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Kelly TN, Sun X, He KY, Brown MR, Taliun SAG, Hellwege JN, Irvin MR, Mi X, Brody JA, Franceschini N, Guo X, Hwang SJ, de Vries PS, Gao Y, Moscati A, Nadkarni GN, Yanek LR, Elfassy T, Smith JA, Chung RH, Beitelshees AL, Patki A, Aslibekyan S, Blobner BM, Peralta JM, Assimes TL, Palmas WR, Liu C, Bress AP, Huang Z, Becker LC, Hwa CM, O'Connell JR, Carlson JC, Warren HR, Das S, Giri A, Martin LW, Craig Johnson W, Fox ER, Bottinger EP, Razavi AC, Vaidya D, Chuang LM, Chang YPC, Naseri T, Jain D, Kang HM, Hung AM, Srinivasasainagendra V, Snively BM, Gu D, Montasser ME, Reupena MS, Heavner BD, LeFaive J, Hixson JE, Rice KM, Wang FF, Nielsen JB, Huang J, Khan AT, Zhou W, Nierenberg JL, Laurie CC, Armstrong ND, Shi M, Pan Y, Stilp AM, Emery L, Wong Q, Hawley NL, Minster RL, Curran JE, Munroe PB, Weeks DE, North KE, Tracy RP, Kenny EE, Shimbo D, Chakravarti A, Rich SS, Reiner AP, Blangero J, Redline S, Mitchell BD, Rao DC, Ida Chen YD, Kardia SLR, Kaplan RC, Mathias RA, He J, Psaty BM, Fornage M, Loos RJF, Correa A, Boerwinkle E, Rotter JI, Kooperberg C, Edwards TL, Abecasis GR, Zhu X, Levy D, Arnett DK, Morrison AC. Insights From a Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Study of Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Hypertension. Hypertension 2022; 79:1656-1667. [PMID: 35652341 PMCID: PMC9593435 DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.122.19324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The availability of whole-genome sequencing data in large studies has enabled the assessment of coding and noncoding variants across the allele frequency spectrum for their associations with blood pressure. METHODS We conducted a multiancestry whole-genome sequencing analysis of blood pressure among 51 456 Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine and Centers for Common Disease Genomics program participants (stage-1). Stage-2 analyses leveraged array data from UK Biobank (N=383 145), Million Veteran Program (N=318 891), and Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (N=10 643) participants, along with whole-exome sequencing data from UK Biobank (N=199 631) participants. RESULTS Two blood pressure signals achieved genome-wide significance in meta-analyses of stage-1 and stage-2 single variant findings (P<5×10-8). Among them, a rare intergenic variant at novel locus, LOC100506274, was associated with lower systolic blood pressure in stage-1 (beta [SE]=-32.6 [6.0]; P=4.99×10-8) but not stage-2 analysis (P=0.11). Furthermore, a novel common variant at the known INSR locus was suggestively associated with diastolic blood pressure in stage-1 (beta [SE]=-0.36 [0.07]; P=4.18×10-7) and attained genome-wide significance in stage-2 (beta [SE]=-0.29 [0.03]; P=7.28×10-23). Nineteen additional signals suggestively associated with blood pressure in meta-analysis of single and aggregate rare variant findings (P<1×10-6 and P<1×10-4, respectively). DISCUSSION We report one promising but unconfirmed rare variant for blood pressure and, more importantly, contribute insights for future blood pressure sequencing studies. Our findings suggest promise of aggregate analyses to complement single variant analysis strategies and the need for larger, diverse samples, and family studies to enable robust rare variant identification.
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- Tanika N Kelly
- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Translational Sciences Institute (T.N.K., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
| | - Karen Y He
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (K.Y.H., X.Z.)
| | - Michael R Brown
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health (M.R.B., P.D.d.V., J.E.H., E.B., A.C.M.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
| | - Sarah A Gagliano Taliun
- Department of Biostatistics (S.A.G.T., S.D., H.M.K., J.L., G.R.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
| | - Jacklyn N Hellwege
- Division of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine (J.N.H.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville' TN (J.N.H., A.G., A.M.H., T.L.E.)
| | - Marguerite R Irvin
- Department of Epidemiology (M.R.I., S.A., N.D.A.), University of Alabama at Birmingham' AL
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine (J.A.B., K.E.N.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (N.F.)
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance' CA (X.G., Y.-D.I.C., J.I.R., D.L.)
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Population Sciences Branch, National Institutes of Health, Framingham, MA (S.-J.H.)
| | - Paul S de Vries
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health (M.R.B., P.D.d.V., J.E.H., E.B., A.C.M.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
| | - Yan Gao
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics (Y.G., E.E.K., R.J.F.L.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson' MS
| | - Arden Moscati
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (A.M., G.N.N.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
| | - Girish N Nadkarni
- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (A.M., G.N.N.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- Department of Medicine (G.N.N.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (L.R.Y., D.V.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami' FL (T.E.)
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology (J.A.S., S.L.R.K.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Institute of Population Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan (R.-H.C.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore' MD (A.L.B., J.R.O., Y.-P.C.C., M.E.M., B.D.M.)
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- Department of Biostatistics (A.P., V.S.), University of Alabama at Birmingham' AL
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- Department of Epidemiology (M.R.I., S.A., N.D.A.), University of Alabama at Birmingham' AL
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services (B.M.P.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
- Department of Human Genetics (B.M.B., R.L.M., D.E.W.), University of Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville' TX (J.M.P., J.E.C., J.B.)
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford' CA (T.L.A.)
- Division of Cardiology Medicine, Palo Alto VA HealthCare System, Palo Alto' CA (T.L.A.)
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY (W.R.P.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University, Boston' MA (C.L.)
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- Division of Health System Innovation and Research, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City' UT (A.P.B.)
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (L.C.B.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C.-M.H.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore' MD (A.L.B., J.R.O., Y.-P.C.C., M.E.M., B.D.M.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health (J.C.C.), University of Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (H.R.W., P.B.M.), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre (H.R.W., P.B.M.), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biostatistics (S.A.G.T., S.D., H.M.K., J.L., G.R.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville' TN (J.N.H., A.G., A.M.H., T.L.E.)
- Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (A.G.)
