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Verma SS, Gudiseva HV, Chavali VRM, Salowe RJ, Bradford Y, Guare L, Lucas A, Collins DW, Vrathasha V, Nair RM, Rathi S, Zhao B, He J, Lee R, Zenebe-Gete S, Bowman AS, McHugh CP, Zody MC, Pistilli M, Khachatryan N, Daniel E, Murphy W, Henderer J, Kinzy TG, Iyengar SK, Peachey NS, Taylor KD, Guo X, Chen YDI, Zangwill L, Girkin C, Ayyagari R, Liebmann J, Chuka-Okosa CM, Williams SE, Akafo S, Budenz DL, Olawoye OO, Ramsay M, Ashaye A, Akpa OM, Aung T, Wiggs JL, Ross AG, Cui QN, Addis V, Lehman A, Miller-Ellis E, Sankar PS, Williams SM, Ying GS, Cooke Bailey J, Rotter JI, Weinreb R, Khor CC, Hauser MA, Ritchie MD, O'Brien JM. A multi-cohort genome-wide association study in African ancestry individuals reveals risk loci for primary open-angle glaucoma. Cell 2024; 187:464-480.e10. [PMID: 38242088 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
Abstract
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, disproportionately affects individuals of African ancestry. We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for POAG in 11,275 individuals of African ancestry (6,003 cases; 5,272 controls). We detected 46 risk loci associated with POAG at genome-wide significance. Replication and post-GWAS analyses, including functionally informed fine-mapping, multiple trait co-localization, and in silico validation, implicated two previously undescribed variants (rs1666698 mapping to DBF4P2; rs34957764 mapping to ROCK1P1) and one previously associated variant (rs11824032 mapping to ARHGEF12) as likely causal. For individuals of African ancestry, a polygenic risk score (PRS) for POAG from our mega-analysis (African ancestry individuals) outperformed a PRS from summary statistics of a much larger GWAS derived from European ancestry individuals. This study quantifies the genetic architecture similarities and differences between African and non-African ancestry populations for this blinding disease.
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- Shefali S Verma
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Unit of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center for Health Disparities, Brody School of Medicine. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 27834, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Scheie Eye Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. joan.o'
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Zhang X, Brody JA, Graff M, Highland HM, Chami N, Xu H, Wang Z, Ferrier K, Chittoor G, Josyula NS, Li X, Li Z, Allison MA, Becker DM, Bielak LF, Bis JC, Boorgula MP, Bowden DW, Broome JG, Buth EJ, Carlson CS, Chang KM, Chavan S, Chiu YF, Chuang LM, Conomos MP, DeMeo DL, Du M, Duggirala R, Eng C, Fohner AE, Freedman BI, Garrett ME, Guo X, Haiman C, Heavner BD, Hidalgo B, Hixson JE, Ho YL, Hobbs BD, Hu D, Hui Q, Hwu CM, Jackson RD, Jain D, Kalyani RR, Kardia SL, Kelly TN, Lange EM, LeNoir M, Li C, Marchand LL, McDonald MLN, McHugh CP, Morrison AC, Naseri T, O’Connell J, O’Donnell CJ, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Perry JA, Peters U, Preuss MH, Rao D, Regan EA, Reupena SM, Roden DM, Rodriguez-Santana J, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Tiwari HK, Vasan RS, Wang Z, Weeks DE, Wessel J, Wiggins KL, Wilkens LR, Wilson PW, Yanek LR, Yoneda ZT, Zhao W, Zöllner S, Arnett DK, Ashley-Koch AE, Barnes KC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Burchard EG, Carson AP, Chasman DI, Chen YDI, Curran JE, Fornage M, Gordeuk VR, He J, Heckbert SR, Hou L, Irvin MR, Kooperberg C, Minster RL, Mitchell BD, Nouraie M, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Shoemaker MB, Smith NL, Taylor KD, Telen MJ, Weiss ST, Zhang Y, Heard-Costa N, Sun YV, Lin X, Adrienne Cupples L, Lange LA, Liu CT, Loos RJ, North KE, Justice AE. WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING ANALYSIS OF BODY MASS INDEX IDENTIFIES NOVEL AFRICAN ANCESTRY-SPECIFIC RISK ALLELE. medRxiv 2023:2023.08.21.23293271. [PMID: 37662265 PMCID: PMC10473809 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.21.23293271] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
Obesity is a major public health crisis associated with high mortality rates. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) investigating body mass index (BMI) have largely relied on imputed data from European individuals. This study leveraged whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 88,873 participants from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program, of which 51% were of non-European population groups. We discovered 18 BMI-associated signals (P < 5 × 10-9). Notably, we identified and replicated a novel low frequency single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in MTMR3 that was common in individuals of African descent. Using a diverse study population, we further identified two novel secondary signals in known BMI loci and pinpointed two likely causal variants in the POC5 and DMD loci. Our work demonstrates the benefits of combining WGS and diverse cohorts in expanding current catalog of variants and genes confer risk for obesity, bringing us one step closer to personalized medicine.
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- Xinruo Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, The University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- The Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Metabolism/Endocrinology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Life Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Internal Medicine, Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Genomic Outcomes, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Bay Area Pediatrics, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
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- Department of Medicine, Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Rheumatology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
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- Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Diabaetes Translational Research Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and Medicine, Lung Biology Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MI, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Genomic Outcomes, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, School of Medicine, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Public Health Science, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Genomic Outcomes, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Genomic Outcomes, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Hematology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, School of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Atlanta VA Health Care System, Decatur, GA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Toga AW, Phatak M, Pappas I, Thompson S, McHugh CP, Clement MHS, Bauermeister S, Maruyama T, Gallacher J. The pursuit of approaches to federate data to accelerate Alzheimer's disease and related dementia research: GAAIN, DPUK, and ADDI. Front Neuroinform 2023; 17:1175689. [PMID: 37304174 PMCID: PMC10248126 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2023.1175689] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
Abstract
There is common consensus that data sharing accelerates science. Data sharing enhances the utility of data and promotes the creation and competition of scientific ideas. Within the Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) community, data types and modalities are spread across many organizations, geographies, and governance structures. The ADRD community is not alone in facing these challenges, however, the problem is even more difficult because of the need to share complex biomarker data from centers around the world. Heavy-handed data sharing mandates have, to date, been met with limited success and often outright resistance. Interest in making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) has often resulted in centralized platforms. However, when data governance and sovereignty structures do not allow the movement of data, other methods, such as federation, must be pursued. Implementation of fully federated data approaches are not without their challenges. The user experience may become more complicated, and federated analysis of unstructured data types remains challenging. Advancement in federated data sharing should be accompanied by improvement in federated learning methodologies so that federated data sharing becomes functionally equivalent to direct access to record level data. In this article, we discuss federated data sharing approaches implemented by three data platforms in the ADRD field: Dementia's Platform UK (DPUK) in 2014, the Global Alzheimer's Association Interactive Network (GAAIN) in 2012, and the Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative (ADDI) in 2020. We conclude by addressing open questions that the research community needs to solve together.
