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Guo H, An J, Yu Z. Identifying Shared Risk Genes for Asthma, Hay Fever, and Eczema by Multi-Trait and Multiomic Association Analyses. Front Genet 2020; 11:270. [PMID: 32373153 PMCID: PMC7176997 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Asthma, hay fever and eczema are three comorbid diseases with high prevalence and heritability. Their common genetic architectures have not been well-elucidated. In this study, we first conducted a linkage disequilibrium score regression analysis to confirm the strong genetic correlations between asthma, hay fever and eczema. We then integrated three distinct association analyses (metaCCA multi-trait association analysis, MAGMA genome-wide and MetaXcan transcriptome-wide gene-based tests) to identify shared risk genes based on the large-scale GWAS results in the GeneATLAS database. MetaCCA can detect pleiotropic genes associated with these three diseases jointly. MAGMA and MetaXcan were performed separately to identify candidate risk genes for each of the three diseases. We finally identified 150 shared risk genes, in which 60 genes are novel. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that the shared risk genes are enriched in inflammatory bowel disease, T cells differentiation and other related biological pathways. Our work may provide help on treatment of asthma, hay fever and eczema in clinical applications.
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- Hongping Guo
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China.,School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hanjiang Normal University, Hubei, China
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- Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Information Processing of Ministry of Education and Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China.,School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Zhang H, Li SJ, Zhang H, Yang ZY, Ren YQ, Xia LY, Liang Y. Meta-Analysis Based on Nonconvex Regularization. Sci Rep 2020; 10:5755. [PMID: 32238826 PMCID: PMC7113298 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62473-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The widespread applications of high-throughput sequencing technology have produced a large number of publicly available gene expression datasets. However, due to the gene expression datasets have the characteristics of small sample size, high dimensionality and high noise, the application of biostatistics and machine learning methods to analyze gene expression data is a challenging task, such as the low reproducibility of important biomarkers in different studies. Meta-analysis is an effective approach to deal with these problems, but the current methods have some limitations. In this paper, we propose the meta-analysis based on three nonconvex regularization methods, which are L1/2 regularization (meta-Half), Minimax Concave Penalty regularization (meta-MCP) and Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation regularization (meta-SCAD). The three nonconvex regularization methods are effective approaches for variable selection developed in recent years. Through the hierarchical decomposition of coefficients, our methods not only maintain the flexibility of variable selection and improve the efficiency of selecting important biomarkers, but also summarize and synthesize scientific evidence from multiple studies to consider the relationship between different datasets. We give the efficient algorithms and the theoretical property for our methods. Furthermore, we apply our methods to the simulation data and three publicly available lung cancer gene expression datasets, and compare the performance with state-of-the-art methods. Our methods have good performance in simulation studies, and the analysis results on the three publicly available lung cancer gene expression datasets are clinically meaningful. Our methods can also be extended to other areas where datasets are heterogeneous.
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- Hui Zhang
- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
- School of Mathematics, Northwest University, 710127, Xi'an, China
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau
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- Faculty of Information Technology & State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicines, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, 999078, Macau.
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Jin Q, Shi G. Meta-Analysis of SNP-Environment Interaction With Overlapping Data. Front Genet 2020; 10:1400. [PMID: 32082364 PMCID: PMC7002557 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Meta-analysis, which combines the results of multiple studies, is an important analytical method in genome-wide association studies. In genome-wide association studies practice, studies employing meta-analysis may have overlapping data, which could yield false positive results. Recent studies have proposed models to handle the issue of overlapping data when testing the genetic main effect of single nucleotide polymorphism. However, there is still no meta-analysis method for testing gene-environment interaction when overlapping data exist. Inspired by the methods of testing the main effect of gene with overlapping data, we proposed an overlapping meta-regulation method to address the issue in testing the gene-environment interaction. We generalized the covariance matrices of the regular meta-regression model by employing Lin’s and Han’s correlation structures to incorporate the correlations introduced by the overlapping data. Based on our proposed models, we further provided statistical significance tests of the gene-environment interaction as well as joint effects of the gene main effect and the interaction. Through simulations, we examined type I errors and statistical powers of our proposed methods at different levels of data overlap among studies. We demonstrated that our method well controls the type I error and simultaneously achieves statistical power comparable with the method that removes overlapping samples a priori before the meta-analysis, i.e., the splitting method. On the other hand, ignoring overlapping data will inflate the type I error. Unlike the splitting method that requires individual-level genotype and phenotype data, our proposed method for testing gene-environment interaction handles the issue of overlapping data effectively and statistically efficiently at the meta-analysis level.
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- Qinqin Jin
- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi'an, China.,Applied Science College, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
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Zhu Z, Zhu X, Liu CL, Shi H, Shen S, Yang Y, Hasegawa K, Camargo CA, Liang L. Shared genetics of asthma and mental health disorders: a large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis. Eur Respir J 2019; 54:13993003.01507-2019. [PMID: 31619474 DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01507-2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Epidemiological studies demonstrate an association between asthma and mental health disorders, although little is known about the shared genetics and causality of this association. Thus, we aimed to investigate shared genetics and the causal link between asthma and mental health disorders.We conducted a large-scale genome-wide cross-trait association study to investigate genetic overlap between asthma from the UK Biobank and eight mental health disorders from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety disorder (ANX), autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD), post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia (sample size 9537-394 283).In the single-trait genome-wide association analysis, we replicated 130 previously reported loci and discovered 31 novel independent loci that are associated with asthma. We identified that ADHD, ANX and MDD have a strong genetic correlation with asthma at the genome-wide level. Cross-trait meta-analysis identified seven loci jointly associated with asthma and ADHD, one locus with asthma and ANX, and 10 loci with asthma and MDD. Functional analysis revealed that the identified variants regulated gene expression in major tissues belonging to the exocrine/endocrine, digestive, respiratory and haemic/immune systems. Mendelian randomisation analyses suggested that ADHD and MDD (including 6.7% sample overlap with asthma) might increase the risk of asthma.This large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis identified shared genetics and potential causal links between asthma and three mental health disorders (ADHD, ANX and MDD). Such shared genetics implicate potential new biological functions that are in common among them.
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- Zhaozhong Zhu
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA .,Dept of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Dept of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Dept of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Dept of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Dept of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Tam V, Patel N, Turcotte M, Bossé Y, Paré G, Meyre D. Benefits and limitations of genome-wide association studies. Nat Rev Genet 2019; 20:467-484. [PMID: 31068683 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-019-0127-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 903] [Impact Index Per Article: 180.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) involve testing genetic variants across the genomes of many individuals to identify genotype-phenotype associations. GWAS have revolutionized the field of complex disease genetics over the past decade, providing numerous compelling associations for human complex traits and diseases. Despite clear successes in identifying novel disease susceptibility genes and biological pathways and in translating these findings into clinical care, GWAS have not been without controversy. Prominent criticisms include concerns that GWAS will eventually implicate the entire genome in disease predisposition and that most association signals reflect variants and genes with no direct biological relevance to disease. In this Review, we comprehensively assess the benefits and limitations of GWAS in human populations and discuss the relevance of performing more GWAS.
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- Vivian Tam
- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.,Department of Molecular Medicine, Laval University, Québec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. .,Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. .,Inserm UMRS 954 N-GERE (Nutrition-Genetics-Environmental Risks), University of Lorraine, Faculty of Medicine, Nancy, France.
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Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders. Cell 2019; 179:1469-1482.e11. [PMID: 31835028 PMCID: PMC7077032 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 706] [Impact Index Per Article: 141.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these pleiotropic effects remain unclear. We performed analyses of 232,964 cases and 494,162 controls from genome-wide studies of anorexia nervosa, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and Tourette syndrome. Genetic correlation analyses revealed a meaningful structure within the eight disorders, identifying three groups of inter-related disorders. Meta-analysis across these eight disorders detected 109 loci associated with at least two psychiatric disorders, including 23 loci with pleiotropic effects on four or more disorders and 11 loci with antagonistic effects on multiple disorders. The pleiotropic loci are located within genes that show heightened expression in the brain throughout the lifespan, beginning prenatally in the second trimester, and play prominent roles in neurodevelopmental processes. These findings have important implications for psychiatric nosology, drug development, and risk prediction.
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The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality relationships between them. The rarity of large family cohorts with recorded instances of two traits, particularly disease traits, has made it difficult to estimate genetic correlations using traditional epidemiological approaches. However, advances in genomic methodologies, such as genome-wide association studies, and widespread sharing of data now allow genetic correlations to be estimated for virtually any trait pair. Here, we review the definition, estimation, interpretation and uses of genetic correlations, with a focus on applications to human disease.
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Schoettler N, Rodríguez E, Weidinger S, Ober C. Advances in asthma and allergic disease genetics: Is bigger always better? J Allergy Clin Immunol 2019; 144:1495-1506. [PMID: 31677964 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 10/22/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review focuses on genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of asthma and allergic diseases published between January 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. During this time period, there were 38 GWASs reported in 19 articles, including the largest performed to date for many of these conditions. Overall, we learned that childhood-onset asthma is associated with the most independent loci compared with other defined groups of asthma and allergic disease cases; adult-onset asthma and moderate-to-severe asthma are associated with fewer genes, which are largely a subset of those associated with childhood-onset asthma. There is significant genetic overlap between asthma and allergic diseases, particularly with respect to childhood-onset asthma, which involves genes that reflect the importance of barrier function biology, and to HLA region genes, which are the most frequently associated genes overall in both groups of diseases. Although the largest GWASs in African American and Latino/Hispanic populations were reported during this period, they are still significantly underpowered compared with studies reported in populations of European ancestry, highlighting the need for larger studies, particularly in patients with childhood-onset asthma and allergic diseases, in these important populations that carry the greatest burden of disease.
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- Nathan Schoettler
- Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill; Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
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- Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill
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Effect of non-normality and low count variants on cross-phenotype association tests in GWAS. Eur J Hum Genet 2019; 28:300-312. [PMID: 31582815 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-019-0514-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 09/01/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Many complex human diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, are characterized by multiple underlying traits/phenotypes that have substantially shared genetic architecture. Multivariate analysis of correlated traits has the potential to increase the power of detecting underlying common genetic loci. Several cross-phenotype association methods have been proposed-some require individual-level data on traits and genotypes, while the others require only summary-level data. In this article, we explore whether non-normality of multivariate trait distribution affects the inference from some of the existing multi-trait methods and how that effect is dependent on the allele count of the genetic variant being tested. We find that most of these tests are susceptible to biases that lead to spurious association signals. Even after controlling for confounders that may contribute to non-normality and then applying inverse normal transformation on the residuals of each trait, these tests may have inflated type I errors for variants with low minor allele counts (MACs). A likelihood ratio test of association based on the ordinal regression of individual-level genotype conditional on the traits seems to be the least biased and can maintain type I error when the MAC is reasonably large (e.g., MAC > 30). Application of these methods to publicly available summary statistics of eight amino acid traits on European samples seem to exhibit systematic inflation (especially for variants with low MAC), which is consistent with our findings from simulation experiments.
