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Pan DZ, Miao Z, Comenho C, Rajkumar S, Koka A, Lee SHT, Alvarez M, Kaminska D, Ko A, Sinsheimer JS, Mohlke KL, Mancuso N, Muñoz-Hernandez LL, Herrera-Hernandez M, Tusié-Luna MT, Aguilar-Salinas C, Pietiläinen KH, Pihlajamäki J, Laakso M, Garske KM, Pajukanta P. Identification of TBX15 as an adipose master trans regulator of abdominal obesity genes. Genome Med 2021; 13:123. [PMID: 34340684 PMCID: PMC8327600 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-021-00939-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Obesity predisposes individuals to multiple cardiometabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes (T2D). As body mass index (BMI) cannot reliably differentiate fat from lean mass, the metabolically detrimental abdominal obesity has been estimated using waist-hip ratio (WHR). Waist-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (WHRadjBMI) in turn is a well-established sex-specific marker for abdominal fat and adiposity, and a predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, such as T2D. However, the underlying genes and regulatory mechanisms orchestrating the sex differences in obesity and body fat distribution in humans are not well understood. Methods We searched for genetic master regulators of WHRadjBMI by employing integrative genomics approaches on human subcutaneous adipose RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data (n ~ 1400) and WHRadjBMI GWAS data (n ~ 700,000) from the WHRadjBMI GWAS cohorts and the UK Biobank (UKB), using co-expression network, transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS), and polygenic risk score (PRS) approaches. Finally, we functionally verified our genomic results using gene knockdown experiments in a human primary cell type that is critical for adipose tissue function. Results Here, we identified an adipose gene co-expression network that contains 35 obesity GWAS genes and explains a significant amount of polygenic risk for abdominal obesity and T2D in the UKB (n = 392,551) in a sex-dependent way. We showed that this network is preserved in the adipose tissue data from the Finnish Kuopio Obesity Study and Mexican Obesity Study. The network is controlled by a novel adipose master transcription factor (TF), TBX15, a WHRadjBMI GWAS gene that regulates the network in trans. Knockdown of TBX15 in human primary preadipocytes resulted in changes in expression of 130 network genes, including the key adipose TFs, PPARG and KLF15, which were significantly impacted (FDR < 0.05), thus functionally verifying the trans regulatory effect of TBX15 on the WHRadjBMI co-expression network. Conclusions Our study discovers a novel key function for the TBX15 TF in trans regulating an adipose co-expression network of 347 adipose, mitochondrial, and metabolically important genes, including PPARG, KLF15, PPARA, ADIPOQ, and 35 obesity GWAS genes. Thus, based on our converging genomic, transcriptional, and functional evidence, we interpret the role of TBX15 to be a main transcriptional regulator in the adipose tissue and discover its importance in human abdominal obesity. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13073-021-00939-2.
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- David Z Pan
- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.,Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.,Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.,Computational and Systems Biology Interdepartmental Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.,Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.,Department of Computational Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Ave. Morones Prieto 3000, Monterrey, N.L., México, 64710.,Unidad de Investigación de Enfermedades Metabólicas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.,Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Cirugía, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas UNAM/ Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Investigación de Enfermedades Metabólicas, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.,Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo del Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Obesity Research Unit, Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Obesity Center, Endocrinology, Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.,Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. .,Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA. .,Institute for Precision Health at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.
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Kim MS, Kim WJ, Khera AV, Kim JY, Yon DK, Lee SW, Shin JI, Won HH. Association between adiposity and cardiovascular outcomes: an umbrella review and meta-analysis of observational and Mendelian randomization studies. Eur Heart J 2021; 42:3388-3403. [PMID: 34333589 PMCID: PMC8423481 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate the causal relationship and evidence of an association between increased adiposity and the risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events or mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS Observational (informing association) and Mendelian randomization (MR) (informing causality) studies were assessed to gather mutually complementary insights and elucidate perplexing epidemiological relationships. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational and MR studies that were published until January 2021 and evaluated the association between obesity-related indices and CVD risk were searched. Twelve systematic reviews with 53 meta-analyses results (including over 501 cohort studies) and 12 MR studies were included in the analysis. A body mass index (BMI) increase was associated with higher risks of coronary heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, all-cause stroke, haemorrhagic stroke, ischaemic stroke, hypertension, aortic valve stenosis, pulmonary embolism, and venous thrombo-embolism. The MR study results demonstrated a causal effect of obesity on all indices but stroke. The CVD risk increase for every 5 kg/m2 increase in BMI varied from 10% [relative risk (RR) 1.10; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01-1.21; certainty of evidence, low] for haemorrhagic stroke to 49% (RR 1.49; 95% CI 1.40-1.60; certainty of evidence, high) for hypertension. The all-cause and CVD-specific mortality risks increased with adiposity in cohorts, but the MR studies demonstrated no causal effect of adiposity on all-cause mortality. CONCLUSION High adiposity is associated with increased CVD risk despite divergent evidence gradients. Adiposity was a causal risk factor for CVD except all-cause mortality and stroke. Half (49%; 26/53) of the associations were supported by high-level evidence. The associations were consistent between sexes and across global regions. This study provides guidance on how to integrate evidence from observational (association) and genetics-driven (causation) studies accumulated to date, to enable a more reliable interpretation of epidemiological relationships.
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- Min Seo Kim
- College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Irwon-ro 81, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06351, Republic of Korea
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- College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.,Gangneung Prison Medical Department, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Data Science, College of Software Convergence, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Irwon-ro 81, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06351, Republic of Korea.,Samsung Genome Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hirtz R, Zheng Y, Rajcsanyi LS, Libuda L, Antel J, Peters T, Hebebrand J, Hinney A. [Genetic Analyses of Complex Phenotypes Through the Example of Anorexia Nervosa and Bodyweight Regulation]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR KINDER-UND JUGENDPSYCHIATRIE UND PSYCHOTHERAPIE 2021; 50:175-185. [PMID: 34328348 DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Genetic Analyses of Complex Phenotypes Through the Example of Anorexia Nervosa and Bodyweight Regulation Abstract. Genetics variants are important for the regulation of bodyweight and also contribute to the genetic architecture of eating disorders. For many decades, family studies, a subentity of so-called formal genetic studies, were employed to determine the genetic share of bodyweight and eating disorders and found heritability rates exceeding 50 % with both phenotypes. Because of this significant contribution of genetics, the search for those genes and their variants related to the variance in bodyweight and the etiology of eating disorders - or both - was commenced by the early 1990s. Initially, candidate genes studies were conducted targeting those genes most plausibly related to either phenotype, especially based on pathophysiological considerations. This approach, however, implicated only a few genes in the regulation of bodyweight and did not provide significant insights into the genetics of eating disorders. Driven by considerable methodological advances in genetic research, especially related to the introduction of so-called genome-wide association studies by the beginning of the 21st century, today more than 1,000 variants/loci have been detected that affect the regulation of bodyweight. Eight such loci have been identified regarding anorexia nervosa (AN). These results as well as those from cross-disorder analyses provide insights into the complex regulation of bodyweight and demonstrated unforeseen pathomechanisms for AN.
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- Raphael Hirtz
- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen.,Abteilung für Pädiatrische Endokrinologie und Diabetologie, Kinderklinik II, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen.,Institut für Ernährung, Konsum und Gesundheit, Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften, Universität Paderborn
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, LVR-Klinikum Essen, Kliniken und Institut der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsklinikum Essen
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Quantitative disease risk scores from EHR with applications to clinical risk stratification and genetic studies. NPJ Digit Med 2021; 4:116. [PMID: 34302027 PMCID: PMC8302667 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-021-00488-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Labeling clinical data from electronic health records (EHR) in health systems requires extensive knowledge of human expert, and painstaking review by clinicians. Furthermore, existing phenotyping algorithms are not uniformly applied across large datasets and can suffer from inconsistencies in case definitions across different algorithms. We describe here quantitative disease risk scores based on almost unsupervised methods that require minimal input from clinicians, can be applied to large datasets, and alleviate some of the main weaknesses of existing phenotyping algorithms. We show applications to phenotypic data on approximately 100,000 individuals in eMERGE, and focus on several complex diseases, including Chronic Kidney Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Failure, and a few others. We demonstrate that relative to existing approaches, the proposed methods have higher prediction accuracy, can better identify phenotypic features relevant to the disease under consideration, can perform better at clinical risk stratification, and can identify undiagnosed cases based on phenotypic features available in the EHR. Using genetic data from the eMERGE-seq panel that includes sequencing data for 109 genes on 21,363 individuals from multiple ethnicities, we also show how the new quantitative disease risk scores help improve the power of genetic association studies relative to the standard use of disease phenotypes. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of quantitative disease risk scores derived from rich phenotypic EHR databases to provide a more meaningful characterization of clinical risk for diseases of interest beyond the prevalent binary (case-control) classification.
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Tellier LCAM, Eccles J, Treff NR, Lello L, Fishel S, Hsu S. Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1105. [PMID: 34440279 PMCID: PMC8393569 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Machine learning methods applied to large genomic datasets (such as those used in GWAS) have led to the creation of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) that can be used identify individuals who are at highly elevated risk for important disease conditions, such as coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, hypertension, breast cancer, and many more. PRSs have been validated in large population groups across multiple continents and are under evaluation for widespread clinical use in adult health. It has been shown that PRSs can be used to identify which of two individuals is at a lower disease risk, even when these two individuals are siblings from a shared family environment. The relative risk reduction (RRR) from choosing an embryo with a lower PRS (with respect to one chosen at random) can be quantified by using these sibling results. New technology for precise embryo genotyping allows more sophisticated preimplantation ranking with better results than the current method of selection that is based on morphology. We review the advances described above and discuss related ethical considerations.
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- Laurent C. A. M. Tellier
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (L.C.A.M.T.); (S.H.)
- Genomic Prediction, Inc., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA; (J.E.); (N.R.T.)
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- Genomic Prediction, Inc., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA; (J.E.); (N.R.T.)
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- Genomic Prediction, Inc., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA; (J.E.); (N.R.T.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (L.C.A.M.T.); (S.H.)
- Genomic Prediction, Inc., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA; (J.E.); (N.R.T.)
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- CARE Fertility Group, Nottingham NG8 6PZ, UK;
- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L2 2QP, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (L.C.A.M.T.); (S.H.)
- Genomic Prediction, Inc., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA; (J.E.); (N.R.T.)
