube, Marie-Pierre %A Dunning, Alison M %A Easton, Douglas F %A Elliott, Paul %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni %A Feng, Shuang %A Ferrannini, Ele %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Florez, Jose C %A Fornage, Myriam %A Fox, Caroline S %A Franks, Paul W %A Friedrich, Nele %A Gan, Wei %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Gorski, Mathias %A Grallert, Harald %A Grarup, Niels %A Grove, Megan L %A Gustafsson, Stefan %A Haessler, Jeff %A Hansen, Torben %A Hattersley, Andrew T %A Hayward, Caroline %A Heid, Iris M %A Holmen, Oddgeir L %A Hovingh, G Kees %A Howson, Joanna M M %A Hu, Yao %A Hung, Yi-Jen %A Hveem, Kristian %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Jackson, Anne U %A Jarvik, Gail P %A Jia, Yucheng %A Jørgensen, Torben %A Jousilahti, Pekka %A Justesen, Johanne M %A Kahali, Bratati %A Karaleftheri, Maria %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Kee, Frank %A Kitajima, Hidetoshi %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Kovacs, Peter %A Krämer, Bernhard K %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lamparter, David %A Lange, Leslie A %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Larson, Eric B %A Lee, Nanette R %A Lee, Wen-Jane %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lewis, Cora E %A Li, Huaixing %A Li, Jin %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lin, Li-An %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Lindström, Jaana %A Linneberg, Allan %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Luan, Jian'an %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A MacGregor, Stuart %A Mägi, Reedik %A Männistö, Satu %A Marenne, Gaëlle %A Marten, Jonathan %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A McCarthy, Mark I %A Meidtner, Karina %A Mihailov, Evelin %A Moilanen, Leena %A Moitry, Marie %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Morgan, Anna %A Morris, Andrew P %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Narisu, Narisu %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Neville, Matt %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A O'Connell, Jeffrey R %A Owen, Katharine R %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Peloso, Gina M %A Pennell, Craig E %A Perola, Markus %A Perry, James A %A Perry, John R B %A Pers, Tune H %A Ewing, Ailith %A Polasek, Ozren %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rasheed, Asif %A Raulerson, Chelsea K %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Reiner, Alex P %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rivas, Manuel A %A Robertson, Neil R %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rudan, Igor %A Ruth, Katherine S %A Saleheen, Danish %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Scott, Robert A %A Segura-Lepe, Marcelo %A Sim, Xueling %A Slater, Andrew J %A Small, Kerrin S %A Smith, Blair H %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Southam, Lorraine %A Spector, Timothy D %A Speliotes, Elizabeth K %A Stefansson, Kari %A Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur %A Stirrups, Kathleen E %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Sun, Liang %A Surendran, Praveen %A Swart, Karin M A %A Tardif, Jean-Claude %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teumer, Alexander %A Thompson, Deborah J %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Thuesen, Betina H %A Tonjes, Anke %A Torres, Mina %A Tsafantakis, Emmanouil %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Uusitupa, Matti %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Vanhala, Mauno %A Varma, Rohit %A Vermeulen, Sita H %A Vestergaard, Henrik %A Vitart, Veronique %A Vogt, Thomas F %A Vuckovic, Dragana %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Walker, Mark %A Wallentin, Lars %A Wang, Feijie %A Wang, Carol A %A Wang, Shuai %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Warren, Helen R %A Waterworth, Dawn M %A Wessel, Jennifer %A White, Harvey D %A Willer, Cristen J %A Wilson, James G %A Wood, Andrew R %A Wu, Ying %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Yao, Jie %A Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M %A Young, Robin %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Zhan, Xiaowei %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Zhao, Wei %A Zheng, He %A Zhou, Wei %A Zillikens, M Carola %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Pospisilik, J Andrew %A Deloukas, Panos %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Lettre, Guillaume %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Hirschhorn, Joel N %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Loos, Ruth J F %A North, Kari E %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %K Animals %K Body Fat Distribution %K Body Mass Index %K Case-Control Studies %K Drosophila %K Exome %K Female %K Gene Frequency %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genetic Variation %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Homeostasis %K Humans %K Lipids %K Male %K Proteins %K Risk Factors %K Waist-Hip Ratio %X

Body-fat distribution is a risk factor for adverse cardiovascular health consequences. We analyzed the association of body-fat distribution, assessed by waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index, with 228,985 predicted coding and splice site variants available on exome arrays in up to 344,369 individuals from five major ancestries (discovery) and 132,177 European-ancestry individuals (validation). We identified 15 common (minor allele frequency, MAF ≥5%) and nine low-frequency or rare (MAF <5%) coding novel variants. Pathway/gene set enrichment analyses identified lipid particle, adiponectin, abnormal white adipose tissue physiology and bone development and morphology as important contributors to fat distribution, while cross-trait associations highlight cardiometabolic traits. In functional follow-up analyses, specifically in Drosophila RNAi-knockdowns, we observed a significant increase in the total body triglyceride levels for two genes (DNAH10 and PLXND1). We implicate novel genes in fat distribution, stressing the importance of interrogating low-frequency and protein-coding variants.