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC (L.W.M.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (E.R.F.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson' MS
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- Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai (E.P.B.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (L.R.Y., D.V.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei' Taiwan (L.-M.C.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore' MD (A.L.B., J.R.O., Y.-P.C.C., M.E.M., B.D.M.)
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- Ministry of Health, Government of Samoa, Apia' Samoa (T.N.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Biostatistics (S.A.G.T., S.D., H.M.K., J.L., G.R.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine (A.M.H.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville' TN (J.N.H., A.G., A.M.H., T.L.E.)
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC (B.M.S.)
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- Department of Epidemiology and Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (D.G., J.H.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore' MD (A.L.B., J.R.O., Y.-P.C.C., M.E.M., B.D.M.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Biostatistics (S.A.G.T., S.D., H.M.K., J.L., G.R.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health (M.R.B., P.D.d.V., J.E.H., E.B., A.C.M.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Internal Medicine: Cardiology (J.B.N.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark (J.B.N.)
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- Translational Sciences Institute (T.N.K., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Department of Epidemiology and Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China (D.G., J.H.)
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (W.Z.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Epidemiology (M.R.I., S.A., N.D.A.), University of Alabama at Birmingham' AL
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health (W.C.J., D.J., B.D.H., K.M.R., F.F.E., A.T.K., C.C.L., A.M.S., L.E., Q.W.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (N.L.H.)
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- Department of Human Genetics (B.M.B., R.L.M., D.E.W.), University of Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville' TX (J.M.P., J.E.C., J.B.)
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry (H.R.W., P.B.M.), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
- National Institute for Health Research Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre (H.R.W., P.B.M.), Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Human Genetics (B.M.B., R.L.M., D.E.W.), University of Pittsburgh, PA
- Department of Biostatistics (D.E.W.), University of Pittsburgh, PA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine (J.A.B., K.E.N.), University of Washington, Seattle' WA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington' VT (R.P.T.)
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics (Y.G., E.E.K., R.J.F.L.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson' MS
- Department of Genetics and Genomics (E.E.K.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (D.S.)
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- Department of Medicine (A.C.), University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson' MS
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- Center for Public Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville' VA (S.S.R.)
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (A.P.R., C.K.)
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville' TX (J.M.P., J.E.C., J.B.)
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (S.R.)
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore' MD (A.L.B., J.R.O., Y.-P.C.C., M.E.M., B.D.M.)
- Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore' MD (B.D.M.)
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (D.C.R.)
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance' CA (X.G., Y.-D.I.C., J.I.R., D.L.)
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- Department of Epidemiology (J.A.S., S.L.R.K.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Division of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (R.C.K.)
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- Division of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine (R.A.M.), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., X.S., X.M., Z.H., A.C.R., J.L.N., M.S., Y.P., J.H.), Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle' WA (B.M.P.)
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (M.F.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
- Human Genetics Center (M.F.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance' CA (X.G., Y.-D.I.C., J.I.R., D.L.)
- The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute (R.J.F.L.), The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY (A.C.)
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health (M.R.B., P.D.d.V., J.E.H., E.B., A.C.M.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (E.B.)
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance' CA (X.G., Y.-D.I.C., J.I.R., D.L.)
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (A.P.R., C.K.)
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine (T.L.E.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (626)/Vanderbilt University, Nashville' TN (J.N.H., A.G., A.M.H., T.L.E.)
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- Department of Biostatistics (S.A.G.T., S.D., H.M.K., J.L., G.R.A.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor' MI
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (K.Y.H., X.Z.)
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance' CA (X.G., Y.-D.I.C., J.I.R., D.L.)
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- College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (D.K.A.)
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health (M.R.B., P.D.d.V., J.E.H., E.B., A.C.M.), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston' Houston' TX
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de Las Fuentes L, Sung YJ, Noordam R, Winkler T, Feitosa MF, Schwander K, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Guo X, Manning A, Chasman DI, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Campbell A, Cheng CY, Dorajoo R, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Li C, Li-Gao R, Liu Y, Marten J, Musani SK, Ntalla I, Rankinen T, Richard M, Sim X, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Vojinovic D, Warren HR, Xuan D, Alver M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Christensen K, Divers J, Evangelou E, Gao C, Girotto G, Harris SE, He M, Hsu FC, Kühnel B, Laguzzi F, Li X, Lyytikäinen LP, Nolte IM, Poveda A, Rauramaa R, Riaz M, Rueedi R, Shu XO, Snieder H, Sofer T, Takeuchi F, Verweij N, Ware EB, Weiss S, Yanek LR, Amin N, Arking DE, Arnett DK, Bergmann S, Boerwinkle E, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Brumat M, Burke G, Cabrera CP, Canouil M, Chee ML, Chen YDI, Cocca M, Connell J, de Silva HJ, de Vries PS, Eiriksdottir G, Faul JD, Fisher V, Forrester T, Fox EF, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Giulianini F, Gu CC, Gu D, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hunt S, Ikram MA, Irvin MR, Kähönen M, Kavousi M, Khor CC, Kilpeläinen TO, Koh WP, Komulainen P, Kraja AT, Krieger JE, Langefeld CD, Li Y, Liang J, Liewald DCM, Liu CT, Liu J, Lohman KK, Mägi R, McKenzie CA, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Milani L, Mook-Kanamori DO, Nalls MA, Nelson CP, Norris JM, O'Connell J, Ogunniyi A, Padmanabhan S, Palmer ND, Pedersen NL, Perls T, Peters A, Petersmann A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Porteous DJ, Raffel LJ, Rice TK, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Rueda-Ochoa OL, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Schreiner PJ, Shikany JM, Sidney SS, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Starr JM, Strauch K, Swertz MA, Teumer A, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Vaidya D, van der Ende MY, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Weir DR, Wen W, Yao J, Yu B, Yu C, Yuan JM, Zhao W, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Bowden DW, Deary IJ, Dörr M, Esko T, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Jonas JB, Kammerer CM, Kato N, Lakka TA, Leander K, Lehtimäki T, Magnusson PKE, Marques-Vidal P, Penninx BWJH, Samani NJ, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wu T, Zheng W, Zhu X, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Correa A, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Hayward C, Horta BL, Kelly TN, Kritchevsky SB, Levy D, Palmas WR, Pereira AC, Province MM, Psaty BM, Ridker PM, Rotimi CN, Tai ES, van Dam RM, van Duijn CM, Wong TY, Rice K, Gauderman WJ, Morrison AC, North KE, Kardia SLR, Caulfield MJ, Elliott P, Munroe PB, Franks PW, Rao DC, Fornage M. Gene-educational attainment interactions in a multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis identify novel blood pressure loci. Mol Psychiatry 2021; 26:2111-2125. [PMID: 32372009 PMCID: PMC7641978 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-020-0719-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Educational attainment is widely used as a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES). Low SES is a risk factor for hypertension and high blood pressure (BP). To identify novel BP loci, we performed multi-ancestry meta-analyses accounting for gene-educational attainment interactions using two variables, "Some College" (yes/no) and "Graduated College" (yes/no). Interactions were evaluated using both a 1 degree of freedom (DF) interaction term and a 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Analyses were performed for systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, and pulse pressure. We pursued genome-wide interrogation in Stage 1 studies (N = 117 438) and follow-up on promising variants in Stage 2 studies (N = 293 787) in five ancestry groups. Through combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 84 known and 18 novel BP loci at genome-wide significance level (P < 5 × 10-8). Two novel loci were identified based on the 1DF test of interaction with educational attainment, while the remaining 16 loci were identified through the 2DF joint test of genetic and interaction effects. Ten novel loci were identified in individuals of African ancestry. Several novel loci show strong biological plausibility since they involve physiologic systems implicated in BP regulation. They include genes involved in the central nervous system-adrenal signaling axis (ZDHHC17, CADPS, PIK3C2G), vascular structure and function (GNB3, CDON), and renal function (HAS2 and HAS2-AS1, SLIT3). Collectively, these findings suggest a role of educational attainment or SES in further dissection of the genetic architecture of BP.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lisa de Las Fuentes
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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- Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333ZA, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, 93051, Regensburg, Germany
