%0 Journal Article %J Transl Psychiatry %D 2022 %T Correction: Association of low-frequency and rare coding variants with information processing speed. %A Bressler, Jan %A Davies, Gail %A Smith, Albert V %A Saba, Yasaman %A Bis, Joshua C %A Jian, Xueqiu %A Hayward, Caroline %A Yanek, Lisa %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Mirza, Saira S %A Wang, Ruiqi %A Adams, Hieab H H %A Becker, Diane %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Campbell, Archie %A Cox, Simon R %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe %A Gottesman, Rebecca F %A Grove, Megan L %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hofer, Edith %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Knol, Maria J %A Koini, Marisa %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Marioni, Riccardo E %A Nyquist, Paul %A Pattie, Alison %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Rudan, Igor %A Satizabal, Claudia L %A Schmidt, Helena %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Sidney, Stephen %A Simino, Jeannette %A Smith, Blair H %A Turner, Stephen T %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Ware, Erin B %A Whitmer, Rachel A %A Yaffe, Kristine %A Yang, Qiong %A Zhao, Wei %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Launer, Lenore J %A Fitzpatrick, Annette L %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Fornage, Myriam %A Arfan Ikram, M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Deary, Ian J %B Transl Psychiatry %V 12 %P 88 %8 2022 Mar 01 %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35232957?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41398-022-01852-x %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2022 %T New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. %A Bellenguez, Céline %A Küçükali, Fahri %A Jansen, Iris E %A Kleineidam, Luca %A Moreno-Grau, Sonia %A Amin, Najaf %A Naj, Adam C %A Campos-Martin, Rafael %A Grenier-Boley, Benjamin %A Andrade, Victor %A Holmans, Peter A %A Boland, Anne %A Damotte, Vincent %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Costa, Marcos R %A Kuulasmaa, Teemu %A Yang, Qiong %A de Rojas, Itziar %A Bis, Joshua C %A Yaqub, Amber %A Prokic, Ivana %A Chapuis, Julien %A Ahmad, Shahzad %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Aarsland, Dag %A García-González, Pablo %A Abdelnour, Carla %A Alarcón-Martín, Emilio %A Alcolea, Daniel %A Alegret, Montserrat %A Alvarez, Ignacio %A Alvarez, Victoria %A Armstrong, Nicola J %A Tsolaki, Anthoula %A Antúnez, Carmen %A Appollonio, Ildebrando %A Arcaro, Marina %A Archetti, Silvana %A Pastor, Alfonso Arias %A Arosio, Beatrice %A Athanasiu, Lavinia %A Bailly, Henri %A Banaj, Nerisa %A Baquero, Miquel %A Barral, Sandra %A Beiser, Alexa %A Pastor, Ana Belén %A Below, Jennifer E %A Benchek, Penelope %A Benussi, Luisa %A Berr, Claudine %A Besse, Céline %A Bessi, Valentina %A Binetti, Giuliano %A Bizarro, Alessandra %A Blesa, Rafael %A Boada, Mercè %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Borroni, Barbara %A Boschi, Silvia %A Bossù, Paola %A Bråthen, Geir %A Bressler, Jan %A Bresner, Catherine %A Brodaty, Henry %A Brookes, Keeley J %A Brusco, Luis Ignacio %A Buiza-Rueda, Dolores %A Bûrger, Katharina %A Burholt, Vanessa %A Bush, William S %A Calero, Miguel %A Cantwell, Laura B %A Chêne, Geneviève %A Chung, Jaeyoon %A Cuccaro, Michael L %A 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Danielle %A Priller, Josef %A Puerta, Raquel %A Quenez, Olivier %A Quintela, Inés %A Thomassen, Jesper Qvist %A Rábano, Alberto %A Rainero, Innocenzo %A Rajabli, Farid %A Ramakers, Inez %A Real, Luis M %A Reinders, Marcel J T %A Reitz, Christiane %A Reyes-Dumeyer, Dolly %A Ridge, Perry %A Riedel-Heller, Steffi %A Riederer, Peter %A Roberto, Natalia %A Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Eloy %A Rongve, Arvid %A Allende, Irene Rosas %A Rosende-Roca, Maitée %A Royo, Jose Luís %A Rubino, Elisa %A Rujescu, Dan %A Sáez, María Eugenia %A Sakka, Paraskevi %A Saltvedt, Ingvild %A Sanabria, Ángela %A Sánchez-Arjona, María Bernal %A Sanchez-Garcia, Florentino %A Juan, Pascual Sánchez %A Sánchez-Valle, Raquel %A Sando, Sigrid B %A Sarnowski, Chloe %A Satizabal, Claudia L %A Scamosci, Michela %A Scarmeas, Nikolaos %A Scarpini, Elio %A Scheltens, Philip %A Scherbaum, Norbert %A Scherer, Martin %A Schmid, Matthias %A Schneider, Anja %A Schott, Jonathan M %A Selbæk, Geir %A Seripa, Davide %A Serrano, Manuel %A Sha, 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Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated pathophysiological processes. We performed a two-stage genome-wide association study totaling 111,326 clinically diagnosed/'proxy' AD cases and 677,663 controls. We found 75 risk loci, of which 42 were new at the time of analysis. Pathway enrichment analyses confirmed the involvement of amyloid/tau pathways and highlighted microglia implication. Gene prioritization in the new loci identified 31 genes that were suggestive of new genetically associated processes, including the tumor necrosis factor alpha pathway through the linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex. We also built a new genetic risk score associated with the risk of future AD/dementia or progression from mild cognitive impairment to AD/dementia. The improvement in prediction led to a 1.6- to 1.9-fold increase in AD risk from the lowest to the highest decile, in addition to effects of age and the APOE ε4 allele.

%B Nat Genet %V 54 %P 412-436 %8 2022 Apr %G eng %N 4 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35379992?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-022-01024-z %0 Journal Article %J Transl Psychiatry %D 2021 %T Association of low-frequency and rare coding variants with information processing speed. %A Bressler, Jan %A Davies, Gail %A Smith, Albert V %A Saba, Yasaman %A Bis, Joshua C %A Jian, Xueqiu %A Hayward, Caroline %A Yanek, Lisa %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Mirza, Saira S %A Wang, Ruiqi %A Adams, Hieab H H %A Becker, Diane %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Campbell, Archie %A Cox, Simon R %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe %A Gottesman, Rebecca F %A Grove, Megan L %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hofer, Edith %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Knol, Maria J %A Koini, Marisa %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Marioni, Riccardo E %A Nyquist, Paul %A Pattie, Alison %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Rudan, Igor %A Satizabal, Claudia L %A Schmidt, Helena %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Sidney, Stephen %A Simino, Jeannette %A Smith, Blair H %A Turner, Stephen T %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Ware, Erin B %A Whitmer, Rachel A %A Yaffe, Kristine %A Yang, Qiong %A Zhao, Wei %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Launer, Lenore J %A Fitzpatrick, Annette L %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Fornage, Myriam %A Arfan Ikram, M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Deary, Ian J %K Adult %K Aging %K Cognition %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Geroscience %K Humans %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases %X

Measures of information processing speed vary between individuals and decline with age. Studies of aging twins suggest heritability may be as high as 67%. The Illumina HumanExome Bead Chip genotyping array was used to examine the association of rare coding variants with performance on the Digit-Symbol Substitution Test (DSST) in community-dwelling adults participating in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium. DSST scores were available for 30,576 individuals of European ancestry from nine cohorts and for 5758 individuals of African ancestry from four cohorts who were older than 45 years and free of dementia and clinical stroke. Linear regression models adjusted for age and gender were used for analysis of single genetic variants, and the T5, T1, and T01 burden tests that aggregate the number of rare alleles by gene were also applied. Secondary analyses included further adjustment for education. Meta-analyses to combine cohort-specific results were carried out separately for each ancestry group. Variants in RNF19A reached the threshold for statistical significance (p = 2.01 × 10) using the T01 test in individuals of European descent. RNF19A belongs to the class of E3 ubiquitin ligases that confer substrate specificity when proteins are ubiquitinated and targeted for degradation through the 26S proteasome. Variants in SLC22A7 and OR51A7 were suggestively associated with DSST scores after adjustment for education for African-American participants and in the European cohorts, respectively. Further functional characterization of its substrates will be required to confirm the role of RNF19A in cognitive function.