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Smeland OB, Frei O, Fan CC, Shadrin A, Dale AM, Andreassen OA. The emerging pattern of shared polygenic architecture of psychiatric disorders, conceptual and methodological challenges. Psychiatr Genet 2019; 29:152-159. [PMID: 31464996 PMCID: PMC10752571 DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0000000000000234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Genome-wide association studies have transformed psychiatric genetics and provided novel insights into the genetic etiology of psychiatric disorders. Two major discoveries have emerged; the disorders are polygenic, with a large number of common variants each with a small effect and many genetic variants influence more than one phenotype, suggesting shared genetic etiology. These concepts have the potential to revolutionize the current classification system with diagnostic categories and facilitate development of better treatments. However, to reach clinical impact, we need larger samples and better analytical tools, as most polygenic factors remain undetected. We here present statistical approaches designed to improve the yield of existing genome-wide association studies for polygenic phenotypes. We review how these tools have informed the current knowledge on the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, focusing on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression, and overlap with psychological and cognitive traits. We discuss application of statistical tools for stratification and prediction.
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- Olav B. Smeland
- NORMENT Centre, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego, USA
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- NORMENT Centre, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
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- NORMENT Centre, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Smeland OB, Frei O, Shadrin A, O'Connell K, Fan CC, Bahrami S, Holland D, Djurovic S, Thompson WK, Dale AM, Andreassen OA. Discovery of shared genomic loci using the conditional false discovery rate approach. Hum Genet 2019; 139:85-94. [PMID: 31520123 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-019-02060-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In recent years, genome-wide association study (GWAS) sample sizes have become larger, the statistical power has improved and thousands of trait-associated variants have been uncovered, offering new insights into the genetic etiology of complex human traits and disorders. However, a large fraction of the polygenic architecture underlying most complex phenotypes still remains undetected. We here review the conditional false discovery rate (condFDR) method, a model-free strategy for analysis of GWAS summary data, which has improved yield of existing GWAS and provided novel findings of genetic overlap between a wide range of complex human phenotypes, including psychiatric, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders, as well as psychological and cognitive traits. The condFDR method was inspired by Empirical Bayes approaches and leverages auxiliary genetic information to improve statistical power for discovery of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The cross-trait condFDR strategy analyses separate GWAS data, and leverages overlapping SNP associations, i.e., cross-trait enrichment, to increase discovery of trait-associated SNPs. The extension of the condFDR approach to conjunctional FDR (conjFDR) identifies shared genomic loci between two phenotypes. The conjFDR approach allows for detection of shared genomic associations irrespective of the genetic correlation between the phenotypes, often revealing a mixture of antagonistic and agonistic directional effects among the shared loci. This review provides a methodological comparison between condFDR and other relevant cross-trait analytical tools and demonstrates how condFDR analysis may provide novel insights into the genetic relationship between complex phenotypes.
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- Olav B Smeland
- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway.
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- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Department of Radiology, University of California of San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA
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- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Radiology, University of California of San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.,NORMENT Centre, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Department of Radiology, University of California of San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA.,Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92037, USA
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- NORMENT Centre, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0424, Oslo, Norway.
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Lam M, Hill WD, Trampush JW, Yu J, Knowles E, Davies G, Stahl E, Huckins L, Liewald DC, Djurovic S, Melle I, Sundet K, Christoforou A, Reinvang I, DeRosse P, Lundervold AJ, Steen VM, Espeseth T, Räikkönen K, Widen E, Palotie A, Eriksson JG, Giegling I, Konte B, Hartmann AM, Roussos P, Giakoumaki S, Burdick KE, Payton A, Ollier W, Chiba-Falek O, Attix DK, Need AC, Cirulli ET, Voineskos AN, Stefanis NC, Avramopoulos D, Hatzimanolis A, Arking DE, Smyrnis N, Bilder RM, Freimer NA, Cannon TD, London E, Poldrack RA, Sabb FW, Congdon E, Conley ED, Scult MA, Dickinson D, Straub RE, Donohoe G, Morris D, Corvin A, Gill M, Hariri AR, Weinberger DR, Pendleton N, Bitsios P, Rujescu D, Lahti J, Le Hellard S, Keller MC, Andreassen OA, Deary IJ, Glahn DC, Malhotra AK, Lencz T. Pleiotropic Meta-Analysis of Cognition, Education, and Schizophrenia Differentiates Roles of Early Neurodevelopmental and Adult Synaptic Pathways. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 105:334-350. [PMID: 31374203 PMCID: PMC6699140 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Susceptibility to schizophrenia is inversely correlated with general cognitive ability at both the phenotypic and the genetic level. Paradoxically, a modest but consistent positive genetic correlation has been reported between schizophrenia and educational attainment, despite the strong positive genetic correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment. Here we leverage published genome-wide association studies (GWASs) in cognitive ability, education, and schizophrenia to parse biological mechanisms underlying these results. Association analysis based on subsets (ASSET), a pleiotropic meta-analytic technique, allowed jointly associated loci to be identified and characterized. Specifically, we identified subsets of variants associated in the expected ("concordant") direction across all three phenotypes (i.e., greater risk for schizophrenia, lower cognitive ability, and lower educational attainment); these were contrasted with variants that demonstrated the counterintuitive ("discordant") relationship between education and schizophrenia (i.e., greater risk for schizophrenia and higher educational attainment). ASSET analysis revealed 235 independent loci associated with cognitive ability, education, and/or schizophrenia at p < 5 × 10-8. Pleiotropic analysis successfully identified more than 100 loci that were not significant in the input GWASs. Many of these have been validated by larger, more recent single-phenotype GWASs. Leveraging the joint genetic correlations of cognitive ability, education, and schizophrenia, we were able to dissociate two distinct biological mechanisms-early neurodevelopmental pathways that characterize concordant allelic variation and adulthood synaptic pruning pathways-that were linked to the paradoxical positive genetic association between education and schizophrenia. Furthermore, genetic correlation analyses revealed that these mechanisms contribute not only to the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia but also to the broader biological dimensions implicated in both general health outcomes and psychiatric illness.
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- Max Lam
- Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, 539747, Singapore; Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Genetics and Genomic Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Institute for Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Genetics and Genomic Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Institute for Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway; Norsk Senter for Forskning på Mentale Lidelser, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway
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- Norsk Senter for Forskning på Mentale Lidelser, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway; Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 1039, Blindern 0315, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 1039, Blindern 0315, Norway; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo 1094, Blindern 0317, Norway
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- Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen 7804, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo 1094, Blindern 0317, Norway
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- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA
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- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, 7807, N-5020, Norway
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- Norsk Senter for Forskning på Mentale Lidelser, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway; Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen 7804, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 1039, Blindern 0315, Norway; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo 1094, Blindern 0317, Norway
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom; Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and University Central Hospital, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Department of General Practice, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, 00014, Finland; National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki FI-00271, Finland; Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki 00290, Finland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06108, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06108, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06108, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Genetics and Genomic Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Institute for Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10468, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10468, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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- Division of Informatics, Imaging, and Data Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M139NT, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Epidemiology, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester M139PL, United Kingdom; School of Healthcare Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, Bryan Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Bryan Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA; Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Department of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto M6J 1H4, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece; University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens 115 27, Greece; Neurobiology Research Institute, Theodor-Theohari Cozzika Foundation, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA; McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto M6J 1H4, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece; University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens 115 27, Greece
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto M6J 1H4, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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- Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97401, USA
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- UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
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- Laboratory of NeuroGenetics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Neuroimaging, Cognition, and Genomics Centre, School of Psychology and Discipline of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Neuroimaging, Cognition, and Genomics Centre, School of Psychology and Discipline of Biochemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Laboratory of NeuroGenetics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University Medical Campus, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete GR-71003, Greece
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- Department of Psychiatry, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06108, Germany
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, 00014, Finland; Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Norsk Senter for Forskning på Mentale Lidelser, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway; Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen 7804, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- Norsk Senter for Forskning på Mentale Lidelser, K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, University of Bergen, Bergen 4956, Nydalen 0424, Norway; Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 1039, Blindern 0315, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo 0318, Norway
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA; Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
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- Division of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY 11549, USA; Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.
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Yu Y, Xia L, Lee S, Zhou X, Stringham HM, Boehnke M, Mukherjee B. Subset-Based Analysis Using Gene-Environment Interactions for Discovery of Genetic Associations across Multiple Studies or Phenotypes. Hum Hered 2019; 83:283-314. [PMID: 31132756 DOI: 10.1159/000496867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Classical methods for combining summary data from genome-wide association studies only use marginal genetic effects, and power can be compromised in the presence of heterogeneity. We aim to enhance the discovery of novel associated loci in the presence of heterogeneity of genetic effects in subgroups defined by an environmental factor. METHODS We present a pvalue-assisted subset testing for associations (pASTA) framework that generalizes the previously proposed association analysis based on subsets (ASSET) method by incorporating gene-environment (G-E) interactions into the testing procedure. We conduct simulation studies and provide two data examples. RESULTS Simulation studies show that our proposal is more powerful than methods based on marginal associations in the presence of G-E interactions and maintains comparable power even in their absence. Both data examples demonstrate that our method can increase power to detect overall genetic associations and identify novel studies/phenotypes that contribute to the association. CONCLUSIONS Our proposed method can be a useful screening tool to identify candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms that are potentially associated with the trait(s) of interest for further validation. It also allows researchers to determine the most probable subset of traits that exhibit genetic associations in addition to the enhancement of power.
