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Kazemi Naeini M, Akbarzadeh M, Kazemi I, Speed D, Hosseini SM. Using the Bayesian variational spike and slab model in a genome-wide association study for finding associated loci with bipolar disorder. Ann Hum Genet 2024; 88:212-246. [PMID: 38161273 DOI: 10.1111/ahg.12538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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OBJECTIVE The genome-wide association studies (GWAS) analysis, the most successful technique for discovering disease-related genetic variation, has some statistical concerns, including multiple testing, the correlation among variants (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) based on linkage disequilibrium and omitting the important variants when fitting the model with just one variant. To eliminate these problems in a small sample-size study, we used a sparse Bayesian learning model for finding bipolar disorder (BD) genetic variants. METHODS This study used the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium data set, including 1998 BD cases and 1500 control samples, and after quality control, 380,628 variants were analysed. In this GWAS, a Bayesian logistic model with hierarchical shrinkage spike and slab priors was used, with all variants considered simultaneously in one model. In order to decrease the computational burden, an alternative inferential method, Bayesian variational inference, has been used. RESULTS Thirteen variants were selected as associated with BD. The three of them (rs7572953, rs1378850 and rs4148944) were reported in previous GWAS. Eight of which were related to hemogram parameters, such as lymphocyte percentage, plateletcrit and haemoglobin concentration. Among selected related genes, GABPA, ELF3 and JAM2 were enriched in the platelet-derived growth factor pathway. These three genes, along with APP, ARL8A, CDH23 and GPR37L1, could be differential diagnostic variants for BD. CONCLUSIONS By reducing the statistical restrictions of GWAS analysis, the application of the Bayesian variational spike and slab models can offer insight into the genetic link with BD even with a small sample size. To uncover related variations with other traits, this model needs to be further examined.
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- Maryam Kazemi Naeini
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre, Institute of Advanced Studies, Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Speed D, Evans DM. Estimating disease heritability from complex pedigrees allowing for ascertainment and covariates. Am J Hum Genet 2024; 111:680-690. [PMID: 38490208 PMCID: PMC11023822 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Revised: 02/04/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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We propose TetraHer, a method for estimating the liability heritability of binary phenotypes. TetraHer has five key features. First, it can be applied to data from complex pedigrees that contain multiple types of relationships. Second, it can correct for ascertainment of cases or controls. Third, it can accommodate covariates. Fourth, it can model the contribution of common environment. Fifth, it produces a likelihood that can be used for significance testing. We first demonstrate the validity of TetraHer on simulated data. We then use TetraHer to estimate liability heritability for 229 codes from the tenth International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). We identify 107 codes with significant heritability (p < 0.05/229), which can be used in future analyses for investigating the genetic architecture of human diseases.
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- Doug Speed
- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Frazer Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Balbuena L, Peters E, Speed D. Using polygenic risk scores to investigate the evolution of smoking and mental health outcomes in UK biobank participants. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2023; 148:447-456. [PMID: 37607129 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Mendelian randomization studies report a bi-directional relation between cigarette smoking and mental disorders, yet from a clinical standpoint, mental disorders are the focus of treatment. Here, we used an event history framework to understand their evolution in the life course. Our objective was to estimate the relative contribution of genetic predispositions and self-reported smoking status (never, former, and present smoker) to hospitalizations for major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. METHODS We calculated polygenic risk scores (PRS) for ever smoking, pack-years of smoking as a proportion of adult life, and neuroticism in 337,140 UK Biobank participants of white British ancestry. These PRS and self-reported smoking status were entered as explanatory variables in survival models for hospitalization. RESULTS The estimated single nucleotide polymorphisms heritabilities (h2 ) were 23%, 5.7%, and 5.7% for pack-years, ever smoking, and neuroticism respectively. PRS pack-years and PRS neuroticism were associated with higher hospitalization risk for mental disorders in all smoking status groups. The hazard for mental health hospitalization was higher in both previous (HR: 1.50, CI: 1.35-1.67) and current (HR: 3.58, 2.97-4.31) compared to never smokers, after adjusting for confounders. CONCLUSION Since genetic liabilities for smoking and neuroticism are fixed at conception and smoking initiation generally started before age 20, our results show that preventing smoking in adolescents probably prevents the development of mental disorders.
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- Lloyd Balbuena
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Kongara K, Purchas G, Dukkipati V, Venkatachalam D, Ward N, Hunt H, Speed D. Pharmacokinetics and effect on renal function and average daily gain in lambs after castration and tail docking, of firocoxib and meloxicam. N Z Vet J 2023; 71:306-314. [PMID: 37409352 DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2023.2232337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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AIMS To evaluate and compare the pharmacokinetics of IM and oral firocoxib, and IM meloxicam, and detect their effect on renal function and average daily gain (ADG) in lambs undergoing tail docking and castration. METHODS Seventy-five male Romney lambs, aged 3-6 weeks, were randomised into five treatment groups (n = 15 per group): IM firocoxib (1 mg/kg); oral firocoxib (1 mg/kg); IM meloxicam (1 mg/kg); normal saline (approximately 2 mL, oral); or sham. Following the treatment administration, hot-iron tail docking and rubber ring castration were performed in all groups except the sham group, which did not undergo the procedures, but the animals were handled in the same manner as castrated and tail docked lambs. Blood samples were collected before and 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 hours after treatment administration, and drug concentrations in plasma were quantified by liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Plasma urea and creatinine concentrations were determined at a commercial laboratory. Lamb body weights were recorded before and 2, 4 and 8 weeks after tail docking and castration. The pharmacokinetic analysis was carried out using a non-compartmental approach. Between-group and between-time-point differences were compared using mixed model analyses. RESULTS There was no evidence for a difference in plasma elimination half-life between firocoxib given IM (LSM 18.6 (SE 1.4) hours), firocoxib given orally (LSM 18.2 (SE 1.4) hours), and meloxicam given IM (LSM 17. 0 (SE 1.4) hours). Firocoxib (IM) had a significantly greater volume of distribution (LSM 3.7 (SE 0.2) L/kg) than IM meloxicam (LSM 0.2 (SE 0.2) L/kg). Lambs in the meloxicam group had higher (p < 0.05) plasma urea and creatinine concentrations than those in the firocoxib, saline and sham groups. Lambs' ADG was decreased (p < 0.01) compared to the other treatment groups in the 0-2 week period following meloxicam administration. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Both formulations of firocoxib had a long plasma elimination half-life and large volume of distribution. There was a transient reduction in ADG in the meloxicam group, possibly due to mild renal toxicity. Comparative studies on dose-response effects of firocoxib and meloxicam in lambs following the procedures are required.Abbreviations: ADG: Average daily gain; Cmax: Maximum concentration; COX: Cyclooxygenase; LOD: Limit of detection; NSAID: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; CL: Plasma clearance; T1/2el: Plasma elimination half-life; Tmax: Time to achieve Cmax; Vd: Volume of distribution.