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Akbari P, Gilani A, Sosina O, Kosmicki JA, Khrimian L, Fang YY, Persaud T, Garcia V, Sun D, Li A, Mbatchou J, Locke AE, Benner C, Verweij N, Lin N, Hossain S, Agostinucci K, Pascale JV, Dirice E, Dunn M, Kraus WE, Shah SH, Chen YDI, Rotter JI, Rader DJ, Melander O, Still CD, Mirshahi T, Carey DJ, Berumen-Campos J, Kuri-Morales P, Alegre-Díaz J, Torres JM, Emberson JR, Collins R, Balasubramanian S, Hawes A, Jones M, Zambrowicz B, Murphy AJ, Paulding C, Coppola G, Overton JD, Reid JG, Shuldiner AR, Cantor M, Kang HM, Abecasis GR, Karalis K, Economides AN, Marchini J, Yancopoulos GD, Sleeman MW, Altarejos J, Della Gatta G, Tapia-Conyer R, Schwartzman ML, Baras A, Ferreira MAR, Lotta LA. Sequencing of 640,000 exomes identifies GPR75 variants associated with protection from obesity. Science 2021; 373:373/6550/eabf8683. [PMID: 34210852 DOI: 10.1126/science.abf8683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Large-scale human exome sequencing can identify rare protein-coding variants with a large impact on complex traits such as body adiposity. We sequenced the exomes of 645,626 individuals from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico and estimated associations of rare coding variants with body mass index (BMI). We identified 16 genes with an exome-wide significant association with BMI, including those encoding five brain-expressed G protein-coupled receptors (CALCR, MC4R, GIPR, GPR151, and GPR75). Protein-truncating variants in GPR75 were observed in ~4/10,000 sequenced individuals and were associated with 1.8 kilograms per square meter lower BMI and 54% lower odds of obesity in the heterozygous state. Knock out of Gpr75 in mice resulted in resistance to weight gain and improved glycemic control in a high-fat diet model. Inhibition of GPR75 may provide a therapeutic strategy for obesity.
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- Parsa Akbari
- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.,Duke Center for Living, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.,Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27701, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, and Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, and Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, 221 00 Malmö, Sweden.,Department of Emergency and Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, 214 28, Malmö, Sweden
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- Geisinger Obesity Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17882, USA
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- Geisinger Obesity Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17882, USA
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- Geisinger Obesity Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA 17882, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 4360 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 4360 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 4360 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, England, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, England, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, England, UK
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA.,Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 4360 Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA.
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- Regeneron Genetics Center, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA.
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De Lillo A, D'Antona S, Pathak GA, Wendt FR, De Angelis F, Fuciarelli M, Polimanti R. Cross-ancestry genome-wide association studies identified heterogeneous loci associated with differences of allele frequency and regulome tagging between participants of European descent and other ancestry groups from the UK Biobank. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 30:1457-1467. [PMID: 33890984 PMCID: PMC8283210 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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To investigate cross-ancestry genetics of complex traits, we conducted a phenome-wide analysis of loci with heterogeneous effects across African, Admixed-American, Central/South Asian, East Asian, European and Middle Eastern participants of the UK Biobank (N = 441 331). Testing 843 phenotypes, we identified 82 independent genomic regions mapping variants showing genome-wide significant (GWS) associations (P < 5 × 10-8) in the trans-ancestry meta-analysis and GWS heterogeneity among the ancestry-specific effects. These included (i) loci with GWS association in one ancestry and concordant but heterogeneous effects among the other ancestries and (ii) loci with a GWS association in one ancestry group and an experiment-wide significant discordant effect (P < 6.1 × 10-4) in at least another ancestry. Since the trans-ancestry GWS associations were mostly driven by the European ancestry sample size, we investigated the differences of the allele frequency (ΔAF) and linkage disequilibrium regulome tagging (ΔLD) between European populations and the other ancestries. Within loci with concordant effects, the degree of heterogeneity was associated with European-Middle Eastern ΔAF (P = 9.04 × 10-6) and ΔLD of European populations with respect to African, Admixed-American and Central/South Asian groups (P = 8.21 × 10-4, P = 7.17 × 10-4 and P = 2.16 × 10-3, respectively). Within loci with discordant effects, ΔAF and ΔLD of European populations with respect to African and Central/South Asian ancestries were associated with the degree of heterogeneity (ΔAF: P = 7.69 × 10-3 and P = 5.31 × 10-3, ΔLD: P = 0.016 and P = 2.65 × 10-4, respectively). Considering the traits associated with cross-ancestry heterogeneous loci, we observed enrichments for blood biomarkers (P = 5.7 × 10-35) and physical appearance (P = 1.38 × 10-4). This suggests that these specific phenotypic classes may present considerable cross-ancestry heterogeneity owing to large allele frequency and LD variation among worldwide populations.
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- Antonella De Lillo
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 00133, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 00133, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 00133, Italy
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome 00133, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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Martikainen P, Korhonen K, Jelenkovic A, Lahtinen H, Havulinna A, Ripatti S, Borodulin K, Salomaa V, Davey Smith G, Silventoinen K. Joint association between education and polygenic risk score for incident coronary heart disease events: a longitudinal population-based study of 26 203 men and women. J Epidemiol Community Health 2021; 75:651-657. [PMID: 33408166 DOI: 10.1136/jech-2020-214358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Genetic vulnerability to coronary heart disease (CHD) is well established, but little is known whether these effects are mediated or modified by equally well-established social determinants of CHD. We estimate the joint associations of the polygenetic risk score (PRS) for CHD and education on CHD events. METHODS The data are from the 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012 surveys of the population-based FINRISK Study including measures of social, behavioural and metabolic factors and genome-wide genotypes (N=26 203). Follow-up of fatal and non-fatal incident CHD events (N=2063) was based on nationwide registers. RESULTS Allowing for age, sex, study year, region of residence, study batch and principal components, those in the highest quartile of PRS for CHD had strongly increased risk of CHD events compared with the lowest quartile (HR=2.26; 95% CI: 1.97 to 2.59); associations were also observed for low education (HR=1.58; 95% CI: 1.32 to 1.89). These effects were largely independent of each other. Adjustment for baseline smoking, alcohol use, body mass index, igh-density lipoprotein (HDL) and total cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes attenuated the PRS associations by 10% and the education associations by 50%. We do not find strong evidence of interactions between PRS and education. CONCLUSIONS PRS and education predict CHD events, and these associations are independent of each other. Both can improve CHD prediction beyond behavioural risks. The results imply that observational studies that do not have information on genetic risk factors for CHD do not provide confounded estimates for the association between education and CHD.
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- Pekka Martikainen
- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
- Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Physiology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, País Vasco, Spain
- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
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- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
- Age Institute, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
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- Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki Faculty of Social Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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Liebers DT, Pirooznia M, Ganna A, Goes FS. Discriminating bipolar depression from major depressive disorder with polygenic risk scores. Psychol Med 2021; 51:1451-1458. [PMID: 32063240 DOI: 10.1017/s003329172000015x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although accurate differentiation between bipolar disorder (BD) and unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) has important prognostic and therapeutic implications, the distinction is often challenging based on clinical grounds alone. In this study, we tested whether psychiatric polygenic risk scores (PRSs) improve clinically based classification models of BD v. MDD diagnosis. METHODS Our sample included 843 BD and 930 MDD subjects similarly genotyped and phenotyped using the same standardized interview. We performed multivariate modeling and receiver operating characteristic analysis, testing the incremental effect of PRSs on a baseline model with clinical symptoms and features known to associate with BD compared with MDD status. RESULTS We found a strong association between a BD diagnosis and PRSs drawn from BD (R2 = 3.5%, p = 4.94 × 10-12) and schizophrenia (R2 = 3.2%, p = 5.71 × 10-11) genome-wide association meta-analyses. Individuals with top decile BD PRS had a significantly increased risk for BD v. MDD compared with those in the lowest decile (odds ratio 3.39, confidence interval 2.19-5.25). PRSs discriminated BD v. MDD to a degree comparable with many individual symptoms and clinical features previously shown to associate with BD. When compared with the full composite model with all symptoms and clinical features PRSs provided modestly improved discriminatory ability (ΔC = 0.011, p = 6.48 × 10-4). CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates that psychiatric PRSs provide modest independent discrimination between BD and MDD cases, suggesting that PRSs could ultimately have utility in subjects at the extremes of the distribution and/or subjects for whom clinical symptoms are poorly measured or yet to manifest.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Institute of Medicine, Baltimore, MD21205, USA
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- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Institute of Medicine, Baltimore, MD21205, USA
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Tayal U, Ware JS, Lakdawala NK, Heymans S, Prasad SK. Understanding the genetics of adult-onset dilated cardiomyopathy: what a clinician needs to know. Eur Heart J 2021; 42:2384-2396. [PMID: 34153989 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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There is increasing understanding of the genetic basis to dilated cardiomyopathy and in this review, we offer a practical primer for the practising clinician. We aim to help all clinicians involved in the care of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to understand the clinical relevance of the genetic basis of dilated cardiomyopathy, introduce key genetic concepts, explain which patients and families may benefit from genetic testing, which genetic tests are commonly performed, how to interpret genetic results, and the clinical applications of results. We conclude by reviewing areas for future research in this dynamic field.
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- Upasana Tayal
- National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK.,Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK
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- National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK.,Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK.,MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, UK
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- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.,Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Centre for Molecular and Vascular Biology, Leuven, KU, Belgium.,The Netherlands Heart Institute, Nl-HI, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- National Heart Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK.,Cardiovascular Research Centre, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK
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Widen E, Raben TG, Lello L, Hsu SDH. Machine Learning Prediction of Biomarkers from SNPs and of Disease Risk from Biomarkers in the UK Biobank. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:991. [PMID: 34209487 PMCID: PMC8308062 DOI: 10.3390/genes12070991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We use UK Biobank data to train predictors for 65 blood and urine markers such as HDL, LDL, lipoprotein A, glycated haemoglobin, etc. from SNP genotype. For example, our Polygenic Score (PGS) predictor correlates ∼0.76 with lipoprotein A level, which is highly heritable and an independent risk factor for heart disease. This may be the most accurate genomic prediction of a quantitative trait that has yet been produced (specifically, for European ancestry groups). We also train predictors of common disease risk using blood and urine biomarkers alone (no DNA information); we call these predictors biomarker risk scores, BMRS. Individuals who are at high risk (e.g., odds ratio of >5× population average) can be identified for conditions such as coronary artery disease (AUC∼0.75), diabetes (AUC∼0.95), hypertension, liver and kidney problems, and cancer using biomarkers alone. Our atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) predictor uses ∼10 biomarkers and performs in UKB evaluation as well as or better than the American College of Cardiology ASCVD Risk Estimator, which uses quite different inputs (age, diagnostic history, BMI, smoking status, statin usage, etc.). We compare polygenic risk scores (risk conditional on genotype: PRS) for common diseases to the risk predictors which result from the concatenation of learned functions BMRS and PGS, i.e., applying the BMRS predictors to the PGS output.