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- Youfei Yu
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, .,Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA,
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Heller R, Meir A, Chatterjee N. Post-selection estimation and testing following aggregate association tests. J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/rssb.12318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- University of Washington; Seattle USA
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Zhu Z, Wang X, Li X, Lin Y, Shen S, Liu CL, Hobbs BD, Hasegawa K, Liang L, Boezen HM, Camargo CA, Cho MH, Christiani DC. Genetic overlap of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cardiovascular disease-related traits: a large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis. Respir Res 2019; 20:64. [PMID: 30940143 PMCID: PMC6444755 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-019-1036-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A growing number of studies clearly demonstrate a substantial association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD), although little is known about the shared genetics that contribute to this association. METHODS We conducted a large-scale cross-trait genome-wide association study to investigate genetic overlap between COPD (Ncase = 12,550, Ncontrol = 46,368) from the International COPD Genetics Consortium and four primary cardiac traits: resting heart rate (RHR) (N = 458,969), high blood pressure (HBP) (Ncase = 144,793, Ncontrol = 313,761), coronary artery disease (CAD)(Ncase = 60,801, Ncontrol = 123,504), and stroke (Ncase = 40,585, Ncontrol = 406,111) from UK Biobank, CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium, and International Stroke Genetics Consortium data. RESULTS RHR and HBP had modest genetic correlation, and CAD had borderline evidence with COPD at a genome-wide level. We found evidence of local genetic correlation with particular regions of the genome. Cross-trait meta-analysis of COPD identified 21 loci jointly associated with RHR, 22 loci with HBP, and 3 loci with CAD. Functional analysis revealed that shared genes were enriched in smoking-related pathways and in cardiovascular, nervous, and immune system tissues. An examination of smoking-related genetic variants identified SNPs located in 15q25.1 region associated with cigarettes per day, with effects on RHR and CAD. A Mendelian randomization analysis showed a significant positive causal effect of COPD on RHR (causal estimate = 0.1374, P = 0.008). CONCLUSION In a set of large-scale GWAS, we identify evidence of shared genetics between COPD and cardiac traits.
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- Zhaozhong Zhu
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Derkach A, Pfeiffer RM. Subset testing and analysis of multiple phenotypes. Genet Epidemiol 2019; 43:492-505. [PMID: 30920058 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Meta-analysis of multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is effective for detecting single- or multimarker associations with complex traits. We develop a flexible procedure (subset testing and analysis of multiple phenotypes [STAMP]) based on mixture models to perform a region-based meta-analysis of different phenotypes using data from different GWAS and identify subsets of associated phenotypes. Our model framework helps distinguish true associations from between-study heterogeneity. As a measure of association, we compute for each phenotype the posterior probability that the genetic region under investigation is truly associated. Extensive simulations show that STAMP is more powerful than standard approaches for meta-analyses when the proportion of truly associated outcomes is between 25% and 50%. For other settings, the power of STAMP is similar to that of existing methods. We illustrate our method on two examples, the association of a region on chromosome 9p21 with the risk of 14 cancers, and the associations of expression of quantitative trait loci from two genetic regions with their cis-single-nucleotide polymorphisms measured in 17 tissue types using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas.
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- Andriy Derkach
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland
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Trochet H, Pirinen M, Band G, Jostins L, McVean G, Spencer CCA. Bayesian meta-analysis across genome-wide association studies of diverse phenotypes. Genet Epidemiol 2019; 43:532-547. [PMID: 30920090 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful tool for understanding the genetic basis of diseases and traits, but most studies have been conducted in isolation, with a focus on either a single or a set of closely related phenotypes. We describe MetABF, a simple Bayesian framework for performing integrative meta-analysis across multiple GWAS using summary statistics. The approach is applicable across a wide range of study designs and can increase the power by 50% compared with standard frequentist tests when only a subset of studies have a true effect. We demonstrate its utility in a meta-analysis of 20 diverse GWAS which were part of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2. The novelty of the approach is its ability to explore, and assess the evidence for a range of possible true patterns of association across studies in a computationally efficient framework.
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- Holly Trochet
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal (Centre de Recherche), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Huo Z, Song C, Tseng G. BAYESIAN LATENT HIERARCHICAL MODEL FOR TRANSCRIPTOMIC META-ANALYSIS TO DETECT BIOMARKERS WITH CLUSTERED META-PATTERNS OF DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION SIGNALS. Ann Appl Stat 2019; 13:340-366. [PMID: 31007807 PMCID: PMC6472949 DOI: 10.1214/18-aoas1188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Due to the rapid development of high-throughput experimental techniques and fast-dropping prices, many transcriptomic datasets have been generated and accumulated in the public domain. Meta-analysis combining multiple transcriptomic studies can increase the statistical power to detect disease-related biomarkers. In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian latent hierarchical model to perform transcriptomic meta-analysis. This method is capable of detecting genes that are differentially expressed (DE) in only a subset of the combined studies, and the latent variables help quantify homogeneous and heterogeneous differential expression signals across studies. A tight clustering algorithm is applied to detected biomarkers to capture differential meta-patterns that are informative to guide further biological investigation. Simulations and three examples, including a microarray dataset from metabolism-related knockout mice, an RNA-seq dataset from HIV transgenic rats, and cross-platform datasets from human breast cancer, are used to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.
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- Zhiguang Huo
- Department of Biostatistics University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611
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- Division of Biostatistics College of Public Health The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210
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- Department of Biostatistics, Human Genetics and Computational Biology University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261
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Dimou NL, Pantavou KG, Braliou GG, Bagos PG. Multivariate Methods for Meta-Analysis of Genetic Association Studies. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1793:157-182. [PMID: 29876897 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7868-7_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Multivariate meta-analysis of genetic association studies and genome-wide association studies has received a remarkable attention as it improves the precision of the analysis. Here, we review, summarize and present in a unified framework methods for multivariate meta-analysis of genetic association studies and genome-wide association studies. Starting with the statistical methods used for robust analysis and genetic model selection, we present in brief univariate methods for meta-analysis and we then scrutinize multivariate methodologies. Multivariate models of meta-analysis for a single gene-disease association studies, including models for haplotype association studies, multiple linked polymorphisms and multiple outcomes are discussed. The popular Mendelian randomization approach and special cases of meta-analysis addressing issues such as the assumption of the mode of inheritance, deviation from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium and gene-environment interactions are also presented. All available methods are enriched with practical applications and methodologies that could be developed in the future are discussed. Links for all available software implementing multivariate meta-analysis methods are also provided.
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- Niki L Dimou
- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece.,Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece
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- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece
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- Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece.
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Zhang X, Veturi Y, Verma S, Bone W, Verma A, Lucas A, Hebbring S, Denny JC, Stanaway IB, Jarvik GP, Crosslin D, Larson EB, Rasmussen-Torvik L, Pendergrass SA, Smoller JW, Hakonarson H, Sleiman P, Weng C, Fasel D, Wei WQ, Kullo I, Schaid D, Chung WK, Ritchie MD. Detecting potential pleiotropy across cardiovascular and neurological diseases using univariate, bivariate, and multivariate methods on 43,870 individuals from the eMERGE network. PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIOCOMPUTING. PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON BIOCOMPUTING 2019; 24:272-283. [PMID: 30864329 PMCID: PMC6457436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The link between cardiovascular diseases and neurological disorders has been widely observed in the aging population. Disease prevention and treatment rely on understanding the potential genetic nexus of multiple diseases in these categories. In this study, we were interested in detecting pleiotropy, or the phenomenon in which a genetic variant influences more than one phenotype. Marker-phenotype association approaches can be grouped into univariate, bivariate, and multivariate categories based on the number of phenotypes considered at one time. Here we applied one statistical method per category followed by an eQTL colocalization analysis to identify potential pleiotropic variants that contribute to the link between cardiovascular and neurological diseases. We performed our analyses on ~530,000 common SNPs coupled with 65 electronic health record (EHR)-based phenotypes in 43,870 unrelated European adults from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network. There were 31 variants identified by all three methods that showed significant associations across late onset cardiac- and neurologic- diseases. We further investigated functional implications of gene expression on the detected "lead SNPs" via colocalization analysis, providing a deeper understanding of the discovered associations. In summary, we present the framework and landscape for detecting potential pleiotropy using univariate, bivariate, multivariate, and colocalization methods. Further exploration of these potentially pleiotropic genetic variants will work toward understanding disease causing mechanisms across cardiovascular and neurological diseases and may assist in considering disease prevention as well as drug repositioning in future research.
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- Xinyuan Zhang
- Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA*Authors contributed equally to this work
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Márquez A, Kerick M, Zhernakova A, Gutierrez-Achury J, Chen WM, Onengut-Gumuscu S, González-Álvaro I, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Rios-Fernández R, González-Gay MA, Mayes MD, Raychaudhuri S, Rich SS, Wijmenga C, Martín J. Meta-analysis of Immunochip data of four autoimmune diseases reveals novel single-disease and cross-phenotype associations. Genome Med 2018; 10:97. [PMID: 30572963 PMCID: PMC6302306 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-018-0604-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In recent years, research has consistently proven the occurrence of genetic overlap across autoimmune diseases, which supports the existence of common pathogenic mechanisms in autoimmunity. The objective of this study was to further investigate this shared genetic component. METHODS For this purpose, we performed a cross-disease meta-analysis of Immunochip data from 37,159 patients diagnosed with a seropositive autoimmune disease (11,489 celiac disease (CeD), 15,523 rheumatoid arthritis (RA), 3477 systemic sclerosis (SSc), and 6670 type 1 diabetes (T1D)) and 22,308 healthy controls of European origin using the R package ASSET. RESULTS We identified 38 risk variants shared by at least two of the conditions analyzed, five of which represent new pleiotropic loci in autoimmunity. We also identified six novel genome-wide associations for the diseases studied. Cell-specific functional annotations and biological pathway enrichment analyses suggested that pleiotropic variants may act by deregulating gene expression in different subsets of T cells, especially Th17 and regulatory T cells. Finally, drug repositioning analysis evidenced several drugs that could represent promising candidates for CeD, RA, SSc, and T1D treatment. CONCLUSIONS In this study, we have been able to advance in the knowledge of the genetic overlap existing in autoimmunity, thus shedding light on common molecular mechanisms of disease and suggesting novel drug targets that could be explored for the treatment of the autoimmune diseases studied.