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- K Kongara
- Tāwharau Ora - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Tāwharau Ora - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Tāwharau Ora - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Tāwharau Ora - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Tāwharau Ora - School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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- Analytica Laboratories, Ruakura Research Station, Hamilton, New Zealand
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Stevelink R, Campbell C, Chen S, Abou-Khalil B, Adesoji OM, Afawi Z, Amadori E, Anderson A, Anderson J, Andrade DM, Annesi G, Auce P, Avbersek A, Bahlo M, Baker MD, Balagura G, Balestrini S, Barba C, Barboza K, Bartolomei F, Bast T, Baum L, Baumgartner T, Baykan B, Bebek N, Becker AJ, Becker F, Bennett CA, Berghuis B, Berkovic SF, Beydoun A, Bianchini C, Bisulli F, Blatt I, Bobbili DR, Borggraefe I, Bosselmann C, Braatz V, Bradfield JP, Brockmann K, Brody LC, Buono RJ, Busch RM, Caglayan H, Campbell E, Canafoglia L, Canavati C, Cascino GD, Castellotti B, Catarino CB, Cavalleri GL, Cerrato F, Chassoux F, Cherny SS, Cheung CL, Chinthapalli K, Chou IJ, Chung SK, Churchhouse C, Clark PO, Cole AJ, Compston A, Coppola A, Cosico M, Cossette P, Craig JJ, Cusick C, Daly MJ, Davis LK, de Haan GJ, Delanty N, Depondt C, Derambure P, Devinsky O, Di Vito L, Dlugos DJ, Doccini V, Doherty CP, El-Naggar H, Elger CE, Ellis CA, Eriksson JG, Faucon A, Feng YCA, Ferguson L, Ferraro TN, Ferri L, Feucht M, Fitzgerald M, Fonferko-Shadrach B, Fortunato F, Franceschetti S, Franke A, French JA, Freri E, Gagliardi M, Gambardella A, Geller EB, Giangregorio T, Gjerstad L, Glauser T, Goldberg E, Goldman A, Granata T, Greenberg DA, Guerrini R, Gupta N, Haas KF, Hakonarson H, Hallmann K, Hassanin E, Hegde M, Heinzen EL, Helbig I, Hengsbach C, Heyne HO, Hirose S, Hirsch E, Hjalgrim H, Howrigan DP, Hucks D, Hung PC, Iacomino M, Imbach LL, Inoue Y, Ishii A, Jamnadas-Khoda J, Jehi L, Johnson MR, Kälviäinen R, Kamatani Y, Kanaan M, Kanai M, Kantanen AM, Kara B, Kariuki SM, Kasperavičiūte D, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenite D, Kato M, Kegele J, Kesim Y, Khoueiry-Zgheib N, King C, Kirsch HE, Klein KM, Kluger G, Knake S, Knowlton RC, Koeleman BPC, Korczyn AD, Koupparis A, Kousiappa I, Krause R, Krenn M, Krestel H, Krey I, Kunz WS, Kurki MI, Kurlemann G, Kuzniecky R, Kwan P, Labate A, Lacey A, Lal D, Landoulsi Z, Lau YL, Lauxmann S, Leech SL, Lehesjoki AE, Lemke JR, Lerche H, Lesca G, Leu C, Lewin N, Lewis-Smith D, Li GHY, Li QS, Licchetta L, Lin KL, Lindhout D, Linnankivi T, Lopes-Cendes I, Lowenstein DH, Lui CHT, Madia F, Magnusson S, Marson AG, May P, McGraw CM, Mei D, Mills JL, Minardi R, Mirza N, Møller RS, Molloy AM, Montomoli M, Mostacci B, Muccioli L, Muhle H, Müller-Schlüter K, Najm IM, Nasreddine W, Neale BM, Neubauer B, Newton CRJC, Nöthen MM, Nothnagel M, Nürnberg P, O’Brien TJ, Okada Y, Ólafsson E, Oliver KL, Özkara C, Palotie A, Pangilinan F, Papacostas SS, Parrini E, Pato CN, Pato MT, Pendziwiat M, Petrovski S, Pickrell WO, Pinsky R, Pippucci T, Poduri A, Pondrelli F, Powell RHW, Privitera M, Rademacher A, Radtke R, Ragona F, Rau S, Rees MI, Regan BM, Reif PS, Rhelms S, Riva A, Rosenow F, Ryvlin P, Saarela A, Sadleir LG, Sander JW, Sander T, Scala M, Scattergood T, Schachter SC, Schankin CJ, Scheffer IE, Schmitz B, Schoch S, Schubert-Bast S, Schulze-Bonhage A, Scudieri P, Sham P, Sheidley BR, Shih JJ, Sills GJ, Sisodiya SM, Smith MC, Smith PE, Sonsma ACM, Speed D, Sperling MR, Stefansson H, Stefansson K, Steinhoff BJ, Stephani U, Stewart WC, Stipa C, Striano P, Stroink H, Strzelczyk A, Surges R, Suzuki T, Tan KM, Taneja RS, Tanteles GA, Taubøll E, Thio LL, Thomas GN, Thomas RH, Timonen O, Tinuper P, Todaro M, Topaloğlu P, Tozzi R, Tsai MH, Tumiene B, Turkdogan D, Unnsteinsdóttir U, Utkus A, Vaidiswaran P, Valton L, van Baalen A, Vetro A, Vining EPG, Visscher F, von Brauchitsch S, von Wrede R, Wagner RG, Weber YG, Weckhuysen S, Weisenberg J, Weller M, Widdess-Walsh P, Wolff M, Wolking S, Wu D, Yamakawa K, Yang W, Yapıcı Z, Yücesan E, Zagaglia S, Zahnert F, Zara F, Zhou W, Zimprich F, Zsurka G, Zulfiqar Ali Q. GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture. Nat Genet 2023; 55:1471-1482. [PMID: 37653029 PMCID: PMC10484785 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01485-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Epilepsy is a highly heritable disorder affecting over 50 million people worldwide, of which about one-third are resistant to current treatments. Here we report a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study including 29,944 cases, stratified into three broad categories and seven subtypes of epilepsy, and 52,538 controls. We identify 26 genome-wide significant loci, 19 of which are specific to genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE). We implicate 29 likely causal genes underlying these 26 loci. SNP-based heritability analyses show that common variants explain between 39.6% and 90% of genetic risk for GGE and its subtypes. Subtype analysis revealed markedly different genetic architectures between focal and generalized epilepsies. Gene-set analyses of GGE signals implicate synaptic processes in both excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the brain. Prioritized candidate genes overlap with monogenic epilepsy genes and with targets of current antiseizure medications. Finally, we leverage our results to identify alternate drugs with predicted efficacy if repurposed for epilepsy treatment.
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Schoeler T, Speed D, Porcu E, Pirastu N, Pingault JB, Kutalik Z. Participation bias in the UK Biobank distorts genetic associations and downstream analyses. Nat Hum Behav 2023; 7:1216-1227. [PMID: 37106081 PMCID: PMC10365993 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01579-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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While volunteer-based studies such as the UK Biobank have become the cornerstone of genetic epidemiology, the participating individuals are rarely representative of their target population. To evaluate the impact of selective participation, here we derived UK Biobank participation probabilities on the basis of 14 variables harmonized across the UK Biobank and a representative sample. We then conducted weighted genome-wide association analyses on 19 traits. Comparing the output from weighted genome-wide association analyses (neffective = 94,643 to 102,215) with that from standard genome-wide association analyses (n = 263,464 to 283,749), we found that increasing representativeness led to changes in SNP effect sizes and identified novel SNP associations for 12 traits. While heritability estimates were less impacted by weighting (maximum change in h2, 5%), we found substantial discrepancies for genetic correlations (maximum change in rg, 0.31) and Mendelian randomization estimates (maximum change in βSTD, 0.15) for socio-behavioural traits. We urge the field to increase representativeness in biobank samples, especially when studying genetic correlates of behaviour, lifestyles and social outcomes.
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- Tabea Schoeler
- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
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- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Precision Medicine Unit, Biomedical Data Science Center, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Genomics Research Centre, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Byg LM, Speed M, Speed D, Østergaard SD. Genetic liability to bipolar disorder and body mass index: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study. Bipolar Disord 2023; 25:25-31. [PMID: 36377279 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Bipolar disorder is associated with increased body mass index (BMI), but it remains undetermined if this association is causal and, if so, in which direction it goes. Here, we sought to answer these questions using bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization, a method from genetic epidemiology that uses data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to examine whether a risk factor is causal for an outcome METHODS: We used summary statistics from GWAS of bipolar disorder and BMI conducted using data collected by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium and the UK Biobank, respectively. The genetic instrument for bipolar disorder contained 53 SNPs and explained 0.5% of phenotypic variance, while the genetic instrument for BMI contained 517 SNPs and explained 7.1% of phenotypic variance RESULTS: Our findings suggest that genetic liability to bipolar disorder reduces BMI (slope from Egger regression = -0.195, p = 0.004). It follows that a twofold increase in the genetic liability to bipolar disorder leads to a 0.6 (kg/m2 ) reduction in BMI, predominantly driven by reduced fat mass. Conversely, we found no evidence that BMI causes changes in the risk of developing bipolar disorder CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that the increased BMI observed among individuals with bipolar disorder is not a direct consequence of genetic liability to bipolar disorder, but may more likely represent the sum of downstream correlates of manifest bipolar disorder, such as side effects of pharmacological treatment, poor diet, and sedentary lifestyle. As these factors are all modifiable, they can be targeted as part of clinical management.