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- Arthur W. Toga
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative, Kirkland, WA, United States
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Wheeler MM, Stilp AM, Rao S, Halldórsson BV, Beyter D, Wen J, Mihkaylova AV, McHugh CP, Lane J, Jiang MZ, Raffield LM, Jun G, Sedlazeck FJ, Metcalf G, Yao Y, Bis JB, Chami N, de Vries PS, Desai P, Floyd JS, Gao Y, Kammers K, Kim W, Moon JY, Ratan A, Yanek LR, Almasy L, Becker LC, Blangero J, Cho MH, Curran JE, Fornage M, Kaplan RC, Lewis JP, Loos RJF, Mitchell BD, Morrison AC, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Tang H, Tracy RP, Boerwinkle E, Abecasis GR, Blackwell TW, Smith AV, Johnson AD, Mathias RA, Nickerson DA, Conomos MP, Li Y, Þorsteinsdóttir U, Magnússon MK, Stefansson K, Pankratz ND, Bauer DE, Auer PL, Reiner AP. Whole genome sequencing identifies structural variants contributing to hematologic traits in the NHLBI TOPMed program. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7592. [PMID: 36481753 PMCID: PMC9732337 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35354-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of single nucleotide variants and small indels that contribute to variation in hematologic traits. While structural variants are known to cause rare blood or hematopoietic disorders, the genome-wide contribution of structural variants to quantitative blood cell trait variation is unknown. Here we utilized whole genome sequencing data in ancestrally diverse participants of the NHLBI Trans Omics for Precision Medicine program (N = 50,675) to detect structural variants associated with hematologic traits. Using single variant tests, we assessed the association of common and rare structural variants with red cell-, white cell-, and platelet-related quantitative traits and observed 21 independent signals (12 common and 9 rare) reaching genome-wide significance. The majority of these associations (N = 18) replicated in independent datasets. In genome-editing experiments, we provide evidence that a deletion associated with lower monocyte counts leads to disruption of an S1PR3 monocyte enhancer and decreased S1PR3 expression.
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- Marsha M Wheeler
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, 02138, USA
- Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology, National Clinical Research Center for Blood Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, 300020, China
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Technology, Reykjavik University, Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Departments of Biostatistics, Genetics, Computer Science, Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Departments of Biostatistics, Genetics, Computer Science, Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, 02138, USA
- Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, 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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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, 78520, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2115, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, 78520, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, 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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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Biochemistry, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Colchester, VT, 5446, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, 1702, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA
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- Departments of Biostatistics, Genetics, Computer Science, Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA, 02138, USA
- Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, and Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
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Khan AT, Gogarten SM, McHugh CP, Stilp AM, Sofer T, Bowers ML, Wong Q, Cupples LA, Hidalgo B, Johnson AD, McDonald MLN, McGarvey ST, Taylor MR, Fullerton SM, Conomos MP, Nelson SC. Recommendations on the use and reporting of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in genetic research: Experiences from the NHLBI TOPMed program. Cell Genom 2022; 2:100155. [PMID: 36119389 PMCID: PMC9481067 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
How race, ethnicity, and ancestry are used in genomic research has wide-ranging implications for how research is translated into clinical care and incorporated into public understanding. Correlation between race and genetic ancestry contributes to unresolved complexity for the scientific community, as illustrated by heterogeneous definitions and applications of these variables. Here, we offer commentary and recommendations on the use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry across the arc of genetic research, including data harmonization, analysis, and reporting. While informed by our experiences as researchers affiliated with the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program, these recommendations are applicable to basic and translational genomic research in diverse populations with genome-wide data. Moving forward, considerable collaborative effort will be required to ensure that race, ethnicity, and ancestry are described and used appropriately to generate scientific knowledge that yields broad and equitable benefit.
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- Alyna T. Khan
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Institute for Public Health Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, USA
- The Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
- Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and International Health Institute, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, USA
- Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Adult Medical Genetics Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Institute for Public Health Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Austin TR, McHugh CP, Brody JA, Bis JC, Sitlani CM, Bartz TM, Biggs ML, Bansal N, Buzkova P, Carr SA, deFilippi CR, Elkind MSV, Fink HA, Floyd JS, Fohner AE, Gerszten RE, Heckbert SR, Katz DH, Kizer JR, Lemaitre RN, Longstreth WT, McKnight B, Mei H, Mukamal KJ, Newman AB, Ngo D, Odden MC, Vasan RS, Shojaie A, Simon N, Smith GD, Davies NM, Siscovick DS, Sotoodehnia N, Tracy RP, Wiggins KL, Zheng J, Psaty BM. Proteomics and Population Biology in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS): design of a study with mentored access and active data sharing. Eur J Epidemiol 2022; 37:755-765. [PMID: 35790642 PMCID: PMC9255954 DOI: 10.1007/s10654-022-00888-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND In the last decade, genomic studies have identified and replicated thousands of genetic associations with measures of health and disease and contributed to the understanding of the etiology of a variety of health conditions. Proteins are key biomarkers in clinical medicine and often drug-therapy targets. Like genomics, proteomics can advance our understanding of biology. METHODS AND RESULTS In the setting of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a cohort study of older adults, an aptamer-based method that has high sensitivity for low-abundance proteins was used to assay 4979 proteins in frozen, stored plasma from 3188 participants (61% women, mean age 74 years). CHS provides active support, including central analysis, for seven phenotype-specific working groups (WGs). Each CHS WG is led by one or two senior investigators and includes 10 to 20 early or mid-career scientists. In this setting of mentored access, the proteomic data and analytic methods are widely shared with the WGs and investigators so that they may evaluate associations between baseline levels of circulating proteins and the incidence of a variety of health outcomes in prospective cohort analyses. We describe the design of CHS, the CHS Proteomics Study, characteristics of participants, quality control measures, and structural characteristics of the data provided to CHS WGs. We additionally highlight plans for validation and replication of novel proteomic associations. CONCLUSION The CHS Proteomics Study offers an opportunity for collaborative data sharing to improve our understanding of the etiology of a variety of health conditions in older adults.