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- Erik Widen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (T.G.R.); (S.D.H.H.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (T.G.R.); (S.D.H.H.)
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (T.G.R.); (S.D.H.H.)
- Genomic Prediction, Inc., 675 US Highway One, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 567 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; (T.G.R.); (S.D.H.H.)
- Genomic Prediction, Inc., 675 US Highway One, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA
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Moldovan A, Waldman YY, Brandes N, Linial M. Body Mass Index and Birth Weight Improve Polygenic Risk Score for Type 2 Diabetes. J Pers Med 2021; 11:582. [PMID: 34205563 PMCID: PMC8233887 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11060582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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One of the major challenges in the post-genomic era is elucidating the genetic basis of human diseases. In recent years, studies have shown that polygenic risk scores (PRS), based on aggregated information from millions of variants across the human genome, can estimate individual risk for common diseases. In practice, the current medical practice still predominantly relies on physiological and clinical indicators to assess personal disease risk. For example, caregivers mark individuals with high body mass index (BMI) as having an increased risk to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D). An important question is whether combining PRS with clinical metrics can increase the power of disease prediction in particular from early life. In this work we examined this question, focusing on T2D. We present here a sex-specific integrated approach that combines PRS with additional measurements and age to define a new risk score. We show that such approach combining adult BMI and PRS achieves considerably better prediction than each of the measures on unrelated Caucasians in the UK Biobank (UKB, n = 290,584). Likewise, integrating PRS with self-reports on birth weight (n = 172,239) and comparative body size at age ten (n = 287,203) also substantially enhance prediction as compared to each of its components. While the integration of PRS with BMI achieved better results as compared to the other measurements, the latter are early-life measurements that can be integrated already at childhood, to allow preemptive intervention for those at high risk to develop T2D. Our integrated approach can be easily generalized to other diseases, with the relevant early-life measurements.
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- Avigail Moldovan
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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- The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;
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Konuma T, Okada Y. Statistical genetics and polygenic risk score for precision medicine. Inflamm Regen 2021; 41:18. [PMID: 34140035 PMCID: PMC8212479 DOI: 10.1186/s41232-021-00172-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The prediction of disease risks is an essential part of personalized medicine, which includes early disease detection, prevention, and intervention. The polygenic risk score (PRS) has become the standard for quantifying genetic liability in predicting disease risks. PRS utilizes single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with genetic risks elucidated by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and is calculated as weighted sum scores of these SNPs with genetic risks using their effect sizes from GWASs as their weights. The utilities of PRS have been explored in many common diseases, such as cancer, coronary artery disease, obesity, and diabetes, and in various non-disease traits, such as clinical biomarkers. These applications demonstrated that PRS could identify a high-risk subgroup of these diseases as a predictive biomarker and provide information on modifiable risk factors driving health outcomes. On the other hand, there are several limitations to implementing PRSs in clinical practice, such as biased sensitivity for the ethnic background of PRS calculation and geographical differences even in the same population groups. Also, it remains unclear which method is the most suitable for the prediction with high accuracy among numerous PRS methods developed so far. Although further improvements of its comprehensiveness and generalizability will be needed for its clinical implementation in the future, PRS will be a powerful tool for therapeutic interventions and lifestyle recommendations in a wide range of diseases. Thus, it may ultimately improve the health of an entire population in the future.
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- Takahiro Konuma
- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, 565-0871, Japan.,Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Japan Tobacco Inc., Takatsuki, 569-1125, Japan
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, 565-0871, Japan. .,Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University, Suita, 565-0871, Japan. .,Integrated Frontier Research for Medical Science Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, 565-0871, Japan.
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Goodrich JK, Singer-Berk M, Son R, Sveden A, Wood J, England E, Cole JB, Weisburd B, Watts N, Caulkins L, Dornbos P, Koesterer R, Zappala Z, Zhang H, Maloney KA, Dahl A, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Atzmon G, Barajas-Olmos F, Barzilai N, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bonnycastle LL, Bottinger E, Bowden DW, Centeno-Cruz F, Chambers JC, Chami N, Chan E, Chan J, Cheng CY, Cho YS, Contreras-Cubas C, Córdova E, Correa A, DeFronzo RA, Duggirala R, Dupuis J, Garay-Sevilla ME, García-Ortiz H, Gieger C, Glaser B, González-Villalpando C, Gonzalez ME, Grarup N, Groop L, Gross M, Haiman C, Han S, Hanis CL, Hansen T, Heard-Costa NL, Henderson BE, Hernandez JMM, Hwang MY, Islas-Andrade S, Jørgensen ME, Kang HM, Kim BJ, Kim YJ, Koistinen HA, Kooner JS, Kuusisto J, Kwak SH, Laakso M, Lange L, Lee JY, Lee J, Lehman DM, Linneberg A, Liu J, Loos RJF, Lyssenko V, Ma RCW, Martínez-Hernández A, Meigs JB, Meitinger T, Mendoza-Caamal E, Mohlke KL, Morris AD, Morrison AC, Ng MCY, Nilsson PM, O'Donnell CJ, Orozco L, Palmer CNA, Park KS, Post WS, Pedersen O, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Reiner AP, Revilla-Monsalve C, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Saleheen D, Schurmann C, Sim X, Sladek R, Small KS, So WY, Spector TD, Strauch K, Strom TM, Tai ES, Tam CHT, Teo YY, Thameem F, Tomlinson B, Tracy RP, Tuomi T, Tuomilehto J, Tusié-Luna T, van Dam RM, Vasan RS, Wilson JG, Witte DR, Wong TY, Burtt NP, Zaitlen N, McCarthy MI, Boehnke M, Pollin TI, Flannick J, Mercader JM, O'Donnell-Luria A, Baxter S, Florez JC, MacArthur DG, Udler MS. Determinants of penetrance and variable expressivity in monogenic metabolic conditions across 77,184 exomes. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3505. [PMID: 34108472 PMCID: PMC8190084 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23556-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Hundreds of thousands of genetic variants have been reported to cause severe monogenic diseases, but the probability that a variant carrier develops the disease (termed penetrance) is unknown for virtually all of them. Additionally, the clinical utility of common polygenetic variation remains uncertain. Using exome sequencing from 77,184 adult individuals (38,618 multi-ancestral individuals from a type 2 diabetes case-control study and 38,566 participants from the UK Biobank, for whom genotype array data were also available), we apply clinical standard-of-care gene variant curation for eight monogenic metabolic conditions. Rare variants causing monogenic diabetes and dyslipidemias display effect sizes significantly larger than the top 1% of the corresponding polygenic scores. Nevertheless, penetrance estimates for monogenic variant carriers average 60% or lower for most conditions. We assess epidemiologic and genetic factors contributing to risk prediction in monogenic variant carriers, demonstrating that inclusion of polygenic variation significantly improves biomarker estimation for two monogenic dyslipidemias.
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- Julia K Goodrich
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Faculty of Natural Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville and Edinburg, TX, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea
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- Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio (aka University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio), San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville and Edinburg, TX, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Science, División of Health Science, University of Guanjuato. Campus León. León, Guanjuato, Mexico
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- Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Unidad de Investigacion en Diabetes y Riesgo Cardiovascular, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
- Institute for Molecular Genetics Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Genome Research, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Boston University and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Science, División of Health Science, University of Guanjuato. Campus León. León, Guanjuato, Mexico
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- Division of Genome Research, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark
- National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Greenland Centre for Health Research, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Genome Research, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
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- Division of Genome Research, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Helsinki and Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Oneomics Soonchunhyang Mirae Medical Center, Bucheon-si Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Genome Research, Center for Genome Science, National Institute of Health, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea
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- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio (aka University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio), San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Experimental Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Centro de Estudios en Diabetes, Mexico City, Mexico
- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Intramural Administration Management Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Pat Macpherson Centre for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation (formerly Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Digital Health Center, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, Potsdam, Germany
- Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute for Medical Informatics Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Health Science Center, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
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- Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science & Technology, Macau, China
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Robert Larner M.D. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, The Robert Larner M.D. College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
- Institute for Molecular Genetics Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Endocrinology, Abdominal Centre, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Programs Unit, Clinical and Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Public Health Promotion Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Saudi Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of International Health, National School of Public Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
- Departamento de Medicina Genómica y Toxiología Ambiental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, and Cardiovascular Medicine, Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense, Denmark
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Centre for Population Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Population Genomics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Diabetes Unit and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Dashti HS, Ordovás JM. Genetics of Sleep and Insights into Its Relationship with Obesity. Annu Rev Nutr 2021; 41:223-252. [PMID: 34102077 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-082018-124258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Considerable recent advancements in elucidating the genetic architecture of sleep traits and sleep disorders may provide insight into the relationship between sleep and obesity. Despite the considerable involvement of the circadian clock in sleep and metabolism, few shared genes, including FTO, were implicated in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of sleep and obesity. Polygenic scores composed of signals from GWASs of sleep traits show largely null associations with obesity, suggesting lead variants are unique to sleep. Modest genome-wide genetic correlations are observed between many sleep traits and obesity and are largest for snoring.Notably, U-shaped positive genetic correlations with body mass index (BMI) exist for both short and long sleep durations. Findings from Mendelian randomization suggest robust causal effects of insomnia on higher BMI and, conversely, of higher BMI on snoring and daytime sleepiness. Bidirectional effects between sleep duration and daytime napping with obesity may also exist. Limited gene-sleep interaction studies suggest that achieving favorable sleep, as part of a healthy lifestyle, may attenuate genetic predisposition to obesity, but whether these improvements produce clinically meaningful reductions in obesity risk remains unclear. Investigations of the genetic link between sleep and obesity for sleep disorders other than insomnia and in populations of non-European ancestry are currently limited. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Nutrition, Volume 41 is September 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Hassan S Dashti
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; .,Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.,Precision Nutrition and Obesity Program, IMDEA Alimentación, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Wade KH, Lam BYH, Melvin A, Pan W, Corbin LJ, Hughes DA, Rainbow K, Chen JH, Duckett K, Liu X, Mokrosiński J, Mörseburg A, Neaves S, Williamson A, Zhang C, Farooqi IS, Yeo GSH, Timpson NJ, O'Rahilly S. Loss-of-function mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor in a UK birth cohort. Nat Med 2021; 27:1088-1096. [PMID: 34045736 PMCID: PMC7611835 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-021-01349-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Mutations in the melanocortin 4 receptor gene (MC4R) are associated with obesity but little is known about the prevalence and impact of such mutations throughout human growth and development. We examined the MC4R coding sequence in 5,724 participants from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, functionally characterized all nonsynonymous MC4R variants and examined their association with anthropometric phenotypes from childhood to early adulthood. The frequency of heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) mutations in MC4R was ~1 in 337 (0.30%), considerably higher than previous estimates. At age 18 years, mean differences in body weight, body mass index and fat mass between carriers and noncarriers of LoF mutations were 17.76 kg (95% CI 9.41, 26.10), 4.84 kg m-2 (95% CI 2.19, 7.49) and 14.78 kg (95% CI 8.56, 20.99), respectively. MC4R LoF mutations may be more common than previously reported and carriers of such variants may enter adult life with a substantial burden of excess adiposity.
