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Verdier H, Thomas P, Batista J, Kempster C, McKinney H, Gleadall N, Danesh J, Mumford A, Heemskerk JWM, Ouwehand WH, Downes K, Astle WJ, Turro E. A signature of platelet reactivity in CBC scattergrams reveals genetic predictors of thrombotic disease risk. Blood 2023; 142:1895-1908. [PMID: 37647652 PMCID: PMC10733829 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2023021100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Genetic studies of platelet reactivity (PR) phenotypes may identify novel antiplatelet drug targets. However, such studies have been limited by small sample sizes (n < 5000) because of the complexity of measuring PR. We trained a model to predict PR from complete blood count (CBC) scattergrams. A genome-wide association study of this phenotype in 29 806 blood donors identified 21 distinct associations implicating 20 genes, of which 6 have been identified previously. The effect size estimates were significantly correlated with estimates from a study of flow cytometry-measured PR and a study of a phenotype of in vitro thrombus formation. A genetic score of PR built from the 21 variants was associated with the incidence rates of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism. Mendelian randomization analyses showed that PR was causally associated with the risks of coronary artery disease, stroke, and venous thromboembolism. Our approach provides a blueprint for using phenotype imputation to study the determinants of hard-to-measure but biologically important hematological traits.
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- Hippolyte Verdier
- Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3751, Decision and Bayesian Computation, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- South West National Health Service Genomic Medicine Service Alliance, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Cambridge Genomics Laboratory, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Akbari P, Vuckovic D, Stefanucci L, Jiang T, Kundu K, Kreuzhuber R, Bao EL, Collins JH, Downes K, Grassi L, Guerrero JA, Kaptoge S, Knight JC, Meacham S, Sambrook J, Seyres D, Stegle O, Verboon JM, Walter K, Watkins NA, Danesh J, Roberts DJ, Di Angelantonio E, Sankaran VG, Frontini M, Burgess S, Kuijpers T, Peters JE, Butterworth AS, Ouwehand WH, Soranzo N, Astle WJ. A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5023. [PMID: 37596262 PMCID: PMC10439125 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40679-y] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/20/2023] Open
Abstract
Blood cells contain functionally important intracellular structures, such as granules, critical to immunity and thrombosis. Quantitative variation in these structures has not been subjected previously to large-scale genetic analysis. We perform genome-wide association studies of 63 flow-cytometry derived cellular phenotypes-including cell-type specific measures of granularity, nucleic acid content and reactivity-in 41,515 participants in the INTERVAL study. We identify 2172 distinct variant-trait associations, including associations near genes coding for proteins in organelles implicated in inflammatory and thrombotic diseases. By integrating with epigenetic data we show that many intracellular structures are likely to be determined in immature precursor cells. By integrating with proteomic data we identify the transcription factor FOG2 as an early regulator of platelet formation and α-granularity. Finally, we show that colocalisation of our associations with disease risk signals can suggest aetiological cell-types-variants in IL2RA and ITGA4 respectively mirror the known effects of daclizumab in multiple sclerosis and vedolizumab in inflammatory bowel disease.
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- Parsa Akbari
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, East Forvie Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, E1 1BB, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Cambridge BioResource, Box 229, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Cambridge BioResource, Box 229, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Cambridge BioResource, Box 229, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
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- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre-Haematology Theme, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Oxford Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK
- Health Data Science Research Centre, Fondazione Human Technopole, Viale Rita Levi Montalcini 1, Milan, 20157, Italy
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
- Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, RILD Building, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, East Forvie Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK
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- Department of Pediatric Immunology, Rheumatology and Infectious Disease, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, CB2 0PT, UK
- Department of Blood Cell Research, Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, Sanquin, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London, Commonwealth Building, The Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
- Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0BB, UK.
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
- Department of Haematology, University College London Hospitals, WC1E 6AS, London, UK.
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK.
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
- Genomics Research Centre, Fondazione Human Technopole, Viale Rita Levi Montalcini 1, Milan, 20157, Italy.
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- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, East Forvie Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK.
- The National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK.
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
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Cato LD, Li R, Lu HY, Yu F, Wissman M, Mkumbe BS, Ekwattanakit S, Deelen P, Mwita L, Sangeda R, Suksangpleng T, Riolueang S, Bronson PG, Paul DS, Kawabata E, Astle WJ, Aguet F, Ardlie K, de Lapuente Portilla AL, Kang G, Zhang Y, Nouraie SM, Gordeuk VR, Gladwin MT, Garrett ME, Ashley-Koch A, Telen MJ, Custer B, Kelly S, Dinardo CL, Sabino EC, Loureiro P, Carneiro-Proietti AB, Maximo C, Méndez A, Hammerer-Lercher A, Sheehan VA, Weiss MJ, Franke L, Nilsson B, Butterworth AS, Viprakasit V, Nkya S, Sankaran VG. Genetic regulation of fetal hemoglobin across global populations. medRxiv 2023:2023.03.24.23287659. [PMID: 36993312 PMCID: PMC10055601 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.24.23287659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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Human genetic variation has enabled the identification of several key regulators of fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switching, including BCL11A, resulting in therapeutic advances. However, despite the progress made, limited further insights have been obtained to provide a fuller accounting of how genetic variation contributes to the global mechanisms of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) gene regulation. Here, we have conducted a multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 28,279 individuals from several cohorts spanning 5 continents to define the architecture of human genetic variation impacting HbF. We have identified a total of 178 conditionally independent genome-wide significant or suggestive variants across 14 genomic windows. Importantly, these new data enable us to better define the mechanisms by which HbF switching occurs in vivo. We conduct targeted perturbations to define BACH2 as a new genetically-nominated regulator of hemoglobin switching. We define putative causal variants and underlying mechanisms at the well-studied BCL11A and HBS1L-MYB loci, illuminating the complex variant-driven regulation present at these loci. We additionally show how rare large-effect deletions in the HBB locus can interact with polygenic variation to influence HbF levels. Our study paves the way for the next generation of therapies to more effectively induce HbF in sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia.