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- Thomas R Austin
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. .,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Nephrology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Minneapolis VA Healthcare System, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Institute of Public Health Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiology Section, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Epidemology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian, Norway.,Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Biochemistry, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.,Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Taub MA, Conomos MP, Keener R, Iyer KR, Weinstock JS, Yanek LR, Lane J, Miller-Fleming TW, Brody JA, Raffield LM, McHugh CP, Jain D, Gogarten SM, Laurie CA, Keramati A, Arvanitis M, Smith AV, Heavner B, Barwick L, Becker LC, Bis JC, Blangero J, Bleecker ER, Burchard EG, Celedón JC, Chang YPC, Custer B, Darbar D, de las Fuentes L, DeMeo DL, Freedman BI, Garrett ME, Gladwin MT, Heckbert SR, Hidalgo BA, Irvin MR, Islam T, Johnson WC, Kaab S, Launer L, Lee J, Liu S, Moscati A, North KE, Peyser PA, Rafaels N, Seidman C, Weeks DE, Wen F, Wheeler MM, Williams LK, Yang IV, Zhao W, Aslibekyan S, Auer PL, Bowden DW, Cade BE, Chen Z, Cho MH, Cupples LA, Curran JE, Daya M, Deka R, Eng C, Fingerlin TE, Guo X, Hou L, Hwang SJ, Johnsen JM, Kenny EE, Levin AM, Liu C, Minster RL, Naseri T, Nouraie M, Reupena MS, Sabino EC, Smith JA, Smith NL, Lasky-Su J, Taylor JG, Telen MJ, Tiwari HK, Tracy RP, White MJ, Zhang Y, Wiggins KL, Weiss ST, Vasan RS, Taylor KD, Sinner MF, Silverman EK, Shoemaker MB, Sheu WHH, Sciurba F, Schwartz DA, Rotter JI, Roden D, Redline S, Raby BA, Psaty BM, Peralta JM, Palmer ND, Nekhai S, Montgomery CG, Mitchell BD, Meyers DA, McGarvey ST, Mak AC, Loos RJ, Kumar R, Kooperberg C, Konkle BA, Kelly S, Kardia SL, Kaplan R, He J, Gui H, Gilliland FD, Gelb BD, Fornage M, Ellinor PT, de Andrade M, Correa A, Chen YDI, Boerwinkle E, Barnes KC, Ashley-Koch AE, Arnett DK, Albert C, Laurie CC, Abecasis G, Nickerson DA, Wilson JG, Rich SS, Levy D, Ruczinski I, Aviv A, Blackwell TW, Thornton T, O’Connell J, Cox NJ, Perry JA, Armanios M, Battle A, Pankratz N, Reiner AP, Mathias RA. Genetic determinants of telomere length from 109,122 ancestrally diverse whole-genome sequences in TOPMed. Cell Genom 2022; 2:S2666-979X(21)00105-1. [PMID: 35530816 PMCID: PMC9075703 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [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: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
Genetic studies on telomere length are important for understanding age-related diseases. Prior GWAS for leukocyte TL have been limited to European and Asian populations. Here, we report the first sequencing-based association study for TL across ancestrally-diverse individuals (European, African, Asian and Hispanic/Latino) from the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. We used whole genome sequencing (WGS) of whole blood for variant genotype calling and the bioinformatic estimation of telomere length in n=109,122 individuals. We identified 59 sentinel variants (p-value <5×10-9) in 36 loci associated with telomere length, including 20 newly associated loci (13 were replicated in external datasets). There was little evidence of effect size heterogeneity across populations. Fine-mapping at OBFC1 indicated the independent signals colocalized with cell-type specific eQTLs for OBFC1 (STN1). Using a multi-variant gene-based approach, we identified two genes newly implicated in telomere length, DCLRE1B (SNM1B) and PARN. In PheWAS, we demonstrated our TL polygenic trait scores (PTS) were associated with increased risk of cancer-related phenotypes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Margaret A. Taub
- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Rebecca Keener
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Kruthika R. Iyer
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Joshua S. Weinstock
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Lisa R. Yanek
- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - John Lane
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Tyne W. Miller-Fleming
- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Jennifer A. Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Laura M. Raffield
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Caitlin P. McHugh
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Deepti Jain
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Stephanie M. Gogarten
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Cecelia A. Laurie
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Ali Keramati
- Department of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Marios Arvanitis
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Albert V. Smith
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Benjamin Heavner
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Lucas Barwick
- LTRC Data Coordinating Center, The Emmes Company, LLC, Rockville, MD, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Joshua C. Bis
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Division of Pharmacogenomics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Nephrology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian’s University, Munich, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Brown Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Individualized and Genomic Medicine Research (CIGMA), Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Genes, Environment, and Health, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Bloodworks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Center for Genomic Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa, Apia, Samoa
- Department of Epidemiology & International Health Institute, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Biochemistry, Larrner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Colchester, VT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian’s University, Munich, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Center for Sickle Cell Disease and Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Genes and Human Disease Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics, Genomics, and Precision Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Division of Pharmacogenomics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology & International Health Institute, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Bloodworks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
- UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Center for Individualized and Genomic Medicine Research (CIGMA), Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Division of Environmental Health, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics & Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study and Departments of Medicine and Population Health Science, Jackson, MS, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Duke Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MI, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- The Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center of Human Development and Aging, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute and Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Departments of Computer Science and Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Mikhaylova AV, McHugh CP, Polfus LM, Raffield LM, Boorgula MP, Blackwell TW, Brody JA, Broome J, Chami N, Chen MH, Conomos MP, Cox C, Curran JE, Daya M, Ekunwe L, Glahn DC, Heard-Costa N, Highland HM, Hobbs BD, Ilboudo Y, Jain D, Lange LA, Miller-Fleming TW, Min N, Moon JY, Preuss MH, Rosen J, Ryan K, Smith AV, Sun Q, Surendran P, de Vries PS, Walter K, Wang Z, Wheeler M, Yanek LR, Zhong X, Abecasis GR, Almasy L, Barnes KC, Beaty TH, Becker LC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Butterworth AS, Chavan S, Cho MH, Choquet H, Correa A, Cox N, DeMeo DL, Faraday N, Fornage M, Gerszten RE, Hou L, Johnson AD, Jorgenson E, Kaplan R, Kooperberg C, Kundu K, Laurie CA, Lettre G, Lewis JP, Li B, Li Y, Lloyd-Jones DM, Loos RJF, Manichaikul A, Meyers DA, Mitchell BD, Morrison AC, Ngo D, Nickerson DA, Nongmaithem S, North KE, O'Connell JR, Ortega VE, Pankratz N, Perry JA, Psaty BM, Rich SS, Soranzo N, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith NL, Tang H, Tracy RP, Thornton TA, Vasan RS, Zein J, Mathias RA, Reiner AP, Auer PL. Whole-genome sequencing in diverse subjects identifies genetic correlates of leukocyte traits: The NHLBI TOPMed program. Am J Hum Genet 2021; 108:1836-1851. [PMID: 34582791 PMCID: PMC8546043 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Many common and rare variants associated with hematologic traits have been discovered through imputation on large-scale reference panels. However, the majority of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been conducted in Europeans, and determining causal variants has proved challenging. We performed a GWAS of total leukocyte, neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophil, and basophil counts generated from 109,563,748 variants in the autosomes and the X chromosome in the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program, which included data from 61,802 individuals of diverse ancestry. We discovered and replicated 7 leukocyte trait associations, including (1) the association between a chromosome X, pseudo-autosomal region (PAR), noncoding variant located between cytokine receptor genes (CSF2RA and CLRF2) and lower eosinophil count; and (2) associations between single variants found predominantly among African Americans at the S1PR3 (9q22.1) and HBB (11p15.4) loci and monocyte and lymphocyte counts, respectively. We further provide evidence indicating that the newly discovered eosinophil-lowering chromosome X PAR variant might be associated with reduced susceptibility to common allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis and asthma. Additionally, we found a burden of very rare FLT3 (13q12.2) variants associated with monocyte counts. Together, these results emphasize the utility of whole-genome sequencing in diverse samples in identifying associations missed by European-ancestry-driven GWASs.