%B Transl Psychiatry %V 11 %P 613 %8 2021 Dec 04 %G eng %N 1 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34864818?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41398-021-01736-6 %0 Journal Article %J Mol Psychiatry %D 2021 %T Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci. %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Noordam, Raymond %A Winkler, Thomas %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Schwander, Karen %A Bentley, Amy R %A Brown, Michael R %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Manning, Alisa %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Aschard, Hugues %A Bartz, Traci M %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Campbell, Archie %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Dorajoo, Rajkumar %A Hartwig, Fernando P %A Horimoto, A R V R %A Li, Changwei %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Liu, Yongmei %A Marten, Jonathan %A Musani, Solomon K %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Richard, Melissa %A Sim, Xueling %A Smith, Albert V %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A Tayo, Bamidele O %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Warren, Helen R %A Xuan, Deng %A Alver, Maris %A Boissel, Mathilde %A Chai, Jin-Fang %A Chen, Xu %A Christensen, Kaare %A Divers, Jasmin %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Gao, Chuan %A Girotto, Giorgia %A Harris, Sarah E %A He, Meian %A Hsu, Fang-Chi %A Kühnel, Brigitte %A Laguzzi, Federica %A Li, Xiaoyin %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Poveda, Alaitz %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Riaz, Muhammad %A Rueedi, Rico %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Snieder, Harold %A Sofer, Tamar %A Takeuchi, Fumihiko %A Verweij, Niek %A Ware, Erin B %A Weiss, Stefan %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Amin, Najaf %A Arking, Dan E %A Arnett, Donna K %A Bergmann, Sven %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Broeckel, Ulrich %A Brumat, Marco %A Burke, Gregory %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Chee, Miao Li %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Cocca, Massimiliano %A Connell, John %A de Silva, H Janaka %A de Vries, Paul S %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fisher, Virginia %A Forrester, Terrence %A Fox, Ervin F %A Friedlander, Yechiel %A Gao, He %A Gigante, Bruna %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gu, Chi Charles %A Gu, Dongfeng %A Harris, Tamara B %A He, Jiang %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heng, Chew-Kiat %A Hunt, Steven %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Irvin, Marguerite R %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kavousi, Maryam %A Khor, Chiea Chuen %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Koh, Woon-Puay %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Krieger, J E %A Langefeld, Carl D %A Li, Yize %A Liang, Jingjing %A Liewald, David C M %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Liu, Jianjun %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Mägi, Reedik %A McKenzie, Colin A %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Milani, Lili %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Nalls, Mike A %A Nelson, Christopher P %A Norris, Jill M %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Ogunniyi, Adesola %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Perls, Thomas %A Peters, Annette %A Petersmann, Astrid %A Peyser, Patricia A %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Raffel, Leslie J %A Rice, Treva K %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Rueda-Ochoa, Oscar-Leonel %A Sabanayagam, Charumathi %A Salako, Babatunde L %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Shikany, James M %A Sidney, Stephen S %A Sims, Mario %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Starr, John M %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Swertz, Morris A %A Teumer, Alexander %A Tham, Yih Chung %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Vaidya, Dhananjay %A van der Ende, M Yldau %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Lihua %A Wang, Ya-Xing %A Wei, Wen-Bin %A Weir, David R %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yao, Jie %A Yu, Bing %A Yu, Caizheng %A Yuan, Jian-Min %A Zhao, Wei %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Bowden, Donald W %A Deary, Ian J %A Dörr, Marcus %A Esko, Tõnu %A Freedman, Barry I %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gasparini, Paolo %A Gieger, Christian %A Jonas, Jost Bruno %A Kammerer, Candace M %A Kato, Norihiro %A Lakka, Timo A %A Leander, Karin %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Marques-Vidal, Pedro %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Samani, Nilesh J %A van der Harst, Pim %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wu, Tangchun %A Zheng, Wei %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Bouchard, Claude %A Cooper, Richard S %A Correa, Adolfo %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hayward, Caroline %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Levy, Daniel %A Palmas, Walter R %A Pereira, A C %A Province, Michael M %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rotimi, Charles N %A Tai, E Shyong %A van Dam, Rob M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Wong, Tien Yin %A Rice, Kenneth %A Gauderman, W James %A Morrison, Alanna C %A North, Kari E %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Elliott, Paul %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Franks, Paul W %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Fornage, Myriam %K Blood Pressure %K Epistasis, Genetic %K Genetic Loci %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Humans %K Hypertension %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %X

Educational attainment is widely used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES). Low SES is a risk factor for hypertension and high blood pressure (BP). To identify novel BP loci, we performed multi-ancestry meta-analyses accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions using two variables, "Some College" (yes/no) and "Graduated College" (yes/no). Interactions were evaluated using both a 1 degree of freedom (DF) interaction term and a 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Analyses were performed for systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure. We pursued genome-wide interrogation in Stage 1 studies (N = 117 438) and follow-up on promising variants in Stage 2 studies (N = 293 787) in five ancestry groups. Through combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 84 known and 18 novel BP loci at genome-wide significance level (P < 5 × 10). Two novel loci were identified based on the 1DF test of interaction with educational attainment, while the remaining 16 loci were identified through the 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Ten novel loci were identified in individuals of African ancestry. Several novel loci show strong biological plausibility since they involve physiologic systems implicated in BP regulation. They include genes involved in the central nervous system-adrenal signaling axis (ZDHHC17, CADPS, PIK3C2G), vascular structure and function (GNB3, CDON), and renal function (HAS2 and HAS2-AS1, SLIT3). Collectively, these findings suggest a role of educational attainment or SES in further dissection of the genetic architecture of BP.

%B Mol Psychiatry %V 26 %P 2111-2125 %8 2021 Jun %G eng %N 6 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32372009?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41380-020-0719-3 %0 Journal Article %J Mol Psychiatry %D 2021 %T Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-sleep interactions identify novel loci for blood pressure. %A Wang, Heming %A Noordam, Raymond %A Cade, Brian E %A Schwander, Karen %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Lee, Jiwon %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Bentley, Amy R %A Manning, Alisa K %A Aschard, Hugues %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A Ilkov, Marjan %A Brown, Michael R %A Horimoto, Andrea R %A Richard, Melissa %A Bartz, Traci M %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Lim, Elise %A Nierenberg, Jovia L %A Liu, Yongmei %A Chitrala, Kumaraswamynaidu %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Musani, Solomon K %A Franceschini, Nora %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Alver, Maris %A Zee, Phyllis C %A Harris, Sarah E %A van der Most, Peter J %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Kühnel, Brigitte %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Hall, Kelly A %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Launer, Lenore J %A de Vries, Paul S %A Arking, Dan E %A Chen, Han %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Krieger, Jose E %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Sidney, Stephen %A Shikany, James M %A Rice, Kenneth %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Gharib, Sina A %A Bis, Joshua C %A Luik, Annemarie I %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Amin, Najaf %A Xu, Hanfei %A Levy, Daniel %A He, Jiang %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Rice, Treva K %A Sims, Mario %A Wilson, Gregory %A Sofer, Tamar %A Rich, Stephen S %A Palmas, Walter %A Yao, Jie %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Biermasz, Nienke R %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Martin, Lisa W %A Barac, Ana %A Wallace, Robert B %A Gottlieb, Daniel J %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Mägi, Reedik %A Milani, Lili %A Metspalu, Andres %A Starr, John M %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Waken, R J %A Gao, Chuan %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Peters, Annette %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Roenneberg, Till %A Völker, Uwe %A Dörr, Marcus %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Mukherjee, Sutapa %A Hillman, David R %A Kähönen, Mika %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Gieger, Christian %A Grabe, Hans J %A Zheng, Wei %A Palmer, Lyle J %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Fornage, Myriam %A Psaty, Bruce M %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Evans, Michele K %A Bouchard, Claude %A Fox, Ervin R %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Lakka, Timo A %A Esko, Tõnu %A North, Kari E %A Deary, Ian J %A Snieder, Harold %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Gauderman, W James %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A Redline, Susan %A van Heemst, Diana %K Blood Pressure %K Genetic Loci %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Humans %K Hypertension %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Sleep %X

Long and short sleep duration are associated with elevated blood pressure (BP), possibly through effects on molecular pathways that influence neuroendocrine and vascular systems. To gain new insights into the genetic basis of sleep-related BP variation, we performed genome-wide gene by short or long sleep duration interaction analyses on four BP traits (systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure) across five ancestry groups in two stages using 2 degree of freedom (df) joint test followed by 1df test of interaction effects. Primary multi-ancestry analysis in 62,969 individuals in stage 1 identified three novel gene by sleep interactions that were replicated in an additional 59,296 individuals in stage 2 (stage 1 + 2 P < 5 × 10), including rs7955964 (FIGNL2/ANKRD33) that increases BP among long sleepers, and rs73493041 (SNORA26/C9orf170) and rs10406644 (KCTD15/LSM14A) that increase BP among short sleepers (P < 5 × 10). Secondary ancestry-specific analysis identified another novel gene by long sleep interaction at rs111887471 (TRPC3/KIAA1109) in individuals of African ancestry (P = 2 × 10). Combined stage 1 and 2 analyses additionally identified significant gene by long sleep interactions at 10 loci including MKLN1 and RGL3/ELAVL3 previously associated with BP, and significant gene by short sleep interactions at 10 loci including C2orf43 previously associated with BP (P < 10). 2df test also identified novel loci for BP after modeling sleep that has known functions in sleep-wake regulation, nervous and cardiometabolic systems. This study indicates that sleep and primary mechanisms regulating BP may interact to elevate BP level, suggesting novel insights into sleep-related BP regulation.