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- Kaitlin H Wade
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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- Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Rossman H, Shilo S, Barbash-Hazan S, Artzi NS, Hadar E, Balicer RD, Feldman B, Wiznitzer A, Segal E. Prediction of Childhood Obesity from Nationwide Health Records. J Pediatr 2021; 233:132-140.e1. [PMID: 33581105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate body mass index (BMI) acceleration patterns in children and to develop a prediction model targeted to identify children at high risk for obesity before the critical time window in which the largest increase in BMI percentile occurs. STUDY DESIGN We analyzed electronic health records of children from Israel's largest healthcare provider from 2002 to 2018. Data included demographics, anthropometric measurements, medications, diagnoses, and laboratory tests of children and their families. Obesity was defined as BMI ≥95th percentile for age and sex. To identify the time window in which the largest annual increases in BMI z score occurs during early childhood, we first analyzed childhood BMI acceleration patterns among 417 915 adolescents. Next, we devised a model targeted to identify children at high risk before this time window, predicting obesity at 5-6 years of age based on data from the first 2 years of life of 132 262 children. RESULTS Retrospective BMI analysis revealed that among adolescents with obesity, the greatest acceleration in BMI z score occurred between 2 and 4 years of age. Our model, validated temporally and geographically, accurately predicted obesity at 5-6 years old (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.803). Discrimination results on subpopulations demonstrated its robustness across the pediatric population. The model's most influential predictors included anthropometric measurements of the child and family. Other impactful predictors included ancestry and pregnancy glucose. CONCLUSIONS Rapid rise in the prevalence of childhood obesity warrant the development of better prevention strategies. Our model may allow an accurate identification of children at high risk of obesity.
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- Hagai Rossman
- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Pediatric Diabetes Unit, Ruth Rappaport Children's Hospital of Haifa, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Haifa, Israel
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- Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Clalit Health Services, Clalit Research Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel; Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Clalit Health Services, Clalit Research Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Helen Schneider Hospital for Women, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Stanislawski MA, Litkowski E, Fore R, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Hivert MF, Lange EM, Lange LA, Dabelea D, Raghavan S. Genetic Interactions with Intrauterine Diabetes Exposure in Relation to Obesity: The EPOCH and Project Viva Studies. Pediatr Rep 2021; 13:279-288. [PMID: 34205853 PMCID: PMC8293453 DOI: 10.3390/pediatric13020036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To examine whether BMI-associated genetic risk variants modify the association of intrauterine diabetes exposure with childhood BMI z-scores, we assessed the interaction between 95 BMI-associated genetic variants and in utero exposure to maternal diabetes among 459 children in the Exploring Perinatal Outcomes among Children historical prospective cohort study (n = 86 exposed; 373 unexposed) in relation to age- and sex-standardized childhood BMI z-scores (mean age = 10.3 years, standard deviation = 1.5 years). For the genetic variants showing a nominally significant interaction, we assessed the relationship in an additional 621 children in Project Viva, which is an independent longitudinal cohort study, and used meta-analysis to combine the results for the two studies. Seven of the ninety-five genetic variants tested exhibited a nominally significant interaction with in utero exposure to maternal diabetes in relation to the offspring BMI z-score in EPOCH. Five of the seven variants exhibited a consistent direction of interaction effect across both EPOCH and Project Viva. While none achieved statistical significance in the meta-analysis after accounting for multiple testing, three variants exhibited a nominally significant interaction with in utero exposure to maternal diabetes in relation to offspring BMI z-score: rs10733682 near LMX1B (interaction β = 0.39; standard error (SE) = 0.17), rs17001654 near SCARB2 (β = 0.53; SE = 0.22), and rs16951275 near MAP2K5 (β = 0.37; SE = 0.17). BMI-associated genetic variants may enhance the association between exposure to in utero diabetes and higher childhood BMI, but larger studies of in utero exposures are necessary to confirm the observed nominally significant relationships.
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- Maggie A. Stanislawski
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; (E.L.); (E.M.L.); (L.A.L.); (S.R.)
- Correspondence:
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; (E.L.); (E.M.L.); (L.A.L.); (S.R.)
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA;
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; (R.F.); (S.L.R.-S.); (E.O.); (M.-F.H.)
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; (R.F.); (S.L.R.-S.); (E.O.); (M.-F.H.)
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; (R.F.); (S.L.R.-S.); (E.O.); (M.-F.H.)
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- Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; (R.F.); (S.L.R.-S.); (E.O.); (M.-F.H.)
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; (E.L.); (E.M.L.); (L.A.L.); (S.R.)
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; (E.L.); (E.M.L.); (L.A.L.); (S.R.)
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA;
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA;
- Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; (E.L.); (E.M.L.); (L.A.L.); (S.R.)
- Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Hüls A, Wright MN, Bogl LH, Kaprio J, Lissner L, Molnár D, Moreno LA, De Henauw S, Siani A, Veidebaum T, Ahrens W, Pigeot I, Foraita R. Polygenic risk for obesity and its interaction with lifestyle and sociodemographic factors in European children and adolescents. Int J Obes (Lond) 2021; 45:1321-1330. [PMID: 33753884 PMCID: PMC8159747 DOI: 10.1038/s41366-021-00795-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a complex multifaceted condition, which is influenced by genetics, environmental factors, and their interaction. However, these interactions have mainly been studied in twin studies and evidence from population-based cohorts is limited. Here, we analyze the interaction of an obesity-related genome-wide polygenic risk score (PRS) with sociodemographic and lifestyle factors for BMI and waist circumference (WC) in European children and adolescents. METHODS The analyses are based on 8609 repeated observations from 3098 participants aged 2-16 years from the IDEFICS/I.Family cohort. A genome-wide polygenic risk score (PRS) was calculated using summary statistics from independent genome-wide association studies of BMI. Associations were estimated using generalized linear mixed models adjusted for sex, age, region of residence, parental education, dietary intake, relatedness, and population stratification. RESULTS The PRS was associated with BMI (beta estimate [95% confidence interval (95%-CI)] = 0.33 [0.30, 0.37], r2 = 0.11, p value = 7.9 × 10-81) and WC (beta [95%-CI] = 0.36 [0.32, 0.40], r2 = 0.09, p value = 1.8 × 10-71). We observed significant interactions with demographic and lifestyle factors for BMI as well as WC. Children from Southern Europe showed increased genetic liability to obesity (BMI: beta [95%-CI] = 0.40 [0.34, 0.45]) in comparison to children from central Europe (beta [95%-CI] = 0.29 [0.23, 0.34]), p-interaction = 0.0066). Children of parents with a low level of education showed an increased genetic liability to obesity (BMI: beta [95%-CI] = 0.48 [0.38, 0.59]) in comparison to children of parents with a high level of education (beta [95%-CI] = 0.30 [0.26, 0.34]), p-interaction = 0.0012). Furthermore, the genetic liability to obesity was attenuated by a higher intake of fiber (BMI: beta [95%-CI] interaction = -0.02 [-0.04,-0.01]) and shorter screen times (beta [95%-CI] interaction = 0.02 [0.00, 0.03]). CONCLUSIONS Our results highlight that a healthy childhood environment might partly offset a genetic predisposition to obesity during childhood and adolescence.
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- Anke Hüls
- Department of Epidemiology and Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Institute of Molecular Medicine FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine FIMM, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
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- GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón (IIS Aragón), Zaragoza, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Chronic Diseases, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany.
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Yao S. Causality Inference of Obesity and Cancer Risk by Mendelian Randomization Analysis: Are We There yet? J Natl Cancer Inst 2021; 114:331-332. [PMID: 34021337 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djab103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Song Yao
- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Fang Z, Song M, Lee D, Giovannucci EL. The Role of Mendelian Randomization Studies in Deciphering the Effect of Obesity on Cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2021; 114:361-371. [PMID: 34021349 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djab102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Associations of obesity have been established for at least 11 cancer sites in observational studies, though some questions remain as to causality, strength of associations, and timing of associations throughout the life course. In recent years, Mendelian randomization (MR) has provided complementary information to traditional approaches, but the validity requires that the genetic instrumental variables be causally related to cancers only mediated by the exposure. We summarize and evaluate existing evidence from MR studies in comparison with conventional observational studies to provide insights into the complex relationship between obesity and multiple cancers. MR studies further establish the causality of adult obesity with esophageal adenocarcinoma, cancers of the colorectum, endometrium, ovary, kidney, and pancreas, as well as the inverse association of early life obesity with breast cancer. MR studies, which might account for lifelong adiposity, suggest that the associations in observational studies typically based on single measurement may underestimate the magnitude of the association. For lung cancer, MR studies find a positive association with obesity, supporting that the inverse association observed in some conventional observational studies likely reflects reverse causality (loss of lean body mass before diagnosis) and confounding by smoking. However, MR studies have not had sufficient power for gallbladder cancer, gastric cardia cancer, and multiple myeloma. In addition, more MR studies are needed to explore the effect of obesity at different time points on postmenopausal breast cancer and aggressive prostate cancer.
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- Zhe Fang
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.,Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Biederman J, Green A, DiSalvo M, Faraone SV. Can polygenic risk scores help identify pediatric bipolar spectrum and related disorders?: A systematic review. Psychiatry Res 2021; 299:113843. [PMID: 33721787 PMCID: PMC10733908 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The genetic basis of mood disorders can, theoretically, provide diagnostic information in scenarios of clinical uncertainty. Therefore, we examined the available body of knowledge on the association between polygenic risk scores for bipolar disorder (BP-PRSs) and pediatric bipolar spectrum and related disorders. We performed a literature search through PubMed in March of 2020. The following variables were extracted from relevant studies: population age, study sample size, source of polygenic risk scores, source of data, the primary goal of the study, the assessments used during the course of the study, and the main findings/outcomes of each study. BP-PRSs were associated with deficits in executive functioning and the diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Three studies included in our analysis directly compared major depressive disorder (MDD)-PRSs to BP-PRSs in youth. Results showed that MDD-PRSs, and not BP-PRSs, were associated with ADHD symptoms, internalizing problems, and social problems. ADHD-PRSs were associated with conduct problems, depressive symptomatology, and externalizing disorders symptoms. Findings revealed that ADHD-PRSs were more clearly associated with emotional reactivity, emotional dysregulation, and irritability-frequent correlates of pediatric BP disorder. These findings suggest that ADHD-PRSs may have an important contribution to the development of mood related problems in youth.