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MESH Headings
- Asthma/epidemiology
- Asthma/genetics
- Asthma/metabolism
- Asthma/pathology
- Biomarkers/metabolism
- Dermatitis, Atopic/epidemiology
- Dermatitis, Atopic/genetics
- Dermatitis, Atopic/metabolism
- Dermatitis, Atopic/pathology
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genome, Human
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Humans
- Leukocytes/pathology
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U.S.)
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Prognosis
- Proteome/analysis
- Proteome/metabolism
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/genetics
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/metabolism
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/pathology
- Quantitative Trait Loci
- United Kingdom/epidemiology
- United States/epidemiology
- Whole Genome Sequencing
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Affiliation(s)
- Anna V Mikhaylova
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Linda M Polfus
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
| | - Laura M Raffield
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Meher Preethi Boorgula
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
| | - Thomas W Blackwell
- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Jai Broome
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Nathalie Chami
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA
| | - Ming-Huei Chen
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
| | - Matthew P Conomos
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Corey Cox
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
| | - Joanne E Curran
- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX 78539, USA
| | - Michelle Daya
- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
| | - Lynette Ekunwe
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
| | - David C Glahn
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02155, USA
| | - Nancy Heard-Costa
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
| | - Heather M Highland
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Brian D Hobbs
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Montréal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec H1T 1C8, Canada; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 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 Genome Campus and 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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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX 78539, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 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 Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94601, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60661, USA
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- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Montréal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec H1T 1C8, Canada; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Departments of Biostatistics, Genetics, and Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60661, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60661, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY 10029, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Center for Precision Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Health Service, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Health Service, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Department of Biochemistry, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Colchester, VT 05446, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Regeneron Genetics Center, Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA; Departments of Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53205, USA.
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Hu Y, Stilp AM, McHugh CP, Rao S, Jain D, Zheng X, Lane J, Méric de Bellefon S, Raffield LM, Chen MH, Yanek LR, Wheeler M, Yao Y, Ren C, Broome J, Moon JY, de Vries PS, Hobbs BD, Sun Q, Surendran P, Brody JA, Blackwell TW, Choquet H, Ryan K, Duggirala R, Heard-Costa N, Wang Z, Chami N, Preuss MH, Min N, Ekunwe L, Lange LA, Cushman M, Faraday N, Curran JE, Almasy L, Kundu K, Smith AV, Gabriel S, Rotter JI, Fornage M, Lloyd-Jones DM, Vasan RS, Smith NL, North KE, Boerwinkle E, Becker LC, Lewis JP, Abecasis GR, Hou L, O’Connell JR, Morrison AC, Beaty TH, Kaplan R, Correa A, Blangero J, Jorgenson E, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Walton RT, Kleinstiver BP, Tang H, Loos RJ, Soranzo N, Butterworth AS, Nickerson D, Rich SS, Mitchell BD, Johnson AD, Auer PL, Li Y, Mathias RA, Lettre G, Pankratz N, Laurie CC, Laurie CA, Bauer DE, Conomos MP, Reiner AP. Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program. Am J Hum Genet 2021; 108:1165. [PMID: 34087167 PMCID: PMC8206380 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Hu Y, Stilp AM, McHugh CP, Rao S, Jain D, Zheng X, Lane J, Méric de Bellefon S, Raffield LM, Chen MH, Yanek LR, Wheeler M, Yao Y, Ren C, Broome J, Moon JY, de Vries PS, Hobbs BD, Sun Q, Surendran P, Brody JA, Blackwell TW, Choquet H, Ryan K, Duggirala R, Heard-Costa N, Wang Z, Chami N, Preuss MH, Min N, Ekunwe L, Lange LA, Cushman M, Faraday N, Curran JE, Almasy L, Kundu K, Smith AV, Gabriel S, Rotter JI, Fornage M, Lloyd-Jones DM, Vasan RS, Smith NL, North KE, Boerwinkle E, Becker LC, Lewis JP, Abecasis GR, Hou L, O'Connell JR, Morrison AC, Beaty TH, Kaplan R, Correa A, Blangero J, Jorgenson E, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Walton RT, Kleinstiver BP, Tang H, Loos RJF, Soranzo N, Butterworth AS, Nickerson D, Rich SS, Mitchell BD, Johnson AD, Auer PL, Li Y, Mathias RA, Lettre G, Pankratz N, Laurie CC, Laurie CA, Bauer DE, Conomos MP, Reiner AP. Whole-genome sequencing association analysis of quantitative red blood cell phenotypes: The NHLBI TOPMed program. Am J Hum Genet 2021; 108:874-893. [PMID: 33887194 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 12/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS), a powerful tool for detecting novel coding and non-coding disease-causing variants, has largely been applied to clinical diagnosis of inherited disorders. Here we leveraged WGS data in up to 62,653 ethnically diverse participants from the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program and assessed statistical association of variants with seven red blood cell (RBC) quantitative traits. We discovered 14 single variant-RBC trait associations at 12 genomic loci, which have not been reported previously. Several of the RBC trait-variant associations (RPN1, ELL2, MIDN, HBB, HBA1, PIEZO1, and G6PD) were replicated in independent GWAS datasets imputed to the TOPMed reference panel. Most of these discovered variants are rare/low frequency, and several are observed disproportionately among non-European Ancestry (African, Hispanic/Latino, or East Asian) populations. We identified a 3 bp indel p.Lys2169del (g.88717175_88717177TCT[4]) (common only in the Ashkenazi Jewish population) of PIEZO1, a gene responsible for the Mendelian red cell disorder hereditary xerocytosis (MIM: 194380), associated with higher mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC). In stepwise conditional analysis and in gene-based rare variant aggregated association analysis, we identified several of the variants in HBB, HBA1, TMPRSS6, and G6PD that represent the carrier state for known coding, promoter, or splice site loss-of-function variants that cause inherited RBC disorders. Finally, we applied base and nuclease editing to demonstrate that the sentinel variant rs112097551 (nearest gene RPN1) acts through a cis-regulatory element that exerts long-range control of the gene RUVBL1 which is essential for hematopoiesis. Together, these results demonstrate the utility of WGS in ethnically diverse population-based samples and gene editing for expanding knowledge of the genetic architecture of quantitative hematologic traits and suggest a continuum between complex trait and Mendelian red cell disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yao Hu
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Caitlin P McHugh
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Shuquan Rao
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
| | - Deepti Jain
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Xiuwen Zheng
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - John Lane
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
| | | | - Laura M Raffield
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Ming-Huei Chen
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
| | - Marsha Wheeler
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Yao Yao
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Jee-Young Moon