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Boomsma, D I %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Buchanan, Thomas A %A Canouil, Mickaël %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Chambers, John C %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Collins, Francis S %A Correa, Adolfo %A Cucca, Francesco %A de Silva, H Janaka %A Dedoussis, George %A Elmståhl, Sölve %A Evans, Michele K %A Ferrannini, Ele %A Ferrucci, Luigi %A Florez, Jose C %A Franks, Paul W %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Froguel, Philippe %A Gigante, Bruna %A Goodarzi, Mark O %A Gordon-Larsen, Penny %A Grallert, Harald %A Grarup, Niels %A Grimsgaard, Sameline %A Groop, Leif %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hamsten, Anders %A Hansen, Torben %A Hayward, Caroline %A Heckbert, Susan R %A Horta, Bernardo L %A Huang, Wei %A Ingelsson, Erik %A James, Pankow S %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Ritta %A Jonas, Jost B %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Kaleebu, Pontiano %A Kaplan, Robert %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Kato, Norihiro %A Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M %A Kim, Bong-Jo %A Kivimaki, Mika %A Koistinen, Heikki A %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Körner, Antje %A Kovacs, Peter %A Kuh, Diana %A Kumari, Meena %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo A %A Launer, Lenore J %A Leander, Karin %A Li, Huaixing %A Lin, Xu %A Lind, Lars %A Lindgren, Cecilia %A Liu, Simin %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Magnusson, Patrik K E %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Metspalu, Andres %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Mori, Trevor A %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Njølstad, Inger %A O'Connell, Jeffrey R %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Ong, Ken K %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Pennell, Craig E %A Porteous, David J %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Province, Michael A %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Qi, Lu %A Raffel, Leslie J %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Redline, Susan %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Saaristo, Timo E %A Sandhu, Manjinder %A Saramies, Jouko %A Schneiderman, Neil %A Schwarz, Peter %A Scott, Laura J %A Selvin, Elizabeth %A Sever, Peter %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Slagboom, P Eline %A Small, Kerrin S %A Smith, Blair H %A Snieder, Harold %A Sofer, Tamar %A Sørensen, Thorkild I A %A Spector, Tim D %A Stanton, Alice %A Steves, Claire J %A Stumvoll, Michael %A Sun, Liang %A Tabara, Yasuharu %A Tai, E Shyong %A Timpson, Nicholas J %A Tonjes, Anke %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Tusie, Teresa %A Uusitupa, Matti %A van der Harst, Pim %A van Duijn, Cornelia %A Vitart, Veronique %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Vrijkotte, Tanja G M %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Walker, Mark %A Wang, Ya X %A Wareham, Nick J %A Watanabe, Richard M %A Watkins, Hugh %A Wei, Wen B %A Wickremasinghe, Ananda R %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Wilson, James F %A Wong, Tien-Yin %A Wu, Jer-Yuarn %A Xiang, Anny H %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Yengo, Loic %A Yokota, Mitsuhiro %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Zheng, Wei %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Gloyn, Anna L %A McCarthy, Mark I %A Dupuis, Josée %A Meigs, James B %A Scott, Robert A %A Prokopenko, Inga %A Leong, Aaron %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Parker, Stephen C J %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Wheeler, Eleanor %A Morris, Andrew P %A Barroso, Inês %K Alleles %K Blood Glucose %K Epigenesis, Genetic %K Gene Expression Profiling %K Genome, Human %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Glycated Hemoglobin %K Humans %K Multifactorial Inheritance %K Physical Chromosome Mapping %K Quantitative Trait Loci %K Quantitative Trait, Heritable %K White People %X

Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of European ancestry. Here we aggregated genome-wide association studies comprising up to 281,416 individuals without diabetes (30% non-European ancestry) for whom fasting glucose, 2-h glucose after an oral glucose challenge, glycated hemoglobin and fasting insulin data were available. Trans-ancestry and single-ancestry meta-analyses identified 242 loci (99 novel; P < 5 × 10), 80% of which had no significant evidence of between-ancestry heterogeneity. Analyses restricted to individuals of European ancestry with equivalent sample size would have led to 24 fewer new loci. Compared with single-ancestry analyses, equivalent-sized trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the number of estimated variants in 99% credible sets by a median of 37.5%. Genomic-feature, gene-expression and gene-set analyses revealed distinct biological signatures for each trait, highlighting different underlying biological pathways. Our results increase our understanding of diabetes pathophysiology by using trans-ancestry studies for improved power and resolution.

%B Nat Genet %V 53 %P 840-860 %8 2021 Jun %G eng %N 6 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34059833?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-021-00852-9 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2020 %T Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals. %A Surendran, Praveen %A Feofanova, Elena V %A Lahrouchi, Najim %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Karthikeyan, Savita %A Cook, James %A Chen, Lingyan %A Mifsud, Borbala %A Yao, Chen %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Cartwright, James H %A Hellwege, Jacklyn N %A Giri, Ayush %A Tragante, Vinicius %A Thorleifsson, Gudmar %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Prins, Bram P %A Stewart, Isobel D %A Cabrera, Claudia P %A Eales, James M %A Akbarov, Artur %A Auer, Paul L %A Bielak, Lawrence F %A Bis, Joshua C %A Braithwaite, Vickie S %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Daw, E Warwick %A Warren, Helen R %A Drenos, Fotios %A Nielsen, Sune Fallgaard %A Faul, Jessica D %A Fauman, Eric B %A Fava, Cristiano %A Ferreira, Teresa %A Foley, Christopher N %A Franceschini, Nora %A Gao, He %A Giannakopoulou, Olga %A Giulianini, Franco %A Gudbjartsson, Daniel F %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Harris, Sarah E %A Havulinna, Aki S %A Helgadottir, Anna %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Hwang, Shih-Jen %A Kanoni, Stavroula %A Kontto, Jukka %A Larson, Martin G %A Li-Gao, Ruifang %A Lindström, Jaana %A Lotta, Luca A %A Lu, Yingchang %A Luan, Jian'an %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Malerba, Giovanni %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Mei, Hao %A Menni, Cristina %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Mosen-Ansorena, David %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Paré, Guillaume %A Paul, Dirk S %A Perola, Markus %A Poveda, Alaitz %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Richard, Melissa %A Richardson, Tom G %A Sepúlveda, Nuno %A Sim, Xueling %A Smith, Albert V %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Staley, James R %A Stanáková, Alena %A Sulem, Patrick %A Thériault, Sébastien %A Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur %A Trompet, Stella %A Varga, Tibor V %A Velez Edwards, Digna R %A Veronesi, Giovanni %A Weiss, Stefan %A Willems, Sara M %A Yao, Jie %A Young, Robin %A Yu, Bing %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhao, Jing-Hua %A Zhao, Wei %A Zhao, Wei %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Aeschbacher, Stefanie %A Asllanaj, Eralda %A Blankenberg, Stefan %A Bonnycastle, Lori L %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Braund, Peter S %A Burgess, Stephen %A Cho, Kelly %A Christensen, Cramer %A Connell, John %A Mutsert, Renée de %A Dominiczak, Anna F %A Dörr, Marcus %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni %A Gaziano, J Michael %A Grarup, Niels %A Grove, Megan L %A Hallmans, Goran %A Hansen, Torben %A Have, Christian T %A Heiss, Gerardo %A Jørgensen, Marit E %A Jousilahti, Pekka %A Kajantie, Eero %A Kamat, Mihir %A Käräjämäki, Annemari %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Koistinen, Heikki A %A Kovesdy, Csaba P %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Laatikainen, Tiina %A Lannfelt, Lars %A Lee, I-Te %A Lee, Wen-Jane %A Linneberg, Allan %A Martin, Lisa W %A Moitry, Marie %A Nadkarni, Girish %A Neville, Matt J %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Papanicolaou, George J %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Peters, James %A Poulter, Neil %A Rasheed, Asif %A Rasmussen, Katrine L %A Rayner, N William %A Mägi, Reedik %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rettig, Rainer %A Rossouw, Jacques %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Sever, Peter S %A Sigurdsson, Emil L %A Skaaby, Tea %A Sun, Yan V %A Sundström, Johan %A Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur %A Esko, Tõnu %A Trabetti, Elisabetta %A Tsao, Philip S %A Tuomi, Tiinamaija %A Turner, Stephen T %A Tzoulaki, Ioanna %A Vaartjes, Ilonca %A Vergnaud, Anne-Claire %A Willer, Cristen J %A Wilson, Peter W F %A Witte, Daniel R %A Yonova-Doing, Ekaterina %A Zhang, He %A Aliya, Naheed %A Almgren, Peter %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Asselbergs, Folkert W %A Barnes, Michael R %A Blakemore, Alexandra I %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bots, Michiel L %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Buring, Julie E %A Chambers, John C %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Conen, David %A Correa, Adolfo %A Davey Smith, George %A Boer, Rudolf A de %A Deary, Ian J %A Dedoussis, George %A Deloukas, Panos %A Di Angelantonio, Emanuele %A Elliott, Paul %A Felix, Stephan B %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Ford, Ian %A Fornage, Myriam %A Franks, Paul W %A Franks, Stephen %A Frossard, Philippe %A Gambaro, Giovanni %A Gaunt, Tom R %A Groop, Leif %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hayward, Caroline %A Hennig, Branwen J %A Herzig, Karl-Heinz %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Kardia, Sharon L R %A Kee, Frank %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lind, Lars %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Majumder, Abdulla Al Shafi %A Laakso, Markku %A McCarthy, Mark I %A Melander, Olle %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Murray, Alison D %A Nordestgaard, Børge Grønne %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Packard, Chris J %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmas, Walter %A Polasek, Ozren %A Porteous, David J %A Prentice, Andrew M %A Province, Michael A %A Relton, Caroline L %A Rice, Kenneth %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rolandsson, Olov %A Rosendaal, Frits R %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sattar, Naveed %A Sheu, Wayne H-H %A Smith, Blair H %A Soranzo, Nicole %A Spector, Timothy D %A Starr, John M %A Sebert, Sylvain %A Taylor, Kent D %A Lakka, Timo A %A Timpson, Nicholas J %A Tobin, Martin D %A van der Harst, Pim %A van der Meer, Peter %A Ramachandran, Vasan S %A Verweij, Niek %A Virtamo, Jarmo %A Völker, Uwe %A Weir, David R %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Charchar, Fadi J %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Tomaszewski, Maciej %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Danesh, John %A Edwards, Todd L %A Holm, Hilma %A Hung, Adriana M %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Liu, Chunyu %A Manning, Alisa K %A Morris, Andrew P %A Morrison, Alanna C %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Saleheen, Danish %A Stefansson, Kari %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Levy, Daniel %A Newton-Cheh, Christopher %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Howson, Joanna M M %K Blood Pressure %K GATA5 Transcription Factor %K Gene Frequency %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Genotype %K Humans %K Hypertension %K Mutation %K Phospholipase C beta %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %X

Genetic studies of blood pressure (BP) to date have mainly analyzed common variants (minor allele frequency > 0.05). In a meta-analysis of up to ~1.3 million participants, we discovered 106 new BP-associated genomic regions and 87 rare (minor allele frequency ≤ 0.01) variant BP associations (P < 5 × 10), of which 32 were in new BP-associated loci and 55 were independent BP-associated single-nucleotide variants within known BP-associated regions. Average effects of rare variants (44% coding) were ~8 times larger than common variant effects and indicate potential candidate causal genes at new and known loci (for example, GATA5 and PLCB3). BP-associated variants (including rare and common) were enriched in regions of active chromatin in fetal tissues, potentially linking fetal development with BP regulation in later life. Multivariable Mendelian randomization suggested possible inverse effects of elevated systolic and diastolic BP on large artery stroke. Our study demonstrates the utility of rare-variant analyses for identifying candidate genes and the results highlight potential therapeutic targets.