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
| | - Amy R Bentley
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75724, France
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Ecy Centre, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, 96020-220, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, 5403000, Brazil
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333ZA, Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39213, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 70808, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, 201, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, 59000, France
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Department of Public Health, Southern Denmark University, Odense, 5000, Denmark
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, 45110, Greece
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- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, 34100, Italy
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste, 34100, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, 55812, USA
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, 9700RB, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Skåne, 205 02, Sweden
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, 70100, Finland
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- College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology, Health Sciences, The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS), Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Epidemiology, Groningen, 9700RB, The Netherlands
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, 1628655, Japan
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, 9700, The Netherlands
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, 9713GZ, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Dean's Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, 40536, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, 34100, Italy
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- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, 59000, France
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- Statistics Unit, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste, 34100, Italy
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- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, DD1 9SY, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, JMAAW15, Jamaica
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- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39216, USA
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- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Cardiovascular Unit, Bioclinicum, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, 17164, Sweden
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, 18288, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
- Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, 70211, Finland
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, 70211, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA
- Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, 33521, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center-Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117596, Singapore
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2200, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, 70100, Finland
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, 5403000, Brazil
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, 138672, Singapore
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
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- Public Health Sciences, Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, JMAAW15, Jamaica
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, 80333, Munich, Germany
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333ZA, Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, 2333ZA, Netherlands
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- Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, 20895, USA
- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD, 20812, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria
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- British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TA, UK
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Section, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
- University Hospital Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital "Sveti Ivan", Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92868, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
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- Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Ecy Centre, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 25249, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39213, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AZ, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, 80539, Munich, Germany
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, Groningen, 9700RB, The Netherlands
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Ecy Centre, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, 9700, The Netherlands
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100730, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100730, Beijing, China
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 90502, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA
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- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51010, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA, 02142, USA
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- Section on Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-, Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, 59000, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, 34100, Italy
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", Trieste, 34100, Italy
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, 100730, Beijing, China
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, 1628655, Japan
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, 70100, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio, 70211, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, 70211, Finland
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- Unit of Cardiovascular and Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, 33520, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, 33014, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 BT, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Cardiology, Groningen, 9700, The Netherlands
- Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research, ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Ultrecht, The Netherlands
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- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27109, USA
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, 60153, USA
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 39213, USA
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, 96020-220, Brazil
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- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Sticht Center for Health Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, USA
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- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, 01702, USA
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, SP, 5403000, Brazil
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117549, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Ocular Epidemiology, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Ecy Centre, Singapore, 169856, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, 169857, Singapore
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Skåne, 205 02, Sweden
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, 901 85, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 70808, USA
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Sun D, Richard MA, Musani SK, Sung YJ, Winkler TW, Schwander K, Chai JF, Guo X, Kilpeläinen TO, Vojinovic D, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Bielak LF, Brown MR, Chitrala K, Hartwig FP, Horimoto AR, Liu Y, Manning AK, Noordam R, Smith AV, Harris SE, Kühnel B, Lyytikäinen LP, Nolte IM, Rauramaa R, van der Most PJ, Wang R, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Arking DE, Arnett DK, Barac A, Boerwinkle E, Broeckel U, Chakravarti A, Chen YDI, Cupples LA, Davigulus ML, de las Fuentes L, de Mutsert R, de Vries PS, Delaney JA, Diez Roux AV, Dörr M, Faul JD, Fretts AM, Gallo LC, Grabe HJ, Gu CC, Harris TB, Hartman CC, Heikkinen S, Ikram MA, Isasi C, Johnson WC, Jonas JB, Kaplan RC, Komulainen P, Krieger JE, Levy D, Liu J, Lohman K, Luik AI, Martin LW, Meitinger T, Milaneschi Y, O’Connell JR, Palmas WR, Peters A, Peyser PA, Pulkki-Råback L, Raffel LJ, Reiner AP, Rice K, Robinson JG, Rosendaal FR, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Schwettmann L, Shikany JM, Shu XO, Sidney S, Sims M, Smith JA, Sotoodehnia N, Strauch K, Tai ES, Taylor KD, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Waldenberger M, Wee HL, Wei WB, Wilson G, Xuan D, Yao J, Zeng D, Zhao W, Zhu X, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Deary IJ, Gieger C, Lakka TA, Lehtimäki T, North KE, Oldehinkel AJ, Penninx BW, Snieder H, Wang YX, Weir DR, Zheng W, Evans MK, Gauderman WJ, Gudnason V, Horta BL, Liu CT, Mook-Kanamori DO, Morrison AC, Pereira AC, Psaty BM, Amin N, Fox ER, Kooperberg C, Sim X, Bierut L, Rotter JI, Kardia SL, Franceschini N, Rao DC, Fornage M. Multi-Ancestry Genome-wide Association Study Accounting for Gene-Psychosocial Factor Interactions Identifies Novel Loci for Blood Pressure Traits. HGG Adv 2021; 2:100013. [PMID: 34734193 PMCID: PMC8562625 DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2020.100013] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Psychological and social factors are known to influence blood pressure (BP) and risk of hypertension and associated cardiovascular diseases. To identify novel BP loci, we carried out genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic, diastolic, pulse, and mean arterial BP taking into account the interaction effects of genetic variants with three psychosocial factors: depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and social support. Analyses were performed using a two-stage design in a sample of up to 128,894 adults from 5 ancestry groups. In the combined meta-analyses of Stages 1 and 2, we identified 59 loci (p value <5e-8), including nine novel BP loci. The novel associations were observed mostly with pulse pressure, with fewer observed with mean arterial pressure. Five novel loci were identified in African ancestry, and all but one showed patterns of interaction with at least one psychosocial factor. Functional annotation of the novel loci supports a major role for genes implicated in the immune response (PLCL2), synaptic function and neurotransmission (LIN7A, PFIA2), as well as genes previously implicated in neuropsychiatric or stress-related disorders (FSTL5, CHODL). These findings underscore the importance of considering psychological and social factors in gene discovery for BP, especially in non-European populations.