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- Lars Meinertz Byg
- Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Psychiatry, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Psychiatry, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Psychiatry, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Berrandou TE, Balding D, Speed D. LDAK-GBAT: Fast and powerful gene-based association testing using summary statistics. Am J Hum Genet 2023; 110:23-29. [PMID: 36480927 PMCID: PMC9892699 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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We present LDAK-GBAT, a tool for gene-based association testing using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies that is computationally efficient, produces well-calibrated p values, and is significantly more powerful than existing tools. LDAK-GBAT takes approximately 30 min to analyze imputed data (2.9M common, genic SNPs), requiring less than 10 Gb memory. It shows good control of type 1 error given an appropriate reference panel. Across 109 phenotypes (82 from the UK Biobank, 18 from the Million Veteran Program, and nine from the Psychiatric Genetics Consortium), LDAK-GBAT finds on average 19% (SE: 1%) more significant genes than the existing tool sumFREGAT-ACAT, with even greater gains in comparison with MAGMA, GCTA-fastBAT, sumFREGAT-SKAT-O, and sumFREGAT-PCA.
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- Takiy-Eddine Berrandou
- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,Corresponding author
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, Melbourne University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,Corresponding author
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Kingsley NB, Sandmeyer L, Norton EM, Speed D, Dwyer A, Lassaline M, McCue M, Bellone RR. Heritability of insidious uveitis in Appaloosa horses. Anim Genet 2022; 53:872-877. [DOI: 10.1111/age.13267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Nicole B. Kingsley
- Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California – Davis Davis California USA
- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California – Davis Davis California USA
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- Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada
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- School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USA
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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- Genesee Valley Equine Clinic, LLC Scottsville New York USA
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- School of Veterinary Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- Veterinary Population Medicine Department, College of Veterinary Medicine University of Minnesota St Paul Minnesota USA
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- Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California – Davis Davis California USA
- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine University of California – Davis Davis California USA
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Sterenborg RBTM, Galesloot TE, Teumer A, Netea-Maier RT, Speed D, Meima ME, Visser WE, Smit JWA, Peeters RP, Medici M. The Effects of Common Genetic Variation in 96 Genes Involved in Thyroid Hormone Regulation on TSH and FT4 Concentrations. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2022; 107:e2276-e2283. [PMID: 35262175 PMCID: PMC9315164 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgac136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE While most of the variation in thyroid function is determined by genetic factors, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified via genome-wide association analyses have only explained ~5% to 9% of this variance so far. Most SNPs were in or nearby genes with no known role in thyroid hormone (TH) regulation. Therefore, we performed a large-scale candidate gene study investigating the effect of common genetic variation in established TH regulating genes on serum thyrotropin [thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)] and thyroxine (FT4) concentrations. METHODS SNPs in or within 10 kb of 96 TH regulating genes were included (30 031 TSH SNPs, and 29 962 FT4 SNPs). Associations were studied in 54 288 individuals from the ThyroidOmics Consortium. Linkage disequilibrium-based clumping was used to identify independently associated SNPs. SNP-based explained variances were calculated using SumHer software. RESULTS We identified 23 novel TSH-associated SNPs in predominantly hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis genes and 25 novel FT4-associated SNPs in mainly peripheral metabolism and transport genes. Genome-wide SNP variation explained ~21% (SD 1.7) of the total variation in both TSH and FT4 concentrations, whereas SNPs in the 96 TH regulating genes explained 1.9% to 2.6% (SD 0.4). CONCLUSION Here we report the largest candidate gene analysis on thyroid function, resulting in a substantial increase in the number of genetic variants determining TSH and FT4 concentrations. Interestingly, these candidate gene SNPs explain only a minor part of the variation in TSH and FT4 concentrations, which substantiates the need for large genetic studies including common and rare variants to unravel novel, yet unknown, pathways in TH regulation.
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- Rosalie B T M Sterenborg
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Department for Health Evidence, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Population Medicine and Lifestyle Diseases Prevention, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Correspondence: Marco Medici, MD, PhD, Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Doctor Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Speed D, Kaphle A, Balding DJ. SNP-based heritability and selection analyses: Improved models and new results. Bioessays 2022; 44:e2100170. [PMID: 35279859 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202100170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Complex-trait genetics has advanced dramatically through methods to estimate the heritability tagged by SNPs, both genome-wide and in genomic regions of interest such as those defined by functional annotations. The models underlying many of these analyses are inadequate, and consequently many SNP-heritability results published to date are inaccurate. Here, we review the modelling issues, both for analyses based on individual genotype data and association test statistics, highlighting the role of a low-dimensional model for the heritability of each SNP. We use state-of-art models to present updated results about how heritability is distributed with respect to functional annotations in the human genome, and how it varies with allele frequency, which can reflect purifying selection. Our results give finer detail to the picture that has emerged in recent years of complex trait heritability widely dispersed across the genome. Confounding due to population structure remains a problem that summary statistic analyses cannot reliably overcome. Also see the video abstract here: https://youtu.be/WC2u03V65MQ.
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- Doug Speed
- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of BioSciences and School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.,Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of BioSciences and School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Mallawaarachchi S, Tonkin-Hill G, Croucher NJ, Turner P, Speed D, Corander J, Balding D. Genome-wide association, prediction and heritability in bacteria with application to Streptococcus pneumoniae. NAR Genom Bioinform 2022; 4:lqac011. [PMID: 35211669 PMCID: PMC8862724 DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqac011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Whole-genome sequencing has facilitated genome-wide analyses of association, prediction and heritability in many organisms. However, such analyses in bacteria are still in their infancy, being limited by difficulties including genome plasticity and strong population structure. Here we propose a suite of methods including linear mixed models, elastic net and LD-score regression, adapted to bacterial traits using innovations such as frequency-based allele coding, both insertion/deletion and nucleotide testing and heritability partitioning. We compare and validate our methods against the current state-of-art using simulations, and analyse three phenotypes of the major human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae, including the first analyses of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for penicillin and ceftriaxone. We show that the MIC traits are highly heritable with high prediction accuracy, explained by many genetic associations under good population structure control. In ceftriaxone MIC, this is surprising because none of the isolates are resistant as per the inhibition zone criteria. We estimate that half of the heritability of penicillin MIC is explained by a known drug-resistance region, which also contributes a quarter of the ceftriaxone MIC heritability. For the within-host carriage duration phenotype, no associations were observed, but the moderate heritability and prediction accuracy indicate a moderately polygenic trait.
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- Parasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap 1710, Cambodia,Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LG, UK
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- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark,Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Parasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK,Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0372 Oslo, Norway,Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Correspondence may also be addressed to David Balding.
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Jefsen OH, Speed M, Speed D, Østergaard SD. Bipolar disorder and cannabis use: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study. Addict Biol 2021; 26:e13030. [PMID: 33733564 DOI: 10.1111/adb.13030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Cannabis use is associated with a number of psychiatric disorders; however, the causal nature of these associations has been difficult to establish. Mendelian randomization (MR) offers a way to infer causality between exposures with known genetic predictors (genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) and outcomes of interest. MR has previously been applied to investigate the relationship between lifetime cannabis use (having ever used cannabis) and schizophrenia, depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but not bipolar disorder, representing a gap in the literature. We conducted a two-sample bidirectional MR study on the relationship between bipolar disorder and lifetime cannabis use. Genetic instruments (SNPs) were obtained from the summary statistics of recent large genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We conducted a two-sample bidirectional MR study on the relationship between bipolar disorder and lifetime cannabis use using inverse variance weighted regression, weighted median regression, and Egger regression. Genetic liability to bipolar disorder was significantly associated with an increased risk of lifetime cannabis use; however, genetic liability to lifetime cannabis use showed no association with the risk of bipolar disorder. The sensitivity analyses showed no evidence for pleiotropic effects. The present findings support a causal effect of liability to bipolar disorder on the risk of using cannabis at least once. No evidence was found for a causal effect of liability to cannabis use on the risk of bipolar disorder. These findings add important new knowledge to the understanding of the complex relationship between cannabis use and psychiatric disorders.
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- Oskar Hougaard Jefsen
- Department of Affective Disorders Aarhus University Hospital – Psychiatry Aarhus Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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- Department of Affective Disorders Aarhus University Hospital – Psychiatry Aarhus Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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- Department of Affective Disorders Aarhus University Hospital – Psychiatry Aarhus Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark
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Zhang Q, Privé F, Vilhjálmsson B, Speed D. Improved genetic prediction of complex traits from individual-level data or summary statistics. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4192. [PMID: 34234142 PMCID: PMC8263809 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24485-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Most existing tools for constructing genetic prediction models begin with the assumption that all genetic variants contribute equally towards the phenotype. However, this represents a suboptimal model for how heritability is distributed across the genome. Therefore, we develop prediction tools that allow the user to specify the heritability model. We compare individual-level data prediction tools using 14 UK Biobank phenotypes; our new tool LDAK-Bolt-Predict outperforms the existing tools Lasso, BLUP, Bolt-LMM and BayesR for all 14 phenotypes. We compare summary statistic prediction tools using 225 UK Biobank phenotypes; our new tool LDAK-BayesR-SS outperforms the existing tools lassosum, sBLUP, LDpred and SBayesR for 223 of the 225 phenotypes. When we improve the heritability model, the proportion of phenotypic variance explained increases by on average 14%, which is equivalent to increasing the sample size by a quarter.