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Risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD), the most prevalent dementia, is partially driven by genetics. To identify LOAD risk loci, we performed a large genome-wide association meta-analysis of clinically diagnosed LOAD (94,437 individuals). We confirm 20 previous LOAD risk loci and identify five new genome-wide loci (IQCK, ACE, ADAM10, ADAMTS1, and WWOX), two of which (ADAM10, ACE) were identified in a recent genome-wide association (GWAS)-by-familial-proxy of Alzheimer's or dementia. Fine-mapping of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region confirms the neurological and immune-mediated disease haplotype HLA-DR15 as a risk factor for LOAD. Pathway analysis implicates immunity, lipid metabolism, tau binding proteins, and amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolism, showing that genetic variants affecting APP and Aβ processing are associated not only with early-onset autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease but also with LOAD. Analyses of risk genes and pathways show enrichment for rare variants (P = 1.32 × 10), indicating that additional rare variants remain to be identified. We also identify important genetic correlations between LOAD and traits such as family history of dementia and education.

%B Nat Genet %V 51 %P 414-430 %8 2019 Mar %G eng %N 3 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30820047?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/s41588-019-0358-2 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Commun %D 2019 %T Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration. %A Noordam, Raymond %A Bos, Maxime M %A Wang, Heming %A Winkler, Thomas W %A Bentley, Amy R %A Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O %A de Vries, Paul S %A Sung, Yun Ju %A Schwander, Karen %A Cade, Brian E %A Manning, Alisa %A Aschard, Hugues %A Brown, Michael R %A Chen, Han %A Franceschini, Nora %A Musani, Solomon K %A Richard, Melissa %A Vojinovic, Dina %A Aslibekyan, Stella %A Bartz, Traci M %A de Las Fuentes, Lisa %A Feitosa, Mary %A Horimoto, Andrea R %A Ilkov, Marjan %A Kho, Minjung %A Kraja, Aldi %A Li, Changwei %A Lim, Elise %A Liu, Yongmei %A Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O %A Rankinen, Tuomo %A Tajuddin, Salman M %A van der Spek, Ashley %A Wang, Zhe %A Marten, Jonathan %A Laville, Vincent %A Alver, Maris %A Evangelou, Evangelos %A Graff, Maria E %A He, Meian %A Kühnel, Brigitte %A Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka %A Marques-Vidal, Pedro %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Shu, Xiao-Ou %A Snieder, Harold %A Weiss, Stefan %A Wen, Wanqing %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Adolfo, Correa %A Ballantyne, Christie %A Bielak, Larry %A Biermasz, Nienke R %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Dimou, Niki %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Gao, Chuan %A Gharib, Sina A %A Gottlieb, Daniel J %A Haba-Rubio, José %A Harris, Tamara B %A Heikkinen, Sami %A Heinzer, Raphaël %A Hixson, James E %A Homuth, Georg %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Komulainen, Pirjo %A Krieger, Jose E %A Lee, Jiwon %A Liu, Jingmin %A Lohman, Kurt K %A Luik, Annemarie I %A Mägi, Reedik %A Martin, Lisa W %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Metspalu, Andres %A Milaneschi, Yuri %A Nalls, Mike A %A O'Connell, Jeff %A Peters, Annette %A Peyser, Patricia %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Reiner, Alex P %A Rensen, Patrick C N %A Rice, Treva K %A Rich, Stephen S %A Roenneberg, Till %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Shikany, James %A Sidney, Stephen S %A Sims, Mario %A Sitlani, Colleen M %A Sofer, Tamar %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Swertz, Morris A %A Taylor, Kent D %A Uitterlinden, André G %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Völzke, Henry %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wallance, Robert B %A van Dijk, Ko Willems %A Yu, Caizheng %A Zonderman, Alan B %A Becker, Diane M %A Elliott, Paul %A Esko, Tõnu %A Gieger, Christian %A Grabe, Hans J %A Lakka, Timo A %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A North, Kari E %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Wu, Tangchun %A Xiang, Yong-Bing %A Zheng, Wei %A Arnett, Donna K %A Bouchard, Claude %A Evans, Michele K %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Kardia, Sharon %A Kelly, Tanika N %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Pereira, Alexandre C %A Province, Mike %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rotimi, Charles %A Zhu, Xiaofeng %A Amin, Najaf %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Fornage, Myriam %A Fox, Ervin F %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Gauderman, W James %A Rice, Kenneth %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Liu, Ching-Ti %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Rao, Dabeeru C %A van Heemst, Diana %A Redline, Susan %K Adolescent %K Adult %K Aged %K Aged, 80 and over %K Chromosome Mapping %K Female %K Genetic Loci %K Humans %K Lipids %K Male %K Middle Aged %K Phylogeny %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Sleep %K Young Adult %X

Both short and long sleep are associated with an adverse lipid profile, likely through different biological pathways. To elucidate the biology of sleep-associated adverse lipid profile, we conduct multi-ancestry genome-wide sleep-SNP interaction analyses on three lipid traits (HDL-c, LDL-c and triglycerides). In the total study sample (discovery + replication) of 126,926 individuals from 5 different ancestry groups, when considering either long or short total sleep time interactions in joint analyses, we identify 49 previously unreported lipid loci, and 10 additional previously unreported lipid loci in a restricted sample of European-ancestry cohorts. In addition, we identify new gene-sleep interactions for known lipid loci such as LPL and PCSK9. The previously unreported lipid loci have a modest explained variance in lipid levels: most notable, gene-short-sleep interactions explain 4.25% of the variance in triglyceride level. Collectively, these findings contribute to our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in sleep-associated adverse lipid profiles.

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M T %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Liewald, David %A Fischer, Krista %A Mellström, Dan %A Larsson, Anders %A Wang, Yunmei %A Scott, William R %A Lorentzon, Matthias %A Beilby, John %A Ryan, Kathleen A %A Pennell, Craig E %A Vuckovic, Dragana %A Balkau, Beverly %A Concas, Maria Pina %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Mendes de Leon, Carlos F %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Kloppenburg, Margreet %A Paternoster, Lavinia %A Boehnke, Michael %A Musk, A W %A Willemsen, Gonneke %A Evans, David M %A Madden, Pamela A F %A Kähönen, Mika %A Kutalik, Zoltán %A Zoledziewska, Magdalena %A Karhunen, Ville %A Kritchevsky, Stephen B %A Sattar, Naveed %A Lachance, Genevieve %A Clarke, Robert %A Harris, Tamara B %A Raitakari, Olli T %A Attia, John R %A van Heemst, Diana %A Kajantie, Eero %A Sorice, Rossella %A Gambaro, Giovanni %A Scott, Robert A %A Hicks, Andrew A %A Ferrucci, Luigi %A Standl, Marie %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Starr, John M %A Karlsson, Magnus %A Lind, Lars %A Li, Jun Z %A Chambers, John C %A Mori, Trevor A %A de Geus, Eco J C N %A Heath, Andrew C %A Martin, Nicholas G %A Auvinen, Juha %A Buckley, Brendan M %A de Craen, Anton J M %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Meitinger, Thomas %A Scott, Rodney J %A McEvoy, Mark %A Beekman, Marian %A Bombieri, Cristina %A Ridker, Paul M %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Pedersen, Nancy L %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Boomsma, Dorret I %A Whitfield, John B %A Strachan, David P %A Hofman, Albert %A Vollenweider, Peter %A Cucca, Francesco %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Spector, Tim D %A Hamsten, Anders %A Zeller, Tanja %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Nauck, Matthias %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Qi, Lu %A Grallert, Harald %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Marz, Winfried %A Wild, Philipp S %A Lokki, Marja-Liisa %A Boyle, Michael %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Melbye, Mads %A Eriksson, Johan G %A Wilson, James F %A Penninx, Brenda W J H %A Becker, Diane M %A Worrall, Bradford B %A Gibson, Greg %A Krauss, Ronald M %A Ciullo, Marina %A Zaza, Gianluigi %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Oldehinkel, Albertine J %A Palmer, Lyle J %A Murray, Sarah S %A Pramstaller, Peter P %A Bandinelli, Stefania %A Heinrich, Joachim %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Deary, Ian J %A Mägi, Reedik %A Vandenput, Liesbeth %A van der Harst, Pim %A Desch, Karl C %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Ohlsson, Claes %A Hayward, Caroline %A Lehtimäki, Terho %A Shuldiner, Alan R %A Arnett, Donna K %A Beilin, Lawrence J %A Robino, Antonietta %A Froguel, Philippe %A Pirastu, Mario %A Jess, Tine %A Koenig, Wolfgang %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Evans, Denis A %A Schmidt, Helena %A Smith, George Davey %A Slagboom, P Eline %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Morris, Andrew P %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Tracy, Russell P %A Nolte, Ilja M %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Visvikis-Siest, Sophie %A Reiner, Alex P %A Gross, Myron %A Bis, Joshua C %A Franke, Lude %A Franco, Oscar H %A Benjamin, Emelia J %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Dupuis, Josée %A Snieder, Harold %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Alizadeh, Behrooz Z %K Adolescent %K Adult %K Aged %K Aged, 80 and over %K Biomarkers %K Bipolar Disorder %K Body Mass Index %K C-Reactive Protein %K Child %K Female %K Genetic Loci %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Humans %K Inflammation %K Liver %K Male %K Mendelian Randomization Analysis %K Metabolic Networks and Pathways %K Middle Aged %K Schizophrenia %K Young Adult %X