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
| | - Paul S de Vries
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Brian D Hobbs
- Channing Division of Network Medicine and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Praveen Surendran
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 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 Genome Campus and 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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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94601, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX 78539, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, 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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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, 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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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, School of Medicine University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX 78539, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Genetics University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK
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- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA; Departments of Cardiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
| | - Nicholas L Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Lewis C Becker
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
| | - Joshua P Lewis
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Goncalo R Abecasis
- TOPMed Informatics Research Center, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Lifang Hou
- Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60208, USA
| | - Jeffrey R O'Connell
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Terri H Beaty
- School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
| | - Robert Kaplan
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX 78539, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA 94601, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, 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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- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, 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 Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK; National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
| | - Braxton D Mitchell
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Andrew D Johnson
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01701, USA
| | - Paul L Auer
- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53205, USA
| | - Yun Li
- Departments of Biostatistics, Genetics, Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA 21205, USA
| | - Guillaume Lettre
- Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Broad Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
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Cole BS, Gudiseva HV, Pistilli M, Salowe R, McHugh CP, Zody MC, Chavali VRM, Ying GS, Moore JH, O'Brien JM. The Role of Genetic Ancestry as a Risk Factor for Primary Open-angle Glaucoma in African Americans. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2021; 62:28. [PMID: 33605984 PMCID: PMC7900887 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.62.2.28] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Purpose POAG is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in African Americans. In this study, we quantitatively assess the association of autosomal ancestry with POAG risk in a large cohort of self-identified African Americans. Methods Subjects recruited to the Primary Open-Angle African American Glaucoma Genetics (POAAGG) study were classified as glaucoma cases or controls by fellowship-trained glaucoma specialists. POAAGG subjects were genotyped using the MEGA Ex array (discovery cohort, n = 3830; replication cohort, n = 2135). Population structure was interrogated using principal component analysis in the context of the 1000 Genomes Project superpopulations. Results The majority of POAAGG samples lie on an axis between African and European superpopulations, with great variation in admixture. Cases had a significantly lower mean value of the ancestral component q0 than controls for both cohorts (P = 6.14-4; P = 3-6), consistent with higher degree of African ancestry. Among POAG cases, higher African ancestry was also associated with thinner central corneal thickness (P = 2-4). Admixture mapping showed that local genetic ancestry was not a significant risk factor for POAG. A polygenic risk score, comprised of 23 glaucoma-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms from the NHGRI-EBI genome-wide association study catalog, was significant in both cohorts (P < 0.001), suggesting that both known POAG single nucleotide polymorphisms and an omnigenic ancestry effect influence POAG risk. Conclusions In sum, the POAAGG study population is very admixed, with a higher degree of African ancestry associated with an increased POAG risk. Further analyses should consider social and environmental factors as possible confounding factors for disease predisposition.
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- Brian S. Cole
- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- New York Genome Center, New York City, New York, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Kowalski MH, Qian H, Hou Z, Rosen JD, Tapia AL, Shan Y, Jain D, Argos M, Arnett DK, Avery C, Barnes KC, Becker LC, Bien SA, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Buyske S, Cai J, Cho MH, Choi SH, Choquet H, Cupples LA, Cushman M, Daya M, de Vries PS, Ellinor PT, Faraday N, Fornage M, Gabriel S, Ganesh SK, Graff M, Gupta N, He J, Heckbert SR, Hidalgo B, Hodonsky CJ, Irvin MR, Johnson AD, Jorgenson E, Kaplan R, Kardia SLR, Kelly TN, Kooperberg C, Lasky-Su JA, Loos RJF, Lubitz SA, Mathias RA, McHugh CP, Montgomery C, Moon JY, Morrison AC, Palmer ND, Pankratz N, Papanicolaou GJ, Peralta JM, Peyser PA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith JA, Smith NL, Taylor KD, Thornton TA, Tiwari HK, Tracy RP, Wang T, Weiss ST, Weng LC, Wiggins KL, Wilson JG, Yanek LR, Zöllner S, North KE, Auer PL, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Li Y. Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008500. [PMID: 31869403 PMCID: PMC6953885 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Revised: 01/10/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Most genome-wide association and fine-mapping studies to date have been conducted in individuals of European descent, and genetic studies of populations of Hispanic/Latino and African ancestry are limited. In addition, these populations have more complex linkage disequilibrium structure. In order to better define the genetic architecture of these understudied populations, we leveraged >100,000 phased sequences available from deep-coverage whole genome sequencing through the multi-ethnic NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program to impute genotypes into admixed African and Hispanic/Latino samples with genome-wide genotyping array data. We demonstrated that using TOPMed sequencing data as the imputation reference panel improves genotype imputation quality in these populations, which subsequently enhanced gene-mapping power for complex traits. For rare variants with minor allele frequency (MAF) < 0.5%, we observed a 2.3- to 6.1-fold increase in the number of well-imputed variants, with 11-34% improvement in average imputation quality, compared to the state-of-the-art 1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 and Haplotype Reference Consortium reference panels. Impressively, even for extremely rare variants with minor allele count <10 (including singletons) in the imputation target samples, average information content rescued was >86%. Subsequent association analyses of TOPMed reference panel-imputed genotype data with hematological traits (hemoglobin (HGB), hematocrit (HCT), and white blood cell count (WBC)) in ~21,600 African-ancestry and ~21,700 Hispanic/Latino individuals identified associations with two rare variants in the HBB gene (rs33930165 with higher WBC [p = 8.8x10-15] in African populations, rs11549407 with lower HGB [p = 1.5x10-12] and HCT [p = 8.8x10-10] in Hispanics/Latinos). By comparison, neither variant would have been genome-wide significant if either 1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 or Haplotype Reference Consortium reference panels had been used for imputation. Our findings highlight the utility of the TOPMed imputation reference panel for identification of novel rare variant associations not previously detected in similarly sized genome-wide studies of under-represented African and Hispanic/Latino populations.