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- Liam D. Cato
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Sickle Cell Program, Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Department of Biochemistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Siriraj Thalassemia Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Oncode Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Sickle Cell Program, Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Siriraj Thalassemia Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Siriraj Thalassemia Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- R&D Translational Biology, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge, UK
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
- Division of Pediatric Hematology, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, California, USA
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- Fundacao Pro-Sangue Hemocentro de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, 5000 Aarau, Switzerland
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- Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta & Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Oncode Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, 221 84 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, 221 84 Lund, Sweden
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Siriraj Thalassemia Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Sickle Cell Program, Department of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Department of Biochemistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Tanzania Human Genetics Organisation, Tanzania
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science
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Ahfock D, Astle WJ, Richardson S. On randomized sketching algorithms and the Tracy-Widom law. Stat Comput 2023; 33:34. [PMID: 36691583 PMCID: PMC9852177 DOI: 10.1007/s11222-022-10148-5] [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] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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UNLABELLED There is an increasing body of work exploring the integration of random projection into algorithms for numerical linear algebra. The primary motivation is to reduce the overall computational cost of processing large datasets. A suitably chosen random projection can be used to embed the original dataset in a lower-dimensional space such that key properties of the original dataset are retained. These algorithms are often referred to as sketching algorithms, as the projected dataset can be used as a compressed representation of the full dataset. We show that random matrix theory, in particular the Tracy-Widom law, is useful for describing the operating characteristics of sketching algorithms in the tall-data regime when the sample size n is much greater than the number of variables d. Asymptotic large sample results are of particular interest as this is the regime where sketching is most useful for data compression. In particular, we develop asymptotic approximations for the success rate in generating random subspace embeddings and the convergence probability of iterative sketching algorithms. We test a number of sketching algorithms on real large high-dimensional datasets and find that the asymptotic expressions give accurate predictions of the empirical performance. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11222-022-10148-5.
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- Daniel Ahfock
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Collins J, Astle WJ, Megy K, Mumford AD, Vuckovic D. Advances in understanding the pathogenesis of hereditary macrothrombocytopenia. Br J Haematol 2021; 195:25-45. [PMID: 33783834 DOI: 10.1111/bjh.17409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Low platelet count, or thrombocytopenia, is a common haematological abnormality, with a wide differential diagnosis, which may represent a clinically significant underlying pathology. Macrothrombocytopenia, the presence of large platelets in combination with thrombocytopenia, can be acquired or hereditary and indicative of a complex disorder. In this review, we discuss the interpretation of platelet count and volume measured by automated haematology analysers and highlight some important technical considerations relevant to the analysis of blood samples with macrothrombocytopenia. We review how large cohorts, such as the UK Biobank and INTERVAL studies, have enabled an accurate description of the distribution and co-variation of platelet parameters in adult populations. We discuss how genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic associations with platelet count and mean platelet volume, which in aggregate can explain large fractions of phenotypic variance, consistent with a complex genetic architecture and polygenic inheritance. Finally, we describe the large genetic diagnostic and discovery programmes, which, simultaneously to genome-wide association studies, have expanded the repertoire of genes and variants associated with extreme platelet phenotypes. These have advanced our understanding of the pathogenesis of hereditary macrothrombocytopenia and support a future clinical diagnostic strategy that utilises genotype alongside clinical and laboratory phenotype data.
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- Janine Collins
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
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- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Bell S, Rigas AS, Magnusson MK, Ferkingstad E, Allara E, Bjornsdottir G, Ramond A, Sørensen E, Halldorsson GH, Paul DS, Burgdorf KS, Eggertsson HP, Howson JMM, Thørner LW, Kristmundsdottir S, Astle WJ, Erikstrup C, Sigurdsson JK, Vuckovic D, Dinh KM, Tragante V, Surendran P, Pedersen OB, Vidarsson B, Jiang T, Paarup HM, Onundarson PT, Akbari P, Nielsen KR, Lund SH, Juliusson K, Magnusson MI, Frigge ML, Oddsson A, Olafsson I, Kaptoge S, Hjalgrim H, Runarsson G, Wood AM, Jonsdottir I, Hansen TF, Sigurdardottir O, Stefansson H, Rye D, Peters JE, Westergaard D, Holm H, Soranzo N, Banasik K, Thorleifsson G, Ouwehand WH, Thorsteinsdottir U, Roberts DJ, Sulem P, Butterworth AS, Gudbjartsson DF, Danesh J, Brunak S, Di Angelantonio E, Ullum H, Stefansson K. A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis. Commun Biol 2021; 4:156. [PMID: 33536631 PMCID: PMC7859200 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01575-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Iron is essential for many biological functions and iron deficiency and overload have major health implications. We performed a meta-analysis of three genome-wide association studies from Iceland, the UK and Denmark of blood levels of ferritin (N = 246,139), total iron binding capacity (N = 135,430), iron (N = 163,511) and transferrin saturation (N = 131,471). We found 62 independent sequence variants associating with iron homeostasis parameters at 56 loci, including 46 novel loci. Variants at DUOX2, F5, SLC11A2 and TMPRSS6 associate with iron deficiency anemia, while variants at TF, HFE, TFR2 and TMPRSS6 associate with iron overload. A HBS1L-MYB intergenic region variant associates both with increased risk of iron overload and reduced risk of iron deficiency anemia. The DUOX2 missense variant is present in 14% of the population, associates with all iron homeostasis biomarkers, and increases the risk of iron deficiency anemia by 29%. The associations implicate proteins contributing to the main physiological processes involved in iron homeostasis: iron sensing and storage, inflammation, absorption of iron from the gut, iron recycling, erythropoiesis and bleeding/menstruation.