C-reactive protein (CRP) is a sensitive biomarker of chronic low-grade inflammation and is associated with multiple complex diseases. The genetic determinants of chronic inflammation remain largely unknown, and the causal role of CRP in several clinical outcomes is debated. We performed two genome-wide association studies (GWASs), on HapMap and 1000 Genomes imputed data, of circulating amounts of CRP by using data from 88 studies comprising 204,402 European individuals. Additionally, we performed in silico functional analyses and Mendelian randomization analyses with several clinical outcomes. The GWAS meta-analyses of CRP revealed 58 distinct genetic loci (p < 5 × 10). After adjustment for body mass index in the regression analysis, the associations at all except three loci remained. The lead variants at the distinct loci explained up to 7.0% of the variance in circulating amounts of CRP. We identified 66 gene sets that were organized in two substantially correlated clusters, one mainly composed of immune pathways and the other characterized by metabolic pathways in the liver. Mendelian randomization analyses revealed a causal protective effect of CRP on schizophrenia and a risk-increasing effect on bipolar disorder. Our findings provide further insights into the biology of inflammation and could lead to interventions for treating inflammation and its clinical consequences.

%B Am J Hum Genet %V 103 %P 691-706 %8 2018 Nov 01 %G eng %N 5 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30388399?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.09.009 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2017 %T Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals. %A Liu, Dajiang J %A Peloso, Gina M %A Yu, Haojie %A Butterworth, Adam S %A Wang, Xiao %A Mahajan, Anubha %A Saleheen, Danish %A Emdin, Connor %A Alam, Dewan %A Alves, Alexessander Couto %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Di Angelantonio, Emanuele %A Arveiler, Dominique %A Assimes, Themistocles L %A Auer, Paul L %A Baber, Usman %A Ballantyne, Christie M %A Bang, Lia E %A Benn, Marianne %A Bis, Joshua C %A Boehnke, Michael %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Brandslund, Ivan %A Brown, Morris %A Busonero, Fabio %A Caulfield, Mark J %A Chambers, John C %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Chen, Y Eugene %A Chen, Yii-Der Ida %A Chowdhury, Rajiv %A Christensen, Cramer %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Connell, John M %A Cucca, Francesco %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Damrauer, Scott M %A Davies, Gail %A Deary, Ian J %A Dedoussis, George %A Denny, Joshua C %A Dominiczak, Anna %A Dube, Marie-Pierre %A Ebeling, Tapani %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Esko, Tõnu %A Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Ferrario, Marco %A Ferrieres, Jean %A Ford, Ian %A Fornage, Myriam %A Franks, Paul W %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth %A Fritsche, Lars G %A Frossard, Philippe %A Fuster, Valentin %A Ganesh, Santhi K %A Gao, Wei %A Garcia, Melissa E %A Gieger, Christian %A Giulianini, Franco %A Goodarzi, Mark O %A Grallert, Harald %A Grarup, Niels %A Groop, Leif %A Grove, Megan L %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hansen, Torben %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hayward, Caroline %A Hirschhorn, Joel N %A Holmen, Oddgeir L %A Huffman, Jennifer %A Huo, Yong %A Hveem, Kristian %A Jabeen, Sehrish %A Jackson, Anne U %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta %A Jensen, Gorm B %A Jørgensen, Marit E %A Jukema, J Wouter %A Justesen, Johanne M %A Kamstrup, Pia R %A Kanoni, Stavroula %A Karpe, Fredrik %A Kee, Frank %A Khera, Amit V %A Klarin, Derek %A Koistinen, Heikki A %A Kooner, Jaspal S %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Kuulasmaa, Kari %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Laakso, Markku %A Lakka, Timo %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Langsted, Anne %A Launer, Lenore J %A Lauritzen, Torsten %A Liewald, David C M %A Lin, Li An %A Linneberg, Allan %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Lu, Yingchang %A Lu, Xiangfeng %A Mägi, Reedik %A Mälarstig, Anders %A Manichaikul, Ani %A Manning, Alisa K %A Mäntyselkä, Pekka %A Marouli, Eirini %A Masca, Nicholas G D %A Maschio, Andrea %A Meigs, James B %A Melander, Olle %A Metspalu, Andres %A Morris, Andrew P %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Mulas, Antonella %A Müller-Nurasyid, Martina %A Munroe, Patricia B %A Neville, Matt J %A Nielsen, Jonas B %A Nielsen, Sune F %A Nordestgaard, Børge G %A Ordovas, Jose M %A Mehran, Roxana %A O'Donnell, Christoper J %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Molony, Cliona M %A Muntendam, Pieter %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Palmer, Colin N A %A Pasko, Dorota %A Patel, Aniruddh P %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Perola, Markus %A Peters, Annette %A Pisinger, Charlotta %A Pistis, Giorgio %A Polasek, Ozren %A Poulter, Neil %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rader, Daniel J %A Rasheed, Asif %A Rauramaa, Rainer %A Reilly, Dermot F %A Reiner, Alex P %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rich, Stephen S %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rioux, John D %A Robertson, Neil R %A Roden, Dan M %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Rudan, Igor %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Samani, Nilesh J %A Sanna, Serena %A Sattar, Naveed %A Schmidt, Ellen M %A Scott, Robert A %A Sever, Peter %A Sevilla, Raquel S %A Shaffer, Christian M %A Sim, Xueling %A Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh %A Small, Kerrin S %A Smith, Albert V %A Smith, Blair H %A Somayajula, Sangeetha %A Southam, Lorraine %A Spector, Timothy D %A Speliotes, Elizabeth K %A Starr, John M %A Stirrups, Kathleen E %A Stitziel, Nathan %A Strauch, Konstantin %A Stringham, Heather M %A Surendran, Praveen %A Tada, Hayato %A Tall, Alan R %A Tang, Hua %A Tardif, Jean-Claude %A Taylor, Kent D %A Trompet, Stella %A Tsao, Philip S %A Tuomilehto, Jaakko %A Tybjaerg-Hansen, Anne %A Van Zuydam, Natalie R %A Varbo, Anette %A Varga, Tibor V %A Virtamo, Jarmo %A Waldenberger, Melanie %A Wang, Nan %A Wareham, Nick J %A Warren, Helen R %A Weeke, Peter E %A Weinstock, Joshua %A Wessel, Jennifer %A Wilson, James G %A Wilson, Peter W F %A Xu, Ming %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Young, Robin %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Zhang, He %A Zheng, Neil S %A Zhang, Weihua %A Zhang, Yan %A Zhou, Wei %A Zhou, Yanhua %A Zoledziewska, Magdalena %A Howson, Joanna M M %A Danesh, John %A McCarthy, Mark I %A Cowan, Chad A %A Abecasis, Goncalo %A Deloukas, Panos %A Musunuru, Kiran %A Willer, Cristen J %A Kathiresan, Sekar %K Coronary Artery Disease %K Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 %K Exome %K Genetic Association Studies %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genetic Variation %K Genotype %K Humans %K Lipids %K Macular Degeneration %K Phenotype %K Risk Factors %X

We screened variants on an exome-focused genotyping array in >300,000 participants (replication in >280,000 participants) and identified 444 independent variants in 250 loci significantly associated with total cholesterol (TC), high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and/or triglycerides (TG). At two loci (JAK2 and A1CF), experimental analysis in mice showed lipid changes consistent with the human data. We also found that: (i) beta-thalassemia trait carriers displayed lower TC and were protected from coronary artery disease (CAD); (ii) excluding the CETP locus, there was not a predictable relationship between plasma HDL-C and risk for age-related macular degeneration; (iii) only some mechanisms of lowering LDL-C appeared to increase risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D); and (iv) TG-lowering alleles involved in hepatic production of TG-rich lipoproteins (TM6SF2 and PNPLA3) tracked with higher liver fat, higher risk for T2D, and lower risk for CAD, whereas TG-lowering alleles involved in peripheral lipolysis (LPL and ANGPTL4) had no effect on liver fat but decreased risks for both T2D and CAD.