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- Madeline H. Kowalski
- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics and Operation Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departments of Medicine & Pathology, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Colchester, Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Genomics Platform, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Genomics Platform, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Los Angeles, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ryals School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Ryals School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Los Angeles, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Service and Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Genes and Human Disease, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, PPSP/EB, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Ryals School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Biochemistry, Larrner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Colchester, Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Carolina Center of Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Hodonsky CJ, Jain D, Schick UM, Morrison JV, Brown L, McHugh CP, Schurmann C, Chen DD, Liu YM, Auer PL, Laurie CA, Taylor KD, Browning BL, Li Y, Papanicolaou G, Rotter JI, Kurita R, Nakamura Y, Browning SR, Loos RJF, North KE, Laurie CC, Thornton TA, Pankratz N, Bauer DE, Sofer T, Reiner AP. Genome-wide association study of red blood cell traits in Hispanics/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. PLoS Genet 2017; 13:e1006760. [PMID: 28453575 PMCID: PMC5428979 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006760] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Revised: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Prior GWAS have identified loci associated with red blood cell (RBC) traits in populations of European, African, and Asian ancestry. These studies have not included individuals with an Amerindian ancestral background, such as Hispanics/Latinos, nor evaluated the full spectrum of genomic variation beyond single nucleotide variants. Using a custom genotyping array enriched for Amerindian ancestral content and 1000 Genomes imputation, we performed GWAS in 12,502 participants of Hispanic Community Health Study and Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) for hematocrit, hemoglobin, RBC count, RBC distribution width (RDW), and RBC indices. Approximately 60% of previously reported RBC trait loci generalized to HCHS/SOL Hispanics/Latinos, including African ancestral alpha- and beta-globin gene variants. In addition to the known 3.8kb alpha-globin copy number variant, we identified an Amerindian ancestral association in an alpha-globin regulatory region on chromosome 16p13.3 for mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin. We also discovered and replicated three genome-wide significant variants in previously unreported loci for RDW (SLC12A2 rs17764730, PSMB5 rs941718), and hematocrit (PROX1 rs3754140). Among the proxy variants at the SLC12A2 locus we identified rs3812049, located in a bi-directional promoter between SLC12A2 (which encodes a red cell membrane ion-transport protein) and an upstream anti-sense long-noncoding RNA, LINC01184, as the likely causal variant. We further demonstrate that disruption of the regulatory element harboring rs3812049 affects transcription of SLC12A2 and LINC01184 in human erythroid progenitor cells. Together, these results reinforce the importance of genetic study of diverse ancestral populations, in particular Hispanics/Latinos.
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- Chani J. Hodonsky
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- New York Genome Center, New York, NY, United States of America
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America
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- Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA United States of America
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- Research and Development Department, Central Blood Institute, Blood Service Headquarters, Japanese Red Cross Society, Tokyo, Japan
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- Cell Engineering Division, RIKEN BioResource Center, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
- Comprehensive Human Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Division of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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Schick UM, Jain D, Hodonsky CJ, Morrison JV, Davis JP, Brown L, Sofer T, Conomos MP, Schurmann C, McHugh CP, Nelson SC, Vadlamudi S, Stilp A, Plantinga A, Baier L, Bien SA, Gogarten SM, Laurie CA, Taylor KD, Liu Y, Auer PL, Franceschini N, Szpiro A, Rice K, Kerr KF, Rotter JI, Hanson RL, Papanicolaou G, Rich SS, Loos RJF, Browning BL, Browning SR, Weir BS, Laurie CC, Mohlke KL, North KE, Thornton TA, Reiner AP. Genome-wide Association Study of Platelet Count Identifies Ancestry-Specific Loci in Hispanic/Latino Americans. Am J Hum Genet 2016; 98:229-42. [PMID: 26805783 PMCID: PMC4746331 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [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: 10/01/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Platelets play an essential role in hemostasis and thrombosis. We performed a genome-wide association study of platelet count in 12,491 participants of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos by using a mixed-model method that accounts for admixture and family relationships. We discovered and replicated associations with five genes (ACTN1, ETV7, GABBR1-MOG, MEF2C, and ZBTB9-BAK1). Our strongest association was with Amerindian-specific variant rs117672662 (p value = 1.16 × 10(-28)) in ACTN1, a gene implicated in congenital macrothrombocytopenia. rs117672662 exhibited allelic differences in transcriptional activity and protein binding in hematopoietic cells. Our results underscore the value of diverse populations to extend insights into the allelic architecture of complex traits.
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- Ursula M Schick
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, NIH, 445 North 5(th) Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Phoenix Epidemiology and Clinical Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, NIH, 445 North 5(th) Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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Hayes MG, Urbanek M, Hivert MF, Armstrong LL, Morrison J, Guo C, Lowe LP, Scheftner DA, Pluzhnikov A, Levine DM, McHugh CP, Ackerman CM, Bouchard L, Brisson D, Layden BT, Mirel D, Doheny KF, Leya MV, Lown-Hecht RN, Dyer AR, Metzger BE, Reddy TE, Cox NJ, Lowe WL. Identification of HKDC1 and BACE2 as genes influencing glycemic traits during pregnancy through genome-wide association studies. Diabetes 2013; 62:3282-91. [PMID: 23903356 PMCID: PMC3749326 DOI: 10.2337/db12-1692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Maternal metabolism during pregnancy impacts the developing fetus, affecting offspring birth weight and adiposity. This has important implications for metabolic health later in life (e.g., offspring of mothers with pre-existing or gestational diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of metabolic disorders in childhood). To identify genetic loci associated with measures of maternal metabolism obtained during an oral glucose tolerance test at ∼28 weeks' gestation, we performed a genome-wide association study of 4,437 pregnant mothers of European (n = 1,367), Thai (n = 1,178), Afro-Caribbean (n = 1,075), and Hispanic (n = 817) ancestry, along with replication of top signals in three additional European ancestry cohorts. In addition to identifying associations with genes previously implicated with measures of glucose metabolism in nonpregnant populations, we identified two novel genome-wide significant associations: 2-h plasma glucose and HKDC1, and fasting C-peptide and BACE2. These results suggest that the genetic architecture underlying glucose metabolism may differ, in part, in pregnancy.
