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Breeyear JH, Mautz BS, Keaton JM, Hellwege JN, Torstenson ES, Liang J, Bray MJ, Giri A, Warren HR, Munroe PB, Velez Edwards DR, Zhu X, Li C, Edwards TL. A new test for trait mean and variance detects unreported loci for blood-pressure variation. Am J Hum Genet 2024; 111:954-965. [PMID: 38614075 PMCID: PMC11080606 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024] Open
Abstract
Variability in quantitative traits has clinical, ecological, and evolutionary significance. Most genetic variants identified for complex quantitative traits have only a detectable effect on the mean of trait. We have developed the mean-variance test (MVtest) to simultaneously model the mean and log-variance of a quantitative trait as functions of genotypes and covariates by using estimating equations. The advantages of MVtest include the facts that it can detect effect modification, that multiple testing can follow conventional thresholds, that it is robust to non-normal outcomes, and that association statistics can be meta-analyzed. In simulations, we show control of type I error of MVtest over several alternatives. We identified 51 and 37 previously unreported associations for effects on blood-pressure variance and mean, respectively, in the UK Biobank. Transcriptome-wide association studies revealed 633 significant unique gene associations with blood-pressure mean variance. MVtest is broadly applicable to studies of complex quantitative traits and provides an important opportunity to detect novel loci.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joseph H Breeyear
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
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- Population Analytics and Insights, Data Sciences, Janssen Research and Development, Spring House, PA, USA
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- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Orlando Health, Orlando, FL, USA; Genetic Counseling Program, Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center of Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, England
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- Center of Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, Queen Mary University, London, England
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Barnes DR, Tyrer JP, Dennis J, Leslie G, Bolla MK, Lush M, Aeilts AM, Aittomäki K, Andrieu N, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arason A, Arun BK, Balmaña J, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Berger LP, de Gonzalez AB, Berthet P, Białkowska K, Bjørge L, Blanco AM, Blok MJ, Bobolis KA, Bogdanova NV, Brenton JD, Butz H, Buys SS, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Castillo C, Claes KB, Colonna SV, Cook LS, Daly MB, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, de la Hoya M, deFazio A, DePersia A, Ding YC, Domchek SM, Dörk T, Einbeigi Z, Engel C, Evans DG, Foretova L, Fortner RT, Fostira F, Foti MC, Friedman E, Frone MN, Ganz PA, Gentry-Maharaj A, Glendon G, Godwin AK, González-Neira A, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guerrieri-Gonzaga A, Hamann U, Hansen TV, Harris HR, Hauke J, Heitz F, Hogervorst FB, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL, Huff CD, Huntsman DG, Imyanitov EN, Izatt L, Jakubowska A, James PA, Janavicius R, John EM, Kar S, Karlan BY, Kennedy CJ, Kiemeney LA, Konstantopoulou I, Kupryjanczyk J, Laitman Y, Lavie O, Lawrenson K, Lester J, Lesueur F, Lopez-Pleguezuelos C, Mai PL, Manoukian S, May T, McNeish IA, Menon U, Milne RL, Modugno F, Mongiovi JM, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Neuhausen SL, Nielsen FC, Noguès C, Oláh E, Olopade OI, Osorio A, Papi L, Pathak H, Pearce CL, Pedersen IS, Peixoto A, Pejovic T, Peng PC, Peshkin BN, Peterlongo P, Powell CB, Prokofyeva D, Pujana MA, Radice P, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Richenberg G, Sandler DP, Sasamoto N, Setiawan VW, Sharma P, Sieh W, Singer CF, Snape K, Sokolenko AP, Soucy P, Southey MC, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutphen R, Sutter C, Teixeira MR, Terry KL, Thomsen LCV, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Van Gorp T, Vega A, Velez Edwards DR, Webb PM, Weitzel JN, Wentzensen N, Whittemore AS, Winham SJ, Wu AH, Yadav S, Yu Y, Ziogas A, Berchuck A, Couch FJ, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Monteiro AN, Offit K, Ramus SJ, Risch HA, Schildkraut JM, Thomassen M, Simard J, Easton DF, Jones MR, Chenevix-Trench G, Gayther SA, Antoniou AC, Pharoah PD. Large-scale genome-wide association study of 398,238 women unveils seven novel loci associated with high-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer risk. medRxiv 2024:2024.02.29.24303243. [PMID: 38496424 PMCID: PMC10942532 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.29.24303243] [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: 03/19/2024]
Abstract
Background Nineteen genomic regions have been associated with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). We used data from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC), Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/BRCA2 (CIMBA), UK Biobank (UKBB), and FinnGen to identify novel HGSOC susceptibility loci and develop polygenic scores (PGS). Methods We analyzed >22 million variants for 398,238 women. Associations were assessed separately by consortium and meta-analysed. OCAC and CIMBA data were used to develop PGS which were trained on FinnGen data and validated in UKBB and BioBank Japan. Results Eight novel variants were associated with HGSOC risk. An interesting discovery biologically was finding that TP53 3'-UTR SNP rs78378222 was associated with HGSOC (per T allele relative risk (RR)=1.44, 95%CI:1.28-1.62, P=1.76×10-9). The optimal PGS included 64,518 variants and was associated with an odds ratio of 1.46 (95%CI:1.37-1.54) per standard deviation in the UKBB validation (AUROC curve=0.61, 95%CI:0.59-0.62). Conclusions This study represents the largest GWAS for HGSOC to date. The results highlight that improvements in imputation reference panels and increased sample sizes can identify HGSOC associated variants that previously went undetected, resulting in improved PGS. The use of updated PGS in cancer risk prediction algorithms will then improve personalized risk prediction for HGSOC.
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- Daniel R. Barnes
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Human Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Inserm U900, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
- PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali - the National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Hereditary Cancer Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali - the National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Département de Biopathologie, Centre François Baclesse, Caen, France
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Community Research Network, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- N.N. Alexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Minsk, Belarus
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
- National Tumour Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Oncology Biobank, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Oncology and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, CIBERONC, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, IdISSC (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos), Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- The Daffodil Centre, The University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Basser Center for BRCA, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Genomic Medicine, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Universities Foundation Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, UK
- Genomic Medicine, North West Genomics hub, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Universities Foundation Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Assuta Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- National Cancer Institute, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, UK
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- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Human Genotyping Unit-CeGen, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases, Madrid, Spain
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- National Cancer Institute, Clinical Genetics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Genetics, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
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- Family Cancer Clinic, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Family Cancer Clinic, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- British Columbia’s Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, BC Cancer, Vancouver General Hospital, and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Tumor Growth Biology, N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Genetics, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine Center, Oncogenetics Unit, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinics, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Department of Human and Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Oncology and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Cancer Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Institute Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Women’s Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Inserm U900, Paris, France
- Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France
- PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Escola de Doutoramento Internacional, Universidade de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Unit of Medical Genetics, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Canada
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- Division of Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Action Research Centre, Department Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Département d’Anticipation et de Suivi des Cancers, Oncogénétique Clinique, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
- Aix Marseille Université, INSERM, IRD, SESSTIM, Marseille, France
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Spanish Network on Rare Diseases, Madrid, Spain
- Familial Cancer Clinical Unit, Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences ‘Mario Serio’, Medical Genetics Unit, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Molecular Diagnostics, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
- Clinical Cancer Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Laboratory Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto) / Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center, Porto, Portugal
- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP) / RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto) / Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Providence Medical Center, Medford, OR, USA
- Providence Cancer Center, Medford, OR, USA
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- Jess and Mildred Fisher Center for Hereditary Cancer and Clinical Genomics Research, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Genome Diagnostics Program, IFOM - the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
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- Hereditary Cancer Program, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- ProCURE, IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
- ProCURE, IDIBGI (Girona Biomedical Research Institute), Catalan Institute of Oncology, Girona, Spain
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- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Milan, Italy
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Basic Sciences, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH & RC), Lahore, Pakistan
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- Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- The Association for Promotion of Research in Precision Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Westwood, KS, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical Genetics Unit, St George’s, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Tumor Growth Biology, N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec – Université Laval Research Center, Québec City, QC, Canada
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- Cancer Epidemiology Division, Cancer Council Victoria, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Genetics Department, Institut Curie, Paris, France
- Unité INSERM U830, Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Health Informatics Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Laboratory Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto) / Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center, Porto, Portugal
- Cancer Genetics Group, IPO Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP) / RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO Porto) / Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center, Porto, Portugal
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Human Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Leuven Cancer Institute, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Population Health Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Genetics Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- AnaNeo Therapeutics, New York, NY, USA
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of NSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Adult Cancer Program, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of NSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
- Clinical Genome Center, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec – Université Laval Research Center, Québec City, QC, Canada
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Velez Edwards DR, Edwards TL. The Future of Prediction Modeling in Clinical Practice for Obstetrics and Gynecology. Obstet Gynecol 2024; 143:355-357. [PMID: 38359434 DOI: 10.1097/aog.0000000000005516] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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- Digna R Velez Edwards
- Digna R. Velez Edwards is from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Todd L. Edwards is from the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee;
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Lennon NJ, Kottyan LC, Kachulis C, Abul-Husn NS, Arias J, Belbin G, Below JE, Berndt SI, Chung WK, Cimino JJ, Clayton EW, Connolly JJ, Crosslin DR, Dikilitas O, Velez Edwards DR, Feng Q, Fisher M, Freimuth RR, Ge T, Glessner JT, Gordon AS, Patterson C, Hakonarson H, Harden M, Harr M, Hirschhorn JN, Hoggart C, Hsu L, Irvin MR, Jarvik GP, Karlson EW, Khan A, Khera A, Kiryluk K, Kullo I, Larkin K, Limdi N, Linder JE, Loos RJF, Luo Y, Malolepsza E, Manolio TA, Martin LJ, McCarthy L, McNally EM, Meigs JB, Mersha TB, Mosley JD, Musick A, Namjou B, Pai N, Pesce LL, Peters U, Peterson JF, Prows CA, Puckelwartz MJ, Rehm HL, Roden DM, Rosenthal EA, Rowley R, Sawicki KT, Schaid DJ, Smit RAJ, Smith JL, Smoller JW, Thomas M, Tiwari H, Toledo DM, Vaitinadin NS, Veenstra D, Walunas TL, Wang Z, Wei WQ, Weng C, Wiesner GL, Yin X, Kenny EE. Selection, optimization and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse US populations. Nat Med 2024; 30:480-487. [PMID: 38374346 PMCID: PMC10878968 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-02796-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
Abstract
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have improved in predictive performance, but several challenges remain to be addressed before PRSs can be implemented in the clinic, including reduced predictive performance of PRSs in diverse populations, and the interpretation and communication of genetic results to both providers and patients. To address these challenges, the National Human Genome Research Institute-funded Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network has developed a framework and pipeline for return of a PRS-based genome-informed risk assessment to 25,000 diverse adults and children as part of a clinical study. From an initial list of 23 conditions, ten were selected for implementation based on PRS performance, medical actionability and potential clinical utility, including cardiometabolic diseases and cancer. Standardized metrics were considered in the selection process, with additional consideration given to strength of evidence in African and Hispanic populations. We then developed a pipeline for clinical PRS implementation (score transfer to a clinical laboratory, validation and verification of score performance), and used genetic ancestry to calibrate PRS mean and variance, utilizing genetically diverse data from 13,475 participants of the All of Us Research Program cohort to train and test model parameters. Finally, we created a framework for regulatory compliance and developed a PRS clinical report for return to providers and for inclusion in an additional genome-informed risk assessment. The initial experience from eMERGE can inform the approach needed to implement PRS-based testing in diverse clinical settings.
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Seagle HM, Hellwege JN, Mautz BS, Li C, Xu Y, Zhang S, Roden DM, McGregor TL, Velez Edwards DR, Edwards TL. Evidence of recent and ongoing admixture in the U.S. and influences on health and disparities. Pac Symp Biocomput 2024; 29:374-388. [PMID: 38160293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
Many researchers in genetics and social science incorporate information about race in their work. However, migrations (historical and forced) and social mobility have brought formerly separated populations of humans together, creating younger generations of individuals who have more complex and diverse ancestry and race profiles than older age groups. Here, we sought to better understand how temporal changes in genetic admixture influence levels of heterozygosity and impact health outcomes. We evaluated variation in genetic ancestry over 100 birth years in a cohort of 35,842 individuals with electronic health record (EHR) information in the Southeastern United States. Using the software STRUCTURE, we analyzed 2,678 ancestrally informative markers relative to three ancestral clusters (African, East Asian, and European) and observed rising levels of admixture for all clinically-defined race groups since 1990. Most race groups also exhibited increases in heterozygosity and long-range linkage disequilibrium over time, further supporting the finding of increasing admixture in young individuals in our cohort. These data are consistent with United States Census information from broader geographic areas and highlight the changing demography of the population. This increased diversity challenges classic approaches to studies of genotype-phenotype relationships which motivated us to explore the relationship between heterozygosity and disease diagnosis. Using a phenome-wide association study approach, we explored the relationship between admixture and disease risk and found that increased admixture resulted in protective associations with female reproductive disorders and increased risk for diseases with links to autoimmune dysfunction. These data suggest that tendencies in the United States population are increasing ancestral complexity over time. Further, these observations imply that, because both prevalence and severity of many diseases vary by race groups, complexity of ancestral origins influences health and disparities.
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- Hannah M Seagle
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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Piekos JA, Kim J, Keaton JM, Hellwege JN, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GENETIC ANCESTRY AND THE CLINICAL PHENOME. Pac Symp Biocomput 2024; 29:389-403. [PMID: 38160294 PMCID: PMC10802858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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There is a desire in research to move away from the concept of race as a clinical factor because it is a societal construct used as an imprecise proxy for geographic ancestry. In this study, we leverage the biobank from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, BioVU, to investigate relationships between genetic ancestry proportion and the clinical phenome. For all samples in BioVU, we calculated six ancestry proportions based on 1000 Genomes references: eastern African (EAFR), western African (WAFR), northern European (NEUR), southern European (SEUR), eastern Asian (EAS), and southern Asian (SAS). From PheWAS, we found phecode categories significantly enriched neoplasms for EAFR, WAFR, and SEUR, and pregnancy complication in SEUR, NEUR, SAS, and EAS (p < 0.003). We then selected phenotypes hypertension (HTN) and atrial fibrillation (AFib) to further investigate the relationships between these phenotypes and EAFR, WAFR, SEUR, and NEUR using logistic regression modeling and non-linear restricted cubic spline modeling (RCS). For EAS and SAS, we chose renal failure (RF) for further modeling. The relationships between HTN and AFib and the ancestries EAFR, WAFR, and SEUR were best fit by the linear model (beta p < 1x10-4 for all) while the relationships with NEUR were best fit with RCS (HTN ANOVA p = 0.001, AFib ANOVA p < 1x10-4). For RF, the relationship with SAS was best fit with a linear model (beta p < 1x10-4) while RCS model was a better fit for EAS (ANOVA p < 1x10-4). In this study, we identify relationships between genetic ancestry and phenotypes that are best fit with non-linear modeling techniques. The assumption of linearity for regression modeling is integral for proper fitting of a model and there is no knowing a priori to modeling if the relationship is truly linear.
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- Jacqueline A Piekos
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, United States2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States3Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States^Work partially supported by T32GM080178
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Hampton G, Kim J, Edwards TL, Hellwege JN, Velez Edwards DR. Uterine leiomyomata and keloids fibrosis origins: a mini-review of fibroproliferative diseases. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2023; 325:C817-C822. [PMID: 37642233 PMCID: PMC10635651 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00181.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Diseases such as uterine leiomyomata (fibroids and benign tumors of the uterus) and keloids (raised scars) may share common etiology. Fibroids and keloids can co-occur in individuals, and both are highly heritable, suggesting they may share common genetic risk factors. Fibroproliferative diseases are common and characterized by scarring and overgrowth of connective tissue, impacting multiple organ systems. These conditions both have racial disparities in prevalence, with the highest prevalence observed among individuals of African ancestry. Several fibroproliferative diseases are more severe and common in populations of sub-Saharan Africa. This mini-review aims to provide a broad overview of the current knowledge of the evolutionary origins and causes of fibroproliferative diseases. We also discuss current hypotheses proposing that the increased prevalence of these diseases in African-derived populations is due to the selection for profibrotic alleles that are protective against helminth infections and provide examples from knowledge of uterine fibroid and keloid research.