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- Daokun Sun
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Solomon K. Musani
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
| | - Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Thomas W. Winkler
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93040, Germany
| | - Karen Schwander
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Jin Fang Chai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
| | - Hugues Aschard
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Département de Génomes et Génétique, Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - Lawrence F. Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
| | - Michael R. Brown
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Kumaraswamy Chitrala
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
| | - Fernando P. Hartwig
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas RS 96010-610, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK
| | - Andrea R.V.R. Horimoto
- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil
| | - Yongmei Liu
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27701, USA
| | - Alisa K. Manning
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Raymond Noordam
- Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2311 EZ, the Netherlands
| | - Albert V. Smith
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33101, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33101, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Dean’s Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40563, USA
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- MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
| | - Aravinda Chakravarti
- Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
| | - Martha L. Davigulus
- Division of Minority Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Lisa de las Fuentes
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2311 EZ, the Netherlands
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
| | - Jessica D. Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
| | - Amanda M. Fretts
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - Linda C. Gallo
- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
| | - Hans Jörgen Grabe
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
- Department Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Tamara B. Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Catharina C.A. Hartman
- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio 70100, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus 70100, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA
| | - W. Craig Johnson
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - Jost Bruno Jonas
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim 68167, Germany
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Robert C. Kaplan
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil
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- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 01702, USA
- Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138632, Singapore
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27701, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Division of Cardiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich 81675, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 0100, Finland
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- Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2311 EZ, the Netherlands
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17489, Germany
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Munich, 80539 Germany
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich 85764, Germany
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina Gilling School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Kuopio 70211, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70211, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33101, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere 33100, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713 GZ, the Netherlands
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- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 20892, USA
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- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 102, Iceland
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas RS 96010-610, Brazil
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2311 EZ, the Netherlands
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2311 EZ, the Netherlands
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3000 CA, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Sofer T, Emery L, Jain D, Ellis AM, Laurie CC, Allison MA, Lee J, Kurniansyah N, Kerr KF, González HM, Tarraf W, Criqui MH, Lange LA, Palmas WR, Franceschini N, Wassel CL. Variants Associated with the Ankle Brachial Index Differ by Hispanic/Latino Ethnic Group: a genome-wide association study in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11410. [PMID: 31388106 PMCID: PMC6684818 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47928-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 09/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) burden differs by race/ethnicity. Although familial aggregation and heritability studies suggest a genetic basis, little is known about the genetic susceptibility to PAD, especially in non-European descent populations. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the ankle brachial index (ABI) and PAD (defined as an ABI < 0.90) have not been conducted in Hispanics/Latinos. We performed a GWAS of PAD and the ABI in 7,589 participants aged >45 years from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). We also performed GWAS for ABI stratified by Hispanic/Latino ethnic subgroups: Central American, Mexican, and South American (Mainland group), and Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican (Caribbean group). We detected two genome-wide significant associations for the ABI in COMMD10 in Puerto Ricans, and at SYBU in the Caribbean group. The lead SNP rs4466200 in the COMMD10 gene had a replication p = 0.02 for the ABI in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) African Americans, but it did not replicate in African Americans from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). In a regional look-up, a nearby SNP rs12520838 had Bonferroni adjusted p = 0.05 (unadjusted p = 7.5 × 10−5) for PAD in MESA Hispanics. Among three suggestive associations (p < 10−7) in subgroup-specific analyses, DMD on chromosome X, identified in Central Americans, replicated in MESA Hispanics (p = 2.2 × 10−4). None of the previously reported ABI and PAD associations in whites generalized to Hispanics/Latinos.