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- Steven Bell
- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Rutherford Fund Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Næstved Hospital, Næstved, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Laboratory Hematology, Landspitali, the National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Landspitali, the National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Danish Headache Center, Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet-Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
- Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Copenhagen University Hospital MHC Sct. Hans, Roskilde, Denmark
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Neurology and Program in Sleep, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Translational Disease Systems Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Translational Disease Systems Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Radcliffe Department of Medicine and National Health Service Blood and Transplant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9BQ, UK
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Translational Disease Systems Biology, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Sims MC, Mayer L, Collins JH, Bariana TK, Megy K, Lavenu-Bombled C, Seyres D, Kollipara L, Burden FS, Greene D, Lee D, Rodriguez-Romera A, Alessi MC, Astle WJ, Bahou WF, Bury L, Chalmers E, Da Silva R, De Candia E, Deevi SVV, Farrow S, Gomez K, Grassi L, Greinacher A, Gresele P, Hart D, Hurtaud MF, Kelly AM, Kerr R, Le Quellec S, Leblanc T, Leinøe EB, Mapeta R, McKinney H, Michelson AD, Morais S, Nugent D, Papadia S, Park SJ, Pasi J, Podda GM, Poon MC, Reed R, Sekhar M, Shalev H, Sivapalaratnam S, Steinberg-Shemer O, Stephens JC, Tait RC, Turro E, Wu JKM, Zieger B, Kuijpers TW, Whetton AD, Sickmann A, Freson K, Downes K, Erber WN, Frontini M, Nurden P, Ouwehand WH, Favier R, Guerrero JA. Novel manifestations of immune dysregulation and granule defects in gray platelet syndrome. Blood 2020; 136:1956-1967. [PMID: 32693407 PMCID: PMC7582559 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2019004776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [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: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Gray platelet syndrome (GPS) is a rare recessive disorder caused by biallelic variants in NBEAL2 and characterized by bleeding symptoms, the absence of platelet α-granules, splenomegaly, and bone marrow (BM) fibrosis. Due to the rarity of GPS, it has been difficult to fully understand the pathogenic processes that lead to these clinical sequelae. To discern the spectrum of pathologic features, we performed a detailed clinical genotypic and phenotypic study of 47 patients with GPS and identified 32 new etiologic variants in NBEAL2. The GPS patient cohort exhibited known phenotypes, including macrothrombocytopenia, BM fibrosis, megakaryocyte emperipolesis of neutrophils, splenomegaly, and elevated serum vitamin B12 levels. Novel clinical phenotypes were also observed, including reduced leukocyte counts and increased presence of autoimmune disease and positive autoantibodies. There were widespread differences in the transcriptome and proteome of GPS platelets, neutrophils, monocytes, and CD4 lymphocytes. Proteins less abundant in these cells were enriched for constituents of granules, supporting a role for Nbeal2 in the function of these organelles across a wide range of blood cells. Proteomic analysis of GPS plasma showed increased levels of proteins associated with inflammation and immune response. One-quarter of plasma proteins increased in GPS are known to be synthesized outside of hematopoietic cells, predominantly in the liver. In summary, our data show that, in addition to the well-described platelet defects in GPS, there are immune defects. The abnormal immune cells may be the drivers of systemic abnormalities such as autoimmune disease.
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- Matthew C Sims
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Reference des Pathologies Plaquettaires, Hôpitaux Armand Trousseau, Bicêtre, Robert Debré, Paris, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for CardioVascular and Nutrition Research, INSERM 1263, INRAE 1260, Marseille, France
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- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- The Royal London Hospital Haemophilia Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Reference des Pathologies Plaquettaires, Hôpitaux Armand Trousseau, Bicêtre, Robert Debré, Paris, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
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- Department of Haematology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Service d'Hématologie Biologique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Reference des Pathologies Plaquettaires, Hôpitaux Armand Trousseau, Bicêtre, Robert Debré, Paris, France
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- Department of Haematology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Center for Platelet Research Studies, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Serviço de Hematologia Clínica, Hospital de Santo António, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Unidade Multidisciplinar de Investigação Biomédica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Center for Inherited Bleeding Disorders, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- The Royal London Hospital Haemophilia Centre, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Unità di Medicina 2, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and Southern Alberta Rare Blood and Bleeding Disorders Comprehensive Care Program, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Royal Free London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Hematology-Oncology, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
- Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center-Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Immunology, Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Sanquin Research Institute, Department of Blood Cell Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, Division of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e. V., Dortmund, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, College of Physical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Medizinische Fakultät, Medizinisches Proteom Center, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
- PathWest Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- British Heart Foundation, Cambridge Centre for Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire L'Institut de Rythmologie et Modélisation Cardiaque, Plateforme Technologique d'Innovation Biomédicale, Hôpital Xavier Arnozan, Pessac, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre de Reference des Pathologies Plaquettaires, Hôpitaux Armand Trousseau, Bicêtre, Robert Debré, Paris, France
- INSERM Unité Mixte de Recherche 1170, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Universite Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, and
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Chen MH, Raffield LM, Mousas A, Sakaue S, Huffman JE, Moscati A, Trivedi B, Jiang T, Akbari P, Vuckovic D, Bao EL, Zhong X, Manansala R, Laplante V, Chen M, Lo KS, Qian H, Lareau CA, Beaudoin M, Hunt KA, Akiyama M, Bartz TM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Beswick A, Bork-Jensen J, Bottinger EP, Brody JA, van Rooij FJA, Chitrala K, Cho K, Choquet H, Correa A, Danesh J, Di Angelantonio E, Dimou N, Ding J, Elliott P, Esko T, Evans MK, Floyd JS, Broer L, Grarup N, Guo MH, Greinacher A, Haessler J, Hansen T, Howson JMM, Huang QQ, Huang W, Jorgenson E, Kacprowski T, Kähönen M, Kamatani Y, Kanai M, Karthikeyan S, Koskeridis F, Lange LA, Lehtimäki T, Lerch MM, Linneberg A, Liu Y, Lyytikäinen LP, Manichaikul A, Martin HC, Matsuda K, Mohlke KL, Mononen N, Murakami Y, Nadkarni GN, Nauck M, Nikus K, Ouwehand WH, Pankratz N, Pedersen O, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Raitakari OT, Roberts DJ, Rich SS, Rodriguez BAT, Rosen JD, Rotter JI, Schubert P, Spracklen CN, Surendran P, Tang H, Tardif JC, Trembath RC, Ghanbari M, Völker U, Völzke H, Watkins NA, Zonderman AB, Wilson PWF, Li Y, Butterworth AS, Gauchat JF, Chiang CWK, Li B, Loos RJF, Astle WJ, Evangelou E, van Heel DA, Sankaran VG, Okada Y, Soranzo N, Johnson AD, Reiner AP, Auer PL, Lettre G. Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations. Cell 2020; 182:1198-1213.e14. [PMID: 32888493 PMCID: PMC7480402 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.8] [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: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Most loci identified by GWASs have been found in populations of European ancestry (EUR). In trans-ethnic meta-analyses for 15 hematological traits in 746,667 participants, including 184,535 non-EUR individuals, we identified 5,552 trait-variant associations at p < 5 × 10-9, including 71 novel associations not found in EUR populations. We also identified 28 additional novel variants in ancestry-specific, non-EUR meta-analyses, including an IL7 missense variant in South Asians associated with lymphocyte count in vivo and IL-7 secretion levels in vitro. Fine-mapping prioritized variants annotated as functional and generated 95% credible sets that were 30% smaller when using the trans-ethnic as opposed to the EUR-only results. We explored the clinical significance and predictive value of trans-ethnic variants in multiple populations and compared genetic architecture and the effect of natural selection on these blood phenotypes between populations. Altogether, our results for hematological traits highlight the value of a more global representation of populations in genetic studies.