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- Gabrielle Hampton
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Amorim G, Jaworski J, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Turner M, Andrade BB, Velez Edwards DR, Santos AR, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Haas DW. Pharmacogenetics of tuberculosis treatment toxicity and effectiveness in a large Brazilian cohort. medRxiv 2023:2023.08.30.23294860. [PMID: 37693472 PMCID: PMC10491388 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.30.23294860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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Background Genetic polymorphisms have been associated with risk of anti-tuberculosis treatment toxicity. We characterized associations with adverse events and treatment failure/recurrence among adults treated for tuberculosis in Brazil. Methods Participants were followed in Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil. We included persons with culture-confirmed drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis who started treatment between 2015-2019, and who were evaluable for pharmacogenetics. Treatment included 2 months of isoniazid, rifampin or rifabutin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol, then 4 months of isoniazid and rifampin or rifabutin, with 24 month follow-up. Analyses included 43 polymorphisms in 20 genes related to anti-tuberculosis drug hepatotoxicity or pharmacokinetics. Whole exome sequencing was done in a case-control toxicity subset. Results Among 903 participants in multivariable genetic association analyses, NAT2 slow acetylator status was associated with increased risk of treatment-related grade 2 or greater adverse events, including hepatotoxicity. Treatment failure/recurrence was more likely among NAT2 rapid acetylators, but not statistically significant at the 5% level. A GSTM1 polymorphism (rs412543) was associated with increased risk of treatment-related adverse events, including hepatotoxicity. SLCO1B1 polymorphisms were associated with increased risk of treatment- related hepatoxicity and treatment failure/recurrence. Polymorphisms in NR1/2 were associated with decreased risk of adverse events and increased risk of failure/recurrence. In whole exome sequencing, hepatotoxicity was associated with a polymorphism in VTI1A , and the genes METTL17 and PRSS57 , but none achieved genome-wide significance. Conclusions In a clinical cohort representing three regions of Brazil, NAT2 acetylator status was associated with risk for treatment-related adverse events. Additional significant polymorphisms merit investigation in larger study populations.
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Edwards TL, Greene CA, Piekos JA, Hellwege JN, Hampton G, Jasper EA, Velez Edwards DR. Challenges and Opportunities for Data Science in Women's Health. Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci 2023; 6:23-45. [PMID: 37040736 PMCID: PMC10877578 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-020722-105958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/13/2023]
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The intersection of women's health and data science is a field of research that has historically trailed other fields, but more recently it has gained momentum. This growth is being driven not only by new investigators who are moving into this area but also by the significant opportunities that have emerged in new methodologies, resources, and technologies in data science. Here, we describe some of the resources and methods being used by women's health researchers today to meet challenges in biomedical data science. We also describe the opportunities and limitations of applying these approaches to advance women's health outcomes and the future of the field, with emphasis on repurposing existing methodologies for women's health.
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- Todd L Edwards
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Center for Precision Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Zhang S, Strayer N, Vessels T, Choi K, Wang GW, Li Y, Bejan CA, Hsi RS, Bick AG, Velez Edwards DR, Savona MR, Philips EJ, Pulley J, Self WH, Hopkins WC, Roden DM, Smoller JW, Ruderfer DM, Xu Y. PheMIME: An Interactive Web App and Knowledge Base for Phenome-Wide, Multi-Institutional Multimorbidity Analysis. medRxiv 2023:2023.07.23.23293047. [PMID: 37547012 PMCID: PMC10402210 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.23.23293047] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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Motivation Multimorbidity, characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple diseases in an individual, is an increasing global health concern, posing substantial challenges to healthcare systems. Comprehensive understanding of disease-disease interactions and intrinsic mechanisms behind multimorbidity can offer opportunities for innovative prevention strategies, targeted interventions, and personalized treatments. Yet, there exist limited tools and datasets that characterize multimorbidity patterns across different populations. To bridge this gap, we used large-scale electronic health record (EHR) systems to develop the Phenome-wide Multi-Institutional Multimorbidity Explorer (PheMIME), which facilitates research in exploring and comparing multimorbidity patterns among multiple institutions, potentially leading to the discovery of novel and robust disease associations and patterns that are interoperable across different systems and organizations. Results PheMIME integrates summary statistics from phenome-wide analyses of disease multimorbidities. These are currently derived from three major institutions: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Mass General Brigham, and the UK Biobank. PheMIME offers interactive exploration of multimorbidity through multi-faceted visualization. Incorporating an enhanced version of associationSubgraphs, PheMIME enables dynamic analysis and inference of disease clusters, promoting the discovery of multimorbidity patterns. Once a disease of interest is selected, the tool generates interactive visualizations and tables that users can delve into multimorbidities or multimorbidity networks within a single system or compare across multiple systems. The utility of PheMIME is demonstrated through a case study on schizophrenia. Availability and implementation The PheMIME knowledge base and web application are accessible at https://prod.tbilab.org/PheMIME/. A comprehensive tutorial, including a use-case example, is available at https://prod.tbilab.org/PheMIME_supplementary_materials/. Furthermore, the source code for PheMIME can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/tbilab/PheMIME. Data availability statement The data underlying this article are available in the article and in its online web application or supplementary material.
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- Siwei Zhang
- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
- Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Lennon NJ, Kottyan LC, Kachulis C, Abul-Husn N, Arias J, Belbin G, Below JE, Berndt S, Chung W, Cimino JJ, Clayton EW, Connolly JJ, Crosslin D, Dikilitas O, Velez Edwards DR, Feng Q, Fisher M, Freimuth R, Ge T, Glessner JT, Gordon A, Guiducci C, Hakonarson H, Harden M, Harr M, Hirschhorn J, Hoggart C, Hsu L, Irvin R, Jarvik GP, Karlson EW, Khan A, Khera A, Kiryluk K, Kullo I, Larkin K, Limdi N, Linder JE, Loos R, Luo Y, Malolepsza E, Manolio T, Martin LJ, McCarthy L, Meigs JB, Mersha TB, Mosley J, Namjou B, Pai N, Pesce LL, Peters U, Peterson J, Prows CA, Puckelwartz MJ, Rehm H, Roden D, Rosenthal EA, Rowley R, Sawicki KT, Schaid D, Schmidlen T, Smit R, Smith J, Smoller JW, Thomas M, Tiwari H, Toledo D, Vaitinadin NS, Veenstra D, Walunas T, Wang Z, Wei WQ, Weng C, Wiesner G, Xianyong Y, Kenny E. Selection, optimization, and validation of ten chronic disease polygenic risk scores for clinical implementation in diverse populations. medRxiv 2023:2023.05.25.23290535. [PMID: 37333246 PMCID: PMC10275001 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.25.23290535] [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: 06/20/2023]
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Polygenic risk scores (PRS) have improved in predictive performance supporting their use in clinical practice. Reduced predictive performance of PRS in diverse populations can exacerbate existing health disparities. The NHGRI-funded eMERGE Network is returning a PRS-based genome-informed risk assessment to 25,000 diverse adults and children. We assessed PRS performance, medical actionability, and potential clinical utility for 23 conditions. Standardized metrics were considered in the selection process with additional consideration given to strength of evidence in African and Hispanic populations. Ten conditions were selected with a range of high-risk thresholds: atrial fibrillation, breast cancer, chronic kidney disease, coronary heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, prostate cancer, asthma, type 1 diabetes, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. We developed a pipeline for clinical PRS implementation, used genetic ancestry to calibrate PRS mean and variance, created a framework for regulatory compliance, and developed a PRS clinical report. eMERGE's experience informs the infrastructure needed to implement PRS-based implementation in diverse clinical settings.
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Washington
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Washington
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Penrod N, Okeh C, Velez Edwards DR, Barnhart K, Senapati S, Verma SS. Leveraging electronic health record data for endometriosis research. Front Digit Health 2023; 5:1150687. [PMID: 37342866 PMCID: PMC10278662 DOI: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1150687] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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Endometriosis is a chronic, complex disease for which there are vast disparities in diagnosis and treatment between sociodemographic groups. Clinical presentation of endometriosis can vary from asymptomatic disease-often identified during (in)fertility consultations-to dysmenorrhea and debilitating pelvic pain. Because of this complexity, delayed diagnosis (mean time to diagnosis is 1.7-3.6 years) and misdiagnosis is common. Early and accurate diagnosis of endometriosis remains a research priority for patient advocates and healthcare providers. Electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely adopted as a data source in biomedical research. However, they remain a largely untapped source of data for endometriosis research. EHRs capture diverse, real-world patient populations and care trajectories and can be used to learn patterns of underlying risk factors for endometriosis which, in turn, can be used to inform screening guidelines to help clinicians efficiently and effectively recognize and diagnose the disease in all patient populations reducing inequities in care. Here, we provide an overview of the advantages and limitations of using EHR data to study endometriosis. We describe the prevalence of endometriosis observed in diverse populations from multiple healthcare institutions, examples of variables that can be extracted from EHRs to enhance the accuracy of endometriosis prediction, and opportunities to leverage longitudinal EHR data to improve our understanding of long-term health consequences for all patients.
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- Nadia Penrod
- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Hellwege JN, Stallings SC, Piekos JA, Jasper EA, Aronoff DM, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Association of genetically-predicted placental gene expression with adult blood pressure traits. J Hypertens 2023; 41:1024-1032. [PMID: 37016918 PMCID: PMC10287061 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000003427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Blood pressure is a complex, polygenic trait, and the need to identify prehypertensive risks and new gene targets for blood pressure control therapies or prevention continues. We hypothesize a developmental origins model of blood pressure traits through the life course where the placenta is a conduit mediating genomic and nongenomic transmission of disease risk. Genetic control of placental gene expression has recently been described through expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies which have identified associations with childhood phenotypes. METHODS We conducted a transcriptome-wide gene expression analysis estimating the predicted gene expression of placental tissue in adult individuals with genome-wide association study (GWAS) blood pressure summary statistics. We constructed predicted expression models of 15 154 genes from reference placenta eQTL data and investigated whether genetically-predicted gene expression in placental tissue is associated with blood pressure traits using published GWAS summary statistics. Functional annotation of significant genes was generated using FUMA. RESULTS We identified 18, 9, and 21 genes where predicted expression in placenta was significantly associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and pulse pressure (PP), respectively. There were 14 gene-tissue associations (13 unique genes) significant only in placenta. CONCLUSIONS In this meta-analysis using S-PrediXcan and GWAS summary statistics, the predicted expression in placenta of 48 genes was statistically significantly associated with blood pressure traits. Notable findings included the association of FGFR1 expression with increased SBP and PP. This evidence of gene expression variation in placenta preceding the onset of adult blood pressure phenotypes is an example of extreme preclinical biological changes which may benefit from intervention.
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- Jacklyn N Hellwege
- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Quantitative Sciences
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Quantitative Sciences
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
- Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Quantitative Sciences
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Sundermann AC, Slaughter JC, Velez Edwards DR, Hartmann KE. Time-Varying Exposures and Miscarriage: A Comparison of Statistical Models Through Simulation. Am J Epidemiol 2023; 192:790-799. [PMID: 36721373 PMCID: PMC10423631 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwad021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 11/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Epidemiologists face a unique challenge in measuring risk relationships involving time-varying exposures in early pregnancy. Each week in early pregnancy is distinct in its contribution to fetal development, and this period is commonly characterized by shifts in maternal behavior and, consequently, exposures. In this simulation study, we used alcohol as an example of an exposure that often changes during early pregnancy and miscarriage as an outcome affected by early exposures. Data on alcohol consumption patterns from more than 5,000 women in the Right From the Start cohort study (United States, 2000-2012) informed measures of the prevalence of alcohol exposure, the distribution of gestational age at cessation of alcohol use, and the likelihood of miscarriage by week of gestation. We then compared the bias and precision of effect estimates and statistical power from 5 different modeling approaches in distinct simulated relationships. We demonstrate how the accuracy and precision of effect estimates depended on alignment between model assumptions and the underlying simulated relationship. Approaches that incorporated data about patterns of exposure were more powerful and less biased than simpler models when risk depended on timing or duration of exposure. To uncover risk relationships in early pregnancy, it is critical to carefully define the role of exposure timing in the underlying causal hypothesis.
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- Correspondence to Katherine E. Hartmann, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN 37203 (e-mail: )
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Actkins KV, Jean-Pierre G, Aldrich MC, Velez Edwards DR, Davis LK. Sex modifies the effect of genetic risk scores for polycystic ovary syndrome on metabolic phenotypes. PLoS Genet 2023; 19:e1010764. [PMID: 37256887 PMCID: PMC10259776 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
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Females with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common endocrine disorder in women, have an increased risk of developing cardiometabolic disorders such as insulin resistance, obesity, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). While only diagnosable in females, males with a family history of PCOS can also exhibit a poor cardiometabolic profile. Therefore, we aimed to elucidate the role of sex in the cardiometabolic comorbidities observed in PCOS by conducting bidirectional genetic risk score analyses in both sexes. We first conducted a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) using PCOS polygenic risk scores (PCOSPRS) to identify potential pleiotropic effects of PCOSPRS across 1,380 medical conditions recorded in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health record (EHR) database, in females and males. After adjusting for age and genetic ancestry, we found that European (EUR)-ancestry males with higher PCOSPRS were significantly more likely to develop hypertensive diseases than females at the same level of genetic risk. We performed the same analysis in an African (AFR)-ancestry population, but observed no significant associations, likely due to poor trans-ancestry performance of the PRS. Based on observed significant associations in the EUR-ancestry population, we then tested whether the PRS for comorbid conditions (e.g., T2D, body mass index (BMI), hypertension, etc.) also increased the odds of a PCOS diagnosis. Only BMIPRS and T2DPRS were significantly associated with a PCOS diagnosis in EUR-ancestry females. We then further adjusted the T2DPRS for measured BMI and BMIresidual (regressed on the BMIPRS and enriched for the environmental contribution to BMI). Results demonstrated that genetically regulated BMI primarily accounted for the relationship between T2DPRS and PCOS. Overall, our findings show that the genetic architecture of PCOS has distinct sex differences in associations with genetically correlated cardiometabolic traits. It is possible that the cardiometabolic comorbidities observed in PCOS are primarily explained by their shared genetic risk factors, which can be further influenced by biological variables including sex and BMI.
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- Ky’Era V. Actkins
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
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Linder JE, Allworth A, Bland HT, Caraballo PJ, Chisholm RL, Clayton EW, Crosslin DR, Dikilitas O, DiVietro A, Esplin ED, Forman S, Freimuth RR, Gordon AS, Green R, Harden MV, Holm IA, Jarvik GP, Karlson EW, Labrecque S, Lennon NJ, Limdi NA, Mittendorf KF, Murphy SN, Orlando L, Prows CA, Rasmussen LV, Rasmussen-Torvik L, Rowley R, Sawicki KT, Schmidlen T, Terek S, Veenstra D, Velez Edwards DR, Absher D, Abul-Husn NS, Alsip J, Bangash H, Beasley M, Below JE, Berner ES, Booth J, Chung WK, Cimino JJ, Connolly J, Davis P, Devine B, Fullerton SM, Guiducci C, Habrat ML, Hain H, Hakonarson H, Harr M, Haverfield E, Hernandez V, Hoell C, Horike-Pyne M, Hripcsak G, Irvin MR, Kachulis C, Karavite D, Kenny EE, Khan A, Kiryluk K, Korf B, Kottyan L, Kullo IJ, Larkin K, Liu C, Malolepsza E, Manolio TA, May T, McNally EM, Mentch F, Miller A, Mooney SD, Murali P, Mutai B, Muthu N, Namjou B, Perez EF, Puckelwartz MJ, Rakhra-Burris T, Roden DM, Rosenthal EA, Saadatagah S, Sabatello M, Schaid DJ, Schultz B, Seabolt L, Shaibi GQ, Sharp RR, Shirts B, Smith ME, Smoller JW, Sterling R, Suckiel SA, Thayer J, Tiwari HK, Trinidad SB, Walunas T, Wei WQ, Wells QS, Weng C, Wiesner GL, Wiley K, Peterson JF. Returning integrated genomic risk and clinical recommendations: The eMERGE study. Genet Med 2023; 25:100006. [PMID: 36621880 PMCID: PMC10085845 DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2023.100006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE Assessing the risk of common, complex diseases requires consideration of clinical risk factors as well as monogenic and polygenic risks, which in turn may be reflected in family history. Returning risks to individuals and providers may influence preventive care or use of prophylactic therapies for those individuals at high genetic risk. METHODS To enable integrated genetic risk assessment, the eMERGE (electronic MEdical Records and GEnomics) network is enrolling 25,000 diverse individuals in a prospective cohort study across 10 sites. The network developed methods to return cross-ancestry polygenic risk scores, monogenic risks, family history, and clinical risk assessments via a genome-informed risk assessment (GIRA) report and will assess uptake of care recommendations after return of results. RESULTS GIRAs include summary care recommendations for 11 conditions, education pages, and clinical laboratory reports. The return of high-risk GIRA to individuals and providers includes guidelines for care and lifestyle recommendations. Assembling the GIRA required infrastructure and workflows for ingesting and presenting content from multiple sources. Recruitment began in February 2022. CONCLUSION Return of a novel report for communicating monogenic, polygenic, and family history-based risk factors will inform the benefits of integrated genetic risk assessment for routine health care.