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- Tamar Sofer
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. .,Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Sung YJ, de las Fuentes L, Winkler TW, Chasman DI, Bentley AR, Kraja AT, Ntalla I, Warren HR, Guo X, Schwander K, Manning AK, Brown MR, Aschard H, Feitosa MF, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Aslibekyan S, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Li C, Liu Y, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, He M, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kammerer CM, Kasturiratne A, Komulainen P, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, McKenzie CA, Nelson CP, Noordam R, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Waken RJ, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking DE, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cade B, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Gu CC, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt SC, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Kooperberg CB, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kutalik Z, Kuusisto J, Lakka TA, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lee JH, Lehne B, Levy D, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Louie T, Mägi R, Matsuda K, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Mosley, Jr TH, Nalls MA, Nasri U, O'Connell JR, Ogunniyi A, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Porteous D, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Sever P, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Smith BH, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Xiang YB, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YDI, Weir DR, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Perls T, Rauramaa R, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Hixson J, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Fornage M, Fox ER, Hayward C, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotimi CN, Bierut LJ, Zhu X, Cupples LA, Province MA, Rotter JI, Franks PW, Rice K, Elliott P, Caulfield MJ, Gauderman WJ, Munroe PB, Rao DC, Morrison AC. A multi-ancestry genome-wide study incorporating gene-smoking interactions identifies multiple new loci for pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 28:2615-2633. [PMID: 31127295 PMCID: PMC6644157 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddz070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [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: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Elevated blood pressure (BP), a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, is influenced by both genetic and lifestyle factors. Cigarette smoking is one such lifestyle factor. Across five ancestries, we performed a genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of mean arterial pressure (MAP) and pulse pressure (PP) in 129 913 individuals in stage 1 and follow-up analysis in 480 178 additional individuals in stage 2. We report here 136 loci significantly associated with MAP and/or PP. Of these, 61 were previously published through main-effect analysis of BP traits, 37 were recently reported by us for systolic BP and/or diastolic BP through gene-smoking interaction analysis and 38 were newly identified (P < 5 × 10-8, false discovery rate < 0.05). We also identified nine new signals near known loci. Of the 136 loci, 8 showed significant interaction with smoking status. They include CSMD1 previously reported for insulin resistance and BP in the spontaneously hypertensive rats. Many of the 38 new loci show biologic plausibility for a role in BP regulation. SLC26A7 encodes a chloride/bicarbonate exchanger expressed in the renal outer medullary collecting duct. AVPR1A is widely expressed, including in vascular smooth muscle cells, kidney, myocardium and brain. FHAD1 is a long non-coding RNA overexpressed in heart failure. TMEM51 was associated with contractile function in cardiomyocytes. CASP9 plays a central role in cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Identified only in African ancestry were 30 novel loci. Our findings highlight the value of multi-ancestry investigations, particularly in studies of interaction with lifestyle factors, where genomic and lifestyle differences may contribute to novel findings.
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- Yun Ju Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
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- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Centre de Bioinformatique, Biostatistique et Biologie Intégrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA, USA
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- Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
- Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Ophthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Jian’an Luan
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Colin A McKenzie
- School of Public Health, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Christopher P Nelson
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Raymond Noordam
- Internal Medicine, Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Robert A Scott
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Wayne H H Sheu
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, 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
| | - Alena Stančáková
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Fumihiko Takeuchi
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Peter J van der Most
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
| | - Robert J Waken
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Heming Wang
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
| | - Erin B Ware
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Wanqing Wen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Weihua Zhang
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Jing Hua Zhao
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Saima Afaq
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Tamuno Alfred
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
| | - Najaf Amin
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Dan E Arking
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - R Graham Barr
- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Lawrence F Bielak
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Erwin P Bottinger
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
| | - Peter S Braund
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
| | - Brian Cade
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Archie Campbell
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Mickaël Canouil
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
| | - Aravinda Chakravarti
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | | | - Francis S Collins
- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - John M Connell
- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
| | - Renée de Mutsert
- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - H Janaka de Silva
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka
| | - Marcus Dörr
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Qing Duan
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
| | - Charles B Eaton
- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
| | - Georg Ehret
- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Cardiology, Department of Specialties of Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Evangelos Evangelou
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina, Greece
| | - Jessica D Faul
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Nita G Forouhi
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Oscar H Franco
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Yechiel Friedlander
- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
| | - He Gao
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Bruna Gigante
- Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - C Charles Gu
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Preeti Gupta
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Saskia P Hagenaars
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Tamara B Harris
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Jiang He
- Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
- Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
| | - Sami Heikkinen
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
| | - Chew-Kiat Heng
- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Khoo Teck Puat—National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Barbara V Howard
- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD, USA
- Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown–Howard Universities, Washington, DC, USA
| | - Steven C Hunt
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar
| | - Marguerite R Irvin
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
| | - Yucheng Jia
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Joel Kaufman
- Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Nicola D Kerrison
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Heikki A Koistinen
- Department of Public Health Solutions, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Minerva Foundation Institute for Medical Research, Biomedicum 2U, Helsinki Finland
| | - Charles B Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Jose E Krieger
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Michiaki Kubo
- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Zoltan Kutalik
- Institute of Social Preventive Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Timo A Lakka
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Biomedicine, School of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, Finland
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Carl D Langefeld
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | | | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Joseph H Lee
- Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Daniel Levy
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- The Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Cora E Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
| | - Yize Li
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | | | - Sing Hui Lim
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Jingmin Liu
- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Yeheng Liu
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Marie Loh
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
| | - Kurt K Lohman
- Biostatistical Sciences, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Tin Louie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Koichi Matsuda
- Laboratory for Clinical Genome Sequencing, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
| | - Andres Metspalu
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
| | - Lili Milani
- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | | | - Mike A Nalls
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Ubaydah Nasri