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- Qianqian Zhang
- Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- National Center for Register-Based Research (NCRR), Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- National Center for Register-Based Research (NCRR), Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
- Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (QGG), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Nagel M, Speed D, van der Sluis S, Østergaard SD. Genome-wide association study of the sensitivity to environmental stress and adversity neuroticism cluster. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2020; 141:476-478. [PMID: 31972866 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- M Nagel
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Section Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Section Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital - Psychiatry, Aarhus, Denmark
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Holmes JB, Speed D, Balding DJ. Summary statistic analyses can mistake confounding bias for heritability. Genet Epidemiol 2019; 43:930-940. [PMID: 31541496 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 07/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
Linkage disequilibrium SCore regression (LDSC) has become a popular approach to estimate confounding bias, heritability, and genetic correlation using only genome-wide association study (GWAS) test statistics. SumHer is a newly introduced alternative with similar aims. We show using theory and simulations that both approaches fail to adequately account for confounding bias, even when the assumed heritability model is correct. Consequently, these methods may estimate heritability poorly if there was an inadequate adjustment for confounding in the original GWAS analysis. We also show that the choice of a summary statistic for use in LDSC or SumHer can have a large impact on resulting inferences. Further, covariate adjustments in the original GWAS can alter the target of heritability estimation, which can be problematic for test statistics from a meta-analysis of GWAS with different covariate adjustments.
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- John B Holmes
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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Couto Alves A, De Silva NMG, Karhunen V, Sovio U, Das S, Taal HR, Warrington NM, Lewin AM, Kaakinen M, Cousminer DL, Thiering E, Timpson NJ, Bond TA, Lowry E, Brown CD, Estivill X, Lindi V, Bradfield JP, Geller F, Speed D, Coin LJM, Loh M, Barton SJ, Beilin LJ, Bisgaard H, Bønnelykke K, Alili R, Hatoum IJ, Schramm K, Cartwright R, Charles MA, Salerno V, Clément K, Claringbould AAJ, van Duijn CM, Moltchanova E, Eriksson JG, Elks C, Feenstra B, Flexeder C, Franks S, Frayling TM, Freathy RM, Elliott P, Widén E, Hakonarson H, Hattersley AT, Rodriguez A, Banterle M, Heinrich J, Heude B, Holloway JW, Hofman A, Hyppönen E, Inskip H, Kaplan LM, Hedman AK, Läärä E, Prokisch H, Grallert H, Lakka TA, Lawlor DA, Melbye M, Ahluwalia TS, Marinelli M, Millwood IY, Palmer LJ, Pennell CE, Perry JR, Ring SM, Savolainen MJ, Rivadeneira F, Standl M, Sunyer J, Tiesler CMT, Uitterlinden AG, Schierding W, O’Sullivan JM, Prokopenko I, Herzig KH, Smith GD, O'Reilly P, Felix JF, Buxton JL, Blakemore AIF, Ong KK, Jaddoe VWV, Grant SFA, Sebert S, McCarthy MI, Järvelin MR. GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaaw3095. [PMID: 31840077 PMCID: PMC6904961 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Early childhood growth patterns are associated with adult health, yet the genetic factors and the developmental stages involved are not fully understood. Here, we combine genome-wide association studies with modeling of longitudinal growth traits to study the genetics of infant and child growth, followed by functional, pathway, genetic correlation, risk score, and colocalization analyses to determine how developmental timings, molecular pathways, and genetic determinants of these traits overlap with those of adult health. We found a robust overlap between the genetics of child and adult body mass index (BMI), with variants associated with adult BMI acting as early as 4 to 6 years old. However, we demonstrated a completely distinct genetic makeup for peak BMI during infancy, influenced by variation at the LEPR/LEPROT locus. These findings suggest that different genetic factors control infant and child BMI. In light of the obesity epidemic, these findings are important to inform the timing and targets of prevention strategies.
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- Alexessander Couto Alves
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
- Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Genomics and Disease Group, Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, Singapore
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- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Medical School, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- COPSAC, The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- COPSAC, The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- CRNH Ile de France, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- CRNH Ile de France, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition Institute and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Inserm, UMR 1153 (CRESS), Paris Descartes University, Villejuif, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- CRNH Ile de France, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Inserm, UMR 1153 (CRESS), Paris Descartes University, Villejuif, Paris, France
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- University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Genetics, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, University College London, London, UK
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
- Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Genomics and Disease Group, Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar
- Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, Singapore
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Medical School, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- COPSAC, The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- CRNH Ile de France, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition Institute and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
- Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Inserm, UMR 1153 (CRESS), Paris Descartes University, Villejuif, Paris, France
- University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Genetics, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhalsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
- National Institute for Health Research, Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK London, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- School of Psychology, College of Social Science, University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
- Human Genetics and Medical Genomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
- Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA
- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, UK
- Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU) at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- School of Public Health and Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Division of Internal Medicine, and Biocenter of Oulu, Faculty of Medicine, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- A Better Start—National Science, Challenge, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Biomedicine, University Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center and Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
- School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Section of Investigative Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhalsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research, Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK London, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Psychology, College of Social Science, University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
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- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
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- Inserm, UMR 1153 (CRESS), Paris Descartes University, Villejuif, Paris, France
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- Human Genetics and Medical Genomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
- Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition Institute and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA
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- COPSAC, The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, UK
- Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU) at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Public Health and Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Division of Internal Medicine, and Biocenter of Oulu, Faculty of Medicine, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
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- Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
- Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- A Better Start—National Science, Challenge, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
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- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Biomedicine, University Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center and Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Section of Investigative Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center and Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, University College London, London, UK
- The Generation R Study Group, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, School of Biosciences and Medicine, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich Neuherberg, Germany
- Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine, Dr von Hauner Children’s Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol and NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Center, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Center for Life Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Genomics and Disease Group, Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
- Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar
- Center for Applied Genomics, Abramson Research Center, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine (TLGM), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, Singapore
- MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Medical School, Royal Perth Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- COPSAC, The Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- CRNH Ile de France, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition Institute and Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
- Institute for Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Inserm, UMR 1153 (CRESS), Paris Descartes University, Villejuif, Paris, France
- University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Genetics, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhalsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
- National Institute for Health Research, Imperial College Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK London, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- School of Psychology, College of Social Science, University of Lincoln Brayford Pool Lincoln, Lincolnshire, UK
- Human Genetics and Medical Genomics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
- Australian Centre for Precision Health, University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Cardiovascular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Neuherberg, Germany
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA
- ISGlobal, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain
- Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, UK
- Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit (MRC PHRU) at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- School of Public Health and Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
- Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Division of Internal Medicine, and Biocenter of Oulu, Faculty of Medicine, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- A Better Start—National Science, Challenge, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Research Unit of Biomedicine, University Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center and Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
- School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Section of Investigative Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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Kia DA, Noyce AJ, White J, Speed D, Nicolas A, Burgess S, Lawlor DA, Davey Smith G, Singleton A, Nalls MA, Sofat R, Wood NW. Mendelian randomization study shows no causal relationship between circulating urate levels and Parkinson's disease. Ann Neurol 2019; 84:191-199. [PMID: 30014513 PMCID: PMC6481555 DOI: 10.1002/ana.25294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 05/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Objective Observational studies have shown that increased plasma urate is associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s disease (PD), but these studies were not designed to test causality. If a causal relationship exists, then modulating plasma urate levels could be a potential preventive avenue for PD. We used a large two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) design to assess for a causal relationship between plasma urate and PD risk. Methods We used a genetic instrument consisting of 31 independent loci for plasma urate on a case-control genome-wide association study data set, which included 13,708 PD cases and 95,282 controls. Individual effect estimates for each SNP were combined using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method. Two additional methods, MR-Egger and a penalized weighted median (PWM)-based approach, were used to assess potential bias attributed to pleiotropy or invalid instruments. Results We found no evidence for a causal relationship between urate and PD, with an effect estimate from the IVW method of odds ratio (OR) 1.03 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88–1.20) per 1-standard-deviation increase in plasma urate levels. MR Egger and PWM analyses yielded similar estimates (OR, 0.99 [95% CI, 0.83–1.17] and 0.99 [95% CI, 0.86−1.14], respectively). Interpretation We did not find evidence for a linear causal protective effect by urate on PD risk. The associations observed in previous observational studies may be, in part, attributed to confounding or reverse causality. In the context of the present findings, strategies to elevate circulating urate levels may not reduce overall PD risk.