%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 452-469 %8 2019 Mar %G eng %N 3 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30778226?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-018-0334-2 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2019 %T Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. %A Turcot, Valérie %A Lu, Yingchang %A Highland, Heather M %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Justice, Anne E %A Fine, Rebecca S %A Bradfield, Jonathan P %A Esko, Tõnu %A Giri, Ayush %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hendricks, Audrey E %A Karaderi, Tugce %A Lempradl, Adelheid %A Locke, Adam E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Marouli, Eirini %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Young, Kristin L %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Manning, Alisa K %A Medina-Gomez, Carolina %A Mudgal, Poorva %A Ng, Maggie C Y %A Reiner, Alex P %A Vedantam, Sailaja %A Willems, Sara M %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Aben, Katja K %A Alam, Dewan S %A 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%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 1191-1192 %8 2019 Jul %G eng %N 7 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31160809?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-019-0447-2 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. %A Turcot, Valérie %A Lu, Yingchang %A Highland, Heather M %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Justice, Anne E %A Fine, Rebecca S %A Bradfield, Jonathan P %A Esko, Tõnu %A Giri, Ayush %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hendricks, Audrey E %A Karaderi, Tugce %A Lempradl, Adelheid %A Locke, Adam E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Marouli, Eirini %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Young, Kristin L %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Manning, Alisa K %A Medina-Gomez, Carolina %A Mudgal, Poorva %A Ng, Maggie C Y %A Reiner, Alex P %A Vedantam, Sailaja %A Willems, Sara M %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Aben, Katja K %A Alam, Dewan S %A Alharthi, Sameer E %A 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Charles %A Korhonen, Tellervo %A Kovacs, Peter %A Kuivaniemi, Helena %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lamparter, David %A Lange, Ethan M %A Lange, Leslie A %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Larson, Eric B %A Lee, Nanette R %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lewis, Cora E %A Li, Huaixing %A Li, Jin %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lin, Honghuang %A Lin, Keng-Hung %A Lin, Li-An %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Lindström, Jaana %A Linneberg, Allan %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Liu, Yongmei %A Lo, Ken S %A Lophatananon, Artitaya %A Lotery, Andrew J %A Loukola, Anu %A Luan, Jian'an %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Männistö, Satu %A Marenne, Gaëlle %A Mazul, Angela L %A McCarthy, Mark I %A McKean-Cowdin, Roberta %A Medland, Sarah E %A Meidtner, Karina %A Milani, Lili %A Mistry, Vanisha %A Mitchell, Paul %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Moilanen, Leena %A Moitry, Marie %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Moore, Carmel %A Mori, Trevor A %A Morris, Andrew D %A Morris, Andrew P %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Nalls, Mike A %A Narisu, Narisu %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Neville, Matt %A Nielsen, Sune F %A Nikus, Kjell %A Njølstad, Pål R %A Nordestgaard, Børge G %A Nyholt, Dale R %A O'Connel, Jeffrey R %A O'Donoghue, Michelle L %A Olde Loohuis, Loes M %A Ophoff, Roel A %A Owen, Katharine R %A Packard, Chris J %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pasterkamp, Gerard %A Patel, Aniruddh P %A Pattie, Alison %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Peissig, Peggy L %A Peloso, Gina M %A Pennell, Craig E %A Perola, Markus %A Perry, James A %A Perry, John R B %A Pers, Tune H %A Person, Thomas N %A Peters, Annette %A Petersen, Eva R B %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Pirie, Ailith %A Polasek, Ozren %A Polderman, Tinca J %A Puolijoki, Hannu %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rasheed, Asif %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rheinberger, Myriam %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rioux, John D %A Rivas, Manuel A %A Roberts, David J %A Robertson, Neil R %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rolandsson, Olov %A Rudan, Igor %A Ruth, Katherine S %A Saleheen, Danish %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sapkota, Yadav %A Sattar, Naveed %A Schoen, Robert E %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Scott, Robert A %A Segura-Lepe, Marcelo P %A Shah, Svati H %A Sheu, Wayne H-H %A Sim, Xueling %A Slater, Andrew J %A Small, Kerrin S %A Smith, Albert V %A Southam, Lorraine %A Spector, Timothy D %A Speliotes, Elizabeth K %A Starr, John M %A Stefansson, Kari %A Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur %A Stirrups, Kathleen E %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Sun, Liang %A Surendran, Praveen %A Swift, Amy J %A Tada, Hayato %A Tansey, Katherine E %A Tardif, Jean-Claude %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teumer, Alexander %A Thompson, Deborah J %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Thuesen, Betina H %A Tonjes, Anke %A Tromp, Gerard %A Trompet, Stella %A Tsafantakis, Emmanouil %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Tybjaerg-Hansen, Anne %A Tyrer, Jonathan P %A Uher, Rudolf %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Uusitupa, Matti %A Laan, Sander W %A Duijn, Cornelia M %A Leeuwen, Nienke %A van Setten, Jessica %A Vanhala, Mauno %A Varbo, Anette %A Varga, Tibor V %A Varma, Rohit %A Velez Edwards, Digna R %A Vermeulen, Sita H %A Veronesi, Giovanni %A Vestergaard, Henrik %A Vitart, Veronique %A Vogt, Thomas F %A Völker, Uwe %A Vuckovic, Dragana %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Walker, Mark %A Wallentin, Lars %A Wang, Feijie %A Wang, Carol A %A Wang, Shuai %A Wang, Yiqin %A Ware, Erin B %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Warren, Helen R %A Waterworth, Dawn M %A Wessel, Jennifer %A White, Harvey D %A Willer, Cristen J %A Wilson, James G %A Witte, Daniel R %A Wood, Andrew R %A Wu, Ying %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Yao, Jie %A Yao, Pang %A Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M %A Young, Robin %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Zhan, Xiaowei %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhao, Jing Hua %A Zhao, Wei %A Zhao, Wei %A Zhou, Wei %A Zondervan, Krina T %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Pospisilik, John A %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Deloukas, Panos %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Lettre, Guillaume %A North, Kari E %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Hirschhorn, Joel N %A Loos, Ruth J F %K Adult %K Animals %K Body Mass Index %K Drosophila %K Energy Intake %K Energy Metabolism %K Female %K Gene Frequency %K Genetic Variation %K Humans %K Male %K Obesity %K Proteins %K Syndrome %X

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal genes remains challenging. Here we combined data from 718,734 individuals to discover rare and low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) < 5%) coding variants associated with BMI. We identified 14 coding variants in 13 genes, of which 8 variants were in genes (ZBTB7B, ACHE, RAPGEF3, RAB21, ZFHX3, ENTPD6, ZFR2 and ZNF169) newly implicated in human obesity, 2 variants were in genes (MC4R and KSR2) previously observed to be mutated in extreme obesity and 2 variants were in GIPR. The effect sizes of rare variants are ~10 times larger than those of common variants, with the largest effect observed in carriers of an MC4R mutation introducing a stop codon (p.Tyr35Ter, MAF = 0.01%), who weighed ~7 kg more than non-carriers. Pathway analyses based on the variants associated with BMI confirm enrichment of neuronal genes and provide new evidence for adipocyte and energy expenditure biology, widening the potential of genetically supported therapeutic targets in obesity.