%B Nat Genet %V 49 %P 1758-1766 %8 2017 Dec %G eng %N 12 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29083408?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/ng.3977 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Genet %D 2017 %T Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease. %A Sims, Rebecca %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Naj, Adam C %A Bellenguez, Céline %A Badarinarayan, Nandini %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Kunkle, Brian W %A Boland, Anne %A Raybould, Rachel %A Bis, Joshua C %A Martin, Eden R %A Grenier-Boley, Benjamin %A Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie %A Chouraki, Vincent %A Kuzma, Amanda B %A Sleegers, Kristel %A Vronskaya, Maria %A Ruiz, Agustin %A Graham, Robert R %A Olaso, Robert %A Hoffmann, Per %A Grove, Megan L %A Vardarajan, Badri N %A Hiltunen, Mikko %A Nöthen, Markus M %A White, Charles C %A Hamilton-Nelson, Kara L %A Epelbaum, Jacques %A Maier, Wolfgang %A Choi, Seung-Hoan %A Beecham, Gary W %A Dulary, Cécile %A Herms, Stefan %A Smith, Albert V %A Funk, Cory 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Frank-García, Ana %A Levy, Daniel %A Chakrabarty, Paramita %A Caffarra, Paolo %A Giegling, Ina %A Beiser, Alexa S %A Giedraitis, Vilmantas %A Hampel, Harald %A Garcia, Melissa E %A Wang, Xue %A Lannfelt, Lars %A Mecocci, Patrizia %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Crane, Paul K %A Pasquier, Florence %A Boccardi, Virginia %A Henández, Isabel %A Barber, Robert C %A Scherer, Martin %A Tarraga, Lluis %A Adams, Perrie M %A Leber, Markus %A Chen, Yuning %A Albert, Marilyn S %A Riedel-Heller, Steffi %A Emilsson, Valur %A Beekly, Duane %A Braae, Anne %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Blacker, Deborah %A Masullo, Carlo %A Schmidt, Helena %A Doody, Rachelle S %A Spalletta, Gianfranco %A Longstreth, W T %A Fairchild, Thomas J %A Bossù, Paola %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Frosch, Matthew P %A Sacchinelli, Eleonora %A Ghetti, Bernardino %A Yang, Qiong %A Huebinger, Ryan M %A Jessen, Frank %A Li, Shuo %A Kamboh, M Ilyas %A Morris, John %A Sotolongo-Grau, Oscar %A Katz, Mindy J %A Corcoran, Chris %A Dunstan, Melanie %A Braddel, Amy %A Thomas, Charlene %A Meggy, Alun %A Marshall, Rachel %A Gerrish, Amy %A Chapman, Jade %A Aguilar, Miquel %A Taylor, Sarah %A Hill, Matt %A Fairén, Mònica Díez %A Hodges, Angela %A Vellas, Bruno %A Soininen, Hilkka %A Kloszewska, Iwona %A Daniilidou, Makrina %A Uphill, James %A Patel, Yogen %A Hughes, Joseph T %A Lord, Jenny %A Turton, James %A Hartmann, Annette M %A Cecchetti, Roberta %A Fenoglio, Chiara %A Serpente, Maria %A Arcaro, Marina %A Caltagirone, Carlo %A Orfei, Maria Donata %A Ciaramella, Antonio %A Pichler, Sabrina %A Mayhaus, Manuel %A Gu, Wei %A Lleo, Alberto %A Fortea, Juan %A Blesa, Rafael %A Barber, Imelda S %A Brookes, Keeley %A Cupidi, Chiara %A Maletta, Raffaele Giovanni %A Carrell, David %A Sorbi, Sandro %A Moebus, Susanne %A Urbano, Maria %A Pilotto, Alberto %A Kornhuber, Johannes %A Bosco, Paolo %A Todd, Stephen %A Craig, David %A Johnston, Janet %A Gill, Michael %A Lawlor, Brian %A Lynch, Aoibhinn %A Fox, Nick C %A Hardy, John %A Albin, Roger L %A 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Hulette, Christine M %A Hyman, Bradley T %A Jarvik, Gail P %A Abner, Erin %A Jin, Lee-Way %A Jun, Gyungah %A Karydas, Anna %A Kaye, Jeffrey A %A Kim, Ronald %A Kowall, Neil W %A Kramer, Joel H %A LaFerla, Frank M %A Lah, James J %A Leverenz, James B %A Levey, Allan I %A Li, Ge %A Lieberman, Andrew P %A Lunetta, Kathryn L %A Lyketsos, Constantine G %A Marson, Daniel C %A Martiniuk, Frank %A Mash, Deborah C %A Masliah, Eliezer %A McCormick, Wayne C %A McCurry, Susan M %A McDavid, Andrew N %A McKee, Ann C %A Mesulam, Marsel %A Miller, Bruce L %A Miller, Carol A %A Miller, Joshua W %A Morris, John C %A Murrell, Jill R %A Myers, Amanda J %A O'Bryant, Sid %A Olichney, John M %A Pankratz, Vernon S %A Parisi, Joseph E %A Paulson, Henry L %A Perry, William %A Peskind, Elaine %A Pierce, Aimee %A Poon, Wayne W %A Potter, Huntington %A Quinn, Joseph F %A Raj, Ashok %A Raskind, Murray %A Reisberg, Barry %A Reitz, Christiane %A Ringman, John M %A Roberson, Erik D %A Rogaeva, Ekaterina %A Rosen, 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%A Guerreiro, Rita %A Al-Chalabi, Ammar %A Shaw, Christopher E %A Collinge, John %A Mann, David %A Tsolaki, Magda %A Clarimon, Jordi %A Sussams, Rebecca %A Lovestone, Simon %A O'Donovan, Michael C %A Owen, Michael J %A Behrens, Timothy W %A Mead, Simon %A Goate, Alison M %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Holmes, Clive %A Cruchaga, Carlos %A Ingelsson, Martin %A Bennett, David A %A Powell, John %A Golde, Todd E %A Graff, Caroline %A De Jager, Philip L %A Morgan, Kevin %A Ertekin-Taner, Nilufer %A Combarros, Onofre %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Passmore, Peter %A Younkin, Steven G %A Berr, Claudine %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Rujescu, Dan %A Dickson, Dennis W %A Dartigues, Jean-François %A DeStefano, Anita L %A Ortega-Cubero, Sara %A Hakonarson, Hakon %A Campion, Dominique %A Boada, Mercè %A Kauwe, John Keoni %A Farrer, Lindsay A %A Van Broeckhoven, Christine %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Jones, Lesley %A Haines, Jonathan L %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Launer, Lenore J %A Escott-Price, Valentina %A Mayeux, Richard %A Deleuze, Jean-François %A Amin, Najaf %A Holmans, Peter A %A Pericak-Vance, Margaret A %A Amouyel, Philippe %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Ramirez, Alfredo %A Wang, Li-San %A Lambert, Jean-Charles %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Williams, Julie %A Schellenberg, Gerard D %K Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing %K Alzheimer Disease %K Amino Acid Sequence %K Case-Control Studies %K Exome %K Gene Expression Profiling %K Gene Frequency %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genotype %K Humans %K Immunity, Innate %K Linkage Disequilibrium %K Membrane Glycoproteins %K Microglia %K Odds Ratio %K Phospholipase C gamma %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Protein Interaction Maps %K Receptors, Immunologic %K Sequence Homology, Amino Acid %X

We identified rare coding variants associated with Alzheimer's disease in a three-stage case-control study of 85,133 subjects. In stage 1, we genotyped 34,174 samples using a whole-exome microarray. In stage 2, we tested associated variants (P < 1 × 10) in 35,962 independent samples using de novo genotyping and imputed genotypes. In stage 3, we used an additional 14,997 samples to test the most significant stage 2 associations (P < 5 × 10) using imputed genotypes. We observed three new genome-wide significant nonsynonymous variants associated with Alzheimer's disease: a protective variant in PLCG2 (rs72824905: p.Pro522Arg, P = 5.38 × 10, odds ratio (OR) = 0.68, minor allele frequency (MAF) = 0.0059, MAF = 0.0093), a risk variant in ABI3 (rs616338: p.Ser209Phe, P = 4.56 × 10, OR = 1.43, MAF = 0.011, MAF = 0.008), and a new genome-wide significant variant in TREM2 (rs143332484: p.Arg62His, P = 1.55 × 10, OR = 1.67, MAF = 0.0143, MAF = 0.0089), a known susceptibility gene for Alzheimer's disease. These protein-altering changes are in genes highly expressed in microglia and highlight an immune-related protein-protein interaction network enriched for previously identified risk genes in Alzheimer's disease. These genetic findings provide additional evidence that the microglia-mediated innate immune response contributes directly to the development of Alzheimer's disease.

%B Nat Genet %V 49 %P 1373-1384 %8 2017 Sep %G eng %N 9 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28714976?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/ng.3916 %0 Journal Article %J PLoS Genet %D 2016 %T Rare Functional Variant in TM2D3 is Associated with Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease. %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A van der Lee, Sven J %A Bis, Joshua C %A Chouraki, Vincent %A Li-Kroeger, David %A Yamamoto, Shinya %A Grove, Megan L %A Naj, Adam %A Vronskaya, Maria %A Salazar, Jose L %A DeStefano, Anita L %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Smith, Albert V %A Amin, Najaf %A Sims, Rebecca %A Ibrahim-Verbaas, Carla A %A Choi, Seung-Hoan %A Satizabal, Claudia L %A Lopez, Oscar L %A Beiser, Alexa %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Garcia, Melissa E %A Hayward, Caroline %A Varga, Tibor V %A Ripatti, Samuli %A Franks, Paul W %A Hallmans, Goran %A Rolandsson, Olov %A Jansson, Jan-Håkon %A Porteous, David J %A Salomaa, Veikko %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Rice, Kenneth M %A Bellen, Hugo J %A Levy, Daniel %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Emilsson, Valur %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Aspelund, Thor %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Fitzpatrick, Annette L %A Launer, Lenore J %A Hofman, Albert %A Wang, Li-San %A Williams, Julie %A Schellenberg, Gerard D %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Shulman, Joshua M %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %K Age of Onset %K Aged %K Alleles %K Alzheimer Disease %K Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor %K Animals %K Apolipoproteins E %K Drosophila melanogaster %K Drosophila Proteins %K Exome %K Female %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Genomics %K Humans %K Iceland %K Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins %K Male %K Membrane Proteins %K Mutation %K Phenotype %K Receptors, Notch %K Tropomyosin %K White People %X

We performed an exome-wide association analysis in 1393 late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) cases and 8141 controls from the CHARGE consortium. We found that a rare variant (P155L) in TM2D3 was enriched in Icelanders (~0.5% versus <0.05% in other European populations). In 433 LOAD cases and 3903 controls from the Icelandic AGES sub-study, P155L was associated with increased risk and earlier onset of LOAD [odds ratio (95% CI) = 7.5 (3.5-15.9), p = 6.6x10-9]. Mutation in the Drosophila TM2D3 homolog, almondex, causes a phenotype similar to loss of Notch/Presenilin signaling. Human TM2D3 is capable of rescuing these phenotypes, but this activity is abolished by P155L, establishing it as a functionally damaging allele. Our results establish a rare TM2D3 variant in association with LOAD susceptibility, and together with prior work suggests possible links to the β-amyloid cascade.