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- Demis A Kia
- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.,Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College, London, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College, London, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory for Neurogenetics, National Institutes for Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.,Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.,Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory for Neurogenetics, National Institutes for Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory for Neurogenetics, National Institutes for Health, Bethesda, MD.,Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD
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- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom
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Speed D, Hemani G, Speed MS, Børglum AD, Østergaard SD. Investigating the causal relationship between neuroticism and depression via Mendelian randomization. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2019; 139:395-397. [PMID: 30697695 PMCID: PMC6426667 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Doug Speed
- Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, UK,Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, UK
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- Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC), Aarhus University, Denmark,Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine and Center for Integrative Sequencing, iSEQ, Aarhus University, Denmark,The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Denmark,Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark,Department of Affective Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark,The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research (iPSYCH), Denmark,Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Aarhus, Denmark
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We present SumHer, software for estimating confounding bias, SNP heritability, enrichments of heritability and genetic correlations using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. The key difference between SumHer and the existing software LD Score Regression (LDSC) is that SumHer allows the user to specify the heritability model. We apply SumHer to results from 24 large-scale association studies (average sample size 121,000) using our recommended heritability model. We show that these studies tended to substantially over-correct for confounding, and as a result the number of genome-wide significant loci was under-reported by about a quarter. We also estimate enrichments for 24 categories of SNPs defined by functional annotations. A previous study using LDSC reported that conserved regions were 13-fold enriched, and found a further six categories with above threefold enrichment. By contrast, our analysis using SumHer finds that none of the categories have enrichment above twofold. SumHer provides an improved understanding of the genetic architecture of complex traits, which enables more efficient analysis of future genetic data.
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- Doug Speed
- Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. .,Bioinformatics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. .,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.,Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of BioSciences and School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Tylee DS, Sun J, Hess JL, Tahir MA, Sharma E, Malik R, Worrall BB, Levine AJ, Martinson JJ, Nejentsev S, Speed D, Fischer A, Mick E, Walker BR, Crawford A, Grant SF, Polychronakos C, Bradfield JP, Sleiman PMA, Hakonarson H, Ellinghaus E, Elder JT, Tsoi LC, Trembath RC, Barker JN, Franke A, Dehghan A, Faraone SV, Glatt. SJ. Genetic correlations among psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes based on genome-wide association data. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2018; 177:641-657. [PMID: 30325587 PMCID: PMC6230304 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2017] [Revised: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Individuals with psychiatric disorders have elevated rates of autoimmune comorbidity and altered immune signaling. It is unclear whether these altered immunological states have a shared genetic basis with those psychiatric disorders. The present study sought to use existing summary-level data from previous genome-wide association studies to determine if commonly varying single nucleotide polymorphisms are shared between psychiatric and immune-related phenotypes. We estimated heritability and examined pair-wise genetic correlations using the linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC) and heritability estimation from summary statistics methods. Using LDSC, we observed significant genetic correlations between immune-related disorders and several psychiatric disorders, including anorexia nervosa, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, smoking behavior, and Tourette syndrome. Loci significantly mediating genetic correlations were identified for schizophrenia when analytically paired with Crohn's disease, primary biliary cirrhosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and ulcerative colitis. We report significantly correlated loci and highlight those containing genome-wide associations and candidate genes for respective disorders. We also used the LDSC method to characterize genetic correlations among the immune-related phenotypes. We discuss our findings in the context of relevant genetic and epidemiological literature, as well as the limitations and caveats of the study.
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- Daniel S. Tylee
- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany
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- Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A
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- Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A
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- Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies and University College London, London, U.K
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, U.S.A
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- BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, U.K
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, MRC Integrated Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Institute of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Endocrine Genetics Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics and the Child Health Program of the Research Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Quantinuum Research LLC, San Diego, CA, U.S.A
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Veterans Affairs Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Dermatology, Veterans Affairs Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
- K.G. Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology & Neurobiology Laboratory (PsychGENe Lab); Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Neuroscience and Physiology; SUNY Upstate Medical University; Syracuse, NY, U.S.A
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McCormack M, Gui H, Ingason A, Speed D, Wright GEB, Zhang EJ, Secolin R, Yasuda C, Kwok M, Wolking S, Becker F, Rau S, Avbersek A, Heggeli K, Leu C, Depondt C, Sills GJ, Marson AG, Auce P, Brodie MJ, Francis B, Johnson MR, Koeleman BPC, Striano P, Coppola A, Zara F, Kunz WS, Sander JW, Lerche H, Klein KM, Weckhuysen S, Krenn M, Gudmundsson LJ, Stefánsson K, Krause R, Shear N, Ross CJD, Delanty N, Pirmohamed M, Carleton BC, Cendes F, Lopes-Cendes I, Liao WP, O'Brien TJ, Sisodiya SM, Cherny S, Kwan P, Baum L, Cavalleri GL. Genetic variation in CFH predicts phenytoin-induced maculopapular exanthema in European-descent patients. Neurology 2018; 90:e332-e341. [PMID: 29288229 PMCID: PMC5798660 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000004853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To characterize, among European and Han Chinese populations, the genetic predictors of maculopapular exanthema (MPE), a cutaneous adverse drug reaction common to antiepileptic drugs. METHODS We conducted a case-control genome-wide association study of autosomal genotypes, including Class I and II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles, in 323 cases and 1,321 drug-tolerant controls from epilepsy cohorts of northern European and Han Chinese descent. Results from each cohort were meta-analyzed. RESULTS We report an association between a rare variant in the complement factor H-related 4 (CFHR4) gene and phenytoin-induced MPE in Europeans (p = 4.5 × 10-11; odds ratio [95% confidence interval] 7 [3.2-16]). This variant is in complete linkage disequilibrium with a missense variant (N1050Y) in the complement factor H (CFH) gene. In addition, our results reinforce the association between HLA-A*31:01 and carbamazepine hypersensitivity. We did not identify significant genetic associations with MPE among Han Chinese patients. CONCLUSIONS The identification of genetic predictors of MPE in CFHR4 and CFH, members of the complement factor H-related protein family, suggest a new link between regulation of the complement system alternative pathway and phenytoin-induced hypersensitivity in European-ancestral patients.
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- Mark McCormack
- Author affiliations are provided at the end of the article
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- Author affiliations are provided at the end of the article
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Speed D, Cai N, Johnson MR, Nejentsev S, Balding DJ. Reevaluation of SNP heritability in complex human traits. Nat Genet 2017; 49:986-992. [PMID: 28530675 PMCID: PMC5493198 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 244] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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SNP heritability, the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by SNPs, has been reported for many hundreds of traits. Its estimation requires strong prior assumptions about the distribution of heritability across the genome, but the assumptions in current use have not been thoroughly tested. By analyzing imputed data for a large number of human traits, we empirically derive a model that more accurately describes how heritability varies with minor allele frequency, linkage disequilibrium and genotype certainty. Across 19 traits, our improved model leads to estimates of common SNP heritability on average 43% (standard deviation 3) higher than those obtained from the widely-used software GCTA, and 25% (standard deviation 2) higher than those from the recently-proposed extension GCTA-LDMS. Previously, DNaseI hypersensitivity sites were reported to explain 79% of SNP heritability; using our improved heritability model their estimated contribution is only 24%.
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- Doug Speed
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK.,Centre for Systems Genomics, School of BioSciences, and School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Jeffares DC, Jolly C, Hoti M, Speed D, Shaw L, Rallis C, Balloux F, Dessimoz C, Bähler J, Sedlazeck FJ. Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14061. [PMID: 28117401 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Large structural variations (SVs) within genomes are more challenging to identify than smaller genetic variants but may substantially contribute to phenotypic diversity and evolution. We analyse the effects of SVs on gene expression, quantitative traits and intrinsic reproductive isolation in the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. We establish a high-quality curated catalogue of SVs in the genomes of a worldwide library of S. pombe strains, including duplications, deletions, inversions and translocations. We show that copy number variants (CNVs) show a variety of genetic signals consistent with rapid turnover. These transient CNVs produce stoichiometric effects on gene expression both within and outside the duplicated regions. CNVs make substantial contributions to quantitative traits, most notably intracellular amino acid concentrations, growth under stress and sugar utilization in winemaking, whereas rearrangements are strongly associated with reproductive isolation. Collectively, these findings have broad implications for evolution and for our understanding of quantitative traits including complex human diseases.