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- Joseph Biederman
- Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Clinical and Research Programs in Pediatric Psychopharmacology and Adult ADHD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience and Physiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
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Bouchard C. Genetics of Obesity: What We Have Learned Over Decades of Research. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2021; 29:802-820. [PMID: 33899337 DOI: 10.1002/oby.23116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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There is a genetic component to human obesity that accounts for 40% to 50% of the variability in body weight status but that is lower among normal weight individuals (about 30%) and substantially higher in the subpopulation of individuals with obesity and severe obesity (about 60%-80%). The appreciation that heritability varies across classes of BMI represents an important advance. After controlling for BMI, ectopic fat and fat distribution traits are characterized by heritability levels ranging from 30% to 55%. Defects in at least 15 genes are the cause of monogenic obesity cases, resulting mostly from deficiencies in the leptin-melanocortin signaling pathway. Approximately two-thirds of the BMI heritability can be imputed to common DNA variants, whereas low-frequency and rare variants explain the remaining fraction. Diminishing allele effect size is observed as the number of obesity-associated variants expands, with most BMI-increasing or -decreasing alleles contributing only a few grams or less to body weight. Obesity-promoting alleles exert minimal effects in normal weight individuals but have larger effects in individuals with a proneness to obesity, suggesting a higher penetrance; however, it is not known whether these larger effect sizes precede obesity or are caused by an obese state. The obesity genetic risk is conditioned by thousands of DNA variants that make genetically based obesity prevention and treatment a major challenge.
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- Claude Bouchard
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
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Josefson JL, Scholtens DM, Kuang A, Catalano PM, Lowe LP, Dyer AR, Petito LC, Lowe WL, Metzger BE. Newborn Adiposity and Cord Blood C-Peptide as Mediators of the Maternal Metabolic Environment and Childhood Adiposity. Diabetes Care 2021; 44:1194-1202. [PMID: 33619125 PMCID: PMC8132336 DOI: 10.2337/dc20-2398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Excessive childhood adiposity is a risk factor for adverse metabolic health. The objective was to investigate associations of newborn body composition and cord C-peptide with childhood anthropometrics and explore whether these newborn measures mediate associations of maternal midpregnancy glucose and BMI with childhood adiposity. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data on mother/offspring pairs (N = 4,832) from the epidemiological Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) Study and HAPO Follow-up Study (HAPO FUS) were analyzed. Linear regression was used to study associations between newborn and childhood anthropometrics. Structural equation modeling was used to explore newborn anthropometric measures as potential mediators of the associations of maternal BMI and glucose during pregnancy with childhood anthropometric outcomes. RESULTS In models including maternal glucose and BMI adjustments, newborn adiposity as measured by the sum of skinfolds was associated with child outcomes (adjusted mean difference, 95% CI, P value) BMI (0.26, 0.12-0.39, <0.001), BMI z-score (0.072, 0.033-0.11, <0.001), fat mass (kg) (0.51, 0.26-0.76, <0.001), percentage of body fat (0.61, 0.27-0.95, <0.001), and sum of skinfolds (mm) (1.14, 0.43-1.86, 0.0017). Structural equation models demonstrated significant mediation by newborn sum of skinfolds and cord C-peptide of maternal BMI effects on childhood BMI (proportion of total effect 2.5% and 1%, respectively), fat mass (3.1%, 1.2%), percentage of body fat (3.6%, 1.8%), and sum of skinfolds (2.9%, 1.8%), and significant mediation by newborn sum of skinfolds and cord C-peptide of maternal glucose effects on child fat mass (proportion of total association 22.0% and 21.0%, respectively), percentage of body fat (15.0%, 18.0%), and sum of skinfolds (15.0%, 20.0%). CONCLUSIONS Newborn adiposity is independently associated with childhood adiposity and, along with fetal hyperinsulinemia, mediates, in part, associations of maternal glucose and BMI with childhood adiposity.
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- Jami L Josefson
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL.,Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Mother Infant Research Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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Di Narzo AF, Hart A, Kosoy R, Peters L, Stojmirovic A, Cheng H, Zhang Z, Shan M, Cho J, Kasarskis A, Argmann C, Peter I, Schadt EE, Hao K. Polygenic risk score for alcohol drinking behavior improves prediction of inflammatory bowel disease risk. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 30:514-523. [PMID: 33601420 PMCID: PMC8599895 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 01/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Epidemiological studies have long recognized risky behaviors as potentially modifiable factors for the onset and flares of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); yet, the underlying mechanisms are largely unknown. Recently, the genetic susceptibilities to cigarette smoking, alcohol and cannabis use [i.e. substance use (SU)] have been characterized by well-powered genome-wide association studies (GWASs). We aimed to assess the impact of genetic determinants of SU on IBD risk. Using Mount Sinai Crohn's and Colitis Registry (MSCCR) cohort of 1058 IBD cases and 188 healthy controls, we computed the polygenic risk score (PRS) for SU and correlated them with the observed IBD diagnoses, while adjusting for genetic ancestry, PRS for IBD and SU behavior at enrollment. The results were validated in a pediatric cohort with no SU exposure. PRS of alcohol consumption (DrnkWk), smoking cessation and age of smoking initiation, were associated with IBD risk in MSCCR even after adjustment for PRSIBD and actual smoking status. One interquartile range decrease in PRSDrnkWk was significantly associated to higher IBD risk (i.e. inverse association) (with odds ratio = 1.65 and 95% confidence interval: 1.32, 2.06). The association was replicated in a pediatric Crohn's disease cohort. Colocalization analysis identified a locus on chromosome 16 with polymorphisms in IL27, SULT1A2 and SH2B1, which reached genome-wide statistical significance in GWAS (P < 7.7e-9) for both alcohol consumption and IBD risk. This study demonstrated that the genetic predisposition to SU was associated with IBD risk, independent of PRSIBD and in the absence of SU behaviors. Our study may help further stratify individuals at risk of IBD.
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- Antonio F Di Narzo
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Immunology Translational Sciences, Janssen R&D, LLC, Spring House, PA 19477, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Statistical Genomics, Sema4, Stamford, CT 06902, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Statistical Genomics, Sema4, Stamford, CT 06902, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Statistical Genomics, Sema4, Stamford, CT 06902, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
- Statistical Genomics, Sema4, Stamford, CT 06902, USA
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Rana S, Bhatti AA. Predicting anthropometric and metabolic traits with a genetic risk score for obesity in a sample of Pakistanis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:8320. [PMID: 33859285 PMCID: PMC8050295 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87702-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Obesity is an outcome of multiple factors including environmental and genetic influences. Common obesity is a polygenic trait indicating that multiple genetic variants act synergistically to influence its expression. We constructed a genetic risk score (GRS) based on five genetic variants (MC4R rs17782313, BDNF rs6265, FTO rs1421085, TMEM18 rs7561317, and NEGR1 rs2815752) and examined its association with obesity-related traits in a sample of Pakistanis. The study involved 306 overweight/obese (OW/OB) and 300 normal-weight (NW) individuals. The age range of the study participants was 12-63 years. All anthropometric and metabolic parameters were measured for each participant via standard procedures and biochemical assays, respectively. The genetic variants were genotyped by allelic discrimination assays. The age- and gender-adjusted associations between the GRS and obesity-related anthropometric and metabolic measures were determined using linear regression analyses. The results showed that OW/OB individuals had significantly higher mean ranks of GRS than NW individuals. Moreover, a significant association of the GRS with obesity-related anthropometric traits was seen. However, the GRS did not appear to affect any obesity-related metabolic parameter. In conclusion, our findings indicate the combined effect of multiple genetic variants on the obesity-related anthropometric phenotypes in Pakistanis.
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- Sobia Rana
- Molecular Biology and Human Genetics Laboratory, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan.
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- Molecular Biology and Human Genetics Laboratory, Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi, 75270, Pakistan
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Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11218-021-09632-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Schmitz LL, Goodwin J, Miao J, Lu Q, Conley D. The impact of late-career job loss and genetic risk on body mass index: Evidence from variance polygenic scores. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7647. [PMID: 33828129 PMCID: PMC8027610 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86716-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Unemployment shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic have reignited concerns over the long-term effects of job loss on population health. Past research has highlighted the corrosive effects of unemployment on health and health behaviors. This study examines whether the effects of job loss on changes in body mass index (BMI) are moderated by genetic predisposition using data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS). To improve detection of gene-by-environment (G × E) interplay, we interacted layoffs from business closures-a plausibly exogenous environmental exposure-with whole-genome polygenic scores (PGSs) that capture genetic contributions to both the population mean (mPGS) and variance (vPGS) of BMI. Results show evidence of genetic moderation using a vPGS (as opposed to an mPGS) and indicate genome-wide summary measures of phenotypic plasticity may further our understanding of how environmental stimuli modify the distribution of complex traits in a population.
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- Lauren L Schmitz
- Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
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- Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Sociology, Princeton University & NBER, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Reid NJ, Brockman DG, Elisabeth Leonard C, Pelletier R, Khera AV. Concordance of a High Polygenic Score Among Relatives: Implications for Genetic Counseling and Cascade Screening. CIRCULATION-GENOMIC AND PRECISION MEDICINE 2021; 14:e003262. [PMID: 33794649 DOI: 10.1161/circgen.120.003262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Nicholas J Reid
- Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (N.J.R., D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (N.J.R., A.V.K.)
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Genomic Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (N.J.R., D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.)
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Genomic Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (N.J.R., D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.)
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Genomic Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (N.J.R., D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.)
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Center for Genomic Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Cardiovascular Disease Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (N.J.R., D.G.B., C.E.L., R.P., A.V.K.).,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (N.J.R., A.V.K.)