%B PLoS Genet %V 12 %P e1006327 %8 2016 Oct %G eng %N 10 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27764101?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006327 %0 Journal Article %J Nat Commun %D 2015 %T Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility. %A Wessel, Jennifer %A Chu, Audrey Y %A Willems, Sara M %A Wang, Shuai %A Yaghootkar, Hanieh %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Dauriz, Marco %A Hivert, Marie-France %A Raghavan, Sridharan %A Lipovich, Leonard %A Hidalgo, Bertha %A Fox, Keolu %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A An, Ping %A Lu, Yingchang %A Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J %A Grarup, Niels %A Ehm, Margaret G %A Li, Li %A Baldridge, Abigail S %A Stančáková, Alena %A Abrol, Ravinder %A Besse, Céline %A Boland, Anne %A Bork-Jensen, Jette %A Fornage, Myriam %A Freitag, Daniel F %A Garcia, Melissa E %A Guo, Xiuqing %A Hara, Kazuo %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Lange, Leslie A %A Layton, Jill C %A Li, Man %A Hua Zhao, Jing %A Meidtner, Karina %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Nalls, Mike A %A Peters, Marjolein J %A Sabater-Lleal, Maria %A Schurmann, Claudia %A Silveira, Angela %A Smith, Albert V %A Southam, Lorraine %A Stoiber, Marcus H %A Strawbridge, Rona J %A Taylor, Kent D %A Varga, Tibor V %A Allin, Kristine H %A Amin, Najaf %A Aponte, Jennifer L %A Aung, Tin %A Barbieri, Caterina %A Bihlmeyer, Nathan A %A Boehnke, Michael %A Bombieri, Cristina %A Bowden, Donald W %A Burns, Sean M %A Chen, Yuning %A Chen, Yii-DerI %A Cheng, Ching-Yu %A Correa, Adolfo %A Czajkowski, Jacek %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Ehret, Georg B %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Escher, Stefan A %A Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni %A Frånberg, Mattias %A Gambaro, Giovanni %A Giulianini, Franco %A Goddard, William A %A Goel, Anuj %A Gottesman, Omri %A Grove, Megan L %A Gustafsson, Stefan %A Hai, Yang %A Hallmans, Goran %A Heo, Jiyoung %A Hoffmann, Per %A Ikram, Mohammad K %A Jensen, Richard A %A Jørgensen, Marit E %A Jørgensen, Torben %A Karaleftheri, Maria %A Khor, Chiea C %A Kirkpatrick, Andrea %A Kraja, Aldi T %A Kuusisto, Johanna %A Lange, Ethan M %A Lee, I T %A Lee, Wen-Jane %A Leong, Aaron %A Liao, Jiemin %A Liu, Chunyu %A Liu, Yongmei %A Lindgren, Cecilia M %A Linneberg, Allan %A Malerba, Giovanni %A Mamakou, Vasiliki %A Marouli, Eirini %A Maruthur, Nisa M %A Matchan, Angela %A McKean-Cowdin, Roberta %A McLeod, Olga %A Metcalf, Ginger A %A Mohlke, Karen L %A Muzny, Donna M %A Ntalla, Ioanna %A Palmer, Nicholette D %A Pasko, Dorota %A Peter, Andreas %A Rayner, Nigel W %A Renstrom, Frida %A Rice, Ken %A Sala, Cinzia F %A Sennblad, Bengt %A Serafetinidis, Ioannis %A Smith, Jennifer A %A Soranzo, Nicole %A Speliotes, Elizabeth K %A Stahl, Eli A %A Stirrups, Kathleen %A Tentolouris, Nikos %A Thanopoulou, Anastasia %A Torres, Mina %A Traglia, Michela %A Tsafantakis, Emmanouil %A Javad, Sundas %A Yanek, Lisa R %A Zengini, Eleni %A Becker, Diane M %A Bis, Joshua C %A Brown, James B %A Cupples, L Adrienne %A Hansen, Torben %A Ingelsson, Erik %A Karter, Andrew J %A Lorenzo, Carlos %A Mathias, Rasika A %A Norris, Jill M %A Peloso, Gina M %A Sheu, Wayne H-H %A Toniolo, Daniela %A Vaidya, Dhananjay %A Varma, Rohit %A Wagenknecht, Lynne E %A Boeing, Heiner %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Dedoussis, George %A Deloukas, Panos %A Ferrannini, Ele %A Franco, Oscar H %A Franks, Paul W %A Gibbs, Richard A %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Hamsten, Anders %A Harris, Tamara B %A Hattersley, Andrew T %A Hayward, Caroline %A Hofman, Albert %A Jansson, Jan-Håkan %A Langenberg, Claudia %A Launer, Lenore J %A Levy, Daniel %A Oostra, Ben A %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A O'Rahilly, Stephen %A Padmanabhan, Sandosh %A Pankow, James S %A Polasek, Ozren %A Province, Michael A %A Rich, Stephen S %A Ridker, Paul M %A Rudan, Igor %A Schulze, Matthias B %A Smith, Blair H %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Walker, Mark %A Watkins, Hugh %A Wong, Tien Y %A Zeggini, Eleftheria %A Laakso, Markku %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Chasman, Daniel I %A Pedersen, Oluf %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Tai, E Shyong %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Wareham, Nicholas J %A Waterworth, Dawn M %A Boerwinkle, Eric %A Kao, W H Linda %A Florez, Jose C %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Wilson, James G %A Frayling, Timothy M %A Siscovick, David S %A Dupuis, Josée %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Meigs, James B %A Scott, Robert A %A Goodarzi, Mark O %K Black People %K Blood Glucose %K Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 %K Exome %K Fasting %K Genetic Association Studies %K Genetic Loci %K Genetic Predisposition to Disease %K Genetic Variation %K Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor %K Glucose-6-Phosphatase %K Humans %K Insulin %K Mutation Rate %K Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K White People %X

Fasting glucose and insulin are intermediate traits for type 2 diabetes. Here we explore the role of coding variation on these traits by analysis of variants on the HumanExome BeadChip in 60,564 non-diabetic individuals and in 16,491 T2D cases and 81,877 controls. We identify a novel association of a low-frequency nonsynonymous SNV in GLP1R (A316T; rs10305492; MAF=1.4%) with lower FG (β=-0.09±0.01 mmol l(-1), P=3.4 × 10(-12)), T2D risk (OR[95%CI]=0.86[0.76-0.96], P=0.010), early insulin secretion (β=-0.07±0.035 pmolinsulin mmolglucose(-1), P=0.048), but higher 2-h glucose (β=0.16±0.05 mmol l(-1), P=4.3 × 10(-4)). We identify a gene-based association with FG at G6PC2 (pSKAT=6.8 × 10(-6)) driven by four rare protein-coding SNVs (H177Y, Y207S, R283X and S324P). We identify rs651007 (MAF=20%) in the first intron of ABO at the putative promoter of an antisense lncRNA, associating with higher FG (β=0.02±0.004 mmol l(-1), P=1.3 × 10(-8)). Our approach identifies novel coding variant associations and extends the allelic spectrum of variation underlying diabetes-related quantitative traits and T2D susceptibility.