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- Jodell E Linder
- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, John W. Deming Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
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- Mayo Clinician Investigator Training Program, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics and Manton Center for Orphan Diseases Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine and Department of Genome Science, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Neurology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
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- Divisions of Human Genetics and Patient Services, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Cardiology and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Quantitative Science, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Institute for Genomic Health, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Division of General Internal Medicine and the Informatics Institute, Department of Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Institute for Genomic Health, Department of Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Genetics, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- The Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- The Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine & Division of Ethics, Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
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- Biomedical Ethics Program, Department of Quantitative Health Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Cardiology and Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Division of Genomics and Society, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- The Institute for Genomic Health, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Medicine and Center for Health Information Partnerships, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Genomic Medicine, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD
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- Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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Xiao B, Velez Edwards DR, Lucas A, Drivas T, Gray K, Keating B, Weng C, Jarvik GP, Hakonarson H, Kottyan L, Elhadad N, Wei W, Luo Y, Kim D, Ritchie M, Verma SS. Inference of Causal Relationships Between Genetic Risk Factors for Cardiometabolic Phenotypes and Female-Specific Health Conditions. J Am Heart Assoc 2023; 12:e026561. [PMID: 36846987 PMCID: PMC10111435 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.121.026561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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Background Cardiometabolic diseases are highly comorbid, but their relationship with female-specific or overwhelmingly female-predominant health conditions (breast cancer, endometriosis, pregnancy complications) is understudied. This study aimed to estimate the cross-trait genetic overlap and influence of genetic burden of cardiometabolic traits on health conditions unique to women. Methods and Results Using electronic health record data from 71 008 ancestrally diverse women, we examined relationships between 23 obstetrical/gynecological conditions and 4 cardiometabolic phenotypes (body mass index, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension) by performing 4 analyses: (1) cross-trait genetic correlation analyses to compare genetic architecture, (2) polygenic risk score-based association tests to characterize shared genetic effects on disease risk, (3) Mendelian randomization for significant associations to assess cross-trait causal relationships, and (4) chronology analyses to visualize the timeline of events unique to groups of women with high and low genetic burden for cardiometabolic traits and highlight the disease prevalence in risk groups by age. We observed 27 significant associations between cardiometabolic polygenic scores and obstetrical/gynecological conditions (body mass index and endometrial cancer, body mass index and polycystic ovarian syndrome, type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes, type 2 diabetes and polycystic ovarian syndrome). Mendelian randomization analysis provided additional evidence of independent causal effects. We also identified an inverse association between coronary artery disease and breast cancer. High cardiometabolic polygenic scores were associated with early development of polycystic ovarian syndrome and gestational hypertension. Conclusions We conclude that polygenic susceptibility to cardiometabolic traits is associated with elevated risk of certain female-specific health conditions.
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- Brenda Xiao
- Graduate Program in Genomics and Computational BiologyUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTN
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- Department of GeneticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of GeneticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyBrigham and Women’s HospitalBostonMA
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- Department of SurgeryUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of Biomedical InformaticsColumbia UniversityNew YorkNY
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- Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome SciencesUniversity of Washington Medical CenterSeattleWA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology and Division of Allergy & Immunology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of PediatricsUniversity of CincinnatiOH
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- Department of Biomedical InformaticsColumbia UniversityNew YorkNY
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- Department of Biomedical InformaticsVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTN
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIL
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- Department of Biostatistics and EpidemiologyUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of GeneticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPA
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Jasper EA, Holley SE, Jones SH, Liu M, Israel T, Van Driest SL, Velez Edwards DR. Tutorial: Using Community Engagement Studios to Enhance Pharmacogenetic Study Design for Maximizing Enrollment of Diverse Children and Pregnant People. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2023; 113:607-614. [PMID: 36366911 PMCID: PMC9957793 DOI: 10.1002/cpt.2792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Most pharmacogenetic research is conducted in adult, non-pregnant populations of European ancestry. Study of more diverse and special populations is necessary to validate findings and improve health equity. However, there are significant barriers to recruitment of diverse populations for genetic studies, such as mistrust of researchers due to a history of unethical research and ongoing social inequities. Engaging communities and understanding community members' perspectives may help to overcome these barriers and improve research quality. Here, we highlight one method for engaging communities, the Community Engagement Studio (CES), a consultative session that allows researchers to obtain guidance and feedback based on community members' lived experiences. We also provide an example of its use in pharmacogenetic studies. In designing a survey study of knowledge and attitudes around pharmacogenetic testing among children with chronic conditions and pregnant individuals, we sought input from diverse community stakeholders through CESs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We participated in two CESs with community stakeholders representing study target populations. Our goals were to learn specific concerns about pharmacogenetic testing and preferred recruitment strategies for these communities. Concerns were expressed about how genetic information would be used beyond the immediate study. Participants emphasized the importance of clarity and transparency in communication to overcome participation hesitancy and mistrust of the study team. Recruitment strategy recommendations ranged from informal notices posted in healthcare settings to provider referrals. The CES enabled us to modify our recruitment methods and research materials to better communicate with populations currently under-represented in pharmacogenetics research.
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- Elizabeth A Jasper
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Precision Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Precision Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Holowatyj AN, Wen W, Gibbs T, Seagle HM, Keller SR, Edwards DRV, Washington MK, Eng C, Perea J, Zheng W, Guo X. Racial/Ethnic and Sex Differences in Somatic Cancer Gene Mutations among Patients with Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Discov 2023; 13:570-579. [PMID: 36520636 PMCID: PMC10436779 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-0764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Molecular features underlying colorectal cancer disparities remain uncharacterized. Here, we investigated somatic mutation patterns by race/ethnicity and sex among 5,856 non-Hispanic white (NHW), 535 non-Hispanic Black (NHB), and 512 Asian/Pacific Islander (API) patients with colorectal cancer (2,016 early-onset colorectal cancer patients: sequencing age <50 years). NHB patients with early-onset nonhypermutated colorectal cancer, but not API patients, had higher adjusted tumor mutation rates than NHW patients. There were significant differences for LRP1B, FLT4, FBXW7, RNF43, ATRX, APC, and PIK3CA mutation frequencies in early-onset nonhypermutated colorectal cancers between racial/ethnic groups. Heterogeneities by race/ethnicity were observed for the effect of APC, FLT4, and FAT1 between early-onset and late-onset nonhypermutated colorectal cancer. By sex, heterogeneity was observed for the effect of EP300, BRAF, WRN, KRAS, AXIN2, and SMAD2. Males and females with nonhypermutated colorectal cancer had different trends in EP300 mutations by age group. These findings define genomic patterns of early-onset nonhypermutated colorectal cancer by race/ethnicity and sex, which yields novel biological clues into early-onset colorectal cancer disparities. SIGNIFICANCE NHBs, but not APIs, with early-onset nonhypermutated colorectal cancer had higher adjusted tumor mutation rates versus NHWs. Differences for FLT4, FBXW7, RNF43, LRP1B, APC, PIK3CA, and ATRX mutation rates between racial/ethnic groups and EP300, KRAS, AXIN2, WRN, BRAF, and LRP1B mutation rates by sex were observed in tumors of young patients. See related commentary by Shen et al., p. 530 . This article is highlighted in the In This Issue feature, p. 517.
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- Andreana N. Holowatyj
- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
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- Molecular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Biomedical Research Institute of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
- Department of Surgery, “Vithas Arturo Soria” University Hospital and School of Medicine, European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN
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Jasper EA, Hellwege JN, Breeyear JH, Xiao B, Jarvik GP, Stanaway IB, Leppig KA, Chittoor G, Hayes MG, Dikilitas O, Kullo IJ, Holm IA, Verma SS, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Genetic Predictors of Blood Pressure Traits are Associated with Preeclampsia. medRxiv 2023:2023.02.09.23285734. [PMID: 36824881 PMCID: PMC9949198 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.09.23285734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Background Preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication characterized by hypertension after 20 gestational weeks, is a major cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The mechanisms leading to preeclampsia are unclear; however, there is evidence that preeclampsia is highly heritable. We evaluated the association of polygenic risk scores (PRS) for blood pressure traits and preeclampsia to assess whether there is shared genetic architecture. Methods Participants were obtained from Vanderbilt University's BioVU, the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics network, and the Penn Medicine Biobank. Non-Hispanic Black and White females of reproductive age with indications of pregnancy and genotype information were included. Preeclampsia was defined by ICD codes. Summary statistics for diastolic blood pressure (DBP), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and pulse pressure (PP) PRS were obtained from Giri et al 2019. Associations between preeclampsia and each PRS were evaluated separately by race and study population before evidence was meta-analyzed. Prediction models were developed and evaluated using 10-fold cross validation. Results In the 3,504 Black and 5,009 White individuals included, the rate of preeclampsia was 15.49%. The DBP and SBP PRSs were associated with preeclampsia in Whites but not Blacks. The PP PRS was significantly associated with preeclampsia in Blacks and Whites. In trans-ancestry meta-analysis, all PRSs were associated with preeclampsia (OR DBP =1.10, 95% CI=1.02-1.17, p =7.68×10 -3 ; OR SBP =1.16, 95% CI=1.09-1.23, p =2.23×10 -6 ; OR PP =1.14, 95% CI=1.07-1.27, p =9.86×10 -5 ). However, addition of PRSs to clinical prediction models did not improve predictive performance. Conclusions Genetic factors contributing to blood pressure regulation in the general population also predispose to preeclampsia.
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Jasper EA, Hellwege JN, Piekos JA, Jones SH, Hartmann KE, Mautz B, Aronoff DM, Edwards TL, Edwards DRV. Genetically-predicted placental gene expression is associated with birthweight and adult body mass index. Sci Rep 2023; 13:322. [PMID: 36609580 PMCID: PMC9822919 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-26572-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The placenta is critical to human growth and development and has been implicated in health outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms through which the placenta influences perinatal and later-life outcomes requires further investigation. We evaluated the relationships between birthweight and adult body mass index (BMI) and genetically-predicted gene expression in human placenta. Birthweight genome-wide association summary statistics were obtained from the Early Growth Genetics Consortium (N = 298,142). Adult BMI summary statistics were obtained from the GIANT consortium (N = 681,275). We used S-PrediXcan to evaluate associations between the outcomes and predicted gene expression in placental tissue and, to identify genes where placental expression was exclusively associated with the outcomes, compared to 48 other tissues (GTEx v7). We identified 24 genes where predicted placental expression was significantly associated with birthweight, 15 of which were not associated with birthweight in any other tissue. One of these genes has been previously linked to birthweight. Analyses identified 182 genes where placental expression was associated with adult BMI, 110 were not associated with BMI in any other tissue. Eleven genes that had placental gene expression levels exclusively associated with BMI have been previously associated with BMI. Expression of a single gene, PAX4, was associated with both outcomes exclusively in the placenta. Inter-individual variation of gene expression in placental tissue may contribute to observed variation in birthweight and adult BMI, supporting developmental origins hypothesis.
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- Elizabeth A Jasper
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Population Analytics, Analytics and Insights, Data Sciences, Janssen Research & Development, Spring House, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Hellwege JN, Dorn C, Irvin MR, Limdi NA, Cimino J, Beasley TM, Tsao PS, Damrauer SM, Roden DM, Velez Edwards DR, Wei WQ, Edwards TL. Predictive models for abdominal aortic aneurysms using polygenic scores and PheWAS-derived risk factors. Pac Symp Biocomput 2023; 28:425-436. [PMID: 36540997 PMCID: PMC9782709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are common enlargements of the abdominal aorta which can grow larger until rupture, often leading to death. Detection of AAA is often by ultrasonography and screening recommendations are mostly directed at men over 65 with a smoking history. Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies have identified genetic loci associated with AAA risk. We combined known risk factors, polygenic risk scores (PRS) and precedent clinical diagnoses from electronic health records (EHR) to develop predictive models for AAA, and compared performance against screening recommendations. The PRS included genome-wide summary statistics from the Million Veteran Program and FinnGen (10,467 cases, 378,713 controls of European ancestry), with optimization in Vanderbilt's BioVU and validated in the eMERGE Network, separately across both White and Black participants. Candidate diagnoses were identified through a temporally-oriented Phenome-wide association study in independent EHR data from Vanderbilt, and features were selected via elastic net. We calculated C-statistics in eMERGE for models including PRS, phecodes, and covariates using regression weights from BioVU. The AUC for the full model in the test set was 0.883 (95% CI 0.873-0.892), 0.844 (0.836-0.851) for covariates only, 0.613 (95% CI 0.604-0.622) when using primary USPSTF screening criteria, and 0.632 (95% CI 0.623-0.642) using primary and secondary criteria. Brier scores were between 0.003 and 0.023 for our models indicating good calibration, and net reclassification improvement over combined primary and secondary USPSTF criteria was 0.36-0.60. We provide PRS for AAA which are strongly associated with AAA risk and add to predictive model performance. These models substantially improve identification of people at risk of a AAA diagnosis compared with existing guidelines, with evidence of potential applicability in minority populations.
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- Jacklyn N Hellwege
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2525 West End Ave. Ste 700, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA,
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Strayer N, Zhang S, Yao L, Vessels T, Bejan CA, Hsi RS, Shirey-Rice JK, Balko JM, Johnson DB, Phillips EJ, Bick A, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR, Pulley JM, Wells QS, Savona MR, Cox NJ, Roden DM, Ruderfer DM, Xu Y. Interactive network-based clustering and investigation of multimorbidity association matrices with associationSubgraphs. Bioinformatics 2023; 39:btac780. [PMID: 36472455 PMCID: PMC9825768 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 10/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Making sense of networked multivariate association patterns is vitally important to many areas of high-dimensional analysis. Unfortunately, as the data-space dimensions grow, the number of association pairs increases in O(n2); this means that traditional visualizations such as heatmaps quickly become too complicated to parse effectively. RESULTS Here, we present associationSubgraphs: a new interactive visualization method to quickly and intuitively explore high-dimensional association datasets using network percolation and clustering. The goal is to provide an efficient investigation of association subgraphs, each containing a subset of variables with stronger and more frequent associations among themselves than the remaining variables outside the subset, by showing the entire clustering dynamics and providing subgraphs under all possible cutoff values at once. Particularly, we apply associationSubgraphs to a phenome-wide multimorbidity association matrix generated from an electronic health record and provide an online, interactive demonstration for exploring multimorbidity subgraphs. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION An R package implementing both the algorithm and visualization components of associationSubgraphs is available at https://github.com/tbilab/associationsubgraphs. Online documentation is available at https://prod.tbilab.org/associationsubgraphs_info/. A demo using a multimorbidity association matrix is available at https://prod.tbilab.org/associationsubgraphs-example/.
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- Nick Strayer
- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
- Department of Biomedical informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Adgent MA, Vereen S, McCullough A, Jones SH, Torstenson E, Velez Edwards DR, Hartmann KE, Carroll KN. Periconceptional folic acid supplementation and child asthma: a Right From the Start follow-up study. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2022; 35:10232-10238. [PMID: 36117404 PMCID: PMC9810277 DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2022.2122795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE High maternal folic acid exposure has been studied as a risk factor for child asthma with inconclusive results. Folic acid supplementation that begins before pregnancy may propagate high exposures during pregnancy, particularly in regions with fortified food supplies. We investigated whether folic acid supplementation initiated periconceptionally is associated with childhood asthma in a US cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS We re-contacted mother-child dyads previously enrolled in a prospective pregnancy cohort and included children age 4 to 8 years at follow-up (n = 540). Using first trimester interviews, we assessed whether initial folic acid-containing supplement (FACS) use occurred near/before estimated conception ("periconceptional") or after (during the "first trimester"). Follow-up questionnaires were used to determine if a child ever had an asthma diagnosis ("ever asthma") or asthma diagnosis with prevalent symptoms or medication use ("current asthma"). We examined associations between FACS initiation and asthma outcomes using logistic regression, excluding preterm births and adjusting for child age, sex, maternal race, maternal education, and parental asthma. RESULTS Approximately half of women initiated FACS use periconceptionally (49%). Nine percent of children had "ever asthma" and 6% had "current asthma." Periconceptional initiation was associated with elevated odds of ever asthma [adjusted odds ratio (95% Confidence Interval): 1.65 (0.87, 3.14)] and current asthma [1.87 (0.88, 4.01)], relative to first trimester initiation. CONCLUSION We observed positive, but imprecisely estimated associations between periconceptional FACS initiation and child asthma. Folic acid prevents birth defects and is recommended. However, larger studies of folic acid dosing and timing, with consideration for childhood asthma, are needed.