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- Ming-Huei Chen
- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02446, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
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- Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Department of Statistics and Operation Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02446, USA
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Department of Ocular Pathology and Imaging Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PS, UK
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- Translational Health Sciences, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam 14469, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3015, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA; Department of Medicine, Division on Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon 69008, France; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London and Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London SW7 2AZ, UK; Medical Research Council-Public Health England Centre for Environment, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; Health Data Research UK - London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02446, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3015, the Netherlands
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02446, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Innovation Building, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center and Shanghai Industrial Technology Institute (SITI), Shanghai 201203, China
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, Research Group Computational Systems Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan 85354, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg 2000, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27701, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institue of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere 33521, Finland; Department of Cardiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere 33014, Finland
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Department of Hematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku 20521, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku 20521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20521, Finland
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- The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; Department of Haematology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; NHS Blood and Transplant - Oxford Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation (formerly Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02130, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01002, USA
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Rutherford Fund Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam 3015, the Netherlands; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad 9177948564, Iran
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Département de Pharmacologie et Physiologie, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Quantitative and Computational Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina 45110, Greece; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02446, USA
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Hematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada.
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Vuckovic D, Bao EL, Akbari P, Lareau CA, Mousas A, Jiang T, Chen MH, Raffield LM, Tardaguila M, Huffman JE, Ritchie SC, Megy K, Ponstingl H, Penkett CJ, Albers PK, Wigdor EM, Sakaue S, Moscati A, Manansala R, Lo KS, Qian H, Akiyama M, Bartz TM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Beswick A, Bork-Jensen J, Bottinger EP, Brody JA, van Rooij FJA, Chitrala KN, Wilson PWF, Choquet H, Danesh J, Di Angelantonio E, Dimou N, Ding J, Elliott P, Esko T, Evans MK, Felix SB, Floyd JS, Broer L, Grarup N, Guo MH, Guo Q, Greinacher A, Haessler J, Hansen T, Howson JMM, Huang W, Jorgenson E, Kacprowski T, Kähönen M, Kamatani Y, Kanai M, Karthikeyan S, Koskeridis F, Lange LA, Lehtimäki T, Linneberg A, Liu Y, Lyytikäinen LP, Manichaikul A, Matsuda K, Mohlke KL, Mononen N, Murakami Y, Nadkarni GN, Nikus K, Pankratz N, Pedersen O, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Raitakari OT, Rich SS, Rodriguez BAT, Rosen JD, Rotter JI, Schubert P, Spracklen CN, Surendran P, Tang H, Tardif JC, Ghanbari M, Völker U, Völzke H, Watkins NA, Weiss S, Cai N, Kundu K, Watt SB, Walter K, Zonderman AB, Cho K, Li Y, Loos RJF, Knight JC, Georges M, Stegle O, Evangelou E, Okada Y, Roberts DJ, Inouye M, Johnson AD, Auer PL, Astle WJ, Reiner AP, Butterworth AS, Ouwehand WH, Lettre G, Sankaran VG, Soranzo N. The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases. Cell 2020; 182:1214-1231.e11. [PMID: 32888494 PMCID: PMC7482360 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 71.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Blood cells play essential roles in human health, underpinning physiological processes such as immunity, oxygen transport, and clotting, which when perturbed cause a significant global health burden. Here we integrate data from UK Biobank and a large-scale international collaborative effort, including data for 563,085 European ancestry participants, and discover 5,106 new genetic variants independently associated with 29 blood cell phenotypes covering a range of variation impacting hematopoiesis. We holistically characterize the genetic architecture of hematopoiesis, assess the relevance of the omnigenic model to blood cell phenotypes, delineate relevant hematopoietic cell states influenced by regulatory genetic variants and gene networks, identify novel splice-altering variants mediating the associations, and assess the polygenic prediction potential for blood traits and clinical disorders at the interface of complex and Mendelian genetics. These results show the power of large-scale blood cell trait GWAS to interrogate clinically meaningful variants across a wide allelic spectrum of human variation.