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- Daniel C Jeffares
- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,Department of Computer Science, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,Department of Ecology and Evolution and Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Biophore, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Biophore, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.,UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Levine AP, Pontikos N, Schiff ER, Jostins L, Speed D, Lovat LB, Barrett JC, Grasberger H, Plagnol V, Segal AW. Genetic Complexity of Crohn's Disease in Two Large Ashkenazi Jewish Families. Gastroenterology 2016; 151:698-709. [PMID: 27373512 PMCID: PMC5643259 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2016.06.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 06/21/2016] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Crohn's disease (CD) is a highly heritable disease that is particularly common in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. We studied 2 large Ashkenazi Jewish families with a high prevalence of CD in an attempt to identify novel genetic risk variants. METHODS Ashkenazi Jewish patients with CD and a positive family history were recruited from the University College London Hospital. We used genome-wide, single-nucleotide polymorphism data to assess the burden of common CD-associated risk variants and for linkage analysis. Exome sequencing was performed and rare variants that were predicted to be deleterious and were observed at a high frequency in cases were prioritized. We undertook within-family association analysis after imputation and assessed candidate variants for evidence of association with CD in an independent cohort of Ashkenazi Jewish individuals. We examined the effects of a variant in DUOX2 on hydrogen peroxide production in HEK293 cells. RESULTS We identified 2 families (1 with >800 members and 1 with >200 members) containing 54 and 26 cases of CD or colitis, respectively. Both families had a significant enrichment of previously described common CD-associated risk variants. No genome-wide significant linkage was observed. Exome sequencing identified candidate variants, including a missense mutation in DUOX2 that impaired its function and a frameshift mutation in CSF2RB that was associated with CD in an independent cohort of Ashkenazi Jewish individuals. CONCLUSIONS In a study of 2 large Ashkenazi Jewish with multiple cases of CD, we found the genetic basis of the disease to be complex, with a role for common and rare genetic variants. We identified a frameshift mutation in CSF2RB that was replicated in an independent cohort. These findings show the value of family studies and the importance of the innate immune system in the pathogenesis of CD.
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- Adam P. Levine
- Division of Medicine, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Medicine, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Surgery and Interventional Science, National Medical Laser Centre, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- Medical Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Medicine, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom,Reprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Anthony W. Segal, FRS, Division of Medicine, University College London, Rayne Building, 5 University Street, London, WC1E 6JF, United Kingdom.Division of MedicineUniversity College LondonRayne Building5 University StreetLondonWC1E 6JF, United Kingdom
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Jeffares DC, Rallis C, Rieux A, Speed D, Převorovský M, Mourier T, Marsellach FX, Iqbal Z, Lau W, Cheng TM, Pracana R, Mülleder M, Lawson JL, Chessel A, Bala S, Hellenthal G, O’Fallon B, Keane T, Simpson JT, Bischof L, Tomiczek B, Bitton DA, Sideri T, Codlin S, Hellberg JE, van Trigt L, Jeffery L, Li JJ, Atkinson S, Thodberg M, Febrer M, McLay K, Drou N, Brown W, Hayles J, Carazo Salas RE, Ralser M, Maniatis N, Balding DJ, Balloux F, Durbin R, Bähler J. The genomic and phenotypic diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nat Genet 2015; 47:235-41. [PMID: 25665008 PMCID: PMC4645456 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Natural variation within species reveals aspects of genome evolution and function. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an important model for eukaryotic biology, but researchers typically use one standard laboratory strain. To extend the usefulness of this model, we surveyed the genomic and phenotypic variation in 161 natural isolates. We sequenced the genomes of all strains, finding moderate genetic diversity (π = 3 × 10(-3) substitutions/site) and weak global population structure. We estimate that dispersal of S. pombe began during human antiquity (∼340 BCE), and ancestors of these strains reached the Americas at ∼1623 CE. We quantified 74 traits, finding substantial heritable phenotypic diversity. We conducted 223 genome-wide association studies, with 89 traits showing at least one association. The most significant variant for each trait explained 22% of the phenotypic variance on average, with indels having larger effects than SNPs. This analysis represents a rich resource to examine genotype-phenotype relationships in a tractable model.
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- Daniel C. Jeffares
- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Cell Biology, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, North Ryde, Australia; The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
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- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, North Ryde, Australia; The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
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- CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, North Ryde, Australia; The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
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- CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, North Ryde, Australia; The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK
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- Centre for Genetics and Genomics, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Division of Physiology and Metabolism, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK
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Johnson MR, Behmoaras J, Bottolo L, Krishnan ML, Pernhorst K, Santoscoy PLM, Rossetti T, Speed D, Srivastava PK, Chadeau-Hyam M, Hajji N, Dabrowska A, Rotival M, Razzaghi B, Kovac S, Wanisch K, Grillo FW, Slaviero A, Langley SR, Shkura K, Roncon P, De T, Mattheisen M, Niehusmann P, O'Brien TJ, Petrovski S, von Lehe M, Hoffmann P, Eriksson J, Coffey AJ, Cichon S, Walker M, Simonato M, Danis B, Mazzuferi M, Foerch P, Schoch S, De Paola V, Kaminski RM, Cunliffe VT, Becker AJ, Petretto E. Systems genetics identifies Sestrin 3 as a regulator of a proconvulsant gene network in human epileptic hippocampus. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6031. [PMID: 25615886 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Gene-regulatory network analysis is a powerful approach to elucidate the molecular processes and pathways underlying complex disease. Here we employ systems genetics approaches to characterize the genetic regulation of pathophysiological pathways in human temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Using surgically acquired hippocampi from 129 TLE patients, we identify a gene-regulatory network genetically associated with epilepsy that contains a specialized, highly expressed transcriptional module encoding proconvulsive cytokines and Toll-like receptor signalling genes. RNA sequencing analysis in a mouse model of TLE using 100 epileptic and 100 control hippocampi shows the proconvulsive module is preserved across-species, specific to the epileptic hippocampus and upregulated in chronic epilepsy. In the TLE patients, we map the trans-acting genetic control of this proconvulsive module to Sestrin 3 (SESN3), and demonstrate that SESN3 positively regulates the module in macrophages, microglia and neurons. Morpholino-mediated Sesn3 knockdown in zebrafish confirms the regulation of the transcriptional module, and attenuates chemically induced behavioural seizures in vivo.