%B Nat Genet %V 50 %P 26-41 %8 2018 Jan %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29273807?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. %A Turcot, Valérie %A Lu, Yingchang %A Highland, Heather M %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Justice, Anne E %A Fine, Rebecca S %A Bradfield, Jonathan P %A Esko, Tõnu %A Giri, Ayush %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hendricks, Audrey E %A Karaderi, Tugce %A Lempradl, Adelheid %A Locke, Adam E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Marouli, Eirini %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Young, Kristin L %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Manning, Alisa K %A Medina-Gomez, Carolina %A Mudgal, Poorva %A Ng, Maggie C Y %A Reiner, Alex P %A Vedantam, Sailaja %A Willems, Sara M %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Aben, Katja K %A Alam, Dewan S %A Alharthi, Sameer E %A Allison, Matthew %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Auer, Paul L %A Balkau, Beverley %A Bang, Lia E %A Barroso, Inês %A Bastarache, Lisa %A Benn, Marianne %A Bergmann, Sven %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Blüher, Matthias %A Boehnke, Michael %A Boeing, Heiner %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Böger, Carsten A %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Bots, Michiel L %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Bowden, Donald W %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Breen, Gerome %A Brilliant, Murray H %A Broer, Linda %A Brumat, Marco %A Burt, Amber A %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Campbell, Peter T %A Cappellani, Stefania %A Carey, David J %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Chambers, John C %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chen, Yii-Der I %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Christensen, Cramer %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Collins, Francis S %A Cook, James P %A Corley, Janie %A Corominas Galbany, Jordi %A Cox, Amanda J %A Crosslin, David S %A Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel %A D'Eustacchio, Angela %A Danesh, John %A Davies, Gail %A 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Wei %A Zondervan, Krina T %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Pospisilik, John A %A Rivadeneira, Fernando %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Deloukas, Panos %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Lettre, Guillaume %A North, Kari E %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Hirschhorn, Joel N %A Loos, Ruth J F %X

In the version of this article originally published, one of the two authors with the name Wei Zhao was omitted from the author list and the affiliations for both authors were assigned to the single Wei Zhao in the author list. In addition, the ORCID for Wei Zhao (Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) was incorrectly assigned to author Wei Zhou. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

%B Nat Genet %V 50 %P 766-767 %8 2018 May %G eng %N 5 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29549330?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-018-0082-3 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. %A Turcot, Valérie %A Lu, Yingchang %A Highland, Heather M %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Justice, Anne E %A Fine, Rebecca S %A Bradfield, Jonathan P %A Esko, Tõnu %A Giri, Ayush %A Graff, Mariaelisa %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hendricks, Audrey E %A Karaderi, Tugce %A Lempradl, Adelheid %A Locke, Adam E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Marouli, Eirini %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Young, Kristin L %A Alfred, Tamuno %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Manning, Alisa K %A Medina-Gomez, Carolina %A Mudgal, Poorva %A Ng, Maggie C Y %A Reiner, Alex P %A Vedantam, Sailaja %A Willems, Sara M %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Aben, Katja K %A Alam, Dewan S %A Alharthi, Sameer E %A Allison, Matthew %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Auer, Paul L %A Balkau, Beverley %A Bang, Lia E %A Barroso, Inês %A Bastarache, Lisa %A Benn, Marianne %A Bergmann, Sven %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Blüher, Matthias %A Boehnke, Michael %A Boeing, Heiner %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Böger, Carsten A %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Bots, Michiel L %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Bowden, Donald W %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Breen, Gerome %A Brilliant, Murray H %A Broer, Linda %A Brumat, Marco %A Burt, Amber A %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Campbell, Peter T %A Cappellani, Stefania %A Carey, David J %A Catamo, Eulalia %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Chambers, John C %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chen, Yii-Der I %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Christensen, Cramer %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Collins, Francis S %A Cook, James P %A Corley, Janie %A Corominas Galbany, Jordi %A Cox, Amanda J %A Crosslin, David S %A Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel %A D'Eustacchio, Angela %A Danesh, John %A Davies, Gail %A Bakker, Paul I W %A Groot, Mark C H %A Mutsert, Renée %A