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- Dragana Vuckovic
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA; Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada
| | - Tao Jiang
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Ming-Huei Chen
- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
| | - Laura M Raffield
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | | | - Jennifer E Huffman
- Center for Population Genomics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
| | - Scott C Ritchie
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, VIC 3004, Australia; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Karyn Megy
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Hannes Ponstingl
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Christopher J Penkett
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Patrick K Albers
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Emilie M Wigdor
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Saori Sakaue
- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
| | - Arden Moscati
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Regina Manansala
- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
| | - Ken Sin Lo
- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada
| | - Huijun Qian
- Department of Statistics and Operation Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | - Masato Akiyama
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Department of Ocular Pathology and Imaging Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
| | - Traci M Bartz
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Yoav Ben-Shlomo
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK
| | - Andrew Beswick
- Translational Health Sciences, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK
| | - Jette Bork-Jensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 14469, Germany; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Frank J A van Rooij
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands
| | - Kumaraswamy N Chitrala
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
| | - John Danesh
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Emanuele Di Angelantonio
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Niki Dimou
- Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 69008, France; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
| | - Jingzhong Ding
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101, USA
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London and Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, W2 1NY, UK; Medical Research Council Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Health Data Research UK London, London, W2 1PG, UK
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
| | - Michele K Evans
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
| | - Stephan B Felix
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
| | - James S Floyd
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Linda Broer
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Andreas Greinacher
- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center and Shanghai Industrial Technology Institute (SITI), Shanghai, 201203, China
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, Research Group Computational Systems Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, 85354, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, 33521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, 2000, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27701, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, 33521, Finland; Department of Cardiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, 20521, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, 20521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, 20521, Finland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation (formerly Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Rutherford Fund Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, 9177948564, Iran
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA; Department of Medicine, Division on Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R & Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, B-4000, Belgium
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- BRC Haematology Theme and Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK; NHSBT Blood and Transplant - Oxford Center, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9BQ, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, VIC 3004, Australia; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; The Alan Turing Institute, London, NW1 2DB, UK
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
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Vuckovic D, Bao EL, Akbari P, Lareau CA, Mousas A, Jiang T, Chen MH, Raffield LM, Tardaguila M, Huffman JE, Ritchie SC, Megy K, Ponstingl H, Penkett CJ, Albers PK, Wigdor EM, Sakaue S, Moscati A, Manansala R, Lo KS, Qian H, Akiyama M, Bartz TM, Ben-Shlomo Y, Beswick A, Bork-Jensen J, Bottinger EP, Brody JA, van Rooij FJA, Chitrala KN, Wilson PWF, Choquet H, Danesh J, Di Angelantonio E, Dimou N, Ding J, Elliott P, Esko T, Evans MK, Felix SB, Floyd JS, Broer L, Grarup N, Guo MH, Guo Q, Greinacher A, Haessler J, Hansen T, Howson JMM, Huang W, Jorgenson E, Kacprowski T, Kähönen M, Kamatani Y, Kanai M, Karthikeyan S, Koskeridis F, Lange LA, Lehtimäki T, Linneberg A, Liu Y, Lyytikäinen LP, Manichaikul A, Matsuda K, Mohlke KL, Mononen N, Murakami Y, Nadkarni GN, Nikus K, Pankratz N, Pedersen O, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Raitakari OT, Rich SS, Rodriguez BAT, Rosen JD, Rotter JI, Schubert P, Spracklen CN, Surendran P, Tang H, Tardif JC, Ghanbari M, Völker U, Völzke H, Watkins NA, Weiss S, Cai N, Kundu K, Watt SB, Walter K, Zonderman AB, Cho K, Li Y, Loos RJF, Knight JC, Georges M, Stegle O, Evangelou E, Okada Y, Roberts DJ, Inouye M, Johnson AD, Auer PL, Astle WJ, Reiner AP, Butterworth AS, Ouwehand WH, Lettre G, Sankaran VG, Soranzo N. The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases. Cell 2020. [PMID: 32888494 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.008ll] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
Abstract
Blood cells play essential roles in human health, underpinning physiological processes such as immunity, oxygen transport, and clotting, which when perturbed cause a significant global health burden. Here we integrate data from UK Biobank and a large-scale international collaborative effort, including data for 563,085 European ancestry participants, and discover 5,106 new genetic variants independently associated with 29 blood cell phenotypes covering a range of variation impacting hematopoiesis. We holistically characterize the genetic architecture of hematopoiesis, assess the relevance of the omnigenic model to blood cell phenotypes, delineate relevant hematopoietic cell states influenced by regulatory genetic variants and gene networks, identify novel splice-altering variants mediating the associations, and assess the polygenic prediction potential for blood traits and clinical disorders at the interface of complex and Mendelian genetics. These results show the power of large-scale blood cell trait GWAS to interrogate clinically meaningful variants across a wide allelic spectrum of human variation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dragana Vuckovic
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA; Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02142, USA
| | - Parsa Akbari
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Caleb A Lareau
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada
| | - Tao Jiang
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Ming-Huei Chen
- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Center for Population Genomics, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, VIC 3004, Australia; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Karyn Megy
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Hannes Ponstingl
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Christopher J Penkett
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Patrick K Albers
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Emilie M Wigdor
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
| | - Saori Sakaue
- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
| | - Arden Moscati
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Regina Manansala
- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
| | - Ken Sin Lo
- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada
| | - Huijun Qian
- Department of Statistics and Operation Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | - Masato Akiyama
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Department of Ocular Pathology and Imaging Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
| | - Traci M Bartz
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Yoav Ben-Shlomo
- Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK
| | - Andrew Beswick
- Translational Health Sciences, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 14469, Germany; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
| | - Frank J A van Rooij
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
| | - John Danesh
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Emanuele Di Angelantonio
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Section of Nutrition and Metabolism, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 69008, France; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
| | - Jingzhong Ding
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101, USA
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London and Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, W2 1NY, UK; Medical Research Council Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute, Imperial College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Health Data Research UK London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
| | - Michele K Evans
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
| | - Stephan B Felix
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Institute for Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7FZ, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Shanghai-MOST Key Laboratory of Health and Disease Genomics, Chinese National Human Genome Center and Shanghai Industrial Technology Institute (SITI), Shanghai, 201203, China
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, 94612, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, Research Group Computational Systems Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, 85354, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, 33521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan; Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Frederiksberg, 2000, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27701, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate school of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, 33521, Finland; Department of Cardiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 2200, Denmark
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, 20521, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, 20521, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, 20521, Finland
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation (formerly Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01002, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Rutherford Fund Fellow, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3015 GE, the Netherlands; Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, 9177948564, Iran
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany; German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging/NIH, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, 02130, USA; Department of Medicine, Division on Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
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- Unit of Animal Genomics, GIGA-R & Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, B-4000, Belgium
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- European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
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- Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Laboratory of Statistical Immunology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- BRC Haematology Theme and Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK; NHSBT Blood and Transplant - Oxford Center, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9BQ, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Cambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, VIC 3004, Australia; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; The Alan Turing Institute, London, NW1 2DB, UK
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- The Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0SR, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK; Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, H1T 1C8, Canada; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
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- Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0PT, UK.
