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Freeman EE, Roy-Gagnon MH, Descovich D, Massé H, Lesk MR. The heritability of glaucoma-related traits corneal hysteresis, central corneal thickness, intraocular pressure, and choroidal blood flow pulsatility. PLoS One 2013; 8:e55573. [PMID: 23383229 PMCID: PMC3559508 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Accepted: 12/27/2012] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this work was to investigate the heritability of potential glaucoma endophenotypes. We estimated for the first time the heritability of the pulsatility of choroidal blood flow. We also sought to confirm the heritability of corneal hysteresis, central corneal thickness, and 3 ways of measuring intraocular pressure. Methods Measurements were performed on 96 first-degree relatives recruited from Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal. Corneal hysteresis was determined using the Reichert Ocular Response Analyser. Central corneal thickness was measured with an ultrasound pachymeter. Three measures of intraocular pressure were obtained: Goldmann-correlated and corneal compensated intraocular pressure using the Ocular Response Analyser, and Pascal intraocular pressure using the Pascal Dynamic Contour Tonometer. The pulsatility of choroidal blood velocity and flow were measured in the sub-foveolar choroid using single-point laser Doppler flowmetry (Oculix). We estimated heritability using maximum-likelihood variance components methods implemented in the SOLAR software. Results No significant heritability was detected for the pulsatility of choroidal blood flow or velocity. The Goldman-correlated, corneal compensated, and Pascal measures of intraocular pressure measures were all significantly heritable at 0.94, 0.79, and 0.53 after age and sex adjustment (p = 0.0003, p = 0.0023, p = 0.0239). Central corneal thickness was significantly heritable at 0.68 (p = 0.0078). Corneal hysteresis was highly heritable but the estimate was at the upper boundary of 1.00 preventing us from giving a precise estimate. Conclusion Corneal hysteresis, central corneal thickness, and intraocular pressure are all heritable and may be suitable as glaucoma endophenotypes. The pulsatility of choroidal blood flow and blood velocity were not significantly heritable in this sample.
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- Ellen E Freeman
- Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Hinrichs AL, Suarez BK. Incorporating linkage information into a common disease/rare variant framework. Genet Epidemiol 2012; 35 Suppl 1:S74-9. [PMID: 22128063 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent developments in sequencing technology have allowed the investigation of the common disease/rare variant hypothesis. In the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 data set, we have sequence data on both unrelated individuals and eight large extended pedigrees with simulated quantitative and qualitative phenotypes. Group 11, whose focus was incorporating linkage information, considered several different ways to use the extended pedigrees to identify causal genes and variants. The first issue was the use of standard linkage or identity-by-descent information to identify regions containing causal rare variants. We found that rare variants of large effect segregating through pedigrees were precisely the bailiwick of linkage analysis. For a common disease, we anticipate many risk loci, so a heterogeneity linkage analysis or an analysis of a single pedigree at a time may be useful. The second issue was using pedigree data to identify individuals for sequencing. If one can identify linked regions and even carriers of risk haplotypes, the sequencing will be substantially more efficient. In fact, sequencing only 2.5% of the genome in carefully selected individuals can detect 52% of the risk variants that would be detected through whole-exome sequencing in a large number of unrelated individuals. Finally, we found that linkage information from pedigrees can provide weights for case-control association tests. We also found that pedigree-based association tests have the same issues of binning variants and variant counting as those in tests of unrelated individuals. Clearly, when pedigrees are available, they can provide great assistance in the search for rare variants that influence common disorders.
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- Anthony L Hinrichs
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Simpson CL, Justice CM, Krishnan M, Wojciechowski R, Sung H, Cai J, Green T, Lewis D, Behneman D, Wilson AF, Bailey-Wilson JE. Old lessons learned anew: family-based methods for detecting genes responsible for quantitative and qualitative traits in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 mini-exome sequence data. BMC Proc 2011; 5 Suppl 9:S83. [PMID: 22373393 PMCID: PMC3287924 DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-5-s9-s83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Family-based study designs are again becoming popular as new next-generation sequencing technologies make whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing projects economically and temporally feasible. Here we evaluate the statistical properties of linkage analyses and family-based tests of association for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 mini-exome sequence data. Based on our results, the linkage methods using relative pairs or nuclear families had low power, with the best results coming from variance components linkage analysis in nuclear families and Elston-Stewart model-based linkage analysis in extended pedigrees. For family-based tests of association, both ASSOC and ROMP performed well for genes with large effects, but ROMP had the advantage of not requiring parental genotypes in the analysis. For the linkage analyses we conclude that genome-wide significance levels appear to control type I error well but that “suggestive” significance levels do not. Methods that make use of the extended pedigrees are well powered to detect major loci segregating in the families even when there is substantial genetic heterogeneity and the trait is mainly polygenic. However, large numbers of such pedigrees will be necessary to detect all major loci. The family-based tests of association found the same major loci as the linkage analyses and detected low-frequency loci with moderate effect sizes, but control of type I error was not as stringent.
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- Claire L Simpson
- Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Genometrics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Section, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Drive, 333 Cassell Drive Suite 1200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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O'Shea SH, Schwarz J, Kosyk O, Ross PK, Ha MJ, Wright FA, Rusyn I. In vitro screening for population variability in chemical toxicity. Toxicol Sci 2010; 119:398-407. [PMID: 20952501 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfq322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Immortalized human lymphoblastoid cell lines have been used to demonstrate that it is possible to use an in vitro model system to identify genetic factors that affect responses to xenobiotics. To extend the application of such studies to investigative toxicology by assessing interindividual and population-wide variability and heritability of chemical-induced toxicity phenotypes, we have used cell lines from the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) trios assembled by the HapMap Consortium. Our goal is to aid in the development of predictive in vitro genetics-anchored models of chemical-induced toxicity. Cell lines from the CEPH trios were exposed to three concentrations of 14 environmental chemicals. We assessed ATP production and caspase-3/7 activity 24 h after treatment. Replicate analyses were used to evaluate experimental variability and classify responses. We show that variability of response across the cell lines exists for some, but not all, chemicals, with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and phenobarbital eliciting the greatest degree of interindividual variability. Although the data for the chemicals used here do not show evidence for broad-sense heritability of toxicity response phenotypes, substantial cell line variation was found, and candidate genetic factors contributing to the variability in response to PFOA were investigated using genome-wide association analysis. The approach of screening chemicals for toxicity in a genetically defined yet diverse in vitro human cell-based system is potentially useful for identification of chemicals that may pose a highest risk, the extent of within-species variability in the population, and genetic loci of interest that potentially contribute to chemical susceptibility.
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- Shannon H O'Shea
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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