%B Nat Commun %V 6 %P 5897 %8 2015 Jan 29 %G eng %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25631608?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1038/ncomms6897 %0 Journal Article %J Am J Hum Genet %D 2014 %T Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks. %A Peloso, Gina M %A Auer, Paul L %A Bis, Joshua C %A Voorman, Arend %A Morrison, Alanna C %A Stitziel, Nathan O %A Brody, Jennifer A %A Khetarpal, Sumeet A %A Crosby, Jacy R %A Fornage, Myriam %A Isaacs, Aaron %A Jakobsdottir, Johanna %A Feitosa, Mary F %A Davies, Gail %A Huffman, Jennifer E %A Manichaikul, Ani %A Davis, Brian %A Lohman, Kurt %A Joon, Aron Y %A Smith, Albert V %A Grove, Megan L %A Zanoni, Paolo %A Redon, Valeska %A Demissie, Serkalem %A Lawson, Kim %A Peters, Ulrike %A Carlson, Christopher %A Jackson, Rebecca D %A Ryckman, Kelli K %A Mackey, Rachel H %A Robinson, Jennifer G %A Siscovick, David S %A Schreiner, Pamela J %A Mychaleckyj, Josyf C %A Pankow, James S %A Hofman, Albert %A Uitterlinden, André G %A Harris, Tamara B %A Taylor, Kent D %A Stafford, Jeanette M %A Reynolds, Lindsay M %A Marioni, Riccardo E %A Dehghan, Abbas %A Franco, Oscar H %A Patel, Aniruddh P %A Lu, Yingchang %A Hindy, George %A Gottesman, Omri %A Bottinger, Erwin P %A Melander, Olle %A Orho-Melander, Marju %A Loos, Ruth J F %A Duga, Stefano %A Merlini, Piera Angelica %A Farrall, Martin %A Goel, Anuj %A Asselta, Rosanna %A Girelli, Domenico %A Martinelli, Nicola %A Shah, Svati H %A Kraus, William E %A Li, Mingyao %A Rader, Daniel J %A Reilly, Muredach P %A McPherson, Ruth %A Watkins, Hugh %A Ardissino, Diego %A Zhang, Qunyuan %A Wang, Judy %A Tsai, Michael Y %A Taylor, Herman A %A Correa, Adolfo %A Griswold, Michael E %A Lange, Leslie A %A Starr, John M %A Rudan, Igor %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Launer, Lenore J %A Ordovas, Jose M %A Levy, Daniel %A Chen, Y-D Ida %A Reiner, Alexander P %A Hayward, Caroline %A Polasek, Ozren %A Deary, Ian J %A Borecki, Ingrid B %A Liu, Yongmei %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Wilson, James G %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Kooperberg, Charles %A Rich, Stephen S %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Rotter, Jerome I %A O'Donnell, Christopher J %A Rice, Kenneth %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Kathiresan, Sekar %A Cupples, L Adrienne %K 1-Alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine Esterase %K Adult %K Aged %K Alleles %K Animals %K Black People %K Cholesterol, HDL %K Cholesterol, LDL %K Cohort Studies %K Coronary Disease %K Female %K Gene Frequency %K Genetic Association Studies %K Genetic Code %K Genetic Variation %K Humans %K Linear Models %K Male %K Mice %K Mice, Inbred C57BL %K Microtubule-Associated Proteins %K Middle Aged %K Phenotype %K Sequence Analysis, DNA %K Subtilisins %K Triglycerides %K White People %X

Low-frequency coding DNA sequence variants in the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 gene (PCSK9) lower plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), protect against risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), and have prompted the development of a new class of therapeutics. It is uncertain whether the PCSK9 example represents a paradigm or an isolated exception. We used the "Exome Array" to genotype >200,000 low-frequency and rare coding sequence variants across the genome in 56,538 individuals (42,208 European ancestry [EA] and 14,330 African ancestry [AA]) and tested these variants for association with LDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides. Although we did not identify new genes associated with LDL-C, we did identify four low-frequency (frequencies between 0.1% and 2%) variants (ANGPTL8 rs145464906 [c.361C>T; p.Gln121*], PAFAH1B2 rs186808413 [c.482C>T; p.Ser161Leu], COL18A1 rs114139997 [c.331G>A; p.Gly111Arg], and PCSK7 rs142953140 [c.1511G>A; p.Arg504His]) with large effects on HDL-C and/or triglycerides. None of these four variants was associated with risk for CHD, suggesting that examples of low-frequency coding variants with robust effects on both lipids and CHD will be limited.

%B Am J Hum Genet %V 94 %P 223-32 %8 2014 Feb 06 %G eng %N 2 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24507774?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.01.009 %0 Journal Article %J PLoS One %D 2014 %T Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease. %A Escott-Price, Valentina %A Bellenguez, Céline %A Wang, Li-San %A Choi, Seung-Hoan %A Harold, Denise %A Jones, Lesley %A Holmans, Peter %A Gerrish, Amy %A Vedernikov, Alexey %A Richards, Alexander %A DeStefano, Anita L %A Lambert, Jean-Charles %A Ibrahim-Verbaas, Carla A %A Naj, Adam C %A Sims, Rebecca %A Jun, Gyungah %A Bis, Joshua C %A Beecham, Gary W %A Grenier-Boley, Benjamin %A Russo, Giancarlo %A Thornton-Wells, Tricia A %A Denning, Nicola %A Smith, Albert V %A Chouraki, Vincent %A Thomas, Charlene %A Ikram, M Arfan %A Zelenika, Diana %A Vardarajan, Badri N %A Kamatani, Yoichiro %A Lin, Chiao-Feng %A Schmidt, Helena %A Kunkle, Brian %A Dunstan, Melanie L %A Vronskaya, Maria %A Johnson, Andrew D %A Ruiz, Agustin %A Bihoreau, Marie-Therese %A Reitz, Christiane %A Pasquier, Florence %A Hollingworth, Paul %A Hanon, Olivier %A Fitzpatrick, Annette L %A Buxbaum, Joseph D %A Campion, Dominique %A Crane, Paul K %A Baldwin, Clinton %A Becker, Tim %A Gudnason, Vilmundur %A Cruchaga, Carlos %A Craig, David %A Amin, Najaf %A Berr, Claudine %A Lopez, Oscar L %A De Jager, Philip L %A Deramecourt, Vincent %A Johnston, Janet A %A Evans, Denis %A Lovestone, Simon %A Letenneur, Luc %A Hernández, Isabel %A Rubinsztein, David C %A Eiriksdottir, Gudny %A Sleegers, Kristel %A Goate, Alison M %A Fiévet, Nathalie %A Huentelman, Matthew J %A Gill, Michael %A Brown, Kristelle %A Kamboh, M Ilyas %A Keller, Lina %A Barberger-Gateau, Pascale %A McGuinness, Bernadette %A Larson, Eric B %A Myers, Amanda J %A Dufouil, Carole %A Todd, Stephen %A Wallon, David %A Love, Seth %A Rogaeva, Ekaterina %A Gallacher, John %A George-Hyslop, Peter St %A Clarimon, Jordi %A Lleo, Alberto %A Bayer, Anthony %A Tsuang, Debby W %A Yu, Lei %A Tsolaki, Magda %A Bossù, Paola %A Spalletta, Gianfranco %A Proitsi, Petra %A Collinge, John %A Sorbi, Sandro %A Garcia, Florentino Sanchez %A Fox, Nick C %A Hardy, John %A Naranjo, Maria Candida Deniz %A Bosco, Paolo %A Clarke, Robert %A Brayne, Carol %A Galimberti, Daniela %A Scarpini, Elio %A Bonuccelli, Ubaldo %A Mancuso, Michelangelo %A Siciliano, Gabriele %A Moebus, Susanne %A Mecocci, Patrizia %A Zompo, Maria Del %A Maier, Wolfgang %A Hampel, Harald %A Pilotto, Alberto %A Frank-García, Ana %A Panza, Francesco %A Solfrizzi, Vincenzo %A Caffarra, Paolo %A Nacmias, Benedetta %A Perry, William %A Mayhaus, Manuel %A Lannfelt, Lars %A Hakonarson, Hakon %A Pichler, Sabrina %A Carrasquillo, Minerva M %A Ingelsson, Martin %A Beekly, Duane %A Alvarez, Victoria %A Zou, Fanggeng %A Valladares, Otto %A Younkin, Steven G %A Coto, Eliecer %A Hamilton-Nelson, Kara L %A Gu, Wei %A Razquin, Cristina %A Pastor, Pau %A Mateo, Ignacio %A Owen, Michael J %A Faber, Kelley M %A Jonsson, Palmi V %A Combarros, Onofre %A O'Donovan, Michael C %A Cantwell, Laura B %A Soininen, Hilkka %A Blacker, Deborah %A Mead, Simon %A Mosley, Thomas H %A Bennett, David A %A Harris, Tamara B %A Fratiglioni, Laura %A Holmes, Clive %A de Bruijn, Renee F A G %A Passmore, Peter %A Montine, Thomas J %A Bettens, Karolien %A Rotter, Jerome I %A Brice, Alexis %A Morgan, Kevin %A Foroud, Tatiana M %A Kukull, Walter A %A Hannequin, Didier %A Powell, John F %A Nalls, Michael A %A Ritchie, Karen %A Lunetta, Kathryn L %A Kauwe, John S K %A Eric Boerwinkle %A Riemenschneider, Matthias %A Boada, Mercè %A Hiltunen, Mikko %A Martin, Eden R %A Schmidt, Reinhold %A Rujescu, Dan %A Dartigues, Jean-François %A Mayeux, Richard %A Tzourio, Christophe %A Hofman, Albert %A Nöthen, Markus M %A Graff, Caroline %A Psaty, Bruce M %A Haines, Jonathan L %A Lathrop, Mark %A Pericak-Vance, Margaret A %A Launer, Lenore J %A Van Broeckhoven, Christine %A Farrer, Lindsay A %A van Duijn, Cornelia M %A Ramirez, Alfredo %A Seshadri, Sudha %A Schellenberg, Gerard D %A Amouyel, Philippe %A Williams, Julie %K Alzheimer Disease %K Carrier Proteins %K Case-Control Studies %K Genome-Wide Association Study %K Heat-Shock Proteins %K Humans %K Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide %K Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell %X

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease is a common debilitating dementia with known heritability, for which 20 late onset susceptibility loci have been identified, but more remain to be discovered. This study sought to identify new susceptibility genes, using an alternative gene-wide analytical approach which tests for patterns of association within genes, in the powerful genome-wide association dataset of the International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project Consortium, comprising over 7 m genotypes from 25,580 Alzheimer's cases and 48,466 controls.

PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In addition to earlier reported genes, we detected genome-wide significant loci on chromosomes 8 (TP53INP1, p = 1.4×10-6) and 14 (IGHV1-67 p = 7.9×10-8) which indexed novel susceptibility loci.

SIGNIFICANCE: The additional genes identified in this study, have an array of functions previously implicated in Alzheimer's disease, including aspects of energy metabolism, protein degradation and the immune system and add further weight to these pathways as potential therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease.

%B PLoS One %V 9 %P e94661 %8 2014 %G eng %N 6 %1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24922517?dopt=Abstract %R 10.1371/journal.pone.0094661