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- Margaret A. Adgent
- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Women’s Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Women’s Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Women’s Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Kravis Children’s Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Sundermann AC, Velez Edwards DR, Hartmann KE. Maternal alcohol metabolism predicted by alcohol dehydrogenase genotype and the association between alcohol consumption and miscarriage. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2022; 227:786-788.e2. [PMID: 35597276 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.05.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Department of Bioinformatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Ave., Ste. 800, Nashville, TN 37203; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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Piekos JA, Hellwege JN, Zhang Y, Torstenson ES, Jarvik GP, Dikilitas O, Kullo IJ, Schaid DJ, Crosslin DR, Pendergrass SA, Lee MTM, Roden D, Denny JC, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Uterine fibroid polygenic risk score (PRS) associates and predicts risk for uterine fibroid. Hum Genet 2022; 141:1739-1748. [PMID: 35226188 PMCID: PMC9420161 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-022-02442-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Uterine fibroids (UF) are common pelvic tumors in women, heritable, and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ~ 30 loci associated with increased risk in UF. Using summary statistics from a previously published UF GWAS performed in a non-Hispanic European Ancestry (NHW) female subset from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, we constructed a polygenic risk score (PRS) for UF. UF-PRS was developed using PRSice and optimized in the separate clinical population of BioVU. PRS was validated using parallel methods of 10-fold cross-validation logistic regression and phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) in a seperate subset of eMERGE NHW females (validation set), excluding samples used in GWAS. PRSice determined pt < 0.001 and after linkage disequilibrium pruning (r2 < 0.2), 4458 variants were in the PRS which was significant (pseudo-R2 = 0.0018, p = 0.041). 10-fold cross-validation logistic regression modeling of validation set revealed the model had an area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.60 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.58-0.62) when plotted in a receiver operator curve (ROC). PheWAS identified six phecodes associated with the PRS with the most significant phenotypes being 218 'benign neoplasm of uterus' and 218.1 'uterine leiomyoma' (p = 1.94 × 10-23, OR 1.31 [95% CI 1.26-1.37] and p = 3.50 × 10-23, OR 1.32 [95% CI 1.26-1.37]). We have developed and validated the first PRS for UF. We find our PRS has predictive ability for UF and captures genetic architecture of increased risk for UF that can be used in further studies.
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- Jacqueline A Piekos
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health Systems, Danville, PA, 17822, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Departments of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health Systems, Danville, PA, 17822, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
- Division of Quantitative Science, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
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Morris JR, Plowden TC, Green LJ, Edwards DRV, Jackson-Bey T. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Genetic Susceptibility: Are Disparities in Infertility Prevalence and Outcomes more than Black and White? Reprod Sci 2022; 29:2081-2083. [PMID: 35482220 PMCID: PMC9287248 DOI: 10.1007/s43032-022-00956-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Race, as a social construct without a clear genetic underpinning, is frequently referenced in medicine as predictor of multiple diseases including that of infertility. The authors will discuss how systematic racism can have downstream consequences ranging from overt physician bias to use of medical algorithms that may potentiate the same disparities they attempt to narrow. Then, the authors explore the utility and pragmatic use of genetic ancestry to estimate disease prevalence, instead of racial categories. Finally, the authors explore how health inequities, rooted in systematic racism, can influence disease heritability effectively advocating for research to disentangle the contributions of racism to genetic susceptibility in infertility.
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- Jerrine R Morris
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 499 Illinois Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, USA
- Fertility Center of the Carolinas-Greenville, Greenville, SC, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Jeong E, Osmundson S, Gao C, Edwards DRV, Malin B, Chen Y. Learning the impact of acute and chronic diseases on forecasting neonatal encephalopathy. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2021; 211:106397. [PMID: 34530389 PMCID: PMC8551018 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE There is a wide range of risk factors predisposing to the onset of neonatal encephalopathy (NE), including maternal antepartum/intrapartum comorbidities or events. However, few studies have investigated the difference in the impact of acute and chronic diseases on forecasting NE, which could assist clinicians in choosing the best course of action to prevent NE or reduce its severity and complications. In this study, we aimed to engineer features based on acute and chronic diseases and assess the differences of the impact of acute and chronic diseases on NE prediction using machine learning models. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used ten years of electronic health records of mothers from a large academic medical center to develop three types of features: chronic disease, recurrence of an acute disease, and temporal relationships between acute diseases. Two types of NE prediction models, based on acute and chronic diseases, respectively, were trained with feature selection. We further compared the prediction performance of the models with two state-of-the-art NE forecasting models. The machine learning models ranked the three types of engineered features based on their contributions to the NE prediction. RESULTS The NE model trained on acute disease features showed significantly higher AUC than the model relying on chronic disease features (AUC difference: 0.161, p-value < 0.001). The NE model trained on both acute and chronic disease features achieved the highest average AUC (0.889), with a significant improvement over the best existing model (0.854) with p = 0.0129. Recurrence of "known or suspected fetal abnormality affecting management of mother (655)" was assigned the highest weights in predicting NE. CONCLUSIONS Machine learning models based on the three types of engineered features significantly improve NE prediction. Our results specifically suggest that acute disease-associated features play a more important role in predicting NE.
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- Eugene Jeong
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States; Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States; Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, United States; Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
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Quinn MCJ, McCue K, Shi W, Johnatty SE, Beesley J, Civitarese A, O'Mara TA, Glubb DM, Tyrer JP, Armasu SM, Ong JS, Gharahkhani P, Lu Y, Gao B, Patch AM, Fasching PA, Beckmann MW, Lambrechts D, Vergote I, Velez Edwards DR, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Garcia MJ, Goodman MT, Dörk T, Dürst M, Modugno F, Moysich K, du Bois A, Pfisterer J, Bauman K, Karlan BY, Lester J, Cunningham JM, Larson MC, McCauley BM, Kjaer SK, Jensen A, Hogdall CK, Hogdall E, Schildkraut JM, Riggan MJ, Berchuck A, Cramer DW, Terry KL, Bjorge L, Webb PM, Friedlander M, Pejovic T, Moffitt M, Glasspool R, May T, Ene GEV, Huntsman DG, Woo M, Carney ME, Hinsley S, Heitz F, Fereday S, Kennedy CJ, Edwards SL, Winham SJ, deFazio A, Pharoah PDP, Goode EL, MacGregor S, Chenevix-Trench G. Identification of a Locus Near ULK1 Associated With Progression-Free Survival in Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2021; 30:1669-1680. [PMID: 34162658 PMCID: PMC8419101 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-1817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2020] [Revised: 03/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Many loci have been found to be associated with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). However, although there is considerable variation in progression-free survival (PFS), no loci have been found to be associated with outcome at genome-wide levels of significance. METHODS We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of PFS in 2,352 women with EOC who had undergone cytoreductive surgery and standard carboplatin/paclitaxel chemotherapy. RESULTS We found seven SNPs at 12q24.33 associated with PFS (P < 5 × 10-8), the top SNP being rs10794418 (HR = 1.24; 95% CI, 1.15-1.34; P = 1.47 × 10-8). High expression of a nearby gene, ULK1, is associated with shorter PFS in EOC, and with poor prognosis in other cancers. SNP rs10794418 is also associated with expression of ULK1 in ovarian tumors, with the allele associated with shorter PFS being associated with higher expression, and chromatin interactions were detected between the ULK1 promoter and associated SNPs in serous and endometrioid EOC cell lines. ULK1 knockout ovarian cancer cell lines showed significantly increased sensitivity to carboplatin in vitro. CONCLUSIONS The locus at 12q24.33 represents one of the first genome-wide significant loci for survival for any cancer. ULK1 is a plausible candidate for the target of this association. IMPACT This finding provides insight into genetic markers associated with EOC outcome and potential treatment options.See related commentary by Peres and Monteiro, p. 1604.
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- Michael C J Quinn
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Crown Princess Mary Cancer Care Centre, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN, Erlangen, Germany
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- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), and Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
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- Human Genetics Group, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), and Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
- Computational Oncology Group, Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Community and Population Health Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Gynecology, Jena University Hospital - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Cancer Pathology & Prevention, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Lifestyle, Reproduction and Cancer, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Lifestyle, Reproduction and Cancer, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Molecular Oncology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Cancer Research UK Glasgow Clinical Trials Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department for Gynecology with the Center for Oncologic Surgery Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Oncology, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, University of Cambridge, Worts Causeway, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Sundermann AC, Aldridge TD, Hartmann KE, Jones SH, Torstenson ES, Edwards DRV. Uterine fibroids and risk of preterm birth by clinical subtypes: a prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2021; 21:560. [PMID: 34404387 PMCID: PMC8369624 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-021-03968-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Fibroids are present in approximately one in ten pregnancies and are inconsistently linked with preterm birth. We sought to determine the association between fibroids and preterm birth in a prospective cohort with standardized research ultrasounds for characterizing fibroids in early pregnancy while accounting for the clinical paths that precede preterm birth. Methods Participants who were pregnant or planning a pregnancy were recruited from communities in three states between 2000 and 2012. Members of this prospective cohort had a research ultrasound in the first trimester to establish pregnancy dating and to record detailed information about the presence, size, number, and location of fibroids. Baseline information from time of enrollment and a detailed first trimester interview contributed key information about candidate confounders. Birth outcomes, including clinical classification of type of preterm birth (preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of membranes, and medically indicated preterm birth) were cross-validated from participant report, labor and delivery records, and birth certificate data. Results Among 4,622 women with singleton pregnancies, 475 had at least one fibroid (10.3%) and 352 pregnancies resulted in preterm birth (7.6%). Prevalence of fibroids was similar for women with preterm and term births (10.2% vs. 10.3%). Fibroids were not associated with increased risk of preterm birth after taking into account confounding (risk ratio adjusted for race/ethnicity and maternal age, 0.88; 95% confidence interval, 0.62–1.24) nor any clinical subtype of preterm birth. No fibroid characteristic or combination of characteristics was associated with risk. Conclusions If fibroids increase risk of preterm birth, the effect is substantially smaller than previous estimates. Given lack of effect in a large population of women from the general population, rather than higher risk academic tertiary populations previously most studied, we encourage a reconsideration of the clinical impression that presence of fibroids is a major risk factor for preterm birth.
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- Alexandra C Sundermann
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.,Women's Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA. .,Women's Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA. .,Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA.
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.,Women's Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.,Women's Health Research at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.,Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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Keaton JM, Jasper EA, Hellwege JN, Jones SH, Torstenson ES, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Evidence that geographic variation in genetic ancestry associates with uterine fibroids. Hum Genet 2021; 140:1433-1440. [PMID: 34302236 PMCID: PMC8463481 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02322-y] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Uterine fibroids disproportionately impact Black women. Evidence suggests Black women have earlier onset and higher cumulative risk. This risk disparity may be due an imbalance of risk alleles in one parental geographic ancestry subgroup relative to others. We investigated ancestry proportions for the 1000 Genomes phase 3 populations clustered into 6 geographic groups for association with fibroid traits in Black women (n=583 cases, 797 controls) and White women (n=1,195 cases, 1,164 controls). Global ancestry proportions were estimated using ADMIXTURE. Dichotomous (fibroids status and multiple fibroid status) and continuous outcomes (volume and largest dimension) were modeled for association with ancestry proportions using logistic and linear regression adjusting for age. Effect estimates are reported per 10% increase in genetically inferred ancestry proportion. Among AAs, West African (WAFR) ancestry was associated with fibroid risk, East African ancestry was associated with risk of multiple fibroids, Northern European (NEUR) ancestry was protective for multiple fibroids, Southern European ancestry was protective for fibroids and multiple fibroids, and South Asian (SAS) ancestry was positively associated with volume and largest dimension. In EAs, NEUR ancestry was protective for fibroids, SAS ancestry was associated with fibroid risk, and WAFR ancestry was positively associated with volume and largest dimension. These results suggest that a proportion of fibroid risk and fibroid trait racial disparities are due to genetic differences between geographic groups. Further investigation at the local ancestry and single variant levels may yield novel insights about disease architecture and genetic mechanisms underlying ethnic disparities in fibroid risk.
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- Jacob M Keaton
- Center for Precision Health Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.,Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. .,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. .,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA. .,Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Veturi Y, Lucas A, Bradford Y, Hui D, Dudek S, Theusch E, Verma A, Miller JE, Kullo I, Hakonarson H, Sleiman P, Schaid D, Stein CM, Edwards DRV, Feng Q, Wei WQ, Medina MW, Krauss R, Hoffmann TJ, Risch N, Voight BF, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD. A unified framework identifies new links between plasma lipids and diseases from electronic medical records across large-scale cohorts. Nat Genet 2021; 53:972-981. [PMID: 34140684 PMCID: PMC8555954 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00879-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Plasma lipids are known heritable risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but increasing evidence also supports shared genetics with diseases of other organ systems. We devised a comprehensive three-phase framework to identify new lipid-associated genes and study the relationships among lipids, genotypes, gene expression and hundreds of complex human diseases from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (347 traits) and the UK Biobank (549 traits). Aside from 67 new lipid-associated genes with strong replication, we found evidence for pleiotropic SNPs/genes between lipids and diseases across the phenome. These include discordant pleiotropy in the HLA region between lipids and multiple sclerosis and putative causal paths between triglycerides and gout, among several others. Our findings give insights into the genetic basis of the relationship between plasma lipids and diseases on a phenome-wide scale and can provide context for future prevention and treatment strategies.
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- Yogasudha Veturi
- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics in School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Division of Quantitative Science, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics in School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California and San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Institute for Human Genetics, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California and San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,
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Elsakr JM, Zhao SK, Ricciardi V, Dean TA, Takahashi DL, Sullivan E, Wesolowski SR, McCurdy CE, Kievit P, Friedman JE, Aagaard KM, Edwards DRV, Gannon M. Western-style diet consumption impairs maternal insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism during pregnancy in a Japanese macaque model. Sci Rep 2021; 11:12977. [PMID: 34155315 PMCID: PMC8217225 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92464-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
The prevalence of maternal obesity is increasing in the United States. Offspring born to women with obesity or poor glycemic control have greater odds of becoming obese and developing metabolic disease later in life. Our group has utilized a macaque model to study the metabolic effects of consumption of a calorically-dense, Western-style diet (WSD; 36.3% fat) during pregnancy. Here, our objective was to characterize the effects of WSD and obesity, alone and together, on maternal glucose tolerance and insulin levels in dams during each pregnancy. Recognizing the collinearity of maternal measures, we adjusted for confounding factors including maternal age and parity. Based on intravenous glucose tolerance tests, dams consuming a WSD showed lower glucose area under the curve during first study pregnancies despite increased body fat percentage and increased insulin area under the curve. However, with (1) prolonged WSD feeding, (2) multiple diet switches, and/or (3) increasing age and parity, WSD was associated with increasingly higher insulin levels during glucose tolerance testing, indicative of insulin resistance. Our results suggest that prolonged or recurrent calorically-dense WSD and/or increased parity, rather than obesity per se, drive excess insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction. These observations in a highly relevant species are likely of clinical and public health importance given the comparative ease of maternal dietary modifications relative to the low likelihood of successfully reversing obesity in the course of any given pregnancy.
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- Joseph M Elsakr
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN, 37203-1738, USA
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2213 Garland Avenue, 7465 MRBIV, Nashville, TN, 37232-0475, USA
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- Division of Cardiometabolic Health, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR, USA
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- Division of Cardiometabolic Health, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR, USA
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- Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR, USA
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- Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Division of Cardiometabolic Health, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Beaverton, OR, USA
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- Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN, 37203-1738, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2213 Garland Avenue, 7465 MRBIV, Nashville, TN, 37232-0475, USA.
- Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Akwo EA, Robinson-Cohen C, Chung CP, Shah SC, Brown NJ, Ikizler TA, Wilson OD, Rowan BX, Shuey MM, Siew ED, Luther JM, Giri A, Hellwege JN, Velez Edwards DR, Roumie CL, Tao R, Tsao PS, Gaziano JM, Wilson PWF, O'Donnell CJ, Edwards TL, Kovesdy CP, Hung AM. Association of Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension With Differential Risk of End-Stage Kidney Disease Across Racial Groups in the Million Veteran Program. Hypertension 2021; 78:376-386. [PMID: 34148359 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.120.16181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Elvis A Akwo
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine (C.P.C.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (C.P.C., A.G., R.T.)