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- Ana Márquez
- Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, CSIC, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
- Systemic Autoimmune Disease Unit, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, CSIC, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA
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- Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Complejo Hospitalario de Granada, Hospital Campus de la Salud, Granada, Spain
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- Epidemiology, Genetics and Atherosclerosis Research Group on Systemic Inflammatory Diseases, IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
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- Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Houston, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, CSIC, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
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Liley J. Combining controls can improve power in two-stage association studies. BMC Genet 2018; 19:89. [PMID: 30285617 PMCID: PMC6171163 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-018-0675-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 09/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Background High dimensional case control studies are ubiquitous in the biological sciences, particularly genomics. To maximise power while constraining cost and to minimise type-1 error rates, researchers typically seek to replicate findings in a second experiment on independent cohorts before proceeding with further analyses. This can be an expensive procedure, particularly when control samples are difficult to recruit or ascertain; for example in inter-disease comparisons, or studies on degenerative diseases. Results This paper presents a method in which control (or case) samples from the discovery cohort are re-used in a replication study. The theoretical implications of this method are discussed and simulated genome-wide association study (GWAS) tests are used to compare performance against the standard approach in a range of circumstances. Using similar methods, a procedure is proposed for ‘partial replication’ using a new independent cohort consisting of only controls. This methods can be used to provide some validation of findings when a full replication procedure is not possible. The new method has differing sensitivity to confounding in study cohorts compared to the standard procedure, which must be considered in its application. Type-1 error rates in these scenarios are analytically and empirically derived, and an online tool for comparing power and error rates is provided. Conclusions In several common study designs, a shared-control method allows a substantial improvement in power while retaining type-1 error rate control. Although careful consideration must be made of all necessary assumptions, this method can enable more efficient use of data in GWAS and other applications. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12863-018-0675-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- James Liley
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
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Heller R, Chatterjee N, Krieger A, Shi J. Post-Selection Inference Following Aggregate Level Hypothesis Testing in Large-Scale Genomic Data. J Am Stat Assoc 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2017.1375933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Ruth Heller
- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
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Zhu B, Mirabello L, Chatterjee N. A subregion-based burden test for simultaneous identification of susceptibility loci and subregions within. Genet Epidemiol 2018; 42:673-683. [PMID: 29931698 PMCID: PMC6185783 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Revised: 04/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In rare variant association studies, aggregating rare and/or low frequency variants, may increase statistical power for detection of the underlying susceptibility gene or region. However, it is unclear which variants, or class of them, in a gene contribute most to the association. We proposed a subregion-based burden test (REBET) to simultaneously select susceptibility genes and identify important underlying subregions. The subregions are predefined by shared common biologic characteristics, such as the protein domain or functional impact. Based on a subset-based approach considering local correlations between combinations of test statistics of subregions, REBET is able to properly control the type I error rate while adjusting for multiple comparisons in a computationally efficient manner. Simulation studies show that REBET can achieve power competitive to alternative methods when rare variants cluster within subregions. In two case studies, REBET is able to identify known disease susceptibility genes, and more importantly pinpoint the unreported most susceptible subregions, which represent protein domains essential for gene function. R package REBET is available at https://dceg.cancer.gov/tools/analysis/rebet.
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- Bin Zhu
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Qi G, Chatterjee N. Heritability informed power optimization (HIPO) leads to enhanced detection of genetic associations across multiple traits. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007549. [PMID: 30289880 PMCID: PMC6192650 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Genome-wide association studies have shown that pleiotropy is a common phenomenon that can potentially be exploited for enhanced detection of susceptibility loci. We propose heritability informed power optimization (HIPO) for conducting powerful pleiotropic analysis using summary-level association statistics. We find optimal linear combinations of association coefficients across traits that are expected to maximize non-centrality parameter for the underlying test statistics, taking into account estimates of heritability, sample size variations and overlaps across the traits. Simulation studies show that the proposed method has correct type I error, robust to population stratification and leads to desired genome-wide enrichment of association signals. Application of the proposed method to publicly available data for three groups of genetically related traits, lipids (N = 188,577), psychiatric diseases (Ncase = 33,332, Ncontrol = 27,888) and social science traits (N ranging between 161,460 to 298,420 across individual traits) increased the number of genome-wide significant loci by 12%, 200% and 50%, respectively, compared to those found by analysis of individual traits. Evidence of replication is present for many of these loci in subsequent larger studies for individual traits. HIPO can potentially be extended to high-dimensional phenotypes as a way of dimension reduction to maximize power for subsequent genetic association testing.
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- Guanghao Qi
- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Wang T, Xue X, Xie X, Ye K, Zhu X, Elston RC. Adjustment for covariates using summary statistics of genome-wide association studies. Genet Epidemiol 2018; 42:812-825. [PMID: 30238496 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2018] [Revised: 06/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Linear regression is a standard approach to identify genetic variants associated with continuous traits in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). In a standard epidemiology study, linear regression is often performed with adjustment for covariates to estimate the independent effect of a predictor variable or to improve statistical power by reducing residual variability. However, it is problematic to adjust for heritable covariates in genetic association analysis. Here, we propose a new method that utilizes summary statistics of the covariate from additional samples for reducing the residual variability and hence improves statistical power. Our simulation study showed that the proposed methodology can maintain a good control of Type I error and can achieve much higher power than a simple linear regression. The method is illustrated by an application to the GWAS results from the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits consortium.
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- Tao Wang
- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Hackinger S, Zeggini E. Statistical methods to detect pleiotropy in human complex traits. Open Biol 2018; 7:rsob.170125. [PMID: 29093210 PMCID: PMC5717338 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.170125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In recent years pleiotropy, the phenomenon of one genetic locus influencing several traits, has become a widely researched field in human genetics. With the increasing availability of genome-wide association study summary statistics, as well as the establishment of deeply phenotyped sample collections, it is now possible to systematically assess the genetic overlap between multiple traits and diseases. In addition to increasing power to detect associated variants, multi-trait methods can also aid our understanding of how different disorders are aetiologically linked by highlighting relevant biological pathways. A plethora of available tools to perform such analyses exists, each with their own advantages and limitations. In this review, we outline some of the currently available methods to conduct multi-trait analyses. First, we briefly introduce the concept of pleiotropy and outline the current landscape of pleiotropy research in human genetics; second, we describe analytical considerations and analysis methods; finally, we discuss future directions for the field.
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Zhu Z, Lee PH, Chaffin MD, Chung W, Loh PR, Lu Q, Christiani DC, Liang L. A genome-wide cross-trait analysis from UK Biobank highlights the shared genetic architecture of asthma and allergic diseases. Nat Genet 2018; 50:857-864. [PMID: 29785011 PMCID: PMC5980765 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0121-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Clinical and epidemiological data suggest that asthma and allergic
diseases are associated and may share a common genetic etiology. We analyzed
genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data for asthma and allergic
diseases in 33,593 cases and 76,768 controls of European ancestry from the UK
Biobank. Two publicly available independent genome wide association studies
(GWAS) were used for replication. We have found a strong genome-wide genetic
correlation between asthma and allergic diseases (rg
= 0.75, P =
6.84×10−62). Cross trait analysis identified 38
genome-wide significant loci, including 7 novel shared loci. Computational
analysis showed that shared genetic loci are enriched in immune/inflammatory
systems and tissues with epithelium cells. Our work identifies common genetic
architectures shared between asthma and allergy and will help to advance our
understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying co-morbid asthma and
allergic diseases.
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- Zhaozhong Zhu
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Departments of Environmental Health and Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. .,Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Lee CH, Eskin E, Han B. Increasing the power of meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to detect heterogeneous effects. Bioinformatics 2018; 33:i379-i388. [PMID: 28881976 PMCID: PMC5870848 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Motivation Meta-analysis is essential to combine the results of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Recent large-scale meta-analyses have combined studies of different ethnicities, environments and even studies of different related phenotypes. These differences between studies can manifest as effect size heterogeneity. We previously developed a modified random effects model (RE2) that can achieve higher power to detect heterogeneous effects than the commonly used fixed effects model (FE). However, RE2 cannot perform meta-analysis of correlated statistics, which are found in recent research designs, and the identified variants often overlap with those found by FE. Results Here, we propose RE2C, which increases the power of RE2 in two ways. First, we generalized the likelihood model to account for correlations of statistics to achieve optimal power, using an optimization technique based on spectral decomposition for efficient parameter estimation. Second, we designed a novel statistic to focus on the heterogeneous effects that FE cannot detect, thereby, increasing the power to identify new associations. We developed an efficient and accurate p-value approximation procedure using analytical decomposition of the statistic. In simulations, RE2C achieved a dramatic increase in power compared with the decoupling approach (71% vs. 21%) when the statistics were correlated. Even when the statistics are uncorrelated, RE2C achieves a modest increase in power. Applications to real genetic data supported the utility of RE2C. RE2C is highly efficient and can meta-analyze one hundred GWASs in one day. Availability and implementation The software is freely available at http://software.buhmhan.com/RE2C. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- C H Lee
- Department of Convergence Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine & Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Convergence Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine & Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea
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Krapohl E, Patel H, Newhouse S, Curtis CJ, von Stumm S, Dale PS, Zabaneh D, Breen G, O'Reilly PF, Plomin R. Multi-polygenic score approach to trait prediction. Mol Psychiatry 2018; 23:1368-1374. [PMID: 28785111 PMCID: PMC5681246 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Revised: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
A primary goal of polygenic scores, which aggregate the effects of thousands of trait-associated DNA variants discovered in genome-wide association studies (GWASs), is to estimate individual-specific genetic propensities and predict outcomes. This is typically achieved using a single polygenic score, but here we use a multi-polygenic score (MPS) approach to increase predictive power by exploiting the joint power of multiple discovery GWASs, without assumptions about the relationships among predictors. We used summary statistics of 81 well-powered GWASs of cognitive, medical and anthropometric traits to predict three core developmental outcomes in our independent target sample: educational achievement, body mass index (BMI) and general cognitive ability. We used regularized regression with repeated cross-validation to select from and estimate contributions of 81 polygenic scores in a UK representative sample of 6710 unrelated adolescents. The MPS approach predicted 10.9% variance in educational achievement, 4.8% in general cognitive ability and 5.4% in BMI in an independent test set, predicting 1.1%, 1.1%, and 1.6% more variance than the best single-score predictions. As other relevant GWA analyses are reported, they can be incorporated in MPS models to maximize phenotype prediction. The MPS approach should be useful in research with modest sample sizes to investigate developmental, multivariate and gene-environment interplay issues and, eventually, in clinical settings to predict and prevent problems using personalized interventions.
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- E Krapohl
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, UK
- Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, UCL Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London, New Cross, London, UK
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- Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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Salinas YD, Wang Z, DeWan AT. Statistical Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes in Genetic Epidemiologic Studies: From Cross-Phenotype Associations to Pleiotropy. Am J Epidemiol 2018; 187:855-863. [PMID: 29020254 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
In the context of genetics, pleiotropy refers to the phenomenon in which a single genetic locus affects more than 1 trait or disease. Genetic epidemiologic studies have identified loci associated with multiple phenotypes, and these cross-phenotype associations are often incorrectly interpreted as examples of pleiotropy. Pleiotropy is only one possible explanation for cross-phenotype associations. Cross-phenotype associations may also arise due to issues related to study design, confounder bias, or nongenetic causal links between the phenotypes under analysis. Therefore, it is necessary to dissect cross-phenotype associations carefully to uncover true pleiotropic loci. In this review, we describe statistical methods that can be used to identify robust statistical evidence of pleiotropy. First, we provide an overview of univariate and multivariate methods for discovery of cross-phenotype associations and highlight important considerations for choosing among available methods. Then, we describe how to dissect cross-phenotype associations by using mediation analysis. Pleiotropic loci provide insights into the mechanistic underpinnings of disease comorbidity, and they may serve as novel targets for interventions that simultaneously treat multiple diseases. Discerning between different types of cross-phenotype associations is necessary to realize the public health potential of pleiotropic loci.