Deary, Ian J %A Dedoussis, George %A Demerath, Ellen W %A Heijer, Martin %A Hollander, Anneke I %A Ruijter, Hester M %A Dennis, Joe G %A Denny, Josh C %A Angelantonio, Emanuele %A Drenos, Fotios %A Du, Mengmeng %A Dube, Marie-Pierre %A Dunning, Alison M %A Easton, Douglas F %A Edwards, Todd L %A Ellinghaus, David %A Ellinor, Patrick T %A Elliott, Paul %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni %A Farooqi, I Sadaf %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fauser, Sascha %A Feng, Shuang %A Ferrannini, Ele %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Florez, Jose C %A Ford, Ian %A Fornage, Myriam %A Franco, Oscar H %A Franke, Andre %A Franks, Paul W %A Friedrich, Nele %A Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth %A Galesloot, Tessel E %A Gan, Wei %A Gandin, Ilaria %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gibson, Jane %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Gjesing, Anette P %A Gordon-Larsen, Penny %A Gorski, Mathias %A Grabe, Hans-Jörgen %A Grant, Struan F A %A Grarup, Niels %A Griffiths, Helen L %A Grove, Megan L %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Gustafsson, Stefan %A Haessler, Jeff %A Hakonarson, Hakon %A Hammerschlag, Anke R %A Hansen, Torben %A Harris, Kathleen Mullan %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hattersley, Andrew T %A Have, Christian T %A Hayward, Caroline %A He, Liang %A Heard-Costa, Nancy L %A Heath, Andrew C %A Heid, Iris M %A Helgeland, Øyvind %A Hernesniemi, Jussi %A Hewitt, Alex W %A Holmen, Oddgeir L %A Hovingh, G Kees %A Howson, Joanna M M %A Hu, Yao %A Huang, Paul L %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Jackson, Anne U %A Jansson, Jan-Håkan %A Jarvik, Gail P %A Jensen, Gorm B %A Jia, Yucheng %A Johansson, Stefan %A Jørgensen, Marit E %A Jørgensen, Torben %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Kahali, Bratati %A Kahn, René S %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kamstrup, Pia R %A Kanoni, Stavroula %A Kaprio, Jaakko %A Karaleftheri, Maria %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Kathiresan, Sekar %A Kee, Frank %A Kiemeney, Lambertus A %A Kim, Eric %A Kitajima, Hidetoshi %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Korhonen, Tellervo %A Kovacs, Peter %A Kuivaniemi, Helena %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lamparter, David %A Lange, Ethan M %A Lange, Leslie A %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Larson, Eric B %A Lee, Nanette R %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Lewis, Cora E %A Li, Huaixing %A Li, Jin %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lin, Honghuang %A Lin, Keng-Hung %A Lin, Li-An %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Lindström, Jaana %A Linneberg, Allan %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Liu, Yongmei %A Lo, Ken S %A Lophatananon, Artitaya %A Lotery, Andrew J %A Loukola, Anu %A Luan, Jian'an %A Lubitz, Steven A %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Männistö, Satu %A Marenne, Gaëlle %A Mazul, Angela L %A McCarthy, Mark I %A McKean-Cowdin, Roberta %A Medland, Sarah E %A Meidtner, Karina %A Milani, Lili %A Mistry, Vanisha %A Mitchell, Paul %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Moilanen, Leena %A Moitry, Marie %A Montgomery, Grant W %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Moore, Carmel %A Mori, Trevor A %A Morris, Andrew D %A Morris, Andrew P %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Nalls, Mike A %A Narisu, Narisu %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Neville, Matt %A Nielsen, Sune F %A Nikus, Kjell %A Njølstad, Pål R %A Nordestgaard, Børge G %A Nyholt, Dale R %A O'Connel, Jeffrey R %A O'Donoghue, Michelle L %A Olde Loohuis, Loes M %A Ophoff, Roel A %A Owen, Katharine R %A Packard, Chris J %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pasterkamp, Gerard %A Patel, Aniruddh P %A Pattie, Alison %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Peissig, Peggy L %A Peloso, Gina M %A Pennell, Craig E %A Perola, Markus %A Perry, James A %A Perry, John R B %A Pers, Tune H %A Person, Thomas N %A Peters, Annette %A Petersen, Eva R B %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Pirie, Ailith %A Polasek, Ozren %A Polderman, Tinca J %A Puolijoki, Hannu %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Rasheed, Asif %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rheinberger, Myriam %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rioux, John D %A Rivas, Manuel A %A Roberts, David J %A Robertson, Neil R %A Robino, Antonietta %A Rolandsson, Olov %A Rudan, Igor %A Ruth, Katherine S %A Saleheen, Danish %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sapkota, Yadav %A Sattar, Naveed %A Schoen, Robert E %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Scott, Robert A %A Segura-Lepe, Marcelo P %A Shah, Svati H %A Sheu, Wayne H-H %A Sim, Xueling %A Slater, Andrew J %A Small, Kerrin S %A Smith, Albert V %A Southam, Lorraine %A Spector, Timothy D %A Speliotes, Elizabeth K %A Starr, John M %A Stefansson, Kari %A Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur %A Stirrups, Kathleen E %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Sun, Liang %A Surendran, Praveen %A Swift, Amy J %A Tada, Hayato %A Tansey, Katherine E %A Tardif, Jean-Claude %A Taylor, Kent D %A Teumer, Alexander %A Thompson, Deborah J %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Thuesen, Betina H %A Tonjes, Anke %A Tromp, Gerard %A Trompet, Stella %A 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In the published version of this paper, the name of author Emanuele Di Angelantonio was misspelled. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