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Verbitsky M, Krithivasan P, Batourina E, Khan A, Graham SE, Marasà M, Kim H, Lim TY, Weng PL, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Mitrotti A, Ahram DF, Zanoni F, Fasel DA, Westland R, Sampson MG, Zhang JY, Bodria M, Kil BH, Shril S, Gesualdo L, Torri F, Scolari F, Izzi C, van Wijk JA, Saraga M, Santoro D, Conti G, Barton DE, Dobson MG, Puri P, Furth SL, Warady BA, Pisani I, Fiaccadori E, Allegri L, Degl'Innocenti ML, Piaggio G, Alam S, Gigante M, Zaza G, Esposito P, Lin F, Simões-e-Silva AC, Brodkiewicz A, Drozdz D, Zachwieja K, Miklaszewska M, Szczepanska M, Adamczyk P, Tkaczyk M, Tomczyk D, Sikora P, Mizerska-Wasiak M, Krzemien G, Szmigielska A, Zaniew M, Lozanovski VJ, Gucev Z, Ionita-Laza I, Stanaway IB, Crosslin DR, Wong CS, Hildebrandt F, Barasch J, Kenny EE, Loos RJ, Levy B, Ghiggeri GM, Hakonarson H, Latos-Bieleńska A, Materna-Kiryluk A, Darlow JM, Tasic V, Willer C, Kiryluk K, Sanna-Cherchi S, Mendelsohn CL, Gharavi AG. Copy Number Variant Analysis and Genome-wide Association Study Identify Loci with Large Effect for Vesicoureteral Reflux. J Am Soc Nephrol 2021; 32:805-820. [PMID: 33597122 PMCID: PMC8017540 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2020050681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a common, familial genitourinary disorder, and a major cause of pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) and kidney failure. The genetic basis of VUR is not well understood. METHODS A diagnostic analysis sought rare, pathogenic copy number variant (CNV) disorders among 1737 patients with VUR. A GWAS was performed in 1395 patients and 5366 controls, of European ancestry. RESULTS Altogether, 3% of VUR patients harbored an undiagnosed rare CNV disorder, such as the 1q21.1, 16p11.2, 22q11.21, and triple X syndromes ((OR, 3.12; 95% CI, 2.10 to 4.54; P=6.35×10-8) The GWAS identified three study-wide significant and five suggestive loci with large effects (ORs, 1.41-6.9), containing canonical developmental genes expressed in the developing urinary tract (WDPCP, OTX1, BMP5, VANGL1, and WNT5A). In particular, 3.3% of VUR patients were homozygous for an intronic variant in WDPCP (rs13013890; OR, 3.65; 95% CI, 2.39 to 5.56; P=1.86×10-9). This locus was associated with multiple genitourinary phenotypes in the UK Biobank and eMERGE studies. Analysis of Wnt5a mutant mice confirmed the role of Wnt5a signaling in bladder and ureteric morphogenesis. CONCLUSIONS These data demonstrate the genetic heterogeneity of VUR. Altogether, 6% of patients with VUR harbored a rare CNV or a common variant genotype conferring an OR >3. Identification of these genetic risk factors has multiple implications for clinical care and for analysis of outcomes in VUR.
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- Miguel Verbitsky
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Urology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center and University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center-Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Section of Nephrology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Nephrology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, and Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Section of Nephrology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Spedali Civili Children’s Hospital of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Chair and Division of Nephrology, University and Spedali Civili Hospital, Brescia, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Split, Split, Croatia
- School of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino,” Messina, Italy
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- University College Dublin School of Medicine, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
- National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
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- National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Beacon Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Nephrology Unit, Parma University Hospital and Department of Medicine and Surgery, Parma University Medical School, Parma, Italy
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- Nephrology Unit, Parma University Hospital and Department of Medicine and Surgery, Parma University Medical School, Parma, Italy
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- Nephrology Unit, Parma University Hospital and Department of Medicine and Surgery, Parma University Medical School, Parma, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, and Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, and Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Urology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York
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- Section of Nephrology, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Renal and Dialysis Unit, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Clinics, Genoa University and IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Pediatric Nephrology, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Medical Investigation, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Child Nephrology, Dialysotheraphy and Management of Acute Poisoning, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Immunology and Nephrology, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Immunology and Nephrology, Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland
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- University Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
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- University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Department of Urology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Institute for Genomic Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
- Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, and Laboratory on Pathophysiology of Uremia, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy
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- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, and NZOZ Center for Medical Genetics GENESIS, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, and NZOZ Center for Medical Genetics GENESIS, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
- National Children’s Research Centre, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland
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- University Children’s Hospital, Medical Faculty of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York
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Reply to Unreliability of genotyping arrays for detecting very rare variants in human genetic studies: Example from a recent study of MC4R. Cell 2021; 184:1652-1653. [PMID: 33798435 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lambert SA, Gil L, Jupp S, Ritchie SC, Xu Y, Buniello A, McMahon A, Abraham G, Chapman M, Parkinson H, Danesh J, MacArthur JAL, Inouye M. The Polygenic Score Catalog as an open database for reproducibility and systematic evaluation. Nat Genet 2021; 53:420-425. [PMID: 33692568 DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.20.20108217v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Samuel A Lambert
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
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Lambert SA, Gil L, Jupp S, Ritchie SC, Xu Y, Buniello A, McMahon A, Abraham G, Chapman M, Parkinson H, Danesh J, MacArthur JAL, Inouye M. The Polygenic Score Catalog as an open database for reproducibility and systematic evaluation. Nat Genet 2021; 53:420-425. [PMID: 33692568 PMCID: PMC11165303 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00783-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 85.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We present the Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalog (https://www.PGSCatalog.org ), an open resource of published scores (including variants, alleles and weights) and consistently curated metadata required for reproducibility and independent applications. The PGS Catalog has capabilities for user deposition, expert curation and programmatic access, thus providing the community with a platform for PGS dissemination, research and translation.
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- Samuel A Lambert
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.
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Durvasula A, Lohmueller KE. Negative selection on complex traits limits phenotype prediction accuracy between populations. Am J Hum Genet 2021; 108:620-631. [PMID: 33691092 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Phenotype prediction is a key goal for medical genetics. Unfortunately, most genome-wide association studies are done in European populations, which reduces the accuracy of predictions via polygenic scores in non-European populations. Here, we use population genetic models to show that human demographic history and negative selection on complex traits can result in population-specific genetic architectures. For traits where alleles with the largest effect on the trait are under the strongest negative selection, approximately half of the heritability can be accounted for by variants in Europe that are absent from Africa, leading to poor performance in phenotype prediction across these populations. Further, under such a model, individuals in the tails of the genetic risk distribution may not be identified via polygenic scores generated in another population. We empirically test these predictions by building a model to stratify heritability between European-specific and shared variants and applied it to 37 traits and diseases in the UK Biobank. Across these phenotypes, ∼30% of the heritability comes from European-specific variants. We conclude that genetic association studies need to include more diverse populations to enable the utility of phenotype prediction in all populations.
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- Arun Durvasula
- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Harroud A, Mitchell RE, Richardson TG, Morris JA, Forgetta V, Davey Smith G, Baranzini SE, Richards JB. Childhood obesity and multiple sclerosis: A Mendelian randomization study. Mult Scler 2021; 27:2150-2158. [PMID: 33749377 DOI: 10.1177/13524585211001781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Higher childhood body mass index (BMI) has been associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether childhood BMI has a causal influence on MS, and whether this putative effect is independent from early adult obesity and pubertal timing. METHODS We performed Mendelian randomization (MR) using summary genetic data on 14,802 MS cases and 26,703 controls. Large-scale genome-wide association studies provided estimates for BMI in childhood (n = 47,541) and adulthood (n = 322,154). In multivariable MR, we examined the direct effects of each timepoint and further adjusted for age at puberty. Findings were replicated using the UK Biobank (n = 453,169). RESULTS Higher genetically predicted childhood BMI was associated with increased odds of MS (odds ratio (OR) = 1.26/SD BMI increase, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.07-1.50). However, there was little evidence of a direct effect after adjusting for adult BMI (OR = 1.03, 95% CI: 0.70-1.53). Conversely, the effect of adult BMI persisted independent of childhood BMI (OR = 1.43; 95% CI: 1.01-2.03). The addition of age at puberty did not alter the findings. UK Biobank analyses showed consistent results. Sensitivity analyses provided no evidence of pleiotropy. CONCLUSION Genetic evidence supports an association between childhood obesity and MS susceptibility, mediated by persistence of obesity into early adulthood but independent of pubertal timing.
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- Adil Harroud
- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA/Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA/Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK/Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK/Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- New York Genome Center and Department of Biology, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
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- Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada/Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK/Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA/Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA/Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA/Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada/Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada/Department of Medicine, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada/Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada/Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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Pillon NJ, Loos RJF, Marshall SM, Zierath JR. Metabolic consequences of obesity and type 2 diabetes: Balancing genes and environment for personalized care. Cell 2021; 184:1530-1544. [PMID: 33675692 PMCID: PMC9191863 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity has risen dramatically for decades and is expected to rise further, secondary to the growing aging, sedentary population. The strain on global health care is projected to be colossal. This review explores the latest work and emerging ideas related to genetic and environmental factors influencing metabolism. Translational research and clinical applications, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, are highlighted. Looking forward, strategies to personalize all aspects of prevention, management and care are necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce the impact of these metabolic diseases.
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- Nicolas J Pillon
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York; The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Diabetes Research Group, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, 4(th) Floor William Leech Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Ekoru K, Adeyemo AA, Chen G, Doumatey AP, Zhou J, Bentley AR, Shriner D, Rotimi CN. Genetic risk scores for cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan African populations. Int J Epidemiol 2021; 50:1283-1296. [PMID: 33729508 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND There is growing support for the use of genetic risk scores (GRS) in routine clinical settings. Due to the limited diversity of current genomic discovery samples, there are concerns that the predictive power of GRS will be limited in non-European ancestry populations. GRS for cardiometabolic traits were evaluated in sub-Saharan Africans in comparison with African Americans and European Americans. METHODS We evaluated the predictive utility of GRS for 12 cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africans (AF; n = 5200), African Americans (AA; n = 9139) and European Americans (EUR; n = 9594). GRS were constructed as weighted sums of the number of risk alleles. Predictive utility was assessed using the additional phenotypic variance explained and the increase in discriminatory ability over traditional risk factors [age, sex and body mass index (BMI)], with adjustment for ancestry-derived principal components. RESULTS Across all traits, GRS showed up to a 5-fold and 20-fold greater predictive utility in EUR relative to AA and AF, respectively. Predictive utility was most consistent for lipid traits, with percentage increase in explained variation attributable to GRS ranging from 10.6% to 127.1% among EUR, 26.6% to 65.8% among AA and 2.4% to 37.5% among AF. These differences were recapitulated in the discriminatory power, whereby the predictive utility of GRS was 4-fold greater in EUR relative to AA and up to 44-fold greater in EUR relative to AF. Obesity and blood pressure traits showed a similar pattern of greater predictive utility among EUR. CONCLUSIONS This work demonstrates the poorer performance of GRS in AF and highlights the need to improve representation of multiple ethnic populations in genomic studies to ensure equitable clinical translation of GRS.