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- Yasmmyn D Salinas
- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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Zhu Z, Anttila V, Smoller JW, Lee PH. Statistical power and utility of meta-analysis methods for cross-phenotype genome-wide association studies. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0193256. [PMID: 29494641 PMCID: PMC5832233 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Advances in recent genome wide association studies (GWAS) suggest that pleiotropic effects on human complex traits are widespread. A number of classic and recent meta-analysis methods have been used to identify genetic loci with pleiotropic effects, but the overall performance of these methods is not well understood. In this work, we use extensive simulations and case studies of GWAS datasets to investigate the power and type-I error rates of ten meta-analysis methods. We specifically focus on three conditions commonly encountered in the studies of multiple traits: (1) extensive heterogeneity of genetic effects; (2) characterization of trait-specific association; and (3) inflated correlation of GWAS due to overlapping samples. Although the statistical power is highly variable under distinct study conditions, we found the superior power of several methods under diverse heterogeneity. In particular, classic fixed-effects model showed surprisingly good performance when a variant is associated with more than a half of study traits. As the number of traits with null effects increases, ASSET performed the best along with competitive specificity and sensitivity. With opposite directional effects, CPASSOC featured the first-rate power. However, caution is advised when using CPASSOC for studying genetically correlated traits with overlapping samples. We conclude with a discussion of unresolved issues and directions for future research.
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- Zhaozhong Zhu
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Majumdar A, Haldar T, Bhattacharya S, Witte JS. An efficient Bayesian meta-analysis approach for studying cross-phenotype genetic associations. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007139. [PMID: 29432419 PMCID: PMC5825176 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Revised: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Simultaneous analysis of genetic associations with multiple phenotypes may reveal shared genetic susceptibility across traits (pleiotropy). For a locus exhibiting overall pleiotropy, it is important to identify which specific traits underlie this association. We propose a Bayesian meta-analysis approach (termed CPBayes) that uses summary-level data across multiple phenotypes to simultaneously measure the evidence of aggregate-level pleiotropic association and estimate an optimal subset of traits associated with the risk locus. This method uses a unified Bayesian statistical framework based on a spike and slab prior. CPBayes performs a fully Bayesian analysis by employing the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique Gibbs sampling. It takes into account heterogeneity in the size and direction of the genetic effects across traits. It can be applied to both cohort data and separate studies of multiple traits having overlapping or non-overlapping subjects. Simulations show that CPBayes can produce higher accuracy in the selection of associated traits underlying a pleiotropic signal than the subset-based meta-analysis ASSET. We used CPBayes to undertake a genome-wide pleiotropic association study of 22 traits in the large Kaiser GERA cohort and detected six independent pleiotropic loci associated with at least two phenotypes. This includes a locus at chromosomal region 1q24.2 which exhibits an association simultaneously with the risk of five different diseases: Dermatophytosis, Hemorrhoids, Iron Deficiency, Osteoporosis and Peripheral Vascular Disease. We provide an R-package 'CPBayes' implementing the proposed method.
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- Arunabha Majumdar
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Kochi Y, Kamatani Y, Kondo Y, Suzuki A, Kawakami E, Hiwa R, Momozawa Y, Fujimoto M, Jinnin M, Tanaka Y, Kanda T, Cooper RG, Chinoy H, Rothwell S, Lamb JA, Vencovský J, Mann H, Ohmura K, Myouzen K, Ishigaki K, Nakashima R, Hosono Y, Tsuboi H, Kawasumi H, Iwasaki Y, Kajiyama H, Horita T, Ogawa-Momohara M, Takamura A, Tsunoda S, Shimizu J, Fujio K, Amano H, Mimori A, Kawakami A, Umehara H, Takeuchi T, Sano H, Muro Y, Atsumi T, Mimura T, Kawaguchi Y, Mimori T, Takahashi A, Kubo M, Kohsaka H, Sumida T, Yamamoto K. Splicing variant of WDFY4 augments MDA5 signalling and the risk of clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis. Ann Rheum Dis 2018; 77:602-611. [PMID: 29331962 DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2017] [Revised: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group of rare autoimmune diseases in which both genetic and environmental factors play important roles. To identify genetic factors of IIM including polymyositis, dermatomyositis (DM) and clinically amyopathic DM (CADM), we performed the first genome-wide association study for IIM in an Asian population. METHODS We genotyped and tested 496 819 single nucleotide polymorphism for association using 576 patients with IIM and 6270 control subjects. We also examined the causal mechanism of disease-associated variants by in silico analyses using publicly available data sets as well as by in in vitro analyses using reporter assays and apoptosis assays. RESULTS We identified a variant in WDFY4 that was significantly associated with CADM (rs7919656; OR=3.87; P=1.5×10-8). This variant had a cis-splicing quantitative trait locus (QTL) effect for a truncated WDFY4isoform (tr-WDFY4), with higher expression in the risk allele. Transexpression QTL analysis of this variant showed a positive correlation with the expression of NF-κB associated genes. Furthermore, we demonstrated that both WDFY4 and tr-WDFY4 interacted with pattern recognition receptors such as TLR3, TLR4, TLR9 and MDA5 and augmented the NF-κB activation by these receptors. WDFY4 isoforms also enhanced MDA5-induced apoptosis to a greater extent in the tr-WDFY4-transfected cells. CONCLUSIONS As CADM is characterised by the appearance of anti-MDA5 autoantibodies and severe lung inflammation, the WDFY4 variant may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of CADM.
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- Yuta Kochi
- Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling, RIKEN Center for Integrated Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.,Department of Dermatology, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology and Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan
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- MRC-ARUK Institute for Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Rheumatology Department, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK.,The National Institute for Health Research Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- The National Institute for Health Research Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Institute of Rheumatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Rheumatology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatic Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Unit of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Immunology, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Rheumatology Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Applied Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
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- Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.,Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Kim EE, Lee S, Lee CH, Oh H, Song K, Han B. FOLD: a method to optimize power in meta-analysis of genetic association studies with overlapping subjects. Bioinformatics 2017; 33:3947-3954. [PMID: 29036405 PMCID: PMC5860085 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Motivation In genetic association studies, meta-analyses are widely used to increase the statistical power by aggregating information from multiple studies. In meta-analyses, participating studies often share the same individuals due to the shared use of publicly available control data or accidental recruiting of the same subjects. As such overlapping can inflate false positive rate, overlapping subjects are traditionally split in the studies prior to meta-analysis, which requires access to genotype data and is not always possible. Fortunately, recently developed meta-analysis methods can systematically account for overlapping subjects at the summary statistics level. Results We identify and report a phenomenon that these methods for overlapping subjects can yield low power. For instance, in our simulation involving a meta-analysis of five studies that share 20% of individuals, whereas the traditional splitting method achieved 80% power, none of the new methods exceeded 32% power. We found that this low power resulted from the unaccounted differences between shared and unshared individuals in terms of their contributions towards the final statistic. Here, we propose an optimal summary-statistic-based method termed as FOLD that increases the power of meta-analysis involving studies with overlapping subjects. Availability and implementation Our method is available at http://software.buhmhan.com/FOLD. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Emma E Kim
- Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea.,Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 138-736, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 138-736, Korea
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- Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 138-736, Korea.,Department of Convergence Medicine
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Lu Q, Li B, Ou D, Erlendsdottir M, Powles RL, Jiang T, Hu Y, Chang D, Jin C, Dai W, He Q, Liu Z, Mukherjee S, Crane PK, Zhao H. A Powerful Approach to Estimating Annotation-Stratified Genetic Covariance via GWAS Summary Statistics. Am J Hum Genet 2017; 101:939-964. [PMID: 29220677 PMCID: PMC5812911 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Despite the success of large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on complex traits, our understanding of their genetic architecture is far from complete. Jointly modeling multiple traits' genetic profiles has provided insights into the shared genetic basis of many complex traits. However, large-scale inference sets a high bar for both statistical power and biological interpretability. Here we introduce a principled framework to estimate annotation-stratified genetic covariance between traits using GWAS summary statistics. Through theoretical and numerical analyses, we demonstrate that our method provides accurate covariance estimates, thereby enabling researchers to dissect both the shared and distinct genetic architecture across traits to better understand their etiologies. Among 50 complex traits with publicly accessible GWAS summary statistics (Ntotal≈ 4.5 million), we identified more than 170 pairs with statistically significant genetic covariance. In particular, we found strong genetic covariance between late-onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), two major neurodegenerative diseases, in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with high minor allele frequencies and in SNPs located in the predicted functional genome. Joint analysis of LOAD, ALS, and other traits highlights LOAD's correlation with cognitive traits and hints at an autoimmune component for ALS.
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- Qiongshi Lu
- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Program of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
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Common variants in MMP20 at 11q22.2 predispose to 11q deletion and neuroblastoma risk. Nat Commun 2017; 8:569. [PMID: 28924153 PMCID: PMC5603517 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00408-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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MYCN amplification and 11q deletion are two inversely correlated prognostic factors of poor outcome in neuroblastoma. Here we identify common variants at 11q22.2 within MMP20 that associate with neuroblastoma cases harboring 11q deletion (rs10895322), using GWAS in 113 European-American cases and 5109 ancestry-matched controls. The association is replicated in 44 independent cases and 1902 controls. Our study yields novel insights into the genetic underpinnings of neuroblastoma, demonstrating that the inherited common variants reported contribute to the origin of intra-tumor genetic heterogeneity in neuroblastoma. Chromosomal abnormalities such as 11q deletion are associated with poor prognosis in neuroblastoma. Here, the authors perform a genome-wide association study and identify an association between a variant within a Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) gene member, MMP20, and 11q-deletion subtype neuroblastoma.
