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Jones E, Hummerich H, Viré E, Uphill J, Dimitriadis A, Speedy H, Campbell T, Norsworthy P, Quinn L, Whitfield J, Linehan J, Jaunmuktane Z, Brandner S, Jat P, Nihat A, How Mok T, Ahmed P, Collins S, Stehmann C, Sarros S, Kovacs GG, Geschwind MD, Golubjatnikov A, Frontzek K, Budka H, Aguzzi A, Karamujić-Čomić H, van der Lee SJ, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, van Duijn CM, Sikorska B, Golanska E, Liberski PP, Calero M, Calero O, Sanchez-Juan P, Salas A, Martinón-Torres F, Bouaziz-Amar E, Haïk S, Laplanche JL, Brandel JP, Amouyel P, Lambert JC, Parchi P, Bartoletti-Stella A, Capellari S, Poleggi A, Ladogana A, Pocchiari M, Aneli S, Matullo G, Knight R, Zafar S, Zerr I, Booth S, Coulthart MB, Jansen GH, Glisic K, Blevins J, Gambetti P, Safar J, Appleby B, Collinge J, Mead S. Identification of novel risk loci and causal insights for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study. Lancet Neurol 2020; 19:840-848. [PMID: 32949544 PMCID: PMC8220892 DOI: 10.1016/s1474-4422(20)30273-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [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: 04/13/2020] [Revised: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Human prion diseases are rare and usually rapidly fatal neurodegenerative disorders, the most common being sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD). Variants in the PRNP gene that encodes prion protein are strong risk factors for sCJD but, although the condition has similar heritability to other neurodegenerative disorders, no other genetic risk loci have been confirmed. We aimed to discover new genetic risk factors for sCJD, and their causal mechanisms. METHODS We did a genome-wide association study of sCJD in European ancestry populations (patients diagnosed with probable or definite sCJD identified at national CJD referral centres) with a two-stage study design using genotyping arrays and exome sequencing. Conditional, transcriptional, and histological analyses of implicated genes and proteins in brain tissues, and tests of the effects of risk variants on clinical phenotypes, were done using deep longitudinal clinical cohort data. Control data from healthy individuals were obtained from publicly available datasets matched for country. FINDINGS Samples from 5208 cases were obtained between 1990 and 2014. We found 41 genome-wide significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and independently replicated findings at three loci associated with sCJD risk; within PRNP (rs1799990; additive model odds ratio [OR] 1·23 [95% CI 1·17-1·30], p=2·68 × 10-15; heterozygous model p=1·01 × 10-135), STX6 (rs3747957; OR 1·16 [1·10-1·22], p=9·74 × 10-9), and GAL3ST1 (rs2267161; OR 1·18 [1·12-1·25], p=8·60 × 10-10). Follow-up analyses showed that associations at PRNP and GAL3ST1 are likely to be caused by common variants that alter the protein sequence, whereas risk variants in STX6 are associated with increased expression of the major transcripts in disease-relevant brain regions. INTERPRETATION We present, to our knowledge, the first evidence of statistically robust genetic associations in sporadic human prion disease that implicate intracellular trafficking and sphingolipid metabolism as molecular causal mechanisms. Risk SNPs in STX6 are shared with progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurodegenerative disease associated with misfolding of protein tau, indicating that sCJD might share the same causal mechanisms as prion-like disorders. FUNDING Medical Research Council and the UK National Institute of Health Research in part through the Biomedical Research Centre at University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust.
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- Emma Jones
- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Division of Neuropathology, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK; Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences and Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Division of Neuropathology, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK; National Prion Clinic, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK; National Prion Clinic, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK
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- Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Laboratory Medicine Program, Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Molecular Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
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- Chronic Disease Programme (UFIEC-CROSADIS) and Network Centre for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), and Alzheimer Disease Research Unit, CIEN Foundation, Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Chronic Disease Programme (UFIEC-CROSADIS) and Network Centre for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED), and Alzheimer Disease Research Unit, CIEN Foundation, Queen Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Neurology Service, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, CIBERNED and IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
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- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses (INCIFOR), Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (SERGAS), Galicia, Spain