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- M Geoffrey Hayes
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Zheng X, Shaffer JR, McHugh CP, Laurie CC, Feenstra B, Melbye M, Murray JC, Marazita ML, Feingold E. Using family data as a verification standard to evaluate copy number variation calling strategies for genetic association studies. Genet Epidemiol 2012; 36:253-62. [PMID: 22714937 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.21618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A major concern for all copy number variation (CNV) detection algorithms is their reliability and repeatability. However, it is difficult to evaluate the reliability of CNV-calling strategies due to the lack of gold-standard data that would tell us which CNVs are real. We propose that if CNVs are called in duplicate samples, or inherited from parent to child, then these can be considered validated CNVs. We used two large family-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) datasets from the GENEVA consortium to look at concordance rates of CNV calls between duplicate samples, parent-child pairs, and unrelated pairs. Our goal was to make recommendations for ways to filter and use CNV calls in GWAS datasets that do not include family data. We used PennCNV as our primary CNV-calling algorithm, and tested CNV calls using different datasets and marker sets, and with various filters on CNVs and samples. Using the Illumina core HumanHap550 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) set, we saw duplicate concordance rates of approximately 55% and parent-child transmission rates of approximately 28% in our datasets. GC model adjustment and sample quality filtering had little effect on these reliability measures. Stratification on CNV size and DNA sample type did have some effect. Overall, our results show that it is probably not possible to find a CNV-calling strategy (including filtering and algorithm) that will give us a set of "reliable" CNV calls using current chip technologies. But if we understand the error process, we can still use CNV calls appropriately in genetic association studies.
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- Xiaojing Zheng
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Gogarten SM, Bhangale T, Conomos MP, Laurie CA, McHugh CP, Painter I, Zheng X, Crosslin DR, Levine D, Lumley T, Nelson SC, Rice K, Shen J, Swarnkar R, Weir BS, Laurie CC. GWASTools: an R/Bioconductor package for quality control and analysis of genome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics 2012; 28:3329-31. [PMID: 23052040 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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GWASTools is an R/Bioconductor package for quality control and analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GWASTools brings the interactive capability and extensive statistical libraries of R to GWAS. Data are stored in NetCDF format to accommodate extremely large datasets that cannot fit within R's memory limits. The documentation includes instructions for converting data from multiple formats, including variants called from sequencing. GWASTools provides a convenient interface for linking genotypes and intensity data with sample and single nucleotide polymorphism annotation.
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McHugh CP, Ostrander BF, Raymond RW, Kerr SF. Population dynamics of sand flies (diptera: psychodidae) at two foci of leishmaniasis in Texas. J Med Entomol 2001; 38:268-277. [PMID: 11296834 DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585-38.2.268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Sand flies were collected at a focus of leishmaniasis in Medina County, TX, from April through October 1997 and at a focus in Bexar County, TX, from April 1998 through December 1999. Lutzomyia diabolica (Hall) were collected from April through November with peak abundance in July. The male:female ratio of Lu. diabolica was 1:6.2. Almost all female Lu. diabolica in the collections were unfed. One gravid Lu. diabolica contained 49 ova. Female Lu. anthophora (Addis) were active from February through December with three peaks in abundance suggestive of successive generations. Unfed and gravid Lu. anthophora were collected in about equal numbers. Gravid females contained from 1 to 64 ova per female. The male:female ratio was 1:1.8, with male Lu. anthophora collected in all months. One female Lu. anthophora was found infected with Leishmania in July 1999. Lutzomyia texana (Dampf) were collected from April through October with peak abundance in April during 1997. The male:female ratio was 1:1.4, with most females unfed. Two gravid Lu. texana contained 32 and 102 ova. An undescribed species of Lutzomyia was found only at the Medina County site from May through September 1997. Trapping sites four times per month versus two times per month in 1999 did not appear to adversely affect the abundance of Lu. diabolica or Lu. anthophora. There were marked differences in the species composition and relative abundance at the different sites, indicating that the spatial distribution of sand flies is patchy in nature.
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- C P McHugh
- Department of Biology, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX 78209, USA
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McHugh CP. Garlic as a tick repellent. JAMA 2001; 285:41, 42. [PMID: 11150100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Goodman RL, Montalvo MA, Reed JB, Scribbick FW, McHugh CP, Beatty RL, Aviles R. Photo essay: anterior orbital myiasis caused by human botfly (Dermatobia hominis). Arch Ophthalmol 2000; 118:1002-3. [PMID: 10900121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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- R L Goodman
- Wilford Hhall Medical Center, Ophthalmology Department, Lackland AFB, TX 78234, USA
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Twenty-eight white-throated woodrats (Neotoma albigula) collected in Pima County, Arizona were screened for Leishmania using culture and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Two rodents were culture positive. Isoenzyme analysis determined the isolates to be Leishmania mexicana. The two culture-positive and four additional rodents were determined to be Leishmania-positive by the PCR. These isolates extend the geographic and ecologic range of enzootic leishmaniasis in the United States and represent a new host record.
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- S F Kerr
- College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas 78209, USA
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Herrera SP, Pink FE, McHugh CP, Smith GE. Trends in clinical dentistry skills observed by board examiners: a 15-year comparison. Oper Dent 1997; 22:271-9. [PMID: 9610325] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This study compares and analyzes the clinical performance of recent dental graduates over a 15-year period. A majority of the 981 board examiners, cumulatively surveyed, observed an increase in diagnosis/treatment planning and periodontal skills, and a decrease in operative and prosthodontic skills, while many other skills were performed at approximately the same level.
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- S P Herrera
- University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry, MI 48207-4282, USA
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Twenty-seven autochthonous cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Texas were identified by contact with dermatologists and State Health Department officials, and by a review of medical records, pathology reports, and previously published case reports. Fifteen cases were previously unreported. Although the date of onset of the first recognized case was 1903, in 20 of the cases the date of onset of the lesion(s) was in 1980-1989. Twelve cases were female; 15 were male. Age at diagnosis ranged from two to 86 (median 37) years. The disease was identified significantly more frequently in younger males and older females. The distribution of cases closely followed the distribution of Neotoma micropus, a rodent host for Leishmania mexicana. The most common risk factor appeared to be residence or activity in close proximity to woodrat habitat. Two cases lived in central Texas; the remainder had a residence in, or history of travel to, southern Texas. A majority of cases were first recognized during the cooler months of the year. Most lesions began as papules or nodules that subsequently ulcerated. In 20 cases, a single lesion was present. Five cases had resolution of their lesions without receiving specific anti-leishmanial therapy; lesions of 17 resolved after treatment with a variety of therapies. One life-long case of disseminated disease failed to respond to treatment, and four cases were lost to follow-up. A Leishmania-specific lymphocyte proliferation assay gave a positive response for four of five cases tested. Screening of 13 family members found no evidence of subclinical infection. These 27 cases, and two recently recognized cases reported in a note added in proof, indicate that cutaneous leishmaniasis may be more common in Texas than previously thought.