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Toth R, Scherer D, Kelemen LE, Risch A, Hazra A, Balavarca Y, Issa JPJ, Moreno V, Eeles RA, Ogino S, Wu X, Ye Y, Hung RJ, Goode EL, Ulrich CM. Genetic Variants in Epigenetic Pathways and Risks of Multiple Cancers in the GAME-ON Consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2017; 26:816-825. [PMID: 28115406 PMCID: PMC6054308 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-16-0728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Revised: 12/16/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background: Epigenetic disturbances are crucial in cancer initiation, potentially with pleiotropic effects, and may be influenced by the genetic background.Methods: In a subsets (ASSET) meta-analytic approach, we investigated associations of genetic variants related to epigenetic mechanisms with risks of breast, lung, colorectal, ovarian and prostate carcinomas using 51,724 cases and 52,001 controls. False discovery rate-corrected P values (q values < 0.05) were considered statistically significant.Results: Among 162,887 imputed or genotyped variants in 555 candidate genes, SNPs in eight genes were associated with risk of more than one cancer type. For example, variants in BABAM1 were confirmed as a susceptibility locus for squamous cell lung, overall breast, estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast, and overall prostate, and overall serous ovarian cancer; the most significant variant was rs4808076 [OR = 1.14; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.10-1.19; q = 6.87 × 10-5]. DPF1 rs12611084 was inversely associated with ER-negative breast, endometrioid ovarian, and overall and aggressive prostate cancer risk (OR = 0.93; 95% CI = 0.91-0.96; q = 0.005). Variants in L3MBTL3 were associated with colorectal, overall breast, ER-negative breast, clear cell ovarian, and overall and aggressive prostate cancer risk (e.g., rs9388766: OR = 1.06; 95% CI = 1.03-1.08; q = 0.02). Variants in TET2 were significantly associated with overall breast, overall prostate, overall ovarian, and endometrioid ovarian cancer risk, with rs62331150 showing bidirectional effects. Analyses of subpathways did not reveal gene subsets that contributed disproportionately to susceptibility.Conclusions: Functional and correlative studies are now needed to elucidate the potential links between germline genotype, epigenetic function, and cancer etiology.Impact: This approach provides novel insight into possible pleiotropic effects of genes involved in epigenetic processes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 26(6); 816-25. ©2017 AACR.
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- Reka Toth
- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Cancer Research and Epigenetics, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Cancer Cluster Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Mukhopadhyay S, Thatoi PK, Pandey AD, Das BK, Ravindran B, Bhattacharjee S, Mohapatra SK. Transcriptomic meta-analysis reveals up-regulation of gene expression functional in osteoclast differentiation in human septic shock. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0171689. [PMID: 28199355 PMCID: PMC5310888 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Septic shock is a major medical problem with high morbidity and mortality and incompletely understood biology. Integration of multiple data sets into a single analysis framework empowers discovery of new knowledge about the condition that may have been missed by individual analysis of each of these datasets. Electronic search was performed on medical literature and gene expression databases for selection of transcriptomic studies done in circulating leukocytes from human subjects suffering from septic shock. Gene-level meta-analysis was conducted on the six selected studies to identify the genes consistently differentially expressed in septic shock. This was followed by pathway-level analysis using three different algorithms (ORA, GSEA, SPIA). The identified up-regulated pathway, Osteoclast differentiation pathway (hsa04380) was validated in two independent cohorts. Of the pathway, 25 key genes were selected that serve as an expression signature of Septic Shock.
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- Department of Medicine, Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, India
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- National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Medicine, Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha, India
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- National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
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Nasef NA, Mehta S, Ferguson LR. Susceptibility to chronic inflammation: an update. Arch Toxicol 2017; 91:1131-1141. [PMID: 28130581 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-016-1914-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Chronic inflammation is defined by the persistence of inflammatory processes beyond their physiological function, resulting in tissue destruction. Chronic inflammation is implicated in the progression of many chronic diseases and plays a central role in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease. As such, this review aims to collate some of the latest research in relation to genetic and environmental susceptibilities to chronic inflammation. In the genetic section, we discuss some of the updates in cytokine research and current treatments that are being developed. We also discuss newly identified canonical and non-canonical genes associated with chronic inflammation. In the environmental section, we highlight some of the latest updates and evidence in relation to the role that infection, diet and stress play in promoting inflammation. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the latest research to build on our current understanding of chronic inflammation. It highlights the complexity associated with chronic inflammation, as well as provides insights into potential new targets for therapies that could be used to treat chronic inflammation and consequently prevent disease progression.
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- Noha Ahmed Nasef
- Discipline of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Discipline of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Law PJ, Sud A, Mitchell JS, Henrion M, Orlando G, Lenive O, Broderick P, Speedy HE, Johnson DC, Kaiser M, Weinhold N, Cooke R, Sunter NJ, Jackson GH, Summerfield G, Harris RJ, Pettitt AR, Allsup DJ, Carmichael J, Bailey JR, Pratt G, Rahman T, Pepper C, Fegan C, von Strandmann EP, Engert A, Försti A, Chen B, Filho MIDS, Thomsen H, Hoffmann P, Noethen MM, Eisele L, Jöckel KH, Allan JM, Swerdlow AJ, Goldschmidt H, Catovsky D, Morgan GJ, Hemminki K, Houlston RS. Genome-wide association analysis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma identifies pleiotropic risk loci. Sci Rep 2017; 7:41071. [PMID: 28112199 PMCID: PMC5253627 DOI: 10.1038/srep41071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/14/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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B-cell malignancies (BCM) originate from the same cell of origin, but at different maturation stages and have distinct clinical phenotypes. Although genetic risk variants for individual BCMs have been identified, an agnostic, genome-wide search for shared genetic susceptibility has not been performed. We explored genome-wide association studies of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL, N = 1,842), Hodgkin lymphoma (HL, N = 1,465) and multiple myeloma (MM, N = 3,790). We identified a novel pleiotropic risk locus at 3q22.2 (NCK1, rs11715604, P = 1.60 × 10-9) with opposing effects between CLL (P = 1.97 × 10-8) and HL (P = 3.31 × 10-3). Eight established non-HLA risk loci showed pleiotropic associations. Within the HLA region, Ser37 + Phe37 in HLA-DRB1 (P = 1.84 × 10-12) was associated with increased CLL and HL risk (P = 4.68 × 10-12), and reduced MM risk (P = 1.12 × 10-2), and Gly70 in HLA-DQB1 (P = 3.15 × 10-10) showed opposing effects between CLL (P = 3.52 × 10-3) and HL (P = 3.41 × 10-9). By integrating eQTL, Hi-C and ChIP-seq data, we show that the pleiotropic risk loci are enriched for B-cell regulatory elements, as well as an over-representation of binding of key B-cell transcription factors. These data identify shared biological pathways influencing the development of CLL, HL and MM. The identification of these risk loci furthers our understanding of the aetiological basis of BCMs.
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- Philip J. Law
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Queens Centre for Haematology and Oncology, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust, UK
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- Queens Centre for Haematology and Oncology, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust, UK
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- Queens Centre for Haematology and Oncology, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Haematology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
- Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Germany
- Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Center, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Center of Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
- Centre for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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de Vlaming R, Okbay A, Rietveld CA, Johannesson M, Magnusson PKE, Uitterlinden AG, van Rooij FJA, Hofman A, Groenen PJF, Thurik AR, Koellinger PD. Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) Calculator Shows that Hiding Heritability Is Partially Due to Imperfect Genetic Correlations across Studies. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006495. [PMID: 28095416 PMCID: PMC5240919 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Large-scale genome-wide association results are typically obtained from a fixed-effects meta-analysis of GWAS summary statistics from multiple studies spanning different regions and/or time periods. This approach averages the estimated effects of genetic variants across studies. In case genetic effects are heterogeneous across studies, the statistical power of a GWAS and the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores are attenuated, contributing to the so-called ‘missing heritability’. Here, we describe the online Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) calculator (available at www.devlaming.eu) which quantifies this attenuation based on a novel multi-study framework. By means of simulation studies, we show that under a wide range of genetic architectures, the statistical power and predictive accuracy provided by this calculator are accurate. We compare the predictions from the MetaGAP calculator with actual results obtained in the GWAS literature. Specifically, we use genomic-relatedness-matrix restricted maximum likelihood to estimate the SNP heritability and cross-study genetic correlation of height, BMI, years of education, and self-rated health in three large samples. These estimates are used as input parameters for the MetaGAP calculator. Results from the calculator suggest that cross-study heterogeneity has led to attenuation of statistical power and predictive accuracy in recent large-scale GWAS efforts on these traits (e.g., for years of education, we estimate a relative loss of 51–62% in the number of genome-wide significant loci and a relative loss in polygenic score R2 of 36–38%). Hence, cross-study heterogeneity contributes to the missing heritability. Large-scale genome-wide association studies are uncovering the genetic architecture of traits which are affected by many genetic variants. In such efforts, one typically meta-analyzes association results from multiple studies spanning different regions and/or time periods. Results from such efforts do not yet capture a large share of the heritability. The origins of this so-called ‘missing heritability’ have been strongly debated. One factor exacerbating the missing heritability is heterogeneity in the effects of genetic variants across studies. The effect of this type of heterogeneity on statistical power to detect associated genetic variants and the accuracy of polygenic predictions is poorly understood. In the current study, we derive the precise effects of heterogeneity in genetic effects across studies on both the statistical power to detect associated genetic variants as well as the accuracy of polygenic predictions. We present an online calculator, available at www.devlaming.eu, which accounts for these effects. By means of this calculator, we show that imperfect genetic correlations between studies substantially decrease statistical power and predictive accuracy and, thereby, contribute to the missing heritability. The MetaGAP calculator helps researchers to gauge how sensitive their results will be to heterogeneity in genetic effects across studies. If strong heterogeneity is expected, random-effects meta-analysis methods should be used instead of fixed-effects methods.
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- Ronald de Vlaming
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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For over a decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been a major tool for detecting genetic variants underlying complex traits. Recent studies have demonstrated that the same variant or gene can be associated with multiple traits, and such associations are termed cross-phenotype (CP) associations. CP association analysis can improve statistical power by searching for variants that contribute to multiple traits, which is often relevant to pleiotropy. In this chapter, we discuss existing statistical methods for analyzing association between a single marker and multivariate phenotypes, we introduce a general approach, CPASSOC, to detect the CP associations, and explain how to conduct the analysis in practice.