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (S.C.S.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Department of Medicine (N.J.B., J.M.L.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (N.J.B.)
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine (B.X.R, R.T.)
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.M.S., J.N.H.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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- Department of Medicine (N.J.B., J.M.L.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (D.R.V.E., A.G.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (C.P.C., A.G., R.T.)
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.M.S., J.N.H.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (D.R.V.E., A.G.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Department of Biomedical Informatics (D.R.V.E.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Institute of Medicine and Public Health (D.R.V.E., T.L.E.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Veteran Administration Tennessee Valley VA Health Care System Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), Nashville (C.L.R.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt School of Medicine (B.X.R, R.T.).,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (C.P.C., A.G., R.T.)
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- VA Palo Alto Health Care System (P.S.T.).,Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (P.S.T.).,Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (P.S.T.)
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, MA (J.M.G.).,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (J.M.G., C.J.O.)
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- Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine, Atlanta VAMC, Decatur, GA (P.W.F.W.).,Cardiology Division, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (P.W.F.W.)
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (J.M.G., C.J.O.).,VA Boston Healthcare System, Section of Cardiology (C.J.O.)
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- Institute of Medicine and Public Health (D.R.V.E., T.L.E.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine (T.L.E.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Memphis VA Medical Center, TN (C.P.K.).,University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (C.P.K.)
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Vanderbilt Precision Nephrology Program (A.M.H.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.,Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease (E.A.A., C.R.-C., T.A.I., E.D.S., A.M.H.).,Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, VA (E.A.A., C.R.-C., C.P.C., S.C.S., T.A.I., O.D.W., E.D.S., A.M.H.)
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Actkins K, Edwards DRV, Aldrich M, Davis LK. Genetic Sex Effects of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Reveal Distinct Metabolic Etiology. J Endocr Soc 2021. [PMCID: PMC8090082 DOI: 10.1210/jendso/bvab048.1558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Females with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have an increased risk of developing metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance, obesity, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). High-risk groups or individuals with a family history are more likely to have a greater genetic susceptibility to these diseases, which drastically increases their risk of developing other chronic health conditions. In this study, we systematically evaluated the bidirectional genetic burden of PCOS and its comorbidities among females and males. First, we analyzed the pleiotropic effects of the PCOS polygenic risk score (PRS), a measurement of genetic liability to PCOS, across 1,857 medical conditions recorded in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health record. We conducted a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) adjusted for median age, sex, and genetic ancestry. In the European sex-combined model (n = 72,824), we observed that PCOS PRS was significantly (Bonferroni corrected p < 7.86e-06) associated with T2D (OR = 1.11, p = 8.75e-08) and hypertension (OR = 1.06, p = 1.13e-07) in addition to polycystic ovaries (OR = 1.11, p = 1.91e-07). In the sex-stratified model, we found that males (n = 32,022) with a higher PRS for PCOS were more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases (CVD) compared to females (n = 40,802) who had higher odds of developing T2D. Although we were underpowered to detect any phenome-wide significant effects in our African descent sample (n=15,283), uterine leiomyoma (OR = 1.24, p = 3.79e-03), osteoarthritis (OR = 1.21, p = 3.94e-03), and benign neoplasm of uterus (OR = 1.24, p = 4.00e-03) were the top three nominal significant results (p < 0.05) in females (n = 9,418). To understand the genetic relationships observed in the PheWAS, we used LD score regression to determine the genetic correlation between the phenotypes. We found that PCOS was positively correlated with T2D (rg = 31%), systolic blood pressure (rg = 12%), and pulse pressure (rg = 15%). However, we found no significant associations between the genetic risk of CVD and PCOS diagnosis in the European or African descent samples. Our findings show that the genetic architecture of PCOS has distinct metabolic sex differences, but the genetic risk of those comorbidities is not predictive of a PCOS diagnosis. This suggests that other drivers are contributing to the endocrine and cardiovascular comorbid signatures that underlie PCOS.
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Affiliation(s)
- Praveen Surendran
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Rutherford Fund Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Elena V Feofanova
- 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
| | - Najim Lahrouchi
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Savita Karthikeyan
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - James Cook
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Lingyan Chen
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Borbala Mifsud
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
| | - Chen Yao
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
| | - James H Cartwright
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Jacklyn N Hellwege
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Ayush Giri
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Vinicius Tragante
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | | | - Dajiang J Liu
- Institute of Personalized Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
| | - Bram P Prins
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Isobel D Stewart
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Claudia P Cabrera
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - James M Eales
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | - Artur Akbarov
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | - Paul L Auer
- Joseph J Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Joshua C Bis
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Vickie S Braithwaite
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Nutrition and Bone Health Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - E Warwick Daw
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
| | - Helen R Warren
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Fotios Drenos
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
| | - Sune Fallgaard Nielsen
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Eric B Fauman
- Internal Medicine Research Unit, Pfizer, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Cristiano Fava
- Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Teresa Ferreira
- The Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Christopher N Foley
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - He Gao
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Olga Giannakopoulou
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University College of London, London, UK
| | - Franco Giulianini
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Daniel F Gudbjartsson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Sarah E Harris
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Aki S Havulinna
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - Jennifer E Huffman
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
| | - Shih-Jen Hwang
- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
| | - Stavroula Kanoni
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Life Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Jukka Kontto
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Martin G Larson
- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Biostatistics Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Ruifang Li-Gao
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Jaana Lindström
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Luca A Lotta
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Yingchang Lu
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Jian'an Luan
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Giovanni Malerba
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
| | - Nicholas G D Masca
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
| | - Hao Mei
- Department of Data Science, School of Population Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Cristina Menni
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - Dennis O Mook-Kanamori
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - David Mosen-Ansorena
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Martina Müller-Nurasyid
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
| | - Guillaume Paré
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
| | - Dirk S Paul
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - Markus Perola
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Clinical and Molecular Metabolism Research Program (CAMM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Alaitz Poveda
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Melissa Richard
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Tom G Richardson
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Nuno Sepúlveda
- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Centre of Statistics and Applications of University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
| | - Xueling Sim
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Albert V Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - James R Staley
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Alena Stanáková
- University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | | | - Sébastien Thériault
- Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
| | - Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Stella Trompet
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Digna R Velez Edwards
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Health Systems VA, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Giovanni Veronesi
- Research Center in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Sara M Willems
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jie Yao
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Robin Young
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Bing Yu
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Jing-Hua Zhao
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | | | - Eralda Asllanaj
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Stefan Blankenberg
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Lori L Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jette Bork-Jensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ivan Brandslund
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
- Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Peter S Braund
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
| | - Stephen Burgess
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - Kelly Cho
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | | | - John Connell
- University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee, UK
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Anna F Dominiczak
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | | | - Aliki-Eleni Farmaki
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
- Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
| | - J Michael Gaziano
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Megan L Grove
- 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
| | - Göran Hallmans
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Christian T Have
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Gerardo Heiss
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | | | - Pekka Jousilahti
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Eero Kajantie
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- PEDEGO Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mihir Kamat
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - AnneMari Käräjämäki
- Department of Primary Health Care, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
- Diabetes Center, Vaasa Health Care Center, Vaasa, Finland
| | - Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Heikki A Koistinen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Csaba P Kovesdy
- Nephrology Section, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN, USA
| | - Kari Kuulasmaa
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tiina Laatikainen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Lars Lannfelt
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - I-Te Lee
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, , Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- College of Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Wen-Jane Lee
- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Lisa W Martin
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA
| | - Marie Moitry
- Department of Public health, Strasbourg University Hospital, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
| | - Girish Nadkarni
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Matt J Neville
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Colin N A Palmer
- Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland, UK
| | | | - Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - James Peters
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Neil Poulter
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Asif Rasheed
- Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Katrine L Rasmussen
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - N William Rayner
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Rainer Rettig
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Physiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Karlsburg, Germany
| | - Jacques Rossouw
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Peter S Sever
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Family Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Development Centre for Primary Health Care in Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Center for Clinical Research and Disease Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Endocrinology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden Institute for Molecular Medicine Helsinki (FIMM), Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Circulatory Health, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Atlanta VAMC and Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Univ Lille, U1167 - RID-AGE - Facteurs de Risque et Déterminants Moléculaires des Maladies Liées au Vieillissement, Lille, France
- INSERM, U1167, Lille, France
- CHU Lille, U1167, Lille, France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1167, Lille, France
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- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Section of Investigative Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Circulatory Health, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Non-communicable Disease Research (CNCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - George Davey Smith
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Rudolf A de Boer
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Life Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK-London at Imperial College London, London, UK
- UKDRI, Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College London, London, UK
- British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology and Department of Epidemiology, INSERM UMR 1027, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Oxford Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliff Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Helsinki (FIMM), Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute of Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
- Wellcome Trust, London, UK
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Medical Research Center (MRC), University of Oulu, and University Hospital Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Saudi Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- National Institute of Public Health, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie, Oulu, Finland
- Center for Life-Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Sharon L R Kardia
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Frank Kee
- Centre for Public Health, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK
| | - Jaspal S Kooner
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute of Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Ruth J F Loos
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, 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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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mark I McCarthy
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
- Genentech, South San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
| | - Olle Melander
- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Karen L Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Alison D Murray
- The Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Public Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
| | - David J Porteous
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
- MRC International Nutrition Group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, UK
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
| | - Caroline L Relton
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Olov Rolandsson
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Frits R Rosendaal
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Jerome I Rotter
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
| | - Veikko Salomaa
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Nilesh J Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
| | - Naveed Sattar
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
| | - Wayne H-H Sheu
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Medical Technology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Blair H Smith
- Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
| | - Nicole Soranzo
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Timothy D Spector
- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Sylvain Sebert
- Center for Life-Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Timo A Lakka
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Nicholas J Timpson
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Martin D Tobin
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
| | - Pim van der Harst
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Vasan S Ramachandran
- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Niek Verweij
- University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Jarmo Virtamo
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Uwe Völker
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - David R Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Eleftheria Zeggini
- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich and Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Health Innovation and Transformation Center, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Claudia Langenberg
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Maciej Tomaszewski
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Division of Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
| | - Adam S Butterworth
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Mark J Caulfield
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - John Danesh
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
| | - Todd L Edwards
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Hilma Holm
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Adriana M Hung
- VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Cecilia M Lindgren
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- The Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Chunyu Liu
- Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Alisa K Manning
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Andrew P Morris
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- 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
| | - Christopher J O'Donnell
- VA Boston Healthcare, Section of Cardiology and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Bruce M Psaty
- 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 Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- 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
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Daniel I Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Daniel Levy
- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Population Sciences, Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Genetics, Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Novo Nordisk Ltd, Oxford, UK.
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Keaton JM, Hellwege JN, Giri A, Torstenson ES, Kovesdy CP, Sun YV, Wilson PW, O’Donnell CJ, Edwards TL, Hung AM, Velez Edwards DR. Associations of biogeographic ancestry with hypertension traits. J Hypertens 2021; 39:633-642. [PMID: 33534346 PMCID: PMC8362794 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Ethnic disparities in hypertension prevalence are well documented, though the influence of genetic ancestry is unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate associations of geographic genetic ancestry with hypertension and underlying blood pressure traits. METHODS We tested genetically inferred ancestry proportions from five 1000 Genomes reference populations (GBR, PEL, YRI, CHB, and LWK) for association with four continuous blood pressure (BP) traits (SBP, DBP, PP, MAP) and the dichotomous outcomes hypertension and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension in 220 495 European American, 59 927 African American, and 21 273 Hispanic American individuals from the Million Veteran Program. Ethnicity stratified results were meta-analyzed to report effect estimates per 10% difference for a given ancestry proportion in all samples. RESULTS Percentage GBR was negatively associated with BP (P = 2.13 × 10-19, 7.92 × 10-8, 4.41 × 10-11, and 3.57 × 10-13 for SBP, DBP, PP, and MAP, respectively; coefficient range -0.10 to -0.21 mmHg per 10% increase in ancestry proportion) and was protective against hypertension [P = 2.59 × 10-5, odds ratio (OR) = 0.98] relative to other ancestries. YRI percentage was positively associated with BP (P = 1.63 × 10-23, 1.94 × 10-26, 0.012, and 3.26 × 10-29 for SBP, DBP, PP, and MAP, respectively; coefficient range 0.06-0.32 mmHg per 10% increase in ancestry proportion) and was positively associated with hypertension risk (P = 3.10 × 10-11, OR = 1.04) and apparent treatment-resistant hypertension risk (P = 1.86 × 10-4, OR = 1.04) compared with other ancestries. Percentage PEL was inversely associated with DBP (P = 2.84 × 10-5, beta = -0.11 mmHg per 10% increase in ancestry proportion). CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that risk for BP traits varies significantly by genetic ancestry. Our findings provide insight into the geographic origin of genetic factors underlying hypertension risk and establish that a portion of BP trait ethnic disparities are because of genetic differences between ancestries.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jacob M. Keaton
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Van-Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Van-Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
| | - Ayush Giri
- Van-Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
- Di-Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
| | - Eric S. Torstenson
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
| | - Csaba P. Kovesdy
- Nephrology Section, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine
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- Atlanta VAMC and Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
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- VA Boston Healthcare, Section of Cardiology and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Van-Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
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- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine
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- Van-Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University
- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University
- Di-Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Chakravarthy R, Stallings SC, Velez Edwards DR, Zhao SK, Conway D, Rao JS, Aldrich MC, Kobetz E, Wilkins CH. Determinants of stage at diagnosis of HPV-related cancer including area deprivation and clinical factors. J Public Health (Oxf) 2021; 44:18-27. [PMID: 33512511 PMCID: PMC8904191 DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Collecting social determinants of health in electronic health records is time-consuming. Meanwhile, an Area Deprivation Index (ADI) aggregates sociodemographic information from census data. The objective of this study was to ascertain whether ADI is associated with stage of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancer at diagnosis. Methods We tested for the association between the stage of HPV-related cancer presentation and ADI as well as the association between stage and the value of each census-based measure using ordered logistic regression, adjusting for age, race and sex. Results Among 3247 cases of HPV-related cancers presenting to an urban academic medical center, the average age at diagnosis was 57. The average stage at diagnosis was Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Stage 3. In the study population, 43% of patients were female and 87% were white. In this study population, there was no association between stage of HPV-related cancer presentation and either aggregate or individual census variables. Conclusions These results may reflect insufficient sample size, a lack of socio-demographic diversity in our population, or suggest that simplifying social determinants of health into a single geocoded index is not a reliable surrogate for assessing a patient’s risk for HPV-related cancer.
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.,Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.,Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, Nashville, TN, USA.,Office of Health Equity, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Li R, Duan R, Zhang X, Lumley T, Pendergrass S, Bauer C, Hakonarson H, Carrell DS, Smoller JW, Wei WQ, Carroll R, Velez Edwards DR, Wiesner G, Sleiman P, Denny JC, Mosley JD, Ritchie MD, Chen Y, Moore JH. Lossless integration of multiple electronic health records for identifying pleiotropy using summary statistics. Nat Commun 2021; 12:168. [PMID: 33420026 PMCID: PMC7794298 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20211-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Increasingly, clinical phenotypes with matched genetic data from bio-bank linked electronic health records (EHRs) have been used for pleiotropy analyses. Thus far, pleiotropy analysis using individual-level EHR data has been limited to data from one site. However, it is desirable to integrate EHR data from multiple sites to improve the detection power and generalizability of the results. Due to privacy concerns, individual-level patients' data are not easily shared across institutions. As a result, we introduce Sum-Share, a method designed to efficiently integrate EHR and genetic data from multiple sites to perform pleiotropy analysis. Sum-Share requires only summary-level data and one round of communication from each site, yet it produces identical test statistics compared with that of pooled individual-level data. Consequently, Sum-Share can achieve lossless integration of multiple datasets. Using real EHR data from eMERGE, Sum-Share is able to identify 1734 potential pleiotropic SNPs for five cardiovascular diseases.