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Jeff R O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | | | | | | | - James S Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Nancy L Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Patricia A Peyser
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Department of Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Psychiatric Hospital ‘Sveti Ivan’, Zagreb, Croatia
- Gen-info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
| | - David Porteous
- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
| | - Frida Renström
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
| | - Treva K Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Antonietta Robino
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health—IRCCS ‘Burlo Garofolo’, Trieste, Italy
| | - Jennifer G Robinson
- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Lynda M Rose
- Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Igor Rudan
- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Charumathi Sabanayagam
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
| | | | - Kevin Sandow
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Carsten O Schmidt
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - William R Scott
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Peter Sever
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Mario Sims
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Colleen M Sitlani
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Blair H Smith
- Division of Population Health Sciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore
- Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yih Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
| | - André G Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Ya Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Wen Bin Wei
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Gregory Wilson
- Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Mary K Wojczynski
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
| | - Yong-Bing Xiang
- State Key Laboratory of Oncogene and Related Genes & Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P.R. China
| | - Jie Yao
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, UPMC Hillman Cancer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Alan B Zonderman
- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Diane M Becker
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Donald W Bowden
- Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
| | - David R Weir
- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Ulf de Faire
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Martin Farrall
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
| | - Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
| | - Barry I Freedman
- Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Paolo Gasparini
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Bernardo Lessa Horta
- Postgraduate Programme in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
| | - Yi-Jen Hung
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taipei, Taiwan
| | - Jost Bruno Jonas
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Jaspal S Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Markku Laakso
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere, Finland
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center—Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
| | - Kae-Woei Liang
- School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Patrik K E Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Albertine J Oldehinkel
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Alexandre C Pereira
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Thomas Perls
- Geriatrics Section, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Rainer Rauramaa
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio, Finland
| | - Susan Redline
- Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Rainer Rettig
- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Health), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Institute of Physiology, University of Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Nilesh J Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
| | - James Scott
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
| | - Pim van der Harst
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen RB, The Netherlands
| | - Lynne E Wagenknecht
- Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | | | - Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
| | | | - Tangchun Wu
- School of Public Health, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, Tongi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Yoichiro Kamatani
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
| | - Cathy C Laurie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
| | - Richard S Cooper
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
| | - Michele K Evans
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - James Hixson
- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Sharon L R Kardia
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
| | - Stephen B Kritchevsky
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
| | - Bruce M Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Donna K Arnett
- Dean’s Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Cardiology, Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Health Services and Systems Research, Duke–NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
- Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
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- Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London, London, London, UK
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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Sung YJ, Winkler TW, de Las Fuentes L, Bentley AR, Brown MR, Kraja AT, Schwander K, Ntalla I, Guo X, Franceschini N, Lu Y, Cheng CY, Sim X, Vojinovic D, Marten J, Musani SK, Li C, Feitosa MF, Kilpeläinen TO, Richard MA, Noordam R, Aslibekyan S, Aschard H, Bartz TM, Dorajoo R, Liu Y, Manning AK, Rankinen T, Smith AV, Tajuddin SM, Tayo BO, Warren HR, Zhao W, Zhou Y, Matoba N, Sofer T, Alver M, Amini M, Boissel M, Chai JF, Chen X, Divers J, Gandin I, Gao C, Giulianini F, Goel A, Harris SE, Hartwig FP, Horimoto ARVR, Hsu FC, Jackson AU, Kähönen M, Kasturiratne A, Kühnel B, Leander K, Lee WJ, Lin KH, 'an Luan J, McKenzie CA, Meian H, Nelson CP, Rauramaa R, Schupf N, Scott RA, Sheu WHH, Stančáková A, Takeuchi F, van der Most PJ, Varga TV, Wang H, Wang Y, Ware EB, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Zhang W, Zhao JH, Afaq S, Alfred T, Amin N, Arking D, Aung T, Barr RG, Bielak LF, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Braund PS, Brody JA, Broeckel U, Cabrera CP, Cade B, Caizheng Y, Campbell A, Canouil M, Chakravarti A, Chauhan G, Christensen K, Cocca M, Collins FS, Connell JM, de Mutsert R, de Silva HJ, Debette S, Dörr M, Duan Q, Eaton CB, Ehret G, Evangelou E, Faul JD, Fisher VA, Forouhi NG, Franco OH, Friedlander Y, Gao H, Gigante B, Graff M, Gu CC, Gu D, Gupta P, Hagenaars SP, Harris TB, He J, Heikkinen S, Heng CK, Hirata M, Hofman A, Howard BV, Hunt S, Irvin MR, Jia Y, Joehanes R, Justice AE, Katsuya T, Kaufman J, Kerrison ND, Khor CC, Koh WP, Koistinen HA, Komulainen P, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Kuusisto J, Langefeld CD, Langenberg C, Launer LJ, Lehne B, Lewis CE, Li Y, Lim SH, Lin S, Liu CT, Liu J, Liu J, Liu K, Liu Y, Loh M, Lohman KK, Long J, Louie T, Mägi R, Mahajan A, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milani L, Momozawa Y, Morris AP, Mosley TH, Munson P, Murray AD, Nalls MA, Nasri U, Norris JM, North K, Ogunniyi A, Padmanabhan S, Palmas WR, Palmer ND, Pankow JS, Pedersen NL, Peters A, Peyser PA, Polasek O, Raitakari OT, Renström F, Rice TK, Ridker PM, Robino A, Robinson JG, Rose LM, Rudan I, Sabanayagam C, Salako BL, Sandow K, Schmidt CO, Schreiner PJ, Scott WR, Seshadri S, Sever P, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Snieder H, Starr JM, Strauch K, Tang H, Taylor KD, Teo YY, Tham YC, Uitterlinden AG, Waldenberger M, Wang L, Wang YX, Wei WB, Williams C, Wilson G, Wojczynski MK, Yao J, Yuan JM, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Boehnke M, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chen YDI, de Faire U, Deary IJ, Esko T, Farrall M, Forrester T, Franks PW, Freedman BI, Froguel P, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Horta BL, Hung YJ, Jonas JB, Kato N, Kooner JS, Laakso M, Lehtimäki T, Liang KW, Magnusson PKE, Newman AB, Oldehinkel AJ, Pereira AC, Redline S, Rettig R, Samani NJ, Scott J, Shu XO, van der Harst P, Wagenknecht LE, Wareham NJ, Watkins H, Weir DR, Wickremasinghe AR, Wu T, Zheng W, Kamatani Y, Laurie CC, Bouchard C, Cooper RS, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Kardia SLR, Kritchevsky SB, Levy D, O'Connell JR, Psaty BM, van Dam RM, Sims M, Arnett DK, Mook-Kanamori DO, Kelly TN, Fox ER, Hayward C, Fornage M, Rotimi CN, Province MA, van Duijn CM, Tai ES, Wong TY, Loos RJF, Reiner AP, Rotter JI, Zhu X, Bierut LJ, Gauderman WJ, Caulfield MJ, Elliott P, Rice K, Munroe PB, Morrison AC, Cupples LA, Rao DC, Chasman DI. A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 102:375-400. [PMID: 29455858 PMCID: PMC5985266 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Genome-wide association analysis advanced understanding of blood pressure (BP), a major risk factor for vascular conditions such as coronary heart disease and stroke. Accounting for smoking behavior may help identify BP loci and extend our knowledge of its genetic architecture. We performed genome-wide association meta-analyses of systolic and diastolic BP incorporating gene-smoking interactions in 610,091 individuals. Stage 1 analysis examined ∼18.8 million SNPs and small insertion/deletion variants in 129,913 individuals from four ancestries (European, African, Asian, and Hispanic) with follow-up analysis of promising variants in 480,178 additional individuals from five ancestries. We identified 15 loci that were genome-wide significant (p < 5 × 10-8) in stage 1 and formally replicated in stage 2. A combined stage 1 and 2 meta-analysis identified 66 additional genome-wide significant loci (13, 35, and 18 loci in European, African, and trans-ancestry, respectively). A total of 56 known BP loci were also identified by our results (p < 5 × 10-8). Of the newly identified loci, ten showed significant interaction with smoking status, but none of them were replicated in stage 2. Several loci were identified in African ancestry, highlighting the importance of genetic studies in diverse populations. The identified loci show strong evidence for regulatory features and support shared pathophysiology with cardiometabolic and addiction traits. They also highlight a role in BP regulation for biological candidates such as modulators of vascular structure and function (CDKN1B, BCAR1-CFDP1, PXDN, EEA1), ciliopathies (SDCCAG8, RPGRIP1L), telomere maintenance (TNKS, PINX1, AKTIP), and central dopaminergic signaling (MSRA, EBF2).