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- Michael R Johnson
- Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Burlington Danes Building, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Centre for the Developing Brain, Department of Perinatal Imaging and Health, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Section of Translational Epileptology, Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Street 25, Bonn D-53127, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Burlington Danes Building, London W12 0NN, UK.,Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, MRC/PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, Norfolk Place, W21PG London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Centre for Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Burlington Danes Building, London W12 0NN, UK.,Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Burlington Danes Building, London W12 0NN, UK.,Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Center, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.,National Institute of Neuroscience, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, D-53127 Bonn, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, D-53127 Bonn, Germany.,Institute for Genomic Mathematics, University of Bonn, D-53127 Bonn, Germany
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- Section of Translational Epileptology, Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Street 25, Bonn D-53127, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, RMH, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.,Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Hebelstrasse 20, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Topeliusgatan 20, 00250 Helsinki, Finland.,Helsinki University Central Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Haartmaninkatu 4, Helsinki 00290, Finland.,Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, 407, PO Box 20, Tukholmankatu 8 B, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany.,Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Hebelstrasse 20, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Center, University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.,National Institute of Neuroscience, 44121 Ferrara, Italy.,Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), University of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Neuroscience TA, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Avenue de l'industrie, R9, B-1420 Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
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- Neuroscience TA, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Avenue de l'industrie, R9, B-1420 Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
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- Neuroscience TA, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Avenue de l'industrie, R9, B-1420 Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
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- Section of Translational Epileptology, Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Street 25, Bonn D-53127, Germany.,Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, Bonn D-53127, Germany
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
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- Neuroscience TA, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Avenue de l'industrie, R9, B-1420 Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Bateson Centre, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Section of Translational Epileptology, Department of Neuropathology, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Street 25, Bonn D-53127, Germany
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- Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK.,Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore 169857, Singapore
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Speed D, O'Brien TJ, Palotie A, Shkura K, Marson AG, Balding DJ, Johnson MR. Describing the genetic architecture of epilepsy through heritability analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 137:2680-9. [PMID: 25063994 PMCID: PMC4163034 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Epilepsy is highly heritable, but its genetic architecture is poorly understood. Speed et al. estimate the number of susceptibility loci, show that common variants account for the majority of heritability, and demonstrate that epilepsy consists of genetically distinct subtypes. They conclude that gene-based prediction models may have clinical utility in first-seizure settings. Epilepsy is a disease with substantial missing heritability; despite its high genetic component, genetic association studies have had limited success detecting common variants which influence susceptibility. In this paper, we reassess the role of common variants on epilepsy using extensions of heritability analysis. Our data set consists of 1258 UK patients with epilepsy, of which 958 have focal epilepsy, and 5129 population control subjects, with genotypes recorded for over 4 million common single nucleotide polymorphisms. Firstly, we show that on the liability scale, common variants collectively explain at least 26% (standard deviation 5%) of phenotypic variation for all epilepsy and 27% (standard deviation 5%) for focal epilepsy. Secondly we provide a new method for estimating the number of causal variants for complex traits; when applied to epilepsy, our most optimistic estimate suggests that at least 400 variants influence disease susceptibility, with potentially many thousands. Thirdly, we use bivariate analysis to assess how similar the genetic architecture of focal epilepsy is to that of non-focal epilepsy; we demonstrate both significant differences (P = 0.004) and significant similarities (P = 0.01) between the two subtypes, indicating that although the clinical definition of focal epilepsy does identify a genetically distinct epilepsy subtype, there is also scope to improve the classification of epilepsy by incorporating genotypic information. Lastly, we investigate the potential value in using genetic data to diagnose epilepsy following a single epileptic seizure; we find that a prediction model explaining 10% of phenotypic variation could have clinical utility for deciding which single-seizure individuals are likely to benefit from immediate anti-epileptic drug therapy.
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- Doug Speed
- 1 UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- 2 The Departments of Medicine and Neurology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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- 3 Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland 4 The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA 5 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Finland 6 University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- 7 Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London W6 8RF, UK 8 Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
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- 9 Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, UK
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- 1 UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- 7 Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London W6 8RF, UK
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BLUP (best linear unbiased prediction) is widely used to predict complex traits in plant and animal breeding, and increasingly in human genetics. The BLUP mathematical model, which consists of a single random effect term, was adequate when kinships were measured from pedigrees. However, when genome-wide SNPs are used to measure kinships, the BLUP model implicitly assumes that all SNPs have the same effect-size distribution, which is a severe and unnecessary limitation. We propose MultiBLUP, which extends the BLUP model to include multiple random effects, allowing greatly improved prediction when the random effects correspond to classes of SNPs with distinct effect-size variances. The SNP classes can be specified in advance, for example, based on SNP functional annotations, and we also provide an adaptive procedure for determining a suitable partition of SNPs. We apply MultiBLUP to genome-wide association data from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (seven diseases), and from much larger studies of celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease, finding that it consistently provides better prediction than alternative methods. Moreover, MultiBLUP is computationally very efficient; for the largest data set, which includes 12,678 individuals and 1.5 M SNPs, the total analysis can be run on a single desktop PC in less than a day and can be parallelized to run even faster. Tools to perform MultiBLUP are freely available in our software LDAK.
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- Doug Speed
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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Hoffman LM, Donson AM, Nakachi I, Griesinger AM, Birks DK, Amani V, Hemenway MS, Liu AK, Wang M, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Foreman NK, Zakrzewska M, Zakrzewski K, Fendler W, Stefanczyk L, Liberski PP, Massimino M, Gandola L, Ferroli P, Valentini L, Biassoni V, Garre ML, Sardi I, Genitori L, Giussani C, Massimi L, Bertin D, Mussano A, Viscardi E, Modena P, Mastronuzzi A, Barra S, Scarzello G, Cinalli G, Peretta P, Giangaspero F, Massimino M, Boschetti L, Biassoni V, Garre ML, Schiavello E, Sardi I, Genitori L, Bertin D, Modena P, Calareso G, Barra S, Scarzello G, Cinalli G, Peretta P, Mastronuzzi A, Giussani C, Giangaspero F, Antonelli M, Pecori E, Gandola L, Massimino M, Biassoni V, Di Meco F, Garre ML, Schiavello E, Sardi I, Genitori L, Bertin D, Viscardi E, Modena P, Barra S, Scarzello G, Cinalli G, Peretta P, Migliorati R, Taborelli A, Giangaspero F, Antonelli M, Pecori E, Gandola L, Witt H, Sill M, Wani K, Mack SC, Capper D, Pajtler K, Lambert S, Tzaridis T, Milde T, Northcott PA, Kulozik AE, Witt O, Collins VP, Ellison DW, Taylor MD, Kool M, Jones DTW, Korshunov A, Ken A, Pfister SM, Makino K, Nakamura H, Kuroda JI, Kuratsu JI, Toledano H, Margolin Y, Ohali A, Michowiz S, Witt H, Johann P, Tzaridis T, Tabori U, Walker E, Hawkins C, Taylor M, Yaniv I, Avigad S, Hoffman L, Plimpton SR, Foreman NK, Stence NV, Hankinson TC, Handler MH, Hemenway MS, Vibhakar R, Liu AK, Lourdusamy A, Rahman R, Ward J, Rogers H, Grundy R, Punchihewa C, Lee R, Lin T, Orisme W, Dalton J, Aronica E, Smith A, Gajjar A, Onar A, Pounds S, Tatevossian R, Merchant T, Ellison D, Parker M, Mohankumar K, Punchihewa C, Weinlich R, Dalton J, Tatevossian R, Phoenix T, Thiruvenkatam R, White E, Gupta K, Gajjar A, Merchant T, Boop F, Smith A, Ding L, Mardis E, Wilson R, Downing J, Ellison D, Gilbertson R, Ward J, Lourdusamy A, Speed D, Gould T, Grundy R, Rahman R, Mack SC, Witt H, Pfister SM, Korshunov A, Taylor MD, Consortium TIE, Hoffman LM, Griesinger A, Donson A, Birks D, Amani V, Foreman NK, Ohe N, Yano H, Nakayama N, Iwama T, Wright K, Hassall T, Bowers DC, Crawford J, Bendel A, Fisher PG, Merchant T, Ellison D, Klimo P, Boop F, Armstrong G, Qaddoumi I, Robinson G, Wetmore C, Broniscer A, Gajjar A, Rogers H, Chapman R, Mayne C, Duane H, Kilday JP, Coyle B, Grundy R, Graul-Conroy A, Hartsell W, Bragg T, Goldman S, Rebsamen S, Puccetti D, Salamat S, Patel NJ, Gomi A, Oguma H, Hayase T, Kawahara Y, Yagi M, Morimoto A, Wilbur C, Dunham C, Hawkins C, Tabori U, Mabbott D, Carret AS, Lafay-Cousin L, McNeely PD, Eisenstat D, Wilson B, Johnston D, Hukin J, Mynarek M, Kortmann RD, Kaatsch P, Pietsch T, Timmermann B, Fleischhack G, Benesch M, Friedrich C, von Bueren AO, Gerber NU, Muller K, Tippelt S, Warmuth-Metz M, Rutkowski S, von Hoff K, Murugesan MK, White E, Poppleton H, Thiruvenkatam R, Gupta K, Currle S, Kranenburg T, Eden C, Wright K, Ellison D, Gilbertson R, Boulos N, Dapper J, Patel Y, Wright K, Mohankumar K, Freeman B, Gajjar A, Shelat A, Stewart C, Guy R, Gilbertson R, Adamski J, Taylor M, Tabori U, Huang A, Bartels U, Ramaswamy V, Krishnatry R, Laperriere N, Hawkins C, Bouffet E, Araki A, Chocholous M, Gojo J, Dorfer C, Czech T, Dieckmann K, Slavc I, Haberler C, Pietsch T, Mynarek M, Doerner E, Muehlen AZ, Warmuth-Metz M, Kortmann R, von Buehren A, Friedrich C, von Hoff K, Rutkowski S, von Hoff K, Kortmann RD, Gerber NU, Mynarek M, Muller K, Friedrich C, von Bueren AO, Benesch M, Warmuth-Metz M, Ottensmeier H, Resch A, Kwiecien R, Faldum A, Kuehl J, Pietsch T, Rutkowski S, Sabnis D, Storer L, Simmonds L, Blackburn S, Lowe J, Grundy R, Kerr I, Coyle B, Pietsch T, Wohlers I, Goschzik T, Dreschmann V, Denkhaus D, Doerner E, Rahmann S, Klein-Hitpass L, Iglesias MJL, Riet FG, Dhermain FD, Canale S, Dufour C, Rose CS, Puget S, Grill J, Bolle S, Parkes J, Davidson A, Figaji A, Pillay K, Kilborn T, Padayachy L, Hendricks M, Van Eyssen A, Piccinin E, Lorenzetto E, Brenca M, Massimino M, Modena P, Taylor M, Ramaswamy V, Bouffet E, Aldape K, Cho YJ, Weiss W, Phillips J, Jabado N, Mora J, Fan X, Jung S, Lee JY, Zitterbart K, French P, Kros JM, Hauser P, Faria C, Korshunov A, Pfister S, Mack SC. EPENDYMOMA. Neuro Oncol 2014; 16:i17-i25. [PMCID: PMC4046284 DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/07/2023] Open
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Krohn J, Speed D, Palme R, Touma C, Mott R, Flint J. Genetic interactions with sex make a relatively small contribution to the heritability of complex traits in mice. PLoS One 2014; 9:e96450. [PMID: 24811081 PMCID: PMC4014490 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The extent to which sex-specific genetic effects contribute to phenotypic variation is largely unknown. We applied a novel Bayesian method, sparse partitioning, to detect gene by sex (GxS) and gene by gene (GxG) quantitative loci (QTLs) in 1,900 outbred heterogeneous stock mice. In an analysis of 55 phenotypes, we detected 16 GxS and 6 GxG QTLs. The increase in the amount of phenotypic variance explained by models including GxS was small, ranging from 0.14% to 4.30%. We conclude that GxS rarely make a large overall contribution to the heritability of phenotypes, however there are cases where these will be individually important.