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- Ruowang Li
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Biomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA, USA
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- Biomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Geisinger, Danville, PA, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Clinical and Translational Hereditary Cancer Program, Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Clinical and Translational Hereditary Cancer Program, Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Actkins KV, Singh K, Hucks D, Velez Edwards DR, Aldrich M, Cha J, Wellons M, Davis LK. Characterizing the Clinical and Genetic Spectrum of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Electronic Health Records. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2021; 106:153-167. [PMID: 32961557 PMCID: PMC7765638 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgaa675] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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CONTEXT Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the leading causes of infertility, yet current diagnostic criteria are ineffective at identifying patients whose symptoms reside outside strict diagnostic criteria. As a result, PCOS is underdiagnosed and its etiology is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE We aim to characterize the phenotypic spectrum of PCOS clinical features within and across racial and ethnic groups. METHODS We developed a strictly defined PCOS algorithm (PCOSkeyword-strict) using the International Classification of Diseases, ninth and tenth revisions and keywords mined from clinical notes in electronic health records (EHRs) data. We then systematically relaxed the inclusion criteria to evaluate the change in epidemiological and genetic associations resulting in 3 subsequent algorithms (PCOScoded-broad, PCOScoded-strict, and PCOSkeyword-broad). We evaluated the performance of each phenotyping approach and characterized prominent clinical features observed in racially and ethnically diverse PCOS patients. RESULTS The best performance came from the PCOScoded-strict algorithm, with a positive predictive value of 98%. Individuals classified as cases by this algorithm had significantly higher body mass index (BMI), insulin levels, free testosterone values, and genetic risk scores for PCOS, compared to controls. Median BMI was higher in African American females with PCOS compared to White and Hispanic females with PCOS. CONCLUSIONS PCOS symptoms are observed across a severity spectrum that parallels the continuous genetic liability to PCOS in the general population. Racial and ethnic group differences exist in PCOS symptomology and metabolic health across different phenotyping strategies.
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- Ky’Era V Actkins
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute of Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Surendran P, Feofanova EV, Lahrouchi N, Ntalla I, Karthikeyan S, Cook J, Chen L, Mifsud B, Yao C, Kraja AT, Cartwright JH, Hellwege JN, Giri A, Tragante V, Thorleifsson G, Liu DJ, Prins BP, Stewart ID, Cabrera CP, Eales JM, Akbarov A, Auer PL, Bielak LF, Bis JC, Braithwaite VS, Brody JA, Daw EW, Warren HR, Drenos F, Nielsen SF, Faul JD, Fauman EB, Fava C, Ferreira T, Foley CN, Franceschini N, Gao H, Giannakopoulou O, Giulianini F, Gudbjartsson DF, Guo X, Harris SE, Havulinna AS, Helgadottir A, Huffman JE, Hwang SJ, Kanoni S, Kontto J, Larson MG, Li-Gao R, Lindström J, Lotta LA, Lu Y, Luan J, Mahajan A, Malerba G, Masca NGD, Mei H, Menni C, Mook-Kanamori DO, Mosen-Ansorena D, Müller-Nurasyid M, Paré G, Paul DS, Perola M, Poveda A, Rauramaa R, Richard M, Richardson TG, Sepúlveda N, Sim X, Smith AV, Smith JA, Staley JR, Stanáková A, Sulem P, Thériault S, Thorsteinsdottir U, Trompet S, Varga TV, Velez Edwards DR, Veronesi G, Weiss S, Willems SM, Yao J, Young R, Yu B, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zhao W, Evangelou E, Aeschbacher S, Asllanaj E, Blankenberg S, Bonnycastle LL, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Braund PS, Burgess S, Cho K, Christensen C, Connell J, Mutsert RD, Dominiczak AF, Dörr M, Eiriksdottir G, Farmaki AE, Gaziano JM, Grarup N, Grove ML, Hallmans G, Hansen T, Have CT, Heiss G, Jørgensen ME, Jousilahti P, Kajantie E, Kamat M, Käräjämäki A, Karpe F, Koistinen HA, Kovesdy CP, Kuulasmaa K, Laatikainen T, Lannfelt L, Lee IT, Lee WJ, Linneberg A, Martin LW, Moitry M, Nadkarni G, Neville MJ, Palmer CNA, Papanicolaou GJ, Pedersen O, Peters J, Poulter N, Rasheed A, Rasmussen KL, Rayner NW, Mägi R, Renström F, Rettig R, Rossouw J, Schreiner PJ, Sever PS, Sigurdsson EL, Skaaby T, Sun YV, Sundstrom J, Thorgeirsson G, Esko T, Trabetti E, Tsao PS, Tuomi T, Turner ST, Tzoulaki I, Vaartjes I, Vergnaud AC, Willer CJ, Wilson PWF, Witte DR, Yonova-Doing E, Zhang H, Aliya N, Almgren P, Amouyel P, Asselbergs FW, Barnes MR, Blakemore AI, Boehnke M, Bots ML, Bottinger EP, Buring JE, Chambers JC, Chen YDI, Chowdhury R, Conen D, Correa A, Davey Smith G, Boer RAD, Deary IJ, Dedoussis G, Deloukas P, Di Angelantonio E, Elliott P, Felix SB, Ferrières J, Ford I, Fornage M, Franks PW, Franks S, Frossard P, Gambaro G, Gaunt TR, Groop L, Gudnason V, Harris TB, Hayward C, Hennig BJ, Herzig KH, Ingelsson E, Tuomilehto J, Järvelin MR, Jukema JW, Kardia SLR, Kee F, Kooner JS, Kooperberg C, Launer LJ, Lind L, Loos RJF, Majumder AAS, Laakso M, McCarthy MI, Melander O, Mohlke KL, Murray AD, Nordestgaard BG, Orho-Melander M, Packard CJ, Padmanabhan S, Palmas W, Polasek O, Porteous DJ, Prentice AM, Province MA, Relton CL, Rice K, Ridker PM, Rolandsson O, Rosendaal FR, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Salomaa V, Samani NJ, Sattar N, Sheu WHH, Smith BH, Soranzo N, Spector TD, Starr JM, Sebert S, Taylor KD, Lakka TA, Timpson NJ, Tobin MD, van der Harst P, van der Meer P, Ramachandran VS, Verweij N, Virtamo J, Völker U, Weir DR, Zeggini E, Charchar FJ, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Tomaszewski M, Butterworth AS, Caulfield MJ, Danesh J, Edwards TL, Holm H, Hung AM, Lindgren CM, Liu C, Manning AK, Morris AP, Morrison AC, O'Donnell CJ, Psaty BM, Saleheen D, Stefansson K, Boerwinkle E, Chasman DI, Levy D, Newton-Cheh C, Munroe PB, Howson JMM. Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals. Nat Genet 2020; 52:1314-1332. [PMID: 33230300 PMCID: PMC7610439 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-020-00713-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [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: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Genetic studies of blood pressure (BP) to date have mainly analyzed common variants (minor allele frequency > 0.05). In a meta-analysis of up to ~1.3 million participants, we discovered 106 new BP-associated genomic regions and 87 rare (minor allele frequency ≤ 0.01) variant BP associations (P < 5 × 10-8), of which 32 were in new BP-associated loci and 55 were independent BP-associated single-nucleotide variants within known BP-associated regions. Average effects of rare variants (44% coding) were ~8 times larger than common variant effects and indicate potential candidate causal genes at new and known loci (for example, GATA5 and PLCB3). BP-associated variants (including rare and common) were enriched in regions of active chromatin in fetal tissues, potentially linking fetal development with BP regulation in later life. Multivariable Mendelian randomization suggested possible inverse effects of elevated systolic and diastolic BP on large artery stroke. Our study demonstrates the utility of rare-variant analyses for identifying candidate genes and the results highlight potential therapeutic targets.
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- Praveen Surendran
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Rutherford Fund Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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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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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
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- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute of Personalized Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Joseph J Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, 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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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Nutrition and Bone Health Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Internal Medicine Research Unit, Pfizer, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- The Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University College of London, London, UK
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Life Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Biostatistics Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Data Science, School of Population Health, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Department of Medicine I, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Clinical and Molecular Metabolism Research Program (CAMM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Alaitz Poveda
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Melissa Richard
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Tom G Richardson
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Nuno Sepúlveda
- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Centre of Statistics and Applications of University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
| | - Xueling Sim
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Albert V Smith
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - James R Staley
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Alena Stanáková
- University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | | | - Sébastien Thériault
- Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
| | - Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Stella Trompet
- Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Digna R Velez Edwards
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Health Systems VA, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Giovanni Veronesi
- Research Center in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Sara M Willems
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jie Yao
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Robin Young
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Bing Yu
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Jing-Hua Zhao
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Wei Zhao
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | | | - Eralda Asllanaj
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Stefan Blankenberg
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Lübeck, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Lori L Bonnycastle
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jette Bork-Jensen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Ivan Brandslund
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
- Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
| | - Peter S Braund
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
| | - Stephen Burgess
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - Kelly Cho
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | | | - John Connell
- University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee, UK
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Anna F Dominiczak
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | | | - Aliki-Eleni Farmaki
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
- Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
| | - J Michael Gaziano
- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Niels Grarup
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Megan L Grove
- 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
| | - Göran Hallmans
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Torben Hansen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Christian T Have
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Gerardo Heiss
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | | | - Pekka Jousilahti
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Eero Kajantie
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- PEDEGO Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Mihir Kamat
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
| | - AnneMari Käräjämäki
- Department of Primary Health Care, Vaasa Central Hospital, Vaasa, Finland
- Diabetes Center, Vaasa Health Care Center, Vaasa, Finland
| | - Fredrik Karpe
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Heikki A Koistinen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Csaba P Kovesdy
- Nephrology Section, Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN, USA
| | - Kari Kuulasmaa
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Tiina Laatikainen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Lars Lannfelt
- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - I-Te Lee
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, , Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- College of Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Wen-Jane Lee
- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Allan Linneberg
- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Lisa W Martin
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA
| | - Marie Moitry
- Department of Public health, Strasbourg University Hospital, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
| | - Girish Nadkarni
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Matt J Neville
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
| | - Colin N A Palmer
- Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland, UK
| | | | - Oluf Pedersen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - James Peters
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Neil Poulter
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Asif Rasheed
- Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
| | - Katrine L Rasmussen
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | - N William Rayner
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Rainer Rettig
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Physiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Karlsburg, Germany
| | - Jacques Rossouw
- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Peter S Sever
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Emil L Sigurdsson
- Department of Family Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Development Centre for Primary Health Care in Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Tea Skaaby
- Center for Clinical Research and Disease Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Yan V Sun
- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Johan Sundstrom
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Gudmundur Thorgeirsson
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Landspitali-The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
| | - Elisabetta Trabetti
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
| | - Philip S Tsao
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Tiinamaija Tuomi
- Folkhälsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Endocrinology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden Institute for Molecular Medicine Helsinki (FIMM), Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Stephen T Turner
- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
| | - Ioanna Tzoulaki
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | - Ilonca Vaartjes
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Circulatory Health, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Anne-Claire Vergnaud
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Cristen J Willer
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Peter W F Wilson
- Atlanta VAMC and Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Daniel R Witte
- Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense, Denmark
- Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
| | - Ekaterina Yonova-Doing
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - He Zhang
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Naheed Aliya
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - Peter Almgren
- Department of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Philippe Amouyel
- Univ Lille, U1167 - RID-AGE - Facteurs de Risque et Déterminants Moléculaires des Maladies Liées au Vieillissement, Lille, France
- INSERM, U1167, Lille, France
- CHU Lille, U1167, Lille, France
- Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1167, Lille, France
| | - Folkert W Asselbergs
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
| | - Michael R Barnes
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
| | - Alexandra I Blakemore
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Section of Investigative Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, UK
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Michiel L Bots
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Circulatory Health, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
| | - Julie E Buring
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Rajiv Chowdhury
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Centre for Non-communicable Disease Research (CNCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh
| | - David Conen
- Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel, Basel, Switzerland
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - George Davey Smith
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Rudolf A de Boer
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - George Dedoussis
- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
| | - Panos Deloukas
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Centre for Genomic Health, Life Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders (PACER-HD), King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
| | - Emanuele Di Angelantonio
- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK-London at Imperial College London, London, UK
- UKDRI, Dementia Research Institute at Imperial College London, London, UK
- British Heart Foundation (BHF) Centre of Research Excellence, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Stephan B Felix
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Jean Ferrières
- Department of Cardiology and Department of Epidemiology, INSERM UMR 1027, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
| | - Ian Ford
- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Paul W Franks
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Oxford Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Radcliff Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - Stephen Franks
- Institute of Reproductive & Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | | | - Giovanni Gambaro
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
| | - Tom R Gaunt
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Leif Groop
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Helsinki (FIMM), Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute of Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Caroline Hayward
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
| | - Branwen J Hennig
- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
- Wellcome Trust, London, UK
| | - Karl-Heinz Herzig
- Institute of Biomedicine, Medical Research Center (MRC), University of Oulu, and University Hospital Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Gastroenterology and Metabolism, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
| | - Erik Ingelsson
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Jaakko Tuomilehto
- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Saudi Diabetes Research Group, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- National Institute of Public Health, Madrid, Spain
| | - Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC Centre for Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Kajaanintie, Oulu, Finland
- Center for Life-Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
| | - J Wouter Jukema
- Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
- Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
| | - Sharon L R Kardia
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Frank Kee
- Centre for Public Health, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK
| | - Jaspal S Kooner
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Public Health Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute of Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Lars Lind
- Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Ruth J F Loos
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine at Mount Sinai, 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
| | | | - Markku Laakso
- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Mark I McCarthy
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals Trust, Oxford, UK
- Genentech, South San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
| | - Olle Melander
- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Karen L Mohlke
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Alison D Murray
- The Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
| | - Børge Grønne Nordestgaard
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark
| | | | | | - Sandosh Padmanabhan
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
| | - Walter Palmas
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Department of Public Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
| | - David J Porteous
- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Andrew M Prentice
- MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, Gambia
- MRC International Nutrition Group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London, UK
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
| | - Caroline L Relton
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Olov Rolandsson
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
| | - Frits R Rosendaal
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
| | - Jerome I Rotter
- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- School of Medicine, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Medical Technology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Center for Life-Course Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich and Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- Health Innovation and Transformation Center, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Division of Medicine, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Health Data Research UK Cambridge, Wellcome Genome Campus and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU) in Donor Health and Genomics at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- The Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis, Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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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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- VA Boston Healthcare, Section of Cardiology and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 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 Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karachi, Pakistan
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Inc, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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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
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 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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- Boston University and National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Population Sciences, Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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- British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
- National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Genetics, Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford, Novo Nordisk Ltd, Oxford, UK.
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Edwards TL, Breeyear J, Piekos JA, Velez Edwards DR. Equity in Health: Consideration of Race and Ethnicity in Precision Medicine. Trends Genet 2020; 36:807-809. [PMID: 32709459 PMCID: PMC7373675 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2020.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The causes for disparities in implementation of precision medicine are complex, due in part to differences in clinical care and a lack of engagement and recruitment of under-represented populations in studies. New tools and large genetic cohorts can change these circumstances and build access to personalized medicine for disadvantaged populations.
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- Todd L Edwards
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Actkins KV, Aldrich M, Velez Edwards DR, Davis LK. POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME COMORBIDITY PATTERNS DIFFER BETWEEN RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE PATIENTS. Fertil Steril 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.08.135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Zhao SK, Wu P, Jones SH, Torstenson ES, Hartmann KE, Velez Edwards DR. Association of uterine fibroids with birthweight and gestational age. Ann Epidemiol 2020; 50:35-40.e2. [PMID: 32741603 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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PURPOSE To determine if fibroids or their characteristics are associated with birthweight and/or gestational age, and to assess the impact of race or ethnicity. METHODS Right from the Start (2000-2012) is a prospective cohort that enrolled women from the southern US in early pregnancy. Transvaginal ultrasounds were used to measure fibroid characteristics and confirm gestational age. Date of birth and birthweight were obtained from vital or medical records. We assessed whether fibroid presence, number, type, and volume were associated with birthweight and/or gestational age using multivariate analysis of covariance, accounting for a priori confounders. RESULTS Among 3926 women, 416 had one or more fibroids. Mean infant birthweight and gestational age were similar among women with and without fibroids. When adjusting for race or ethnicity, all associations were attenuated. Overall, women with and without fibroids had infants of similar birthweight (-20 grams, 95% confidence interval [CI] -77, 36) and gestational age (0.4 days, 95% CI -0.9, 1.8). Women with three or more fibroids were more likely to have lighter infants (-201 grams, 95% CI -345, -58). CONCLUSIONS Race or ethnicity substantially confounds the associations. The clinical belief that uterine fibroids impair fetal growth is supported only by a significant decrease in birthweight for women with multiple fibroids.