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- Xiaoyin Li
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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da Silva Filho MI, Försti A, Weinhold N, Meziane I, Campo C, Huhn S, Nickel J, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Jöckel KH, Landi S, Mitchell JS, Johnson D, Morgan GJ, Houlston R, Goldschmidt H, Jauch A, Milani P, Merlini G, Rowcieno D, Hawkins P, Hegenbart U, Palladini G, Wechalekar A, Schönland SO, Hemminki K. Genome-wide association study of immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis in three patient cohorts: comparison with myeloma. Leukemia 2016; 31:1735-1742. [PMID: 28025584 DOI: 10.1038/leu.2016.387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2016] [Revised: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis is characterized by tissue deposition of amyloid fibers derived from immunoglobulin light chain. AL amyloidosis and multiple myeloma (MM) originate from monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. We wanted to characterize germline susceptibility to AL amyloidosis using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 1229 AL amyloidosis patients from Germany, UK and Italy, and 7526 healthy local controls. For comparison with MM, recent GWAS data on 3790 cases were used. For AL amyloidosis, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at 10 loci showed evidence of an association at P<10-5 with homogeneity of results from the 3 sample sets; some of these were previously documented to influence MM risk, including the SNP at the IRF4 binding site. In AL amyloidosis, rs9344 at the splice site of cyclin D1, promoting translocation (11;14), reached the highest significance, P=7.80 × 10-11; the SNP was only marginally significant in MM. SNP rs79419269 close to gene SMARCD3 involved in chromatin remodeling was also significant (P=5.2 × 10-8). These data provide evidence for common genetic susceptibility to AL amyloidosis and MM. Cyclin D1 is a more prominent driver in AL amyloidosis than in MM, but the links to aggregation of light chains need to be demonstrated.
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- M I da Silva Filho
- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Research Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, UK
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- Myeloma Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, UK.,Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, Surrey, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.,National Centre of Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, Foundation 'Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo', University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, Foundation 'Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo', University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London Medical School, London UK
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- National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London Medical School, London UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Amyloidosis Research and Treatment Center, Foundation 'Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Policlinico San Matteo', University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London Medical School, London UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.,Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden
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Sun H, Bretz F, Gerke O, Vach W. Comparing a stratified treatment strategy with the standard treatment in randomized clinical trials. Stat Med 2016; 35:5325-5337. [PMID: 27666738 DOI: 10.1002/sim.7091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
The increasing emergence of predictive markers for different treatments in the same patient population allows us to define stratified treatment strategies. We consider randomized clinical trials that compare a standard treatment with a new stratified treatment strategy that divides the study population into subgroups receiving different treatments. Because the new strategy may not be beneficial in all subgroups, we consider in this paper an intermediate approach that establishes a treatment effect in a subset of patients built by joining several subgroups. The approach is based on the simple idea of selecting the subset with minimal p-value when testing the subset-specific treatment effects. We present a framework to compare this approach with other approaches to select subsets by introducing three performance measures. The results of a comprehensive simulation study are presented, and the relative merits of the various approaches are discussed. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Hong Sun
- Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany
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Karami S, Han Y, Pande M, Cheng I, Rudd J, Pierce BL, Nutter EL, Schumacher FR, Kote-Jarai Z, Lindstrom S, Witte JS, Fang S, Han J, Kraft P, Hunter DJ, Song F, Hung RJ, McKay J, Gruber SB, Chanock SJ, Risch A, Shen H, Haiman CA, Boardman L, Ulrich CM, Casey G, Peters U, Amin Al Olama A, Berchuck A, Berndt SI, Bezieau S, Brennan P, Brenner H, Brinton L, Caporaso N, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Christiani DC, Cunningham JM, Easton D, Eeles RA, Eisen T, Gala M, Gallinger SJ, Gayther SA, Goode EL, Grönberg H, Henderson BE, Houlston R, Joshi AD, Küry S, Landi MT, Le Marchand L, Muir K, Newcomb PA, Permuth-Wey J, Pharoah P, Phelan C, Potter JD, Ramus SJ, Risch H, Schildkraut J, Slattery ML, Song H, Wentzensen N, White E, Wiklund F, Zanke BW, Sellers TA, Zheng W, Chatterjee N, Amos CI, Doherty JA. Telomere structure and maintenance gene variants and risk of five cancer types. Int J Cancer 2016; 139:2655-2670. [PMID: 27459707 PMCID: PMC5198774 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.30288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Telomeres cap chromosome ends, protecting them from degradation, double-strand breaks, and end-to-end fusions. Telomeres are maintained by telomerase, a reverse transcriptase encoded by TERT, and an RNA template encoded by TERC. Loci in the TERT and adjoining CLPTM1L region are associated with risk of multiple cancers. We therefore investigated associations between variants in 22 telomere structure and maintenance gene regions and colorectal, breast, prostate, ovarian, and lung cancer risk. We performed subset-based meta-analyses of 204,993 directly-measured and imputed SNPs among 61,851 cancer cases and 74,457 controls of European descent. Independent associations for SNP minor alleles were identified using sequential conditional analysis (with gene-level p value cutoffs ≤3.08 × 10-5 ). Of the thirteen independent SNPs observed to be associated with cancer risk, novel findings were observed for seven loci. Across the DCLRE1B region, rs974494 and rs12144215 were inversely associated with prostate and lung cancers, and colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers, respectively. Across the TERC region, rs75316749 was positively associated with colorectal, breast, ovarian, and lung cancers. Across the DCLRE1B region, rs974404 and rs12144215 were inversely associated with prostate and lung cancers, and colorectal, breast, and prostate cancers, respectively. Near POT1, rs116895242 was inversely associated with colorectal, ovarian, and lung cancers, and RTEL1 rs34978822 was inversely associated with prostate and lung cancers. The complex association patterns in telomere-related genes across cancer types may provide insight into mechanisms through which telomere dysfunction in different tissues influences cancer risk.
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- Sara Karami
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
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- The Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Fremont, CA; Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
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- Departments of Public Health Sciences and Human Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Division of Genetic and Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Epidemiology, Fairbanks School of Public Health, Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, National Clinical Research Centre of Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, Genetic Epidemiology Group International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, Genetic Epidemiology Group International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
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- Klinische Epidemiologie und Alternsforschung, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Center for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Division of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI
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- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Hematology, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD
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- The Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.
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Multivariate Analysis of Anthropometric Traits Using Summary Statistics of Genome-Wide Association Studies from GIANT Consortium. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0163912. [PMID: 27701450 PMCID: PMC5049793 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 09/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Meta-analysis of single trait for multiple cohorts has been used for increasing statistical power in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Although hundreds of variants have been identified by GWAS, these variants only explain a small fraction of phenotypic variation. Cross-phenotype association analysis (CPASSOC) can further improve statistical power by searching for variants that contribute to multiple traits, which is often relevant to pleiotropy. In this study, we performed CPASSOC analysis on the summary statistics from the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium using a novel method recently developed by our group. Sex-specific meta-analysis data for height, body mass index (BMI), and waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI (WHRadjBMI) from discovery phase of the GIANT consortium study were combined using CPASSOC for each trait as well as 3 traits together. The conventional meta-analysis results from the discovery phase data of GIANT consortium studies were used to compare with that from CPASSOC analysis. The CPASSOC analysis was able to identify 17 loci associated with anthropometric traits that were missed by conventional meta-analysis. Among these loci, 16 have been reported in literature by including additional samples and 1 is novel. We also demonstrated that CPASSOC is able to detect pleiotropic effects when analyzing multiple traits.
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Pei YF, Hu WZ, Hai R, Wang XY, Ran S, Lin Y, Shen H, Tian Q, Lei SF, Zhang YH, Papasian CJ, Deng HW, Zhang L. Genome-wide association meta-analyses identified 1q43 and 2q32.2 for hip Ward's triangle areal bone mineral density. Bone 2016; 91:1-10. [PMID: 27397699 PMCID: PMC5362380 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2016.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2016] [Revised: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 07/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Aiming to identify genomic variants associated with osteoporosis, we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis of bone mineral density (BMD) at Ward's triangle of the hip in 7175 subjects from 6 samples. We performed in silico replications with femoral neck, trochanter, and inter-trochanter BMDs in 6912 subjects from the Framingham heart study (FHS), and with forearm, femoral neck and lumbar spine BMDs in 32965 subjects from the GEFOS summary results. Combining the evidence from all samples, we identified 2 novel loci for areal BMD: 1q43 (rs1414660, discovery p=1.20×10(-8), FHS p=0.05 for trochanter BMD; rs9287237, discovery p=3.55×10(-7), FHS p=9.20×10(-3) for trochanter BMD, GEFOS p=0.02 for forearm BMD, nearest gene FMN2) and 2q32.2 (rs56346965, discovery p=7.48×10(-7), FHS p=0.10 for inter-trochanter BMD, GEFOS p=0.02 for spine BMD, nearest gene NAB1). The two lead SNPs rs1414660 and rs56346965 are eQTL sites for the genes GREM2 and NAB1 respectively. Functional annotation of GREM2 and NAB1 illustrated their involvement in BMP signaling pathway and in bone development. We also replicated three previously reported loci: 5q14.3 (rs10037512, discovery p=3.09×10(-6), FHS p=8.50×10(-3), GEFOS p=1.23×10(-24) for femoral neck BMD, nearest gene MEF2C), 6q25.1 (rs3020340, discovery p=1.64×10(-6), GEFOS p=1.69×10(-3) for SPN-BMD, nearest gene ESR1) and 7q21.3 (rs13310130, discovery p=8.79×10(-7), GEFOS p=2.61×10(-7) for spine BMD, nearest gene SHFM1). Our findings provide additional insights that further enhance our understanding of bone development, osteoporosis, and fracture pathogenesis.
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- Yu-Fang Pei
- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China; Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China
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- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Hospital, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, PR China
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- Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China
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- Center of System Biomedical Sciences, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China; Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China; Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China; Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Jiangsu, PR China.