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- Jon Krohn
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences/Medical Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Gruber PC, Achilleos A, Speed D, Wigmore TJ. Long-stay patients with cancer on the intensive care unit: characteristics, risk factors, and clinical outcomes. Br J Anaesth 2014; 111:1026-7. [PMID: 24233312 DOI: 10.1093/bja/aet393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Speed D, Hoggart C, Petrovski S, Tachmazidou I, Coffey A, Jorgensen A, Eleftherohorinou H, De Iorio M, Todaro M, De T, Smith D, Smith PE, Jackson M, Cooper P, Kellett M, Howell S, Newton M, Yerra R, Tan M, French C, Reuber M, Sills GE, Chadwick D, Pirmohamed M, Bentley D, Scheffer I, Berkovic S, Balding D, Palotie A, Marson A, O'Brien TJ, Johnson MR. A genome-wide association study and biological pathway analysis of epilepsy prognosis in a prospective cohort of newly treated epilepsy. Hum Mol Genet 2013; 23:247-58. [PMID: 23962720 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We present the analysis of a prospective multicentre study to investigate genetic effects on the prognosis of newly treated epilepsy. Patients with a new clinical diagnosis of epilepsy requiring medication were recruited and followed up prospectively. The clinical outcome was defined as freedom from seizures for a minimum of 12 months in accordance with the consensus statement from the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). Genetic effects on remission of seizures after starting treatment were analysed with and without adjustment for significant clinical prognostic factors, and the results from each cohort were combined using a fixed-effects meta-analysis. After quality control (QC), we analysed 889 newly treated epilepsy patients using 472 450 genotyped and 6.9 × 10(6) imputed single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Suggestive evidence for association (defined as Pmeta < 5.0 × 10(-7)) with remission of seizures after starting treatment was observed at three loci: 6p12.2 (rs492146, Pmeta = 2.1 × 10(-7), OR[G] = 0.57), 9p23 (rs72700966, Pmeta = 3.1 × 10(-7), OR[C] = 2.70) and 15q13.2 (rs143536437, Pmeta = 3.2 × 10(-7), OR[C] = 1.92). Genes of biological interest at these loci include PTPRD and ARHGAP11B (encoding functions implicated in neuronal development) and GSTA4 (a phase II biotransformation enzyme). Pathway analysis using two independent methods implicated a number of pathways in the prognosis of epilepsy, including KEGG categories 'calcium signaling pathway' and 'phosphatidylinositol signaling pathway'. Through a series of power curves, we conclude that it is unlikely any single common variant explains >4.4% of the variation in the outcome of newly treated epilepsy.
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- Doug Speed
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Speed D, Hemani G, Johnson M, Balding D. Improved heritability estimation from genome-wide SNPs. Am J Hum Genet 2012; 91:1011-21. [PMID: 23217325 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 419] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Revised: 08/22/2012] [Accepted: 10/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Estimation of narrow-sense heritability, h(2), from genome-wide SNPs genotyped in unrelated individuals has recently attracted interest and offers several advantages over traditional pedigree-based methods. With the use of this approach, it has been estimated that over half the heritability of human height can be attributed to the ~300,000 SNPs on a genome-wide genotyping array. In comparison, only 5%-10% can be explained by SNPs reaching genome-wide significance. We investigated via simulation the validity of several key assumptions underpinning the mixed-model analysis used in SNP-based h(2) estimation. Although we found that the method is reasonably robust to violations of four key assumptions, it can be highly sensitive to uneven linkage disequilibrium (LD) between SNPs: contributions to h(2) are overestimated from causal variants in regions of high LD and are underestimated in regions of low LD. The overall direction of the bias can be up or down depending on the genetic architecture of the trait, but it can be substantial in realistic scenarios. We propose a modified kinship matrix in which SNPs are weighted according to local LD. We show that this correction greatly reduces the bias and increases the precision of h(2) estimates. We demonstrate the impact of our method on the first seven diseases studied by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. Our LD adjustment revises downward the h(2) estimate for immune-related diseases, as expected because of high LD in the major-histocompatibility region, but increases it for some nonimmune diseases. To calculate our revised kinship matrix, we developed LDAK, software for computing LD-adjusted kinships.
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Curtis C, Shah SP, Chin SF, Turashvili G, Rueda OM, Dunning MJ, Speed D, Lynch AG, Samarajiwa S, Yuan Y, Gräf S, Ha G, Haffari G, Bashashati A, Russell R, McKinney S, Langerød A, Green A, Provenzano E, Wishart G, Pinder S, Watson P, Markowetz F, Murphy L, Ellis I, Purushotham A, Børresen-Dale AL, Brenton JD, Tavaré S, Caldas C, Aparicio S. The genomic and transcriptomic architecture of 2,000 breast tumours reveals novel subgroups. Nature 2012; 486:346-52. [PMID: 22522925 PMCID: PMC3440846 DOI: 10.1038/nature10983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3873] [Impact Index Per Article: 322.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2011] [Accepted: 02/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The elucidation of breast cancer subgroups and their molecular drivers requires integrated views of the genome and transcriptome from representative numbers of patients. We present an integrated analysis of copy number and gene expression in a discovery and validation set of 997 and 995 primary breast tumours, respectively, with long-term clinical follow-up. Inherited variants (copy number variants and single nucleotide polymorphisms) and acquired somatic copy number aberrations (CNAs) were associated with expression in ~40% of genes, with the landscape dominated by cis- and trans-acting CNAs. By delineating expression outlier genes driven in cis by CNAs, we identified putative cancer genes, including deletions in PPP2R2A, MTAP and MAP2K4. Unsupervised analysis of paired DNA–RNA profiles revealed novel subgroups with distinct clinical outcomes, which reproduced in the validation cohort. These include a high-risk, oestrogen-receptor-positive 11q13/14 cis-acting subgroup and a favourable prognosis subgroup devoid of CNAs. Trans-acting aberration hotspots were found to modulate subgroup-specific gene networks, including a TCR deletion-mediated adaptive immune response in the ‘CNA-devoid’ subgroup and a basal-specific chromosome 5 deletion-associated mitotic network. Our results provide a novel molecular stratification of the breast cancer population, derived from the impact of somatic CNAs on the transcriptome.
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- Christina Curtis
- Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XZ, UK
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Speed D, Tavaré S. Sparse Partitioning: Nonlinear regression with binary or tertiary predictors, with application to association studies. Ann Appl Stat 2011. [DOI: 10.1214/10-aoas411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- K Jensen
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Roslin Institute, Roslin, Midlothian, Edinburgh EH25 9PS, UK.
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