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Turro E, Astle WJ, Megy K, Gräf S, Greene D, Shamardina O, Allen HL, Sanchis-Juan A, Frontini M, Thys C, Stephens J, Mapeta R, Burren OS, Downes K, Haimel M, Tuna S, Deevi SVV, Aitman TJ, Bennett DL, Calleja P, Carss K, Caulfield MJ, Chinnery PF, Dixon PH, Gale DP, James R, Koziell A, Laffan MA, Levine AP, Maher ER, Markus HS, Morales J, Morrell NW, Mumford AD, Ormondroyd E, Rankin S, Rendon A, Richardson S, Roberts I, Roy NBA, Saleem MA, Smith KGC, Stark H, Tan RYY, Themistocleous AC, Thrasher AJ, Watkins H, Webster AR, Wilkins MR, Williamson C, Whitworth J, Humphray S, Bentley DR, Kingston N, Walker N, Bradley JR, Ashford S, Penkett CJ, Freson K, Stirrups KE, Raymond FL, Ouwehand WH. Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system. Nature 2020; 583:96-102. [PMID: 32581362 PMCID: PMC7610553 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2434-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 260] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.0] [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: 12/23/2018] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Most patients with rare diseases do not receive a molecular diagnosis and the aetiological variants and causative genes for more than half such disorders remain to be discovered1. Here we used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) in a national health system to streamline diagnosis and to discover unknown aetiological variants in the coding and non-coding regions of the genome. We generated WGS data for 13,037 participants, of whom 9,802 had a rare disease, and provided a genetic diagnosis to 1,138 of the 7,065 extensively phenotyped participants. We identified 95 Mendelian associations between genes and rare diseases, of which 11 have been discovered since 2015 and at least 79 are confirmed to be aetiological. By generating WGS data of UK Biobank participants2, we found that rare alleles can explain the presence of some individuals in the tails of a quantitative trait for red blood cells. Finally, we identified four novel non-coding variants that cause disease through the disruption of transcription of ARPC1B, GATA1, LRBA and MPL. Our study demonstrates a synergy by using WGS for diagnosis and aetiological discovery in routine healthcare.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ernest Turro
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Karyn Megy
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Stefan Gräf
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Daniel Greene
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Olga Shamardina
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Hana Lango Allen
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Alba Sanchis-Juan
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Mattia Frontini
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Jonathan Stephens
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Rutendo Mapeta
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
| | - Oliver S Burren
- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- The Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
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- High Performance Computing Service, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Genomics England Ltd, London, UK
- William Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Barts, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK
- Rare Renal Disease Registry, UK Renal Registry, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- Centre for Haematology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Stroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Bristol, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
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- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- High Performance Computing Service, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Genomics England Ltd, London, UK
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
- MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Paediatrics, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
- MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Bristol Renal and Children's Renal Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Stroke Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Bristol, UK
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- The Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
- UCL Institute of Opthalmology, University College London, London, UK
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- Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
- Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Renal Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
| | - Sofie Ashford
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Christopher J Penkett
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- NIHR BioResource, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
- British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre of Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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Petersen R, Lambourne JJ, Javierre BM, Grassi L, Kreuzhuber R, Ruklisa D, Rosa IM, Tomé AR, Elding H, van Geffen JP, Jiang T, Farrow S, Cairns J, Al-Subaie AM, Ashford S, Attwood A, Batista J, Bouman H, Burden F, Choudry FA, Clarke L, Flicek P, Garner SF, Haimel M, Kempster C, Ladopoulos V, Lenaerts AS, Materek PM, McKinney H, Meacham S, Mead D, Nagy M, Penkett CJ, Rendon A, Seyres D, Sun B, Tuna S, van der Weide ME, Wingett SW, Martens JH, Stegle O, Richardson S, Vallier L, Roberts DJ, Freson K, Wernisch L, Stunnenberg HG, Danesh J, Fraser P, Soranzo N, Butterworth AS, Heemskerk JW, Turro E, Spivakov M, Ouwehand WH, Astle WJ, Downes K, Kostadima M, Frontini M. Platelet function is modified by common sequence variation in megakaryocyte super enhancers. Nat Commun 2017; 8:16058. [PMID: 28703137 PMCID: PMC5511350 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [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: 03/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Linking non-coding genetic variants associated with the risk of diseases or disease-relevant traits to target genes is a crucial step to realize GWAS potential in the introduction of precision medicine. Here we set out to determine the mechanisms underpinning variant association with platelet quantitative traits using cell type-matched epigenomic data and promoter long-range interactions. We identify potential regulatory functions for 423 of 565 (75%) non-coding variants associated with platelet traits and we demonstrate, through ex vivo and proof of principle genome editing validation, that variants in super enhancers play an important role in controlling archetypical platelet functions. Numerous genetic variants, including those located in the non-coding regions of the genome, are known to be associated with blood cells traits. Here, Frontini and colleagues investigate their potential regulatory functions using epigenomic data and promoter long-range interactions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Romina Petersen
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Biola M Javierre
- Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
| | - Luigi Grassi
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
| | - Dace Ruklisa
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Ana R Tomé
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
| | - Heather Elding
- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
| | - Tao Jiang
- Strangeways Research Laboratory, MRC/British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Dammam, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.,Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre hIPSC Core Facility, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK.,Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK
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- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre hIPSC Core Facility, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK.,Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Genomics England Limited, Queen Mary University of London, Dawson Hall, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, MRC/British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, 6525GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Wellcome Trust and MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK.,The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
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- Radcliffe Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX9 3DU, UK.,Department of Haematology, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK.,NHSBT, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BQ, UK