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- Translational Paediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lariboisière Hospital, AP-HP, University of Paris, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France; Cellule nationale de référence des maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, AP-HP, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Lariboisière Hospital, AP-HP, University of Paris, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, Paris, France; Cellule nationale de référence des maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, AP-HP, University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1167-RID-AGE, Labex DISTALZ, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- INSERM, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1167-RID-AGE, Labex DISTALZ, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Università degli studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Università degli studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
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- National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Clinical Dementia Centre and National Reference Centre for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany; German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany; Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Department, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Neurology, Clinical Dementia Centre and National Reference Centre for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance, University Medical School, Göttingen, Germany; German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany
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- Prion Disease Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Departments of Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA; National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK; National Prion Clinic, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Prion Unit, University College London Institute of Prion Diseases, London, UK; National Prion Clinic, University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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Schmidt AF, Holmes MV, Preiss D, Swerdlow DI, Denaxas S, Fatemifar G, Faraway R, Finan C, Valentine D, Fairhurst-Hunter Z, Hartwig FP, Horta BL, Hypponen E, Power C, Moldovan M, van Iperen E, Hovingh K, Demuth I, Norman K, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth J, Bertram L, Lill CM, Coassin S, Willeit J, Kiechl S, Willeit K, Mason D, Wright J, Morris R, Wanamethee G, Whincup P, Ben-Shlomo Y, McLachlan S, Price JF, Kivimaki M, Welch C, Sanchez-Galvez A, Marques-Vidal P, Nicolaides A, Panayiotou AG, Onland-Moret NC, van der Schouw YT, Matullo G, Fiorito G, Guarrera S, Sacerdote C, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Scott RA, Luan J, Bobak M, Malyutina S, Pająk A, Kubinova R, Tamosiunas A, Pikhart H, Grarup N, Pedersen O, Hansen T, Linneberg A, Jess T, Cooper J, Humphries SE, Brilliant M, Kitchner T, Hakonarson H, Carrell DS, McCarty CA, Lester KH, Larson EB, Crosslin DR, de Andrade M, Roden DM, Denny JC, Carty C, Hancock S, Attia J, Holliday E, Scott R, Schofield P, O'Donnell M, Yusuf S, Chong M, Pare G, van der Harst P, Said MA, Eppinga RN, Verweij N, Snieder H, Christen T, Mook-Kanamori DO, Gustafsson S, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Pazoki R, Franco O, Hofman A, Uitterlinden A, Dehghan A, Teumer A, Baumeister S, Dörr M, Lerch MM, Völker U, Völzke H, Ward J, Pell JP, Meade T, Christophersen IE, Maitland-van der Zee AH, Baranova EV, Young R, Ford I, Campbell A, Padmanabhan S, Bots ML, Grobbee DE, Froguel P, Thuillier D, Roussel R, Bonnefond A, Cariou B, Smart M, Bao Y, Kumari M, Mahajan A, Hopewell JC, Seshadri S, Dale C, Costa RPE, Ridker PM, Chasman DI, Reiner AP, Ritchie MD, Lange LA, Cornish AJ, Dobbins SE, Hemminki K, Kinnersley B, Sanson M, Labreche K, Simon M, Bondy M, Law P, Speedy H, Allan J, Li N, Went M, Weinhold N, Morgan G, Sonneveld P, Nilsson B, Goldschmidt H, Sud A, Engert A, Hansson M, Hemingway H, Asselbergs FW, Patel RS, Keating BJ, Sattar N, Houlston R, Casas JP, Hingorani AD. Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2019; 19:240. [PMID: 31664920 PMCID: PMC6820948 DOI: 10.1186/s12872-019-1187-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND We characterised the phenotypic consequence of genetic variation at the PCSK9 locus and compared findings with recent trials of pharmacological inhibitors of PCSK9. METHODS Published and individual participant level data (300,000+ participants) were combined to construct a weighted PCSK9 gene-centric score (GS). Seventeen randomized placebo controlled PCSK9 inhibitor trials were included, providing data on 79,578 participants. Results were scaled to a one mmol/L lower LDL-C concentration. RESULTS The PCSK9 GS (comprising 4 SNPs) associations with plasma lipid and apolipoprotein levels were consistent in direction with treatment effects. The GS odds ratio (OR) for myocardial infarction (MI) was 0.53 (95% CI 0.42; 0.68), compared to a PCSK9 inhibitor effect of 0.90 (95% CI 0.86; 0.93). For ischemic stroke ORs were 0.84 (95% CI 0.57; 1.22) for the GS, compared to 0.85 (95% CI 0.78; 0.93) in the drug trials. ORs with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) were 1.29 (95% CI 1.11; 1.50) for the GS, as compared to 1.00 (95% CI 0.96; 1.04) for incident T2DM in PCSK9 inhibitor trials. No genetic associations were observed for cancer, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or Alzheimer's disease - outcomes for which large-scale trial data were unavailable. CONCLUSIONS Genetic variation at the PCSK9 locus recapitulates the effects of therapeutic inhibition of PCSK9 on major blood lipid fractions and MI. While indicating an increased risk of T2DM, no other possible safety concerns were shown; although precision was moderate.
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- Amand F Schmidt
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK.