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Kar SP, Beesley J, Amin Al Olama A, Michailidou K, Tyrer J, Kote-Jarai ZS, Lawrenson K, Lindstrom S, Ramus SJ, Thompson DJ, Kibel AS, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Michael A, Dieffenbach AK, Gentry-Maharaj A, Whittemore AS, Wolk A, Monteiro A, Peixoto A, Kierzek A, Cox A, Rudolph A, Gonzalez-Neira A, Wu AH, Lindblom A, Swerdlow A, Ziogas A, Ekici AB, Burwinkel B, Karlan BY, Nordestgaard BG, Blomqvist C, Phelan C, McLean C, Pearce CL, Vachon C, Cybulski C, Slavov C, Stegmaier C, Maier C, Ambrosone CB, Høgdall CK, Teerlink CC, Kang D, Tessier DC, Schaid DJ, Stram DO, Cramer DW, Neal DE, Eccles D, Flesch-Janys D, Edwards DRV, Wokozorczyk D, Levine DA, Yannoukakos D, Sawyer EJ, Bandera EV, Poole EM, Goode EL, Khusnutdinova E, Høgdall E, Song F, Bruinsma F, Heitz F, Modugno F, Hamdy FC, Wiklund F, Giles GG, Olsson H, Wildiers H, Ulmer HU, Pandha H, Risch HA, Darabi H, Salvesen HB, Nevanlinna H, Gronberg H, Brenner H, Brauch H, Anton-Culver H, Song H, Lim HY, McNeish I, Campbell I, Vergote I, Gronwald J, Lubiński J, Stanford JL, Benítez J, Doherty JA, Permuth JB, Chang-Claude J, Donovan JL, Dennis J, Schildkraut JM, Schleutker J, Hopper JL, Kupryjanczyk J, Park JY, Figueroa J, Clements JA, Knight JA, Peto J, Cunningham JM, Pow-Sang J, Batra J, Czene K, Lu KH, Herkommer K, Khaw KT, Matsuo K, Muir K, Offitt K, Chen K, Moysich KB, Aittomäki K, Odunsi K, Kiemeney LA, Massuger LFAG, Fitzgerald LM, Cook LS, Cannon-Albright L, Hooning MJ, Pike MC, Bolla MK, Luedeke M, Teixeira MR, Goodman MT, Schmidt MK, Riggan M, Aly M, Rossing MA, Beckmann MW, Moisse M, Sanderson M, Southey MC, Jones M, Lush M, Hildebrandt MAT, Hou MF, Schoemaker MJ, Garcia-Closas M, Bogdanova N, Rahman N, Le ND, Orr N, Wentzensen N, Pashayan N, Peterlongo P, Guénel P, Brennan P, Paulo P, Webb PM, Broberg P, Fasching PA, Devilee P, Wang Q, Cai Q, Li Q, Kaneva R, Butzow R, Kopperud RK, Schmutzler RK, Stephenson RA, MacInnis RJ, Hoover RN, Winqvist R, Ness R, Milne RL, Travis RC, Benlloch S, Olson SH, McDonnell SK, Tworoger SS, Maia S, Berndt S, Lee SC, Teo SH, Thibodeau SN, Bojesen SE, Gapstur SM, Kjær SK, Pejovic T, Tammela TLJ, Dörk T, Brüning T, Wahlfors T, Key TJ, Edwards TL, Menon U, Hamann U, Mitev V, Kosma VM, Setiawan VW, Kristensen V, Arndt V, Vogel W, Zheng W, Sieh W, Blot WJ, Kluzniak W, Shu XO, Gao YT, Schumacher F, Freedman ML, Berchuck A, Dunning AM, Simard J, Haiman CA, Spurdle A, Sellers TA, Hunter DJ, Henderson BE, Kraft P, Chanock SJ, Couch FJ, Hall P, Gayther SA, Easton DF, Chenevix-Trench G, Eeles R, Pharoah PDP, Lambrechts D. Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types. Cancer Discov 2016; 6:1052-67. [PMID: 27432226 PMCID: PMC5010513 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-15-1227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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UNLABELLED Breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers are hormone-related and may have a shared genetic basis, but this has not been investigated systematically by genome-wide association (GWA) studies. Meta-analyses combining the largest GWA meta-analysis data sets for these cancers totaling 112,349 cases and 116,421 controls of European ancestry, all together and in pairs, identified at P < 10(-8) seven new cross-cancer loci: three associated with susceptibility to all three cancers (rs17041869/2q13/BCL2L11; rs7937840/11q12/INCENP; rs1469713/19p13/GATAD2A), two breast and ovarian cancer risk loci (rs200182588/9q31/SMC2; rs8037137/15q26/RCCD1), and two breast and prostate cancer risk loci (rs5013329/1p34/NSUN4; rs9375701/6q23/L3MBTL3). Index variants in five additional regions previously associated with only one cancer also showed clear association with a second cancer type. Cell-type-specific expression quantitative trait locus and enhancer-gene interaction annotations suggested target genes with potential cross-cancer roles at the new loci. Pathway analysis revealed significant enrichment of death receptor signaling genes near loci with P < 10(-5) in the three-cancer meta-analysis. SIGNIFICANCE We demonstrate that combining large-scale GWA meta-analysis findings across cancer types can identify completely new risk loci common to breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. We show that the identification of such cross-cancer risk loci has the potential to shed new light on the shared biology underlying these hormone-related cancers. Cancer Discov; 6(9); 1052-67. ©2016 AACR.This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 932.
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- Siddhartha P Kar
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
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- Sheffield Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and Spanish National Genotyping Center (CEGEN), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCI Center for Cancer Genetics Research and Prevention, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
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- University Hospital Erlangen, Institute of Human Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Anatomical Pathology, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Urology, Alexandrovska University Hospital, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- The Juliane Marie Centre, Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Departments of Preventive Medicine and Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montréal, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Maritime Medicine and Institute for Medical Biometrics and Epidemiology, Hamburg, Germany
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, London, UK
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Health Science Research, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia. Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
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- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, National Clinical Research Center of Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China
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- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/Evang. Huyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Essen, Germany. Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Women's Cancer Research Program, Magee-Womens Research Institute and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Faculty of Medical Science, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Oncology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of General Medical Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Division of Preventive Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, UCI Center for Cancer Genetics Research and Prevention, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Biostatistics Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St. Andrews Place, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Gynaecologic Oncology, Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Human Cancer Genetics Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and Spanish National Genotyping Center (CEGEN), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. BioMediTech, University of Tampere and FimLab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Prosserman Centre for Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada. Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Urology, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Gerontology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Kyushu University Faculty of Medical Science, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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- Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, National Clinical Research Center of Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, P.R. China
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Gynecological Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
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- Radboud University Medical Centre, Radbond Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gynaecology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal. Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, and Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyds Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cancer Center and Department of Surgery, Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Radiation Oncology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Section of Cancer Genetics, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada
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- Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London, UK
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- Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, Villejuif, France. University Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Departments of Human Genetics and of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medical Oncology, The Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. Medical College of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine Center, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Department of Pathology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. Centre for Cancer Biomarkers, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) and Center for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer Research and Translational Medicine, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, and Northern Finland Laboratory Centre, Oulu, Finland
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- The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
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- Cancer Epidemiology Centre, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Porto, Portugal
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Hematology-Oncology, National University Health System, Singapore. Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Cancer Research Initiatives Foundation, Sime Darby Medical Centre, Subang Jaya, Malaysia. University of Malaya Cancer Research Institute, University Malaya Medical Centre, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Urology, Tampere University Hospital and Medical School, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (IPA), Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Women's Cancer, Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Frauenklinik der Stadtklinik Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
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- Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Medicine Center, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland. Department of Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway. K.G. Jebsen Center for Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
| | - Yu-Tang Gao
- Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
| | - Matthew L Freedman
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec Research Center, Laval University, Québec City, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Molecular Cancer Epidemiology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
| | - David J Hunter
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Brian E Henderson
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Stephen J Chanock
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK. Royal Marsden National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, London and Sutton, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Fehringer G, Kraft P, Pharoah PD, Eeles RA, Chatterjee N, Schumacher FR, Schildkraut JM, Lindström S, Brennan P, Bickeböller H, Houlston RS, Landi MT, Caporaso N, Risch A, Amin Al Olama A, Berndt SI, Giovannucci EL, Grönberg H, Kote-Jarai Z, Ma J, Muir K, Stampfer MJ, Stevens VL, Wiklund F, Willett WC, Goode EL, Permuth JB, Risch HA, Reid BM, Bezieau S, Brenner H, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Hudson TJ, Kocarnik JK, Newcomb PA, Schoen RE, Slattery ML, White E, Adank MA, Ahsan H, Aittomäki K, Baglietto L, Blomquist C, Canzian F, Czene K, Dos-Santos-Silva I, Eliassen AH, Figueroa JD, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Garcia-Closas M, Gaudet MM, Johnson N, Hall P, Hazra A, Hein R, Hofman A, Hopper JL, Irwanto A, Johansson M, Kaaks R, Kibriya MG, Lichtner P, Liu J, Lund E, Makalic E, Meindl A, Müller-Myhsok B, Muranen TA, Nevanlinna H, Peeters PH, Peto J, Prentice RL, Rahman N, Sanchez MJ, Schmidt DF, Schmutzler RK, Southey MC, Tamimi R, Travis RC, Turnbull C, Uitterlinden AG, Wang Z, Whittemore AS, Yang XR, Zheng W, Buchanan DD, Casey G, Conti DV, Edlund CK, Gallinger S, Haile RW, Jenkins M, Le Marchand L, Li L, Lindor NM, Schmit SL, Thibodeau SN, Woods MO, Rafnar T, Gudmundsson J, Stacey SN, Stefansson K, Sulem P, Chen YA, Tyrer JP, Christiani DC, Wei Y, Shen H, Hu Z, Shu XO, Shiraishi K, Takahashi A, Bossé Y, Obeidat M, Nickle D, Timens W, Freedman ML, Li Q, Seminara D, Chanock SJ, Gong J, Peters U, Gruber SB, Amos CI, Sellers TA, Easton DF, Hunter DJ, Haiman CA, Henderson BE, Hung RJ. Cross-Cancer Genome-Wide Analysis of Lung, Ovary, Breast, Prostate, and Colorectal Cancer Reveals Novel Pleiotropic Associations. Cancer Res 2016; 76:5103-14. [PMID: 27197191 PMCID: PMC5010493 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-15-2980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Identifying genetic variants with pleiotropic associations can uncover common pathways influencing multiple cancers. We took a two-stage approach to conduct genome-wide association studies for lung, ovary, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer from the GAME-ON/GECCO Network (61,851 cases, 61,820 controls) to identify pleiotropic loci. Findings were replicated in independent association studies (55,789 cases, 330,490 controls). We identified a novel pleiotropic association at 1q22 involving breast and lung squamous cell carcinoma, with eQTL analysis showing an association with ADAM15/THBS3 gene expression in lung. We also identified a known breast cancer locus CASP8/ALS2CR12 associated with prostate cancer, a known cancer locus at CDKN2B-AS1 with different variants associated with lung adenocarcinoma and prostate cancer, and confirmed the associations of a breast BRCA2 locus with lung and serous ovarian cancer. This is the largest study to date examining pleiotropy across multiple cancer-associated loci, identifying common mechanisms of cancer development and progression. Cancer Res; 76(17); 5103-14. ©2016 AACR.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gordon Fehringer
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
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- Division of Cancer Genetics/Epigenetics, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. The University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
| | | | - Victoria L Stevens
- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
| | - Muriel A Adank
- VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Genomic Epidemiology Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts
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- Breakthrough Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Breakthrough Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, United Kingdom
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- Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany. Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. Department of Biobank Research, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway
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- Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Publica, Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria ibs. GRANADA, Granada, Spain. Hospitales Universitarios de Granada/Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain
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- Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Nanjing Medical University School of Public Health, Nanjing, China
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- Nanjing Medical University School of Public Health, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Genome Biology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, Laval University, Québec, Canada
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- University of British Columbia Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
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- Merck & Co, Merck Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GRIAC Research Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
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