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Faculty of Science, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, 6525GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, MRC/British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK.,Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32303, USA
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Strangeways Research Laboratory, The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, MRC/British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.,Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Nuclear Dynamics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Unit in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Forvie Site, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK.,Strangeways Research Laboratory, MRC/British Heart Foundation (BHF) Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK.,BHF Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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Pleines I, Woods J, Chappaz S, Kew V, Foad N, Ballester-Beltrán J, Aurbach K, Lincetto C, Lane RM, Schevzov G, Alexander WS, Hilton DJ, Astle WJ, Downes K, Nurden P, Westbury SK, Mumford AD, Obaji SG, Collins PW, Delerue F, Ittner LM, Bryce NS, Holliday M, Lucas CA, Hardeman EC, Ouwehand WH, Gunning PW, Turro E, Tijssen MR, Kile BT. Mutations in tropomyosin 4 underlie a rare form of human macrothrombocytopenia. J Clin Invest 2017; 127:814-829. [PMID: 28134622 PMCID: PMC5330761 DOI: 10.1172/jci86154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [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: 12/21/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Platelets are anuclear cells that are essential for blood clotting. They are produced by large polyploid precursor cells called megakaryocytes. Previous genome-wide association studies in nearly 70,000 individuals indicated that single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in the gene encoding the actin cytoskeletal regulator tropomyosin 4 (TPM4) exert an effect on the count and volume of platelets. Platelet number and volume are independent risk factors for heart attack and stroke. Here, we have identified 2 unrelated families in the BRIDGE Bleeding and Platelet Disorders (BPD) collection who carry a TPM4 variant that causes truncation of the TPM4 protein and segregates with macrothrombocytopenia, a disorder characterized by low platelet count. N-Ethyl-N-nitrosourea–induced (ENU-induced) missense mutations in Tpm4 or targeted inactivation of the Tpm4 locus led to gene dosage–dependent macrothrombocytopenia in mice. All other blood cell counts in Tpm4-deficient mice were normal. Insufficient TPM4 expression in human and mouse megakaryocytes resulted in a defect in the terminal stages of platelet production and had a mild effect on platelet function. Together, our findings demonstrate a nonredundant role for TPM4 in platelet biogenesis in humans and mice and reveal that truncating variants in TPM4 cause a previously undescribed dominant Mendelian platelet disorder.
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Affiliation(s)
- Irina Pleines
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Stephane Chappaz
- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Experimental Biomedicine, University Hospital and Rudolf Virchow Center, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
| | - William J. Astle
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
| | - Kate Downes
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire LIRYC, Plateforme Technologique d’Innovation Biomédicale, Hôpital Xavier Arnozan, Pessac, France
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Arthur Bloom Haemophilia Centre, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom
| | - Peter W. Collins
- Arthur Bloom Haemophilia Centre, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom
| | - NIHR BioResource
- NIHR BioResource–Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Transgenic Animal Unit, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Transgenic Animal Unit, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NIHR BioResource–Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Sivapalaratnam S, Westbury SK, Stephens JC, Greene D, Downes K, Kelly AM, Lentaigne C, Astle WJ, Huizinga EG, Nurden P, Papadia S, Peerlinck K, Penkett CJ, Perry DJ, Roughley C, Simeoni I, Stirrups K, Hart DP, Tait RC, Mumford AD, Laffan MA, Freson K, Ouwehand WH, Kunishima S, Turro E. Rare variants in GP1BB are responsible for autosomal dominant macrothrombocytopenia. Blood 2017; 129:520-524. [PMID: 28064200 PMCID: PMC6037295 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-08-732248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
The von Willebrand receptor complex, which is composed of the glycoproteins Ibα, Ibβ, GPV, and GPIX, plays an essential role in the earliest steps in hemostasis. During the last 4 decades, it has become apparent that loss of function of any 1 of 3 of the genes encoding these glycoproteins (namely, GP1BA, GP1BB, and GP9) leads to autosomal recessive macrothrombocytopenia complicated by bleeding. A small number of variants in GP1BA have been reported to cause a milder and dominant form of macrothrombocytopenia, but only 2 tentative reports exist of such a variant in GP1BB By analyzing data from a collection of more than 1000 genome-sequenced patients with a rare bleeding and/or platelet disorder, we have identified a significant association between rare monoallelic variants in GP1BB and macrothrombocytopenia. To strengthen our findings, we sought further cases in 2 additional collections in the United Kingdom and Japan. Across 18 families exhibiting phenotypes consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance of macrothrombocytopenia, we report on 27 affected cases carrying 1 of 9 rare variants in GP1BB.
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- Suthesh Sivapalaratnam
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children National Health Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Crystal and Structural Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire LIRYC, Hôpital Xavier Arnozan, Pessac, France
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Kent Haemophilia Thrombosis Centre at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and
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- Department of Advanced Diagnosis, Clinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research BioResource-Rare Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- National Health Service Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Astle WJ, Elding H, Jiang T, Allen D, Ruklisa D, Mann AL, Mead D, Bouman H, Riveros-Mckay F, Kostadima MA, Lambourne JJ, Sivapalaratnam S, Downes K, Kundu K, Bomba L, Berentsen K, Bradley JR, Daugherty LC, Delaneau O, Freson K, Garner SF, Grassi L, Guerrero J, Haimel M, Janssen-Megens EM, Kaan A, Kamat M, Kim B, Mandoli A, Marchini J, Martens JHA, Meacham S, Megy K, O'Connell J, Petersen R, Sharifi N, Sheard SM, Staley JR, Tuna S, van der Ent M, Walter K, Wang SY, Wheeler E, Wilder SP, Iotchkova V, Moore C, Sambrook J, Stunnenberg HG, Di Angelantonio E, Kaptoge S, Kuijpers TW, Carrillo-de-Santa-Pau E, Juan D, Rico D, Valencia A, Chen L, Ge B, Vasquez L, Kwan T, Garrido-Martín D, Watt S, Yang Y, Guigo R, Beck S, Paul DS, Pastinen T, Bujold D, Bourque G, Frontini M, Danesh J, Roberts DJ, Ouwehand WH, Butterworth AS, Soranzo N. The Allelic Landscape of Human Blood Cell Trait Variation and Links to Common Complex Disease. Cell 2016; 167:1415-1429.e19. [PMID: 27863252 PMCID: PMC5300907 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.10.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 764] [Impact Index Per Article: 95.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Many common variants have been associated with hematological traits, but identification of causal genes and pathways has proven challenging. We performed a genome-wide association analysis in the UK Biobank and INTERVAL studies, testing 29.5 million genetic variants for association with 36 red cell, white cell, and platelet properties in 173,480 European-ancestry participants. This effort yielded hundreds of low frequency (<5%) and rare (<1%) variants with a strong impact on blood cell phenotypes. Our data highlight general properties of the allelic architecture of complex traits, including the proportion of the heritable component of each blood trait explained by the polygenic signal across different genome regulatory domains. Finally, through Mendelian randomization, we provide evidence of shared genetic pathways linking blood cell indices with complex pathologies, including autoimmune diseases, schizophrenia, and coronary heart disease and evidence suggesting previously reported population associations between blood cell indices and cardiovascular disease may be non-causal.