%B Nat Genet %V 50 %P 765-766 %8 2018 May %G eng %N 5 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29549329?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-018-0050-y %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2018 %T Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes. %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Wessel, Jennifer %A Willems, Sara M %A Zhao, Wei %A Robertson, Neil R %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Gan, Wei %A Kitajima, Hidetoshi %A Taliun, Daniel %A Rayner, N William %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Lu, Yingchang %A Li, Man %A Jensen, Richard A %A Hu, Yao %A Huo, Shaofeng %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Zhang, Weihua %A Cook, James P %A Prins, Bram Peter %A Flannick, Jason %A Grarup, Niels %A Trubetskoy, Vassily Vladimirovich %A Kravic, Jasmina %A Kim, Young Jin %A Rybin, Denis V %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Meidtner, Karina %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Varga, Tibor V %A Marten, Jonathan %A Li, Jin %A Smith, Albert Vernon %A An, Ping %A Ligthart, Symen %A Gustafsson, Stefan %A 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Franco, Oscar H %A Franks, Paul W %A Froguel, Philippe %A Grallert, Harald %A Groop, Leif %A Han, Bok-Ghee %A Hansen, Torben %A Hattersley, Andrew T %A Hayward, Caroline %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Kooner, Jaspal Singh %A Köttgen, Anna %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Laakso, Markku %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Liu, Yongmei %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Marchini, Jonathan %A Metspalu, Andres %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis %A Nordestgaard, Børge G %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Pankow, James S %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Sattar, Naveed %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Soranzo, Nicole %A Spector, Timothy D %A Stefansson, Kari %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Tuomi, Tiinamaija %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Wilson, James G %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Scott, Robert A %A Barroso, Inês %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Goodarzi, Mark O %A Meigs, James B %A Boehnke, Michael %A Saleheen, Danish %A Morris, Andrew P %A Rotter, Jerome I %A McCarthy, Mark I %K Alleles %K Chromosome Mapping %K Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 %K Exome Sequencing %K Female %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genetic Variation %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Humans %K Male %K White People %X

We aggregated coding variant data for 81,412 type 2 diabetes cases and 370,832 controls of diverse ancestry, identifying 40 coding variant association signals (P < 2.2 × 10); of these, 16 map outside known risk-associated loci. We make two important observations. First, only five of these signals are driven by low-frequency variants: even for these, effect sizes are modest (odds ratio ≤1.29). Second, when we used large-scale genome-wide association data to fine-map the associated variants in their regional context, accounting for the global enrichment of complex trait associations in coding sequence, compelling evidence for coding variant causality was obtained for only 16 signals. At 13 others, the associated coding variants clearly represent 'false leads' with potential to generate erroneous mechanistic inference. Coding variant associations offer a direct route to biological insight for complex diseases and identification of validated therapeutic targets; however, appropriate mechanistic inference requires careful specification of their causal contribution to disease predisposition.

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Height is a highly heritable, classic polygenic trait with approximately 700 common associated variants identified through genome-wide association studies so far. Here, we report 83 height-associated coding variants with lower minor-allele frequencies (in the range of 0.1-4.8%) and effects of up to 2 centimetres per allele (such as those in IHH, STC2, AR and CRISPLD2), greater than ten times the average effect of common variants. In functional follow-up studies, rare height-increasing alleles of STC2 (giving an increase of 1-2 centimetres per allele) compromised proteolytic inhibition of PAPP-A and increased cleavage of IGFBP-4 in vitro, resulting in higher bioavailability of insulin-like growth factors. These 83 height-associated variants overlap genes that are mutated in monogenic growth disorders and highlight new biological candidates (such as ADAMTS3, IL11RA and NOX4) and pathways (such as proteoglycan and glycosaminoglycan synthesis) involved in growth. Our results demonstrate that sufficiently large sample sizes can uncover rare and low-frequency variants of moderate-to-large effect associated with polygenic human phenotypes, and that these variants implicate relevant genes and pathways.

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