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- C P McHugh
- Occupational and Environmental Health Directorate, Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, USA
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Kerr SF, McHugh CP, Dronen NO. Leishmaniasis in Texas: prevalence and seasonal transmission of Leishmania mexicana in Neotoma micropus. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1995; 53:73-7. [PMID: 7625538] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The annual prevalence of Leishmania mexicana in Neotoma micropus from 16 southern Texas localities was determined by screening 192 N. micropus using in vitro culture. Eight woodrats also were screened using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Forty-six Sigmodon hispidus from four localities were also tested. Seasonal transmission was investigated through trap-recapture studies at three localities and analysis of infections in juveniles. Fourteen N. micropus from four localities were culture-positive for L. mexicana, indicating an annual non-zero prevalence at these localities of 5.6-27%. Four additional infections at two foci were detected only by the PCR. Transmission occurred in the fall in each case in which season of transmission could be determined. No S. hispidus were positive. These data support the hypothesis that N. micropus is a reservoir of L. mexicana in Texas.
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- S F Kerr
- Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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McHugh CP. Distributional records for Aedes mosquitoes from the U.S. Air Force ovitrapping program-1992. J Am Mosq Control Assoc 1993; 9:352-355. [PMID: 8245948] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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During 1992, ovitrapping to sample populations of container-breeding Aedes was conducted at 28 U.S. Air Force installations in North America. Aedes albopictus was collected at 19 installations. The collections of Ae. albopictus at Goodfellow Air Force base (AFB), TX, and Moody AFB, GA, represent new records for Tom Green and Lowndes counties, respectively. Six installations were positive for Ae. aegypti; 13 were positive for Aedes triseriatus.
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- C P McHugh
- Occupational and Environmental Health Directorate, Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235
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McHugh CP, Grogl M, Kreutzer RD. Isolation of Leishmania mexicana (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) from Lutzomyia anthophora (Diptera: Psychodidae) collected in Texas. J Med Entomol 1993; 30:631-633. [PMID: 8510126 DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/30.3.631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Three of 27 female Lutzomyia anthophora (Addis) collected in Texas from the nest of a southern plains woodrat, Neotoma micropus Baird, during October 1991 were infected with flagellate protozoans. Isolates were grown in Schneider's Drosophila medium supplemented with 20% fetal bovine serum, and isozyme analysis of two of the isolates determined the parasites to be Leishmania mexicana (Biagi). These are the first isolations of Leishmania from field-collected sand flies in North America north of Mexico. Possible reasons for the lack of human cases near the focus are presented.
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- C P McHugh
- Occupational and Environmental Health Directorate, Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235
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Grogl M, Kreutzer RD, McHugh CP, Martin RK. Characterization of a Leishmania isolate from the rodent host Neotoma micropus collected in Texas and comparison with human isolates. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1991; 45:714-22. [PMID: 1763798 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1991.45.714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We report the biological and biochemical parameters of Leishmania parasites (MNEO/US/90/WR972) isolated from a rodent host, Neotoma micropus, collected in Texas. Footpad inoculations of WR972 promastigotes into BALB/c mice and Syrian hamsters resulted in ulcerating lesions six and eight weeks post-inoculation, respectively. Using monoclonal antibody-stained touch preparations, amastigotes were found in the liver of both laboratory hosts. Infection of J774 macrophages with WR972 promastigotes supported the growth of amastigotes for 12 days at 35 degrees C. The WR972 parasite was identified by enzyme electrophoresis as L. mexicana. Isozyme comparison of WR972 with 42 L. mexicana isolates (from humans and rodents) from four different endemic areas, including Texas, suggest that these parasite populations are identical for approximately 97% of their genetic loci. Pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of WR972 resolved 18 chromosomes with a size range of 300- greater than 2,000 kb. The karyotype strongly resembles that of two other Texas L. mexicana isolates from humans. Taken together, the PFGE, hybridization, and isoenzyme data suggest that the wood rat isolate (WR972) is identical to parasites from human cutaneous lesions isolated in Texas and Central America. In addition, the biological characteristics of WR972, its infectivity of BALB/c mice and the Syrian hamster, and the potential of the isolate to infect, transform, and divide in J774 macrophages indicate that WR972 will be pathogenic in humans if transmission occurs. Health care providers should consider this possibility when studying the epidemiology and control of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Texas.
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- M Grogl
- Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC
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McHugh CP, Grogl M, Kerr SF. Isolation of Leishmania mexicana from Neotoma micropus collected in Texas. J Parasitol 1990; 76:741-2. [PMID: 2213421] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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A female Neotoma micropus infected with Leishmania was collected in Zavala County, Texas, on 15 January 1990. The infection was limited to lesions at the bases of the ears, and the parasite grew readily in Schneider's Drosophila medium supplemented with 20% fetal bovine serum. Isozyme analysis determined the parasite to be Leishmania mexicana.
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- C P McHugh
- Epidemiology Division, U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 78235-5301
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Goddard J, McHugh CP. Impact of a severe tick infestation at Little Rock AFB, Arkansas on volant scorpion military training. Mil Med 1990; 155:277-80. [PMID: 2122308] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Over 950 students attending Volant Scorpion training during March-August 1988 reported the number and impact of tick bites and the personal protective measures used during their training at Little Rock Air Force Base. In some classes, as many as 50% of the students reported 10 or more tick bites. Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance. The use of a repellent applied to clothing had no significant effect on the number of tick bites received.
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- J Goddard
- Bureau of Environmental Health, Mississippi State Board of Health, Jackson 39205
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McHugh CP. Ecology of a semi-isolated population of adult Anopheles freeborni: abundance, trophic status, parity, survivorship, gonotrophic cycle length, and host selection. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1989; 41:169-76. [PMID: 2774063 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1989.41.169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A population of adult Anopheles freeborni near Sheridan, CA was sampled daily during 13 August-7 September 1984. Data on abundance, trophic status, and gonotrophic age were recorded. Abundance and gonotrophic age data were analyzed to estimate daily survivorship and gonotrophic cycle length. Daily survivorship for unfed mosquitoes was estimated to be 0.72 with a gonotrophic cycle of 6 days duration. Daily survivorship for bloodfed mosquitoes was estimated to be 0.74 with a gonotrophic cycle of 4 days. The 2 day difference in gonotrophic cycles between unfed and bloodfed mosquitoes was the result of the period required for maturation and mating of teneral females. In 1986, an incage release of field-collected females estimated survivorship at 0.75 per day. Precipitin tests of 1,338 blood-engorged mosquito abdomens indicated that bovids, horses, rabbits, and canids comprised 92% of bloodmeals; no bloodmeals of human origin were detected.
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- C P McHugh
- Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis
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