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Affiliation(s)
- Yun J Sung
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93051, Germany
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- Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Ioanna Ntalla
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Nora Franceschini
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
| | - Yingchang Lu
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Giorgia at Athens College of Public Health, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
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- Section of Metabolic Genetics, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark; Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Centre de Bioinformatique Biostatistique et Biologie Integrative (C3BI), Institut Pasteur, Paris 75015, France
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Center for Human Genetics Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France
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- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Genomics Program, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Medical Genetics Section, University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine and MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS 96020220, Brazil
| | - Andrea R V R Horimoto
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33014, Finland; Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
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- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- Department of Opthalmology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona JMAAW15, Jamaica
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- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
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- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
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- Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, 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 40705, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio 70210, Finland
| | - Fumihiko Takeuchi
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 1628655, Japan
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Tibor V Varga
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden
| | - Heming Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - Yajuan Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - Erin B Ware
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Institute for Social Research, Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
| | - Stefan Weiss
- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine and Ernst-Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Greifswald 17487, Germany; DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Wanqing Wen
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
| | - Lisa R Yanek
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Human Genetics Center, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
| | - Jennifer A Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
| | - Ulrich Broeckel
- Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
| | - Claudia P Cabrera
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Yu Caizheng
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France
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- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Schience, Bangalore 560012, India
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- The Danish Aging Research Center, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy
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- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
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- Inserm U1219 Neuroepidemiology, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Bordeaux, France; Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Epidemiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02860, USA
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- Center for Complex Disease Genomics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Division of Cardiology, Department of Specialties of Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina Medical School, Ioannina 45110, Greece
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- Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA; Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Biomedicine, Kuopio 70211, Finland
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- Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore; Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System, Singapore 119228, Singapore
| | - Makoto Hirata
- Laboratory of Genome Technology, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku 108-8639, Japan
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Barbara V Howard
- MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA; Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences and Department of Medicine, Georgetown-Howard Universities, Washington, DC 20057, USA
| | - Steven Hunt
- Cardiovascular Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
| | - Marguerite R Irvin
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
| | - Yucheng Jia
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Roby Joehanes
- Hebrew SeniorLife, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02131, USA; Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
| | - Anne E Justice
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
| | - Tomohiro Katsuya
- Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 5650871, Japan; Department of Geriatric and General Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita 5650871, Japan
| | - Joel Kaufman
- Epidemiology, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Nicola D Kerrison
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
| | - Chiea Chuen Khor
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore; Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117596, Singapore
| | - Woon-Puay Koh
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore
| | - Heikki A Koistinen
- Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Department of Medicine and Abdominal Center: Endocrinology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
| | - Pirjo Komulainen
- Foundation for Research in Health Exercise and Nutrition, Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, Kuopio 70100, Finland
| | - Charles Kooperberg
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
| | - Jose E Krieger
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
| | - Michiaki Kubo
- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
| | - Johanna Kuusisto
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70210, Finland
| | - Carl D Langefeld
- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | | | - Lenore J Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Benjamin Lehne
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Cora E Lewis
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA
| | - Yize Li
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Sing Hui Lim
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
| | - Shiow Lin
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
| | - Jianjun Liu
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore
| | - Jingmin Liu
- WHI CCC, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA
| | - Kiang Liu
- Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
| | - Yeheng Liu
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Marie Loh
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Translational Laboratory in Genetic Medicine, Agency for Science, Technology and Research 138648, Singapore
| | - Kurt K Lohman
- Division of Biostatistical Sciences, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Jirong Long
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
| | - Tin Louie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Reedik Mägi
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | - Anubha Mahajan
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Thomas Meitinger
- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich 80333, Germany
| | - Andres Metspalu
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | - Lili Milani
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia
| | - Yukihide Momozawa
- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
| | - Andrew P Morris
- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK; Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GL, UK
| | - Thomas H Mosley
- Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
| | - Peter Munson
- Mathematical and Statistical Computing Laboratory, Center for Information Technology, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Alison D Murray
- The Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
| | - Mike A Nalls
- Data Tecnica International, Glen Echo, MD 20812, USA; Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Ubaydah Nasri
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Jill M Norris
- Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
| | - Kari North
- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
| | | | - Sandosh Padmanabhan
- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
| | - Walter R Palmas
- Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
| | - Nicholette D Palmer
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - James S Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
| | - Nancy L Pedersen
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Annette Peters
- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
| | - Patricia A Peyser
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Ozren Polasek
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
| | - Olli T Raitakari
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku 20521, Finland; Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku 20520, Finland
| | - Frida Renström
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden; Department of Biobank Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten 901 87, Sweden
| | - Treva K Rice
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Paul M Ridker
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
| | | | - Jennifer G Robinson
- Department of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
| | - Lynda M Rose
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA
| | - Igor Rudan
- Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
| | - Charumathi Sabanayagam
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore
| | | | - Kevin Sandow
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Carsten O Schmidt
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany
| | - Pamela J Schreiner
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
| | - William R Scott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Sudha Seshadri
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
| | - Peter Sever
- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK
| | - Colleen M Sitlani
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Harold Snieder
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - John M Starr
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Konstantin Strauch
- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, IBE, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich 81377, Germany
| | - Hua Tang
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
| | - Kent D Taylor
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Yik Ying Teo
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore; Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117456, Singapore; Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
| | - Yih Chung Tham
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore
| | - André G Uitterlinden
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - Melanie Waldenberger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
| | - Lihua Wang
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Ya X Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Lab, Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China 100730, China
| | - Wen Bin Wei
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China
| | - Christine Williams
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Gregory Wilson
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Public Health, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
| | - Mary K Wojczynski
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Jie Yao