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- Kenneth Ekoru
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Petersen A, Pienaar K. Testing for Life? Regimes of Governance in Diagnosis and Screening. SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/0971721820964889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Alan Petersen
- Sociology Program, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia
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- Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Deakin University, Australia
- Sociology Program, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia
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Khoury T, Ilan Y. Platform introducing individually tailored variability in nerve stimulations and dietary regimen to prevent weight regain following weight loss in patients with obesity. Obes Res Clin Pract 2021; 15:114-123. [PMID: 33653665 DOI: 10.1016/j.orcp.2021.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Prevention of weight regain following successful weight loss is a major challenge in the treatment of obesity, irrespective of the weight reduction method used. The majority of individuals regain the lost weight over time; thus, achieving long-term sustainability in weight loss remains an unresolved issue. A compensatory adaptation to the weight loss methods occurs in several body organs and partly explains the lack of sustainable effect. Variability is inherent in many biological systems, and patterns of variability constitute a body mechanism that is active at several levels, starting from the genes and cellular pathways through to the whole-organ level. This study aimed to describe a platform that introduces individually tailored variability in vagal nerve stimulation and dietary regimen to ensure prolonged and sustainable weight loss and prevent weight regain. The platform is intended to provide a method that can overcome the body's compensatory adaptation mechanisms while ensuring a prolonged beneficial effect.
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- Tawfik Khoury
- Department of Gastroenterology, Galilee Medical Center, Nahariya, Israel; Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
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- Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, PO Box 12000, IL-91120, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Brandkvist M, Bjørngaard JH, Ødegård RA, Åsvold BO, Smith GD, Brumpton B, Hveem K, Richardson TG, Vie GÅ. Separating the genetics of childhood and adult obesity: a validation study of genetic scores for body mass index in adolescence and adulthood in the HUNT Study. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 29:3966-3973. [PMID: 33276378 PMCID: PMC7906755 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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From a life-course perspective, genetic and environmental factors driving childhood obesity may have a lasting influence on health later in life. However, how obesity trajectories vary throughout the life-course remains unknown. Recently, Richardson et al. created powerful early life and adult gene scores for body mass index (BMI) in a comprehensive attempt to separate childhood and adult obesity. The childhood score was derived using questionnaire-based data administered to adults aged 40-69 regarding their relative body size at age 10, making it prone to recall and misclassification bias. We therefore attempted to validate the childhood and adult scores using measured BMI data in adolescence and adulthood among 66 963 individuals from the HUNT Study in Norway from 1963 to 2019. The predictive performance of the childhood score was better in adolescence and early adulthood, whereas the predictive performance of the adult score was better in adulthood. In the age group 12-15.9 years, the variance explained by the childhood polygenic risk score (PRS) was 6.7% versus 2.4% for the adult PRS. In the age group 24-29.9 years, the variance explained by the adult PRS was 3.9% versus 3.6% for the childhood PRS. Our findings support that genetic factors driving BMI differ at young age and in adulthood. Within the framework of multivariable Mendelian randomization, the validated childhood gene score can now be used to determine the consequence of childhood obesity on later disease.
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- Maria Brandkvist
- Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Children’s Clinic, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Obesity Centre, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University, Levanger, Norway
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- Children’s Clinic, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Obesity Centre, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Endocrinology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- HUNT Research Centre, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Barley House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, UK
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- K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Clinic of Thoracic and Occupational Medicine, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Research, Innovation and Education, St. Olavs hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Obesity Centre, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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Zaghlool SB, Sharma S, Molnar M, Matías-García PR, Elhadad MA, Waldenberger M, Peters A, Rathmann W, Graumann J, Gieger C, Grallert H, Suhre K. Revealing the role of the human blood plasma proteome in obesity using genetic drivers. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1279. [PMID: 33627659 PMCID: PMC7904950 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21542-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Blood circulating proteins are confounded readouts of the biological processes that occur in different tissues and organs. Many proteins have been linked to complex disorders and are also under substantial genetic control. Here, we investigate the associations between over 1000 blood circulating proteins and body mass index (BMI) in three studies including over 4600 participants. We show that BMI is associated with widespread changes in the plasma proteome. We observe 152 replicated protein associations with BMI. 24 proteins also associate with a genome-wide polygenic score (GPS) for BMI. These proteins are involved in lipid metabolism and inflammatory pathways impacting clinically relevant pathways of adiposity. Mendelian randomization suggests a bi-directional causal relationship of BMI with LEPR/LEP, IGFBP1, and WFIKKN2, a protein-to-BMI relationship for AGER, DPT, and CTSA, and a BMI-to-protein relationship for another 21 proteins. Combined with animal model and tissue-specific gene expression data, our findings suggest potential therapeutic targets further elucidating the role of these proteins in obesity associated pathologies.
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- Shaza B Zaghlool
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Research Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- German Research Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Biometrics and Epidemiology, German Diabetes Center, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Scientific Service Group Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, W.G. Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Rhine-Main, Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
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Tam CHT, Lim CKP, Luk AOY, Ng ACW, Lee HM, Jiang G, Lau ESH, Fan B, Wan R, Kong APS, Tam WH, Ozaki R, Chow EYK, Lee KF, Siu SC, Hui G, Tsang CC, Lau KP, Leung JYY, Tsang MW, Kam G, Lau IT, Li JKY, Yeung VTF, Lau E, Lo S, Fung S, Cheng YL, Chow CC, Hu M, Yu W, Tsui SKW, Huang Y, Lan H, Szeto CC, Tang NLS, Ng MCY, So WY, Tomlinson B, Chan JCN, Ma RCW. Development of genome-wide polygenic risk scores for lipid traits and clinical applications for dyslipidemia, subclinical atherosclerosis, and diabetes cardiovascular complications among East Asians. Genome Med 2021; 13:29. [PMID: 33608049 PMCID: PMC7893928 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-021-00831-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The clinical utility of personal genomic information in identifying individuals at increased risks for dyslipidemia and cardiovascular diseases remains unclear. Methods We used data from Biobank Japan (n = 70,657–128,305) and developed novel East Asian-specific genome-wide polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for four lipid traits. We validated (n = 4271) and subsequently tested associations of these scores with 3-year lipid changes in adolescents (n = 620), carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in adult women (n = 781), dyslipidemia (n = 7723), and coronary heart disease (CHD) (n = 2374 cases and 6246 controls) in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. Results Our PRSs aggregating 84–549 genetic variants (0.251 < correlation coefficients (r) < 0.272) had comparably stronger association with lipid variations than the typical PRSs derived based on the genome-wide significant variants (0.089 < r < 0.240). Our PRSs were robustly associated with their corresponding lipid levels (7.5 × 10− 103 < P < 1.3 × 10− 75) and 3-year lipid changes (1.4 × 10− 6 < P < 0.0130) which started to emerge in childhood and adolescence. With the adjustments for principal components (PCs), sex, age, and body mass index, there was an elevation of 5.3% in TC (β ± SE = 0.052 ± 0.002), 11.7% in TG (β ± SE = 0.111 ± 0.006), 5.8% in HDL-C (β ± SE = 0.057 ± 0.003), and 8.4% in LDL-C (β ± SE = 0.081 ± 0.004) per one standard deviation increase in the corresponding PRS. However, their predictive power was attenuated in T2D patients (0.183 < r < 0.231). When we included each PRS (for TC, TG, and LDL-C) in addition to the clinical factors and PCs, the AUC for dyslipidemia was significantly increased by 0.032–0.057 in the general population (7.5 × 10− 3 < P < 0.0400) and 0.029–0.069 in T2D patients (2.1 × 10− 10 < P < 0.0428). Moreover, the quintile of TC-related PRS was moderately associated with cIMT in adult women (β ± SE = 0.011 ± 0.005, Ptrend = 0.0182). Independent of conventional risk factors, the quintile of PRSs for TC [OR (95% CI) = 1.07 (1.03–1.11)], TG [OR (95% CI) = 1.05 (1.01–1.09)], and LDL-C [OR (95% CI) = 1.05 (1.01–1.09)] were significantly associated with increased risk of CHD in T2D patients (4.8 × 10− 4 < P < 0.0197). Further adjustment for baseline lipid drug use notably attenuated the CHD association. Conclusions The PRSs derived and validated here highlight the potential for early genomic screening and personalized risk assessment for cardiovascular disease. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13073-021-00831-z.
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- Claudia H T Tam
- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong, China.,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong, China
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- Diabetes Centre, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- Diabetes Centre, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- Diabetes and Education Centre, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
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- North District Hospital, Sheung Shui, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Ruttonjee Hospital, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China
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- Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine, Yan Chai Hospital, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
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- Centre for Diabetes Education and Management, Our Lady of Maryknoll Hospital, Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Geriatrics, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.,CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong, China.,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. .,Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. .,CUHK-SJTU Joint Research Centre in Diabetes Genomics and Precision Medicine, Hong Kong, China. .,Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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Burgoine T, Monsivais P, Sharp SJ, Forouhi NG, Wareham NJ. Independent and combined associations between fast-food outlet exposure and genetic risk for obesity: a population-based, cross-sectional study in the UK. BMC Med 2021; 19:49. [PMID: 33588846 PMCID: PMC7885578 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-021-01902-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Characteristics of the built environment, such as neighbourhood fast-food outlet exposure, are increasingly recognised as risk factors for unhealthy diet and obesity. Obesity also has a genetic component, with common genetic variants explaining a substantial proportion of population-level obesity susceptibility. However, it is not known whether and to what extent associations between fast-food outlet exposure and body weight are modified by genetic predisposition to obesity. METHODS We used data from the Fenland Study, a population-based sample of 12,435 UK adults (mean age 48.6 years). We derived a genetic risk score associated with BMI (BMI-GRS) from 96 BMI-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms. Neighbourhood fast-food exposure was defined as quartiles of counts of outlets around the home address. We used multivariable regression models to estimate the associations of each exposure, independently and in combination, with measured BMI, overweight and obesity, and investigated interactions. RESULTS We found independent associations between BMI-GRS and risk of overweight (RR = 1.34, 95% CI 1.23-1.47) and obesity (RR = 1.73, 95% CI 1.55-1.93), and between fast-food outlet exposure and risk of obesity (highest vs lowest quartile RR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.21-2.05). There was no evidence of an interaction of fast-food outlet exposure and genetic risk on BMI (P = 0.09), risk of overweight (P = 0.51), or risk of obesity (P = 0.27). The combination of higher BMI-GRS and highest fast-food outlet exposure was associated with 2.70 (95% CI 1.99-3.66) times greater risk of obesity. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated independent associations of both genetic obesity risk and neighbourhood fast-food outlet exposure with adiposity. These important drivers of the obesity epidemic have to date been studied in isolation. Neighbourhood fast-food outlet exposure remains a potential target of policy intervention to prevent obesity and promote the public's health.