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- Sifang Kathy Zhao
- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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Joo YY, Actkins K, Pacheco JA, Basile AO, Carroll R, Crosslin DR, Day F, Denny JC, Velez Edwards DR, Hakonarson H, Harley JB, Hebbring SJ, Ho K, Jarvik GP, Jones M, Karaderi T, Mentch FD, Meun C, Namjou B, Pendergrass S, Ritchie MD, Stanaway IB, Urbanek M, Walunas TL, Smith M, Chisholm RL, Kho AN, Davis L, Hayes MG. A Polygenic and Phenotypic Risk Prediction for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Evaluated by Phenome-Wide Association Studies. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2020; 105:dgz326. [PMID: 31917831 PMCID: PMC7453038 DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgz326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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CONTEXT As many as 75% of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are estimated to be unidentified in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE Utilizing polygenic risk prediction, we aim to identify the phenome-wide comorbidity patterns characteristic of PCOS to improve accurate diagnosis and preventive treatment. DESIGN, PATIENTS, AND METHODS Leveraging the electronic health records (EHRs) of 124 852 individuals, we developed a PCOS risk prediction algorithm by combining polygenic risk scores (PRS) with PCOS component phenotypes into a polygenic and phenotypic risk score (PPRS). We evaluated its predictive capability across different ancestries and perform a PRS-based phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) to assess the phenomic expression of the heightened risk of PCOS. RESULTS The integrated polygenic prediction improved the average performance (pseudo-R2) for PCOS detection by 0.228 (61.5-fold), 0.224 (58.8-fold), 0.211 (57.0-fold) over the null model across European, African, and multi-ancestry participants respectively. The subsequent PRS-powered PheWAS identified a high level of shared biology between PCOS and a range of metabolic and endocrine outcomes, especially with obesity and diabetes: "morbid obesity", "type 2 diabetes", "hypercholesterolemia", "disorders of lipid metabolism", "hypertension", and "sleep apnea" reaching phenome-wide significance. CONCLUSIONS Our study has expanded the methodological utility of PRS in patient stratification and risk prediction, especially in a multifactorial condition like PCOS, across different genetic origins. By utilizing the individual genome-phenome data available from the EHR, our approach also demonstrates that polygenic prediction by PRS can provide valuable opportunities to discover the pleiotropic phenomic network associated with PCOS pathogenesis.
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- Yoonjung Yoonie Joo
- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Physiology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University New York, New York
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- Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wahington
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; US Department of Veterans Affairs, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Center for Precision Medicine Research, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
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- Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, Wahington
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Biomedical and Translational Informatics, Geisinger, Danville, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wahington
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
- Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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Salem JE, Shoemaker MB, Bastarache L, Shaffer CM, Glazer AM, Kroncke B, Wells QS, Shi M, Straub P, Jarvik GP, Larson EB, Velez Edwards DR, Edwards TL, Davis LK, Hakonarson H, Weng C, Fasel D, Knollmann BC, Wang TJ, Denny JC, Ellinor PT, Roden DM, Mosley JD. Association of Thyroid Function Genetic Predictors With Atrial Fibrillation: A Phenome-Wide Association Study and Inverse-Variance Weighted Average Meta-analysis. JAMA Cardiol 2020; 4:136-143. [PMID: 30673079 DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2018.4615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Importance Thyroid hormone levels are tightly regulated through feedback inhibition by thyrotropin, produced by the pituitary gland. Hyperthyroidism is overwhelmingly due to thyroid disorders and is well recognized to contribute to a wide spectrum of cardiovascular morbidity, particularly the increasingly common arrhythmia atrial fibrillation (AF). Objective To determine the association between genetically determined thyrotropin levels and AF. Design, Setting, and Participants This phenome-wide association study scanned 1318 phenotypes associated with a polygenic predictor of thyrotropin levels identified by a previously published genome-wide association study that included participants of European ancestry. North American individuals of European ancestry with longitudinal electronic health records were analyzed from May 2008 to November 2016. Analysis began March 2018. Main Outcomes and Measures Clinical diagnoses associated with a polygenic predictor of thyrotropin levels. Exposures Genetically determined thyrotropin levels. Results Of 37 154 individuals, 19 330 (52%) were men. The thyrotropin polygenic predictor was positively associated with hypothyroidism (odds ratio [OR], 1.10; 95% CI, 1.07-1.14; P = 5 × 10-11) and inversely associated with diagnoses related to hyperthyroidism (OR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.54-0.74; P = 2 × 10-8 for toxic multinodular goiter). Among nonthyroid associations, the top association was AF/flutter (OR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.9-0.95; P = 9 × 10-7). When the analyses were repeated excluding 9801 individuals with any diagnoses of a thyroid-related disease, the AF association persisted (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.88-0.95; P = 2.9 × 10-6). To replicate this association, we conducted an inverse-variance weighted average meta-analysis using AF single-nucleotide variant weights from a genome-wide association study of 17 931 AF cases and 115 142 controls. As in the discovery analyses, each SD increase in predicted thyrotropin was associated with a decreased risk of AF (OR, 0.86; 95% CI, 0.79-0.93; P = 4.7 × 10-4). In a set of AF cases (n = 745) and controls (n = 1680) older than 55 years, directly measured thyrotropin levels that fell within the normal range were inversely associated with AF risk (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.83-0.99; P = .04). Conclusions and Relevance This study suggests a role for genetically determined variation in thyroid function within a physiologically accepted normal range as a risk factor for AF. The clinical decision to treat subclinical thyroid disease should incorporate the risk for AF as antithyroid medications to treat hyperthyroidism may reduce AF risk and thyroid hormone replacement for hypothyroidism may increase AF risk.
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- Joe-Elie Salem
- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Sorbonne Université, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) CIC Paris-Est, AP-HP, Institute of Cardio metabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Department of Pharmacology, Paris, France.,Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle.,Department Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle.,Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Divisions of Human Genetics and Pulmonary Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York
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- Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.,The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Gao C, Osmundson S, Velez Edwards DR, Jackson GP, Malin BA, Chen Y. Deep learning predicts extreme preterm birth from electronic health records. J Biomed Inform 2019; 100:103334. [PMID: 31678588 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Revised: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Models for predicting preterm birth generally have focused on very preterm (28-32 weeks) and moderate to late preterm (32-37 weeks) settings. However, extreme preterm birth (EPB), before the 28th week of gestational age, accounts for the majority of newborn deaths. We investigated the extent to which deep learning models that consider temporal relations documented in electronic health records (EHRs) can predict EPB. STUDY DESIGN EHR data were subject to word embedding and a temporal deep learning model, in the form of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to predict EPB. Due to the low prevalence of EPB, the models were trained on datasets where controls were undersampled to balance the case-control ratio. We then applied an ensemble approach to group the trained models to predict EPB in an evaluation setting with a nature EPB ratio. We evaluated the RNN ensemble models with 10 years of EHR data from 25,689 deliveries at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We compared their performance with traditional machine learning models (logistical regression, support vector machine, gradient boosting) trained on the datasets with balanced and natural EPB ratio. Risk factors associated with EPB were identified using an adjusted odds ratio. RESULTS The RNN ensemble models trained on artificially balanced data achieved a higher AUC (0.827 vs. 0.744) and sensitivity (0.965 vs. 0.682) than those RNN models trained on the datasets with naturally imbalanced EPB ratio. In addition, the AUC (0.827) and sensitivity (0.965) of the RNN ensemble models were better than the AUC (0.777) and sensitivity (0.819) of the best baseline models trained on balanced data. Also, risk factors, including twin pregnancy, short cervical length, hypertensive disorder, systemic lupus erythematosus, and hydroxychloroquine sulfate, were found to be associated with EPB at a significant level. CONCLUSION Temporal deep learning can predict EPB up to 8 weeks earlier than its occurrence. Accurate prediction of EPB may allow healthcare organizations to allocate resources effectively and ensure patients receive appropriate care.
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- Cheng Gao
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Departments of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Evaluation Research Center, IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Jiang X, Finucane HK, Schumacher FR, Schmit SL, Tyrer JP, Han Y, Michailidou K, Lesseur C, Kuchenbaecker KB, Dennis J, Conti DV, Casey G, Gaudet MM, Huyghe JR, Albanes D, Aldrich MC, Andrew AS, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Antoniou AC, Antonenkova NN, Arnold SM, Aronson KJ, Arun BK, Bandera EV, Barkardottir RB, Barnes DR, Batra J, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Benlloch S, Berchuck A, Berndt SI, Bickeböller H, Bien SA, Blomqvist C, Boccia S, Bogdanova NV, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brenton JD, Brook MN, Brunet J, Brunnström H, Buchanan DD, Burwinkel B, Butzow R, Cadoni G, Caldés T, Caligo MA, Campbell I, Campbell PT, Cancel-Tassin G, Cannon-Albright L, Campa D, Caporaso N, Carvalho AL, Chan AT, Chang-Claude J, Chanock SJ, Chen C, Christiani DC, Claes KBM, Claessens F, Clements J, Collée JM, Correa MC, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cunningham JM, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, deFazio A, Devilee P, Diez O, Gago-Dominguez M, Donovan JL, Dörk T, Duell EJ, Dunning AM, Dwek M, Eccles DM, Edlund CK, Edwards DRV, Ellberg C, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Ferris RL, Liloglou T, Figueiredo JC, Fletcher O, Fortner RT, Fostira F, Franceschi S, Friedman E, Gallinger SJ, Ganz PA, Garber J, García-Sáenz JA, Gayther SA, Giles GG, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Goodman G, Grankvist K, Greene MH, Gronberg H, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Håkansson N, Hall P, Hamann U, Hamdy FC, Hamilton RJ, Hampe J, Haugen A, Heitz F, Herrero R, Hillemanns P, Hoffmeister M, Høgdall E, Hong YC, Hopper JL, Houlston R, Hulick PJ, Hunter DJ, Huntsman DG, Idos G, Imyanitov EN, Ingles SA, Isaacs C, Jakubowska A, James P, Jenkins MA, Johansson M, Johansson M, John EM, Joshi AD, Kaneva R, Karlan BY, Kelemen LE, Kühl T, Khaw KT, Khusnutdinova E, Kibel AS, Kiemeney LA, Kim J, Kjaer SK, Knight JA, Kogevinas M, Kote-Jarai Z, Koutros S, Kristensen VN, Kupryjanczyk J, Lacko M, Lam S, Lambrechts D, Landi MT, Lazarus P, Le ND, Lee E, Lejbkowicz F, Lenz HJ, Leslie G, Lessel D, Lester J, Levine DA, Li L, Li CI, Lindblom A, Lindor NM, Liu G, Loupakis F, Lubiński J, Maehle L, Maier C, Mannermaa A, Marchand LL, Margolin S, May T, McGuffog L, Meindl A, Middha P, Miller A, Milne RL, MacInnis RJ, Modugno F, Montagna M, Moreno V, Moysich KB, Mucci L, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Neal DE, Ness AR, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Newcomb PA, Newcomb LF, Nielsen FC, Nikitina-Zake L, Nordestgaard BG, Nussbaum RL, Offit K, Olah E, Olama AAA, Olopade OI, Olshan AF, Olsson H, Osorio A, Pandha H, Park JY, Pashayan N, Parsons MT, Pejovic T, Penney KL, Peters WHM, Phelan CM, Phipps AI, Plaseska-Karanfilska D, Pring M, Prokofyeva D, Radice P, Stefansson K, Ramus SJ, Raskin L, Rennert G, Rennert HS, van Rensburg EJ, Riggan MJ, Risch HA, Risch A, Roobol MJ, Rosenstein BS, Rossing MA, De Ruyck K, Saloustros E, Sandler DP, Sawyer EJ, Schabath MB, Schleutker J, Schmidt MK, Setiawan VW, Shen H, Siegel EM, Sieh W, Singer CF, Slattery ML, Sorensen KD, Southey MC, Spurdle AB, Stanford JL, Stevens VL, Stintzing S, Stone J, Sundfeldt K, Sutphen R, Swerdlow AJ, Tajara EH, Tangen CM, Tardon A, Taylor JA, Teare MD, Teixeira MR, Terry MB, Terry KL, Thibodeau SN, Thomassen M, Bjørge L, Tischkowitz M, Toland AE, Torres D, Townsend PA, Travis RC, Tung N, Tworoger SS, Ulrich CM, Usmani N, Vachon CM, Van Nieuwenhuysen E, Vega A, Aguado-Barrera ME, Wang Q, Webb PM, Weinberg CR, Weinstein S, Weissler MC, Weitzel JN, West CML, White E, Whittemore AS, Wichmann HE, Wiklund F, Winqvist R, Wolk A, Woll P, Woods M, Wu AH, Wu X, Yannoukakos D, Zheng W, Zienolddiny S, Ziogas A, Zorn KK, Lane JM, Saxena R, Thomas D, Hung RJ, Diergaarde B, McKay J, Peters U, Hsu L, García-Closas M, Eeles RA, Chenevix-Trench G, Brennan PJ, Haiman CA, Simard J, Easton DF, Gruber SB, Pharoah PDP, Price AL, Pasaniuc B, Amos CI, Kraft P, Lindström S. Publisher Correction: Shared heritability and functional enrichment across six solid cancers. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4386. [PMID: 31548585 PMCID: PMC6757065 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12095-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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- Xia Jiang
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Unit of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels vagen 13, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Eucid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
- Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Electron Microscopy/Molecular Pathology, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, 1683, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Division of Psychiatry, University College London, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF, UK
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
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- Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
- Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 800717, Charlottesville, VI, 22908, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 609 Oxford House, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 7927 Rubin Building, Room 860, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH, 3756, USA
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- Fred ALitwin Center for Cancer Genetics, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G1X5, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
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- Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose Street, cc445, Lexington, KY, 40508, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, and Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, 10 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 195 Little Albany Street, Room 5568, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Landspitali University Hospital, Hringbraut, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
- BMC (Biomedical Centre), Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmyrarvegi 16, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073, Goettingen, Germany
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 4, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Oncology, Örebro University Hospital, 70185, Örebro, Sweden
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
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- NNAlexandrov Research Institute of Oncology and Medical Radiology, Settlement of Lesnoy-2, 223040, Minsk, Belarus
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- DrMargarete Fischer-Bosch-Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Auerbachstr112, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074, Tübingen, Germany
- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Division of Preventive Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Genetic Counseling Unit, Hereditary Cancer Program, IDIBGI (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona), Catalan Institute of Oncology, CIBERONC, AvFrança s/n, 17007, Girona, Spain
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- Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, 221 85, Lund, Sweden
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- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Colorectal Oncogenomics Group, Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Genomic Medicine and Family Cancer Clinic, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 440, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Molecular Epidemiology Group, C080, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum Helsinki 4th Floor, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00029, Helsinki, Finland
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- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Roma, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Section of Genetic Oncology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University and University Hospital of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, GRC N°5 ONCOTYPE-URO, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
- CeRePP, Tenon Hospital, 75020, Paris, France
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- Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
- George EWahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Rua Antenor Duarte Villela, 1331, Barretos, SP, 784-400, Brazil
- Head and Neck Surgery Department, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Pio XII, 1331, Antenor Duarte Villela St, Barretos, SP, 14784-400, Brazil
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Cancer Epidemiology Group, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Centre for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
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- Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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- Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Qld, Translational Research Institute, 37 Kent St, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Science, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, QLD, 4059, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015, Rotterdam, CN, The Netherlands
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- University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus and Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Juan, PR, 00936, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Sheffield Institute for Nucleic Acids (SInFoNiA), Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19111, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, 176 Hawkesbury Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
- Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Hawkesbury Rd & Darcy Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2145, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Oncogenetics Group, Clinical and Molecular Genetics Area, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035, Barcelona, Spain
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- Genomic Medicine Group, Galician Foundation of Genomic Medicine, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, SERGAS, Travesía da Choupana S/N, 15706, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK
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- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), AvGran Via 199-203, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08908, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW, UK
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- Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Tremona Road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 600, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
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- Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Division of Evolution and Genomic Sciences, University of Manchester, St Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen Nuremberg, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Universitaetsstrasse 21-23, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
- David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Cancer Pavilion, University of Pittsburgh, Suite 500, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
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- Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Research Programme, The University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, The Wiliam Duncan Building, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Olivia Fletcher
- The Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Renée T Fortner
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Florentia Fostira
- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
| | - Silvia Franceschi
- Section of Infections, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Eitan Friedman
- The Susanne Levy Gertner Oncogenetics Unit, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Emek HaEla St 1, 52621, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Haim Levanon 30, 69978, Ramat Aviv, Israel
| | - Steven J Gallinger
- Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada
- University Health Network Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4, Canada
| | - Patricia A Ganz
- Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, UCLA, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-6900, USA
| | - Judy Garber
- Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
| | - José A García-Sáenz
- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Centro Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer (CIBERONC), Calle del Prof Martín Lagos, 28040, Madrid, Spain
| | - Simon A Gayther
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
- Center for Cancer Prevention and Translational Genomics, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Spielberg Building, 8725 Alden Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Graham G Giles
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Andrew K Godwin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
| | - Mark S Goldberg
- Department of Medicine, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
| | - David E Goldgar
- Department of Dermatology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
| | - Ellen L Goode
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
| | - Marc T Goodman
- Cancer Prevention and Control, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
- Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Room 1S37, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Gary Goodman
- Public Health Sciences Division, Swedish Cancer Institute, 1221 Madison StSte 300, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Kjell Grankvist
- Unit of Clinical Chemistry, Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Mark H Greene
- Clinical Genetics Branch, National Cancer Institute, DCEG, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20850-9772, USA
| | - Henrik Gronberg
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Jacek Gronwald
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Pascal Guénel
- Cancer & Environment Group, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), INSERM, University Paris-Sud, University Paris-Saclay, 94805, Villejuif, France
| | - Niclas Håkansson
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Per Hall
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology, Södersjukhuset, Sjukhusbacken 10, 118 83, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ute Hamann
- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Freddie C Hamdy
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
| | - Robert J Hamilton
- Department of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Jochen Hampe
- Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), 01307, Dresden, Germany
| | - Aage Haugen
- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
| | - Florian Heitz
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, DrHorst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 100, 65199, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Department of Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte/EvangHuyssens-Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Henricistrasse 92, 45136, Essen, Germany
| | - Rolando Herrero
- Early Detection and Prevention Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Peter Hillemanns
- Gynaecology Research Unit, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany
| | - Michael Hoffmeister
- Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Estrid Høgdall
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Molecular Unit, Department of Pathology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730, Herlev, Denmark
| | - Yun-Chul Hong
- Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, 151 742, Korea
| | - John L Hopper
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Richard Houlston
- German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute for Cancer Research, Ingolstadter Landstr1, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Peter J Hulick
- Center for Medical Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, 1000 Central St, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 924 E 57th St, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - David J Hunter
- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - David G Huntsman
- British Columbia's Ovarian Cancer Research (OVCARE) Program, Vancouver General Hospital, BC Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Molecular Oncology, BC Cancer Agency Research Centre, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, #3427-600 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E6, Canada
| | - Gregory Idos
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Evgeny N Imyanitov
- NNPetrov Institute of Oncology, Leningradskaya ul, 68, StPetersburg, Russia, 197758
| | - Sue Ann Ingles
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
| | - Claudine Isaacs
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, 3800 Reservoir Road, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
| | - Anna Jakubowska
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
- Independent Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genetic Diagnostics, Pomeranian Medical University, Rybacka 1, 70-204, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Paul James
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
- Parkville Familial Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, 305 Grattan Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
| | - Mark A Jenkins
- University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Mattias Johansson
- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
| | - Mikael Johansson
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, By 6M van 2, Sjukhusomradet, Umea universitet, 901 85, Umea, Sweden
| | - Esther M John
- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology and Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, 780 Welch Rd, Stanford, CA, 94304, USA
| | - Amit D Joshi
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Radka Kaneva
- Molecular Medicine Center, Department of Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, 1504, Bulgaria
| | - Beth Y Karlan
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Linda E Kelemen
- Hollings Cancer Center and Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, 68 President Street Bioengineering Building, MSC955, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA
| | - Tabea Kühl
- Cancer Epidemiology, University Cancer Center Hamburg (UCCH), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Kay-Tee Khaw
- Clinical Gerontology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Elza Khusnutdinova
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
- Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 prosp Oktyabrya, Ufa, Russia, 450054
| | - Adam S Kibel
- Division of Urologic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusettes, 02115, USA
| | - Lambertus A Kiemeney
- Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein 21, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Jeri Kim
- Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler St, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
| | - Susanne K Kjaer
- Department of Virus, Lifestyle and Genes, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Gynaecology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Julia A Knight
- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
| | - Manolis Kogevinas
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), ISGlobal, 08036, Barcelona, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Barcelona, 08003, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, 08002, Spain
| | - Zsofia Kote-Jarai
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
| | - Stella Koutros
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
| | - Vessela N Kristensen
- Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Ullernchausseen 70, 0379, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Jolanta Kupryjanczyk
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostics, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Roentgena 5, 02-781, Warsaw, Poland
| | - Martin Lacko
- Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maastricht University Medical Center, PDebyelaan 25, POBox 5800, 6202 AZ, Maastricht, The Netherlands
| | - Stephan Lam
- Department of Integrative Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Room 10-111 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z1L3, Canada
| | - Diether Lambrechts
- VIB Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Herestraat 49, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
- Laboratory for Translational Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Oude Markt 13, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
| | - Maria Teresa Landi
- Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, DCEG, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room SG/7E106, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
| | - Philip Lazarus
- College of Pharmacy, Washington State University, PBS 431 PO Box 1495, Spokane, WA, 99210-1495, USA
| | - Nhu D Le
- Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer Agency, 675 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1L3, Canada
| | - Eunjung Lee
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Flavio Lejbkowicz
- Clalit Health Services, Clalit National Israeli Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center, 2 Horev Street, 3436212, Haifa, Israel
| | - Heinz-Josef Lenz
- Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
| | - Goska Leslie
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Davor Lessel
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany
| | - Jenny Lester
- Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA
| | - Douglas A Levine
- Gynecology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Gynecologic Oncology, Laura and Isaac Pearlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, 240 East 38th Street 19th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA
| | - Li Li
- Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Servicio Galego de Saude (SERGAS), Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
| | - Christopher I Li
- Translational Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
| | - Annika Lindblom
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Noralane M Lindor
- Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic Arizona, 13400 EShea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ, 85259, USA
| | - Geoffrey Liu
- Epidemiology Division, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G2M9, Canada
| | - Fotios Loupakis
- Unit of Oncology 1, Department of Clinical and Experimental Oncology, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, 35122, Padua, Italy
| | - Jan Lubiński
- International Hereditary Cancer Center, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Pomeranian Medical University, ulUnii Lubelskiej 1, 71-252, Szczecin, Poland
| | - Lovise Maehle
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway
| | - Christiane Maier
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Ulm, Prittwitzstrasse 43, 89075, Ulm, Germany
| | - Arto Mannermaa
- Translational Cancer Research Area, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Yliopistonranta 1, 70210, Finland
- Imaging Center, Department of Clinical Pathology, Kuopio University Hospital, Puijonlaaksontie 2, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Loic Le Marchand
- Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA
| | - Sara Margolin
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
| | - Taymaa May
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital, 610 University Avenue, OPG Wing, 6-811, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada
| | - Lesley McGuffog
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Alfons Meindl
- Division of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, , Technische Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 80333, Munich, Germany
| | - Pooja Middha
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, In Neuenheimer Feld 672, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Austin Miller
- NRG Oncology, Statistics and Data Management Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Roger L Milne
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Robert J MacInnis
- Cancer Epidemiology & Intelligence Division, Cancer Council Victoria, 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia
- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
| | - Francesmary Modugno
- Womens Cancer Research Center, Magee-Womens Research Institute and Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
| | - Marco Montagna
- Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV - IRCCS, Via Gattamelata 64, Padua, 35128, Italy
| | - Victor Moreno
- Catalan Institute of Oncology, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08908, Spain
| | - Kirsten B Moysich
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, 14263, USA
| | - Lorelei Mucci
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Kenneth Muir
- Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
- Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
| | - Anna Marie Mulligan
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S1A8, Canada
- Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON, M5G2C4, Canada
| | - Katherine L Nathanson
- Department of Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
| | - David E Neal
- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, CB2 0RE, Cambridge, UK
- Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Science, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 2JD, UK
- Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Andrew R Ness
- NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Nutrition Theme, University of Bristol, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8AE, UK
| | - Susan L Neuhausen
- Department of Population Sciences, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, 1500 E Duarte, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
| | - Heli Nevanlinna
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 8, 00290, Helsinki, Finland
| | - Polly A Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Health Science Buidling, F-350, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Lisa F Newcomb
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
| | - Finn Cilius Nielsen
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Liene Nikitina-Zake
- Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Ratsupites str 1, Riga, LV-1067, Latvia
| | - Børge G Nordestgaard
- Copenhagen General Population Study, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730, Herlev, Denmark
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Robert L Nussbaum
- Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program, University of California San Francisco, 1600 Divisadero St, San Francisco, CA, 94143-1714, USA
| | - Kenneth Offit
- Clinical Genetics Research Lab, Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
- Clinical Genetics Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
| | - Edith Olah
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Oncology, Ráth György u7-9, 1122, Budapest, Hungary
| | - Ali Amin Al Olama
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Olufunmilayo I Olopade
- Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, The University of Chicago, 5841S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
| | - Andrew F Olshan
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, 135 Dauer Dr, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7435, USA
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 450 West Dr, Chapell Hill, NC, 27599, USA
| | - Håkan Olsson
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Barngatan 4, Skånes universitetssjukhus, 222 42, Lund, Sweden
| | - Ana Osorio
- Human Cancer Genetics Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Calle de Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
| | - Hardev Pandha
- The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
| | - Jong Y Park
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Nora Pashayan
- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, Strangeways Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
| | - Michael T Parsons
- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
| | - Tanja Pejovic
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
- Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L-466, Portland, OR, 97239, USA
| | - Kathryn L Penney
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
| | - Wilbert H M Peters
- Department of Gastroenterology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, Internal BOBox 433, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| | - Catherine M Phelan
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
| | - Amanda I Phipps
- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
| | - Dijana Plaseska-Karanfilska
- Research Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 'Georgi DEfremov', Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Boulevard Krste Petkov Misirkov, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
| | - Miranda Pring
- Bristol Dental School, University of Bristol, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS1 2LY, UK
| | - Darya Prokofyeva
- Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, ulZaki Validi 32, Ufa, Russia, 450076
| | - Paolo Radice
- Unit of Molecular Bases of Genetic Risk and Genetic Testing, Department of Research, Fondazione IRCCS (Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico) Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (INT), Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy
| | - Kari Stefansson
- Decode genetics, Sturlugata 8, IS-101 Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland, Iceland
| | - Susan J Ramus
- School of Women's and Children's Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW Sydney, 18 High St, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 384 Victoria Street, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia
| | - Leon Raskin
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
| | - Gad Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
| | - Hedy S Rennert
- Clalit National Cancer Control Center, Carmel Medical Center and Technion Faculty of Medicine, 7 Michal Street, 34362, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, 25171 Morris Bldg, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA
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- Cancer Center Cluster Salzburg at PLUS, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Billrothstr11, 5020, Salzburg, Austria
- Division of Epigenomics and Cancer Risk Factors, DKFZ - German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Urology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Program in Epidemiology, Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, M4 C308, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Gent, Belgium
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- Hereditary Cancer Clinic, University Hospital of Heraklion, Voutes, 711 10, Heraklion, Greece
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Research Oncology, Guy's Hospital, King's College London, Guy's Hospital Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 9RT, UK
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Division of Laboratory, Department of Medical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, 20014, Turku, Finland
- Prostate Cancer Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and BioMediTech Institute, University of Tampere, 33014, Tampere, Finland
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1450 Biggy Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Jiangsu Key Lab of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention and Treatment, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Personalized Medicine, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, 101 Longmian Ave, Jiangning District, 211166, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Dr. MRC-CANCONT, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Dept of OB/GYN and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, DK-8200, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Precision Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
- Department of Clinical Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Cnr Grattan Street and Royal Parade, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams Street NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr15, 81377, Munich, Germany
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Level 1, 723 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
- The Curtin UWA Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Curtin University and University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, Inst Clinical Scienses, University of Gothenburg, Blå stråket 6, 41345, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Epidemiology Center, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, 3650 Spectrum Blvd, Suite 100, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Division of Breast Cancer Research, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, Av Brig Faria Lima 5416 Vila São Pedro, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15090-000, Brazil
- Department of Genetics and Evolutive Biology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, 98109, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo and CIBERESP, Campus del Cristo s/n, 33006, Oviedo, Spain
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
- Epigenetic and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Medical Statistics Group, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Rua DrAntónio Bernardino de Almeida 62, 4220-072, Porto, Portugal
- Biomedical Sciences Institute (ICBAS), University of Porto, RJorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-013, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Epidemiology Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Harvard THChan School of Public Health, 221 Longwood Avenue RFB 368, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Sonder Boulevard 29, 5000, Odence C, Denmark
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021, Bergen, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, 5021, Bergen, Norway
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- Program in Cancer Genetics, Departments of Human Genetics and Oncology, McGill University, 1001 Decarie Boulevard, Montréal, QC, H4A3J1, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge University, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, The Ohio State University, 460W12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Molecular Genetics of Breast Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No40-90, Bogota, Colombia
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, M20 4GJ, UK
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- Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Cancer Epidemiology, HLee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
- Huntsman Cancer Institute and Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Rm 4125, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, 200 First StSW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Leuven Cancer Institute, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Biomedical Network on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), AvMonforte de Lemos, 3-5Pabellón 11Planta 0, 28029, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Fundación Pública Galega Medicina Xenómica & Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, calle Choupana s/n, 15706, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Population Health Department, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, 111TWAlexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27514, NC, USA
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- City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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- Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Cancer Research Centre, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre,, The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, 259 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Neuherberg D-85764, Munich, 803539, Bavaria, Germany
- Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstadter Landstr1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University Munich, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Univ Hospital, 171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
- Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Tumor Biology, Northern Finland Laboratory Centre Oulu, Aapistie 5A, 90220, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 13, SE-171 77, SE-171, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2SJ, UK
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- Discipline of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, StJohn's, NL, A1C 5S7, Canada
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, INRASTES, National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos', Neapoleos 10, AgParaskevi, Athens, 15310, Greece
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Ave S # D3300, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Gydas vei 8, 0033, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute, University of California Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA, 92617, USA
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- Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 300 Halket St, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
- Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anasthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Prosserman Centre for Population Health Research, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, 60 Murray Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, Canada
- Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Toronto, ON, M5T3M7, Canada
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- Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, Suite 4C, Office # 467, 5150 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, 15232, PA, USA
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- Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Dr, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Road, London, SM2 5NG, UK
- Oncogenetics Team, The Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Computational Biology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Brisbane, QLD, 4006, Australia
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- Section of Genetics, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69008, Lyon, France
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, 48109, USA
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- Genomics Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, 2705 Laurier Boulevard, Québec City, QC, G1V4G2, Canada
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
- Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, 2 Worts' Causeway, Cambridge, CB1 8RN, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 75 Ames St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- UCLA Path and Lab Med, University of California, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 190095, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology Section, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor Medical College, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM451, Suite 100D, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-1024, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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Bray MJ, Davis LK, Torstenson ES, Jones SH, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Estimating Uterine Fibroid SNP-Based Heritability in European American Women with Imaging-Confirmed Fibroids. Hum Hered 2019; 84:73-81. [PMID: 31480066 PMCID: PMC6904850 DOI: 10.1159/000501335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Heritability estimates (including twin and single nucleotide polymorphism [SNP]-based heritability studies) for fibroids have been inconsistent across prior studies ranging between 9 and 69%. These inconsistencies are due to variations in study design and included populations. A major design issue has been lack of imaging confirmation to identify controls, where asymptomatic women without imaging confirmation may be misclassified as controls leading to an attenuation of heritability estimates. To reconcile the differences in prior heritability estimates and the impact of misclassification of controls on heritability, we determined SNP-based heritability and characterized the genetic architecture of pelvic image-confirmed fibroid cases and controls. METHODS Analyses were performed among women of European American descent using genome-wide SNP data from BioVU, a clinical database composed of DNA linked to de-identified electronic health records. We estimated the genetic variance explained by all SNPs using Genome-Wide Complex Trait Analysis on imputed data. Fibroid cases and controls were identified using a previously reported phenotyping algorithm that required pelvic imaging confirmation. RESULTS In total, we used 1,067 image-confirmed fibroid cases and 1,042 image-confirmed fibroid controls. The SNP-based heritability estimate for fibroid risk was h2 = 0.33 ± 0.18 (p = 0.040). We investigated the relationship between heritability per chromosome and chromosome length (r2 < 1%), with chromosome 8 explaining the highest proportion of variance for fibroid risk. There was no enrichment for intergenic or genic SNPs for the fibroid SNP-based heritability. Excluding loci previously associated with fibroid risk from genome-wide association study did not attenuate fibroid heritability suggesting that loci associating with fibroid risk are yet to be discovered. CONCLUSIONS We observed that fibroid SNP-based heritability was higher than the previous estimate using genome-wide SNP data that relied on self-reported outcomes, but within the range of prior twin pair studies. Furthermore, these data support that imprecise phenotyping can significantly affect the ability to estimate heritability using genotype data.
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- Michael J Bray
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, .,Institute for Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, .,Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, .,Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, .,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA,
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Jones SH, Mautz BS, Torstenson ES, Hellwege JN, Edwards TL, Velez Edwards DR. Phenome-wide association study of uterine fibroids using a large multi-racial clinical population of women. Fertil Steril 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2019.07.989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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