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Population Health Research Unit, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DB, UK
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- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
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- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- University College London, Farr Institute of Health Informatics, London, UK
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- Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
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- Centre for Population Health Research, Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- Population, Policy and Practice, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, UK
- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia
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- Population, Policy and Practice, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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- South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia
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- Durrer Center for Cardiovascular Research, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics And Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of vascular medicine, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany
- Geriatrics Research Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13347, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics & Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Dept. Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics & Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Lübeck, Germany
- Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Genetics and Pharmacology, Medical University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK
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- Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK
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- Department Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department Primary Care & Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK
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- Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Surgery, Nicosia Medical School, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO), Turin, Italy
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Novosibirsk State Medical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
- Institute of Internal and Preventive Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, London, UK
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, The Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Center for Human Genetics, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Public Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Public Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Hunter New England Local Health District, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Durrer Center for Cardiovascular Research, Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics And Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Chair of Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, UNIKA-T Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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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 Internal Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Interfaculty Institute of Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, Scotland, UK
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, Scotland, UK
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- The Department of Medical Research, Bærum Hospital, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Gjettum, Norway
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- Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
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- Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
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- Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, 59000, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, W12 0NN, London, United Kingdom
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, 59000, Lille, France
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- INSERM, U-1138, Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France
- UFR de Médecine, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Départment de Diabétologie, Endocrinologie et Nutrition, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bicha, Paris, France
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, 59000, Lille, France
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- l'institut du Thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Essex, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
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- Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
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- University College London, Farr Institute of Health Informatics, London, UK
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- Harvard Medical School Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Harvard Medical School Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Div. Molecular Genetic Epidemiology German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- The Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière - ICM, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR S 1127, F-75013, Paris, France
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- The Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière - ICM, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, UMR S 1127, F-75013, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Bethel Clinic, Kantensiek 11, 33617, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, 3075 EA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, BMC B13, SE-221 84, Lund, Sweden
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- University Clinic Heidelberg, Internal Medicine V and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Hematology Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Skåne, Sweden
- Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- The National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- Health Data Research UK and Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
- The Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Research Information Center (MAVERIC) Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, 222 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DA, UK
- UCL's BHF Research Accelerator Centre, London, UK
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Went M, Sud A, Speedy H, Sunter NJ, Försti A, Law PJ, Johnson DC, Mirabella F, Holroyd A, Li N, Orlando G, Weinhold N, van Duin M, Chen B, Mitchell JS, Mansouri L, Juliusson G, Smedby KE, Jayne S, Majid A, Dearden C, Allsup DJ, Bailey JR, Pratt G, Pepper C, Fegan C, Rosenquist R, Kuiper R, Stephens OW, Bertsch U, Broderick P, Einsele H, Gregory WM, Hillengass J, Hoffmann P, Jackson GH, Jöckel KH, Nickel J, Nöthen MM, da Silva Filho MI, Thomsen H, Walker BA, Broyl A, Davies FE, Hansson M, Goldschmidt H, Dyer MJS, Kaiser M, Sonneveld P, Morgan GJ, Hemminki K, Nilsson B, Catovsky D, Allan JM, Houlston RS. Genetic correlation between multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia provides evidence for shared aetiology. Blood Cancer J 2018; 9:1. [PMID: 30602759 PMCID: PMC6315026 DOI: 10.1038/s41408-018-0162-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 08/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
The clustering of different types of B-cell malignancies in families raises the possibility of shared aetiology. To examine this, we performed cross-trait linkage disequilibrium (LD)-score regression of multiple myeloma (MM) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) genome-wide association study (GWAS) data sets, totalling 11,734 cases and 29,468 controls. A significant genetic correlation between these two B-cell malignancies was shown (Rg = 0.4, P = 0.0046). Furthermore, four of the 45 known CLL risk loci were shown to associate with MM risk and five of the 23 known MM risk loci associate with CLL risk. By integrating eQTL, Hi-C and ChIP-seq data, we show that these pleiotropic risk loci are enriched for B-cell regulatory elements and implicate B-cell developmental genes. These data identify shared biological pathways influencing the development of CLL and, MM and further our understanding of the aetiological basis of these B-cell malignancies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Molly Went
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK.
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Helen Speedy
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Nicola J Sunter
- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
| | - Asta Försti
- German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, SE-205 02, Malmo, Sweden
| | - Philip J Law
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - David C Johnson
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Fabio Mirabella
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Amy Holroyd
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Ni Li
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Giulia Orlando
- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Niels Weinhold
- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, 3075 EA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
| | - Larry Mansouri
- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Lund Strategic Research Center for Stem Cell Biology and Cell Therapy, Hematology and Transplantation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Ernest and Helen Scott Haematological Research Institute, Leicester University, Leicester, UK
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- Ernest and Helen Scott Haematological Research Institute, Leicester University, Leicester, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK
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- Hull York Medical School and University of Hull, Hull, UK
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- Department of Haematology, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Haematology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, 3075 EA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Centre of Tumor Diseases, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9PH, UK
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, D-53127, Bonn, Germany
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, 4003, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, D-53127, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Genomics, Life and Brain Center, University of Bonn, D-53127, Bonn, Germany
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- German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, 3075 EA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
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- Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, SE-205 02, Malmo, Sweden
- Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, BMC B13, SE-221 84 Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Internal Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
- National Centre of Tumor Diseases, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ernest and Helen Scott Haematological Research Institute, Leicester University, Leicester, UK
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, 3075 EA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA
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- German Cancer Research Center, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, SE-205 02, Malmo, Sweden
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- Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, BMC B13, SE-221 84 Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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- Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
- Division of Molecular Pathology, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, SW7 3RP, UK
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