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- William J Astle
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK; MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Blood Research Group, NHS Blood and Transplant, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Haematology, Barts Health NHS Trust, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, London E1 1BB, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Département de Génétique et Développement (GEDEV), University of Geneva, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- UK Biobank Ltd., 1-4 Spectrum Way, Adswood, Stockport SK3 0SA, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; NIHR BioResource-Rare Diseases, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen 6525GA, the Netherlands
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Location H7-230, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam 1105AZ, the Netherlands; Blood Cell Research, Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, Plesmanlaan 125, Amsterdam, 1066CX, the Netherlands
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain; Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
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- Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr. Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr. Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, Barcelona 8003, Spain; Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Plaça de la Mercè, 10- 12, Barcelona 8002, Spain
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK
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- Bioinformatics and Genomics, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, Barcelona 8003, Spain; Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Plaça de la Mercè, 10- 12, Barcelona 8002, Spain; Computational Genomics, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques (IMIM), Carrer del Dr. Aiguader, 88, Barcelona 8003, Spain
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- UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, 72 Huntley Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr. Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr. Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Human Genetics, McGill University, 740 Dr. Penfield, Montreal, QC H3A 0G1, Canada
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; Department of Haematology, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK.
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; Department of Human Genetics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1HH, UK; The National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Unit (NIHR BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Wort's Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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Chen L, Kostadima M, Martens JH, Canu G, Garcia SP, Turro E, Downes K, Macaulay IC, Bielczyk-Maczynska E, Coe S, Farrow S, Poudel P, Burden F, Jansen SB, Astle WJ, Attwood A, Bariana T, de Bono B, Breschi A, Chambers JC, Consortium BRIDGE, Choudry FA, Clarke L, Coupland P, van der Ent M, Erber WN, Jansen JH, Favier R, Fenech ME, Foad N, Freson K, van Geet C, Gomez K, Guigo R, Hampshire D, Kelly AM, Kerstens HH, Kooner JS, Laffan M, Lentaigne C, Labalette C, Martin T, Meacham S, Mumford A, Nürnberg S, Palumbo E, van der Reijden BA, Richardson D, Sammut SJ, Slodkowicz G, Tamuri AU, Vasquez L, Voss K, Watt S, Westbury S, Flicek P, Loos R, Goldman N, Bertone P, Read RJ, Richardson S, Cvejic A, Soranzo N, Ouwehand WH, Stunnenberg HG, Frontini M, Rendon A. Transcriptional diversity during lineage commitment of human blood progenitors. Science 2014; 345:1251033. [PMID: 25258084 PMCID: PMC4254742 DOI: 10.1126/science.1251033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [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] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Blood cells derive from hematopoietic stem cells through stepwise fating events. To characterize gene expression programs driving lineage choice, we sequenced RNA from eight primary human hematopoietic progenitor populations representing the major myeloid commitment stages and the main lymphoid stage. We identified extensive cell type-specific expression changes: 6711 genes and 10,724 transcripts, enriched in non-protein-coding elements at early stages of differentiation. In addition, we found 7881 novel splice junctions and 2301 differentially used alternative splicing events, enriched in genes involved in regulatory processes. We demonstrated experimentally cell-specific isoform usage, identifying nuclear factor I/B (NFIB) as a regulator of megakaryocyte maturation-the platelet precursor. Our data highlight the complexity of fating events in closely related progenitor populations, the understanding of which is essential for the advancement of transplantation and regenerative medicine.
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- Lu Chen
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Sanger Institute-EBI Single-Cell Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University College London Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom
- The Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Royal Free NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- CHIME Institute, University College London, Archway Campus, London, United Kingdom
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation and University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, DuCane Road, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1009, Villejuif, France
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- Biomedical Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- The Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Royal Free NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation and University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, DuCane Road, London, United Kingdom
- Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, Genetics & Molecular Medicine Division, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation and University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke’s Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Cancer Research United Kingdom, Cambridge Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Genome Biology and Developmental Biology Units, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
- Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- NHS Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Abstract
MOTIVATION Most methods for estimating differential expression from RNA-seq are based on statistics that compare normalized read counts between treatment classes. Unfortunately, reads are in general too short to be mapped unambiguously to features of interest, such as genes, isoforms or haplotype-specific isoforms. There are methods for estimating expression levels that account for this source of ambiguity. However, the uncertainty is not generally accounted for in downstream analysis of gene expression experiments. Moreover, at the individual transcript level, it can sometimes be too large to allow useful comparisons between treatment groups. RESULTS In this article we make two proposals that improve the power, specificity and versatility of expression analysis using RNA-seq data. First, we present a Bayesian method for model selection that accounts for read mapping ambiguities using random effects. This polytomous model selection approach can be used to identify many interesting patterns of gene expression and is not confined to detecting differential expression between two groups. For illustration, we use our method to detect imprinting, different types of regulatory divergence in cis and in trans and differential isoform usage, but many other applications are possible. Second, we present a novel collapsing algorithm for grouping transcripts into inferential units that exploits the posterior correlation between transcript expression levels. The aggregate expression levels of these units can be estimated with useful levels of uncertainty. Our algorithm can improve the precision of expression estimates when uncertainty is large with only a small reduction in biological resolution. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION We have implemented our software in the mmdiff and mmcollapse multithreaded C++ programs as part of the open-source MMSEQ package, available on https://github.com/eturro/mmseq.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ernest Turro
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, NHS Blood and Transplant, Long Road, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Montreal QC H3A 1A2, Canada
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