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- Thomas Burgoine
- UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
- Present address: Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, USA
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- UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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Liu W, Zhuang Z, Wang W, Huang T, Liu Z. An Improved Genome-Wide Polygenic Score Model for Predicting the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. Front Genet 2021; 12:632385. [PMID: 33643391 PMCID: PMC7905203 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.632385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Polygenic risk score (PRS) has been shown to be predictive of disease risk such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the existing studies on genetic prediction for T2D only had limited predictive power. To further improve the predictive capability of the PRS model in identifying individuals at high T2D risk, we proposed a new three-step filtering procedure, which aimed to include truly predictive single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and avoid unpredictive ones into PRS model. First, we filtered SNPs according to the marginal association p-values (p≤ 5× 10-2) from large-scale genome-wide association studies. Second, we set linkage disequilibrium (LD) pruning thresholds (r 2) as 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8. Third, we set p-value thresholds as 5× 10-2, 5× 10-4, 5× 10-6, and 5× 10-8. Then, we constructed and tested multiple candidate PRS models obtained by the PRSice-2 software among 182,422 individuals in the UK Biobank (UKB) testing dataset. We validated the predictive capability of the optimal PRS model that was chosen from the testing process in identifying individuals at high T2D risk based on the UKB validation dataset (n = 274,029). The prediction accuracy of the PRS model evaluated by the adjusted area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) showed that our PRS model had good prediction performance [AUC = 0.795, 95% confidence interval (CI): (0.790, 0.800)]. Specifically, our PRS model identified 30, 12, and 7% of the population at greater than five-, six-, and seven-fold risk for T2D, respectively. After adjusting for sex, age, physical measurements, and clinical factors, the AUC increased to 0.901 [95% CI: (0.897, 0.904)]. Therefore, our PRS model could be useful for population-level preventive T2D screening.
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- Wei Liu
- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Center for Intelligent Public Health, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Diseases, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Zhang Y, Lee MTM. Serum Urate Polygenic Risk Score Can Improve Gout Risk Prediction: A Large-Scale Cohort Study. Front Genet 2021; 11:604219. [PMID: 33613619 PMCID: PMC7889590 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.604219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Gout is a painful inflammatory arthritis affecting more than 8 million Americans. Identifying high-risk patients in early life could potentially encourage people to adopt lifestyle changes to prevent gout. Polygenic risk score (PRS) provides an overall estimate of an individual's genetic liability to develop a disease and can be used for early identification of high-risk individuals. In this study, we validated a previously reported PRS in an independent cohort. The urate-PRS was constructed from 110 significant urate-associated variants identified in Europeans. Phenome-wide and PRS-wide association study showed the urate-PRS is highly specifically associated with gout (phecode: 274.10; beta = 1.495 [1.372, 1.619], p = 4.37e-124). Urate-PRS alone did not performed in the gout prediction (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, AUROC = 0.640); however, the addition of PRS upon demographics significantly improved the model performance, yielding an AUROC of 0.804 from 0.777 (DeLong test p = 3.66e−9). Trans-ethnic PRS and European-specific PRS showed similar prediction performance. We observed increasing gout prevalence and odds ratio (OR) across the PRS quintiles. Our study showed 8.2% of the cohort had more than 2.5 odds for gout than remainders, indicating that urate-PRS may be a better marker than age and sex to stratify patient risk. With the rapid growth of large biorepositories, such as All of Us, urate-PRS can be applied quickly and widely in population to estimate individual's risk, providing a powerful tool for gout preventive purpose in population health.
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- Yanfei Zhang
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA, United States
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Galinsky T, Deter L, Krieg E, Feng HA, Battaglia C, Bell R, Haddock KS, Hilton T, Lynch C, Matz M, Moscatel S, Riley FD, Sampsel D, Shaw S. Safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) for increasingly bariatric patient populations: Factors related to caregivers' self-reported pain and injury. APPLIED ERGONOMICS 2021; 91:103300. [PMID: 33190057 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Revised: 10/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This study was conducted at 5 Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VAMCs). A cross sectional survey was administered to 134 workers who routinely lift and mobilize patients within their workplaces' safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) programs, which are mandated in all VAMCs. The survey was used to examine a comprehensive list of SPHM and non-SPHM variables, and their associations with self-reported musculoskeletal injury and pain. Previously unstudied variables distinguished between "bariatric" (≥300 lb or 136 kg) and "non-bariatric" (<300 lb or 136 kg) patient handling. Significant findings from stepwise and logistic regression provide targets for workplace improvements, predicting: lower injury odds with more frequently having sufficient time to use equipment, higher back pain odds with more frequent bariatric handling, lower back pain odds with greater ease in following SPHM policies, and lower odds of upper extremity pain with more bariatric equipment, and with higher safety climate ratings.
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- Traci Galinsky
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), USA.
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), USA
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- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), USA
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- Veterans Health Administration, USA; Patient Care Ergonomic Solutions, USA
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Kember RL, Merikangas AK, Verma SS, Verma A, Judy R, Damrauer SM, Ritchie MD, Rader DJ, Bućan M. Polygenic Risk of Psychiatric Disorders Exhibits Cross-trait Associations in Electronic Health Record Data From European Ancestry Individuals. Biol Psychiatry 2021; 89:236-245. [PMID: 32919613 PMCID: PMC7770066 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Prediction of disease risk is a key component of precision medicine. Common traits such as psychiatric disorders have a complex polygenic architecture, making the identification of a single risk predictor difficult. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) denoting the sum of an individual's genetic liability for a disorder are a promising biomarker for psychiatric disorders, but they require evaluation in a clinical setting. METHODS We developed PRSs for 6 psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, cross disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and anorexia nervosa) and 17 nonpsychiatric traits in more than 10,000 individuals from the Penn Medicine Biobank with accompanying electronic health records. We performed phenome-wide association analyses to test their association across disease categories. RESULTS Four of the 6 psychiatric PRSs were associated with their primary phenotypes (odds ratios from 1.2 to 1.6). Cross-trait associations were identified both within the psychiatric domain and across trait domains. PRSs for coronary artery disease and years of education were significantly associated with psychiatric disorders, largely driven by an association with tobacco use disorder. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated that the genetic architecture of electronic health record-derived psychiatric diagnoses is similar to ascertained research cohorts from large consortia. Psychiatric PRSs are moderately associated with psychiatric diagnoses but are not yet clinically predictive in naïve patients. Cross-trait associations for these PRSs suggest a broader effect of genetic liability beyond traditional diagnostic boundaries. As identification of genetic markers increases, including PRSs alongside other clinical risk factors may enhance prediction of psychiatric disorders and associated conditions in clinical registries.
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- Rachel L. Kember
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,MIRECC, CPL. Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Surgery, CPL. Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Theilade S, Christensen MB, Vilsbøll T, Knop FK. An overview of obesity mechanisms in humans: Endocrine regulation of food intake, eating behaviour and common determinants of body weight. Diabetes Obes Metab 2021; 23 Suppl 1:17-35. [PMID: 33621414 DOI: 10.1111/dom.14270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Obesity is one of the biggest health challenges of the 21st century, already affecting close to 700 million people worldwide, debilitating and shortening lives and costing billions of pounds in healthcare costs and loss of workability. Body weight homeostasis relies on complex biological mechanisms and the development of obesity occurs on a background of genetic susceptibility and an environment promoting increased caloric intake and reduced physical activity. The pathophysiology of common obesity links neuro-endocrine and metabolic disturbances with behavioural changes, genetics, epigenetics and cultural habits. Also, specific causes of obesity exist, including monogenetic diseases and iatrogenic causes. In this review, we provide an overview of obesity mechanisms in humans with a focus on energy homeostasis, endocrine regulation of food intake and eating behavior, as well as the most common specific causes of obesity.
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- Simone Theilade
- Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Herlev-Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen Center for Translational Research, Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Metabolic Research, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Herlev-Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Gentofte, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sarma S, Sockalingam S, Dash S. Obesity as a multisystem disease: Trends in obesity rates and obesity-related complications. Diabetes Obes Metab 2021; 23 Suppl 1:3-16. [PMID: 33621415 DOI: 10.1111/dom.14290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 12/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Obesity is a chronic multisystem disease associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The increasing prevalence of obesity makes it a major healthcare challenge across both developed and developing countries. Traditional measures such as body mass index do not always identify individuals at increased risk of comorbidities, yet continue to be used in deciding who qualifies for weight loss treatment. A better understanding of how obesity is associated with comorbidities, in particular non-metabolic conditions, is needed to identify individuals at risk in order to prioritize treatment. For metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes (T2D), weight loss can prevent T2D in individuals with prediabetes. It can improve and reverse T2D if weight loss is achieved early in the course of the disease. However, access to effective weight loss treatments is a significant barrier to improved health for people with obesity. In the present paper, we review the rising prevalence of obesity and why it should be classed as a multisystem disease. We will discuss potential mechanisms underlying its association with various comorbidities and how these respond to treatment, with a particular focus on cardiometabolic disease, malignancy and mental health.
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- Shohinee Sarma
- Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Banting and Best Diabetes Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Bray GA, Ryan DH. Evidence-based weight loss interventions: Individualized treatment options to maximize patient outcomes. Diabetes Obes Metab 2021; 23 Suppl 1:50-62. [PMID: 32969147 DOI: 10.1111/dom.14200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Against the backdrop of obesity as a major public health problem, we examined three questions: How much weight loss is needed to benefit patients with obesity? How well do current therapies do in producing weight loss? What strategies can be used to improve patient outcomes using evidence-based studies. This paper reviews literature on the outcomes of lifestyle, diet, medications and surgical treatments for obesity using literature searches for obesity treatments. Current treatments, including lifestyle, diet and exercise, produce a weight loss of 5% to 7% on average. Despite continued attempts to identify superior dietary approaches, most careful comparisons find that low carbohydrate diets are not significantly better than low fat diets for weight loss. The four medications currently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for long-term management of obesity are not as effective as surgery, adding about 5% on average to lifestyle approaches to weight loss. Two new medications that are under investigation, semaglutide and tirzepatide, significantly improve on this. For all treatments for weight loss, including lifestyle, medications and surgery, there is enormous variability in the amount of weight lost. Examination of this literature has yielded evidence supporting baseline and process predictors, but the effect sizes associated with these predictors are small and there are no prospective studies showing that a personalized approach based on genotype or phenotype will yield uniform success. Because obesity is a chronic disease it requires a 'continuous treatment model' across the lifespan.
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- George A Bray
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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