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Jian-Min Yuan
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
| | - Alan B Zonderman
- Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
| | - Diane M Becker
- General Internal Medicine, GeneSTAR Research Program, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
| | - Michael Boehnke
- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Donald W Bowden
- Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - John C Chambers
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK
| | - Yii-Der Ida Chen
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Ulf de Faire
- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Ian J Deary
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK; Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, UK
| | - Tõnu Esko
- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu 51010, Estonia; Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Boston, MA 02142, USA
| | - Martin Farrall
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - Terrence Forrester
- Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Mona JMAAW15, Jamaica
| | - Paul W Franks
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Skåne 205 02, Sweden; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Public Health & Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Västerbotten 901 85, Sweden
| | - Barry I Freedman
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Philippe Froguel
- CNRS UMR 8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille, Lille 59000, France; Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Paolo Gasparini
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste 34137, Italy; Division Experimental Genetics, Sidra, Doha 26999, Qatar
| | - Christian Gieger
- Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg 85764, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD e.V.), Neuherberg 85764, Germany
| | - Bernardo Lessa Horta
- Postgraduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS 96020220, Brazil
| | - Yi-Jen Hung
- Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
| | - Jost B Jonas
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100730, China; Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University Heidelberg, Mannheim 68167, Germany
| | - Norihiro Kato
- Department of Gene Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo 1628655, Japan
| | - Jaspal S Kooner
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Markku Laakso
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio 70210, Finland
| | - Terho Lehtimäki
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere 33520, Finland; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Finnish Cardiovascular Research Center - Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Lifes Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere 33014, Finland
| | - Kae-Woei Liang
- School of Medicine, National Yang-ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 40705, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40705, Taiwan
| | - Patrik K E Magnusson
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 17177, Sweden
| | - Anne B Newman
- Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
| | - Albertine J Oldehinkel
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Alexandre C Pereira
- Lab Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Susan Redline
- Sleep Medicine and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
| | - Rainer Rettig
- DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald 17475, Germany; Institute of Physiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald 17495, Germany
| | - Nilesh J Samani
- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK
| | - James Scott
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK
| | - Xiao-Ou Shu
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
| | - Pim van der Harst
- Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, the Netherlands
| | - Lynne E Wagenknecht
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | | | - Hugh Watkins
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9DU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
| | - David R Weir
- Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
| | | | - Tangchun Wu
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health for Incubating, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
| | - Wei Zheng
- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
| | - Yoichiro Kamatani
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
| | - Cathy C Laurie
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Claude Bouchard
- Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
| | - Richard S Cooper
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
| | - Michele K Evans
- Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur 201, Iceland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik 101, Iceland
| | - Sharon L R Kardia
- School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
| | - Stephen B Kritchevsky
- Sticht Center for Health Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
| | - Daniel Levy
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Jeff R O'Connell
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
| | - Bruce M Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Epidemiology, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Kaiser Permanente Washington, Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
| | - Rob M van Dam
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
| | - Mario Sims
- Jackson Heart Study, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39213, USA
| | - Donna K Arnett
- Dean's Office, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
| | - Dennis O Mook-Kanamori
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2300RC, the Netherlands
| | - Tanika N Kelly
- Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
| | - Ervin R Fox
- Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA
| | - Caroline Hayward
- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - Charles N Rotimi
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - Michael A Province
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
| | - Cornelia M van Duijn
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
| | - E Shyong Tai
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University Health System and National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117549, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore
| | - Tien Yin Wong
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore 169856, Singapore; Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program (Eye ACP), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 169857, Singapore; Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 117597, Singapore
| | - Ruth J F Loos
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, New York, NY 10029, USA
| | - Alex P Reiner
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
| | - Jerome I Rotter
- Genomic Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA; Genomic Outcomes, Department of Medicine, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
| | - Xiaofeng Zhu
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
| | - Laura J Bierut
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - W James Gauderman
- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
| | - Mark J Caulfield
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - Paul Elliott
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
| | - Kenneth Rice
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
| | - Patricia B Munroe
- William Harvey Research Institute, Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK; NIHR Barts Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
| | - L Adrienne Cupples
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA; Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
| | - Dabeeru C Rao
- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
| | - Daniel I Chasman
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Abstract
Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power. Here we use runs of homozygosity to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts, and find statistically significant associations between summed runs of homozygosity and four complex traits: height, forced expiratory lung volume in one second, general cognitive ability and educational attainment (P < 1 × 10(-300), 2.1 × 10(-6), 2.5 × 10(-10) and 1.8 × 10(-10), respectively). In each case, increased homozygosity was associated with decreased trait value, equivalent to the offspring of first cousins being 1.2 cm shorter and having 10 months' less education. Similar effect sizes were found across four continental groups and populations with different degrees of genome-wide homozygosity, providing evidence that homozygosity, rather than confounding, directly contributes to phenotypic variance. Contrary to earlier reports in substantially smaller samples, no evidence was seen of an influence of genome-wide homozygosity on blood pressure and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, or ten other cardio-metabolic traits. Since directional dominance is predicted for traits under directional evolutionary selection, this study provides evidence that increased stature and cognitive function have been positively selected in human evolution, whereas many important risk factors for late-onset complex diseases may not have been.
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- Peter K Joshi
- Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, Scotland
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Riia 23b, 51010, Tartu, Estonia
- Division of Endocrinology and Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Cambridge, 02141, MA, USA
- Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge Center 7, Cambridge, 02242, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, 02115, MA, USA
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447 - Osp. di Cattinara, Trieste, 34149, Italy
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso" CNR, via Pietro Castellino, 111, Naples, 80131, Italy
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Holtasmari 1, 201, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 101, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Department of Human Genetics and Disease Diversity, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, 70210 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, 48104, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Biostatistics and Medicine, University of Washington, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1360, Seattle, 98101, WA, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 137 E. Franklin St., Suite 306, 27599-8050, Chapel Hill, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Population Health Sciences, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells hospital and School of Medicine, Dundee, DD2 4BF, Scotland
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Ferdinand-Sauerbruch-Str. NK, 17475, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, Copenhagen, 2300, Denmark
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, 10029, USA
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- Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 137 E Franklin St., Suite 306, USA
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- Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Boston, 02215, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Washington University, 660 S Euclid, St Louis, 63110, MO, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
- Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, Scotland
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
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- Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Hjelt Institute, P.O.Box 41, Mannerheimintie 172, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK
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- Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 15A, Greifswald, 17475, Germany
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- Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui Jin Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Rui Jin Er Road, Shanghai, 200025 China
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, South Wing, Block D, 3rd Floor, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
- Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Immunology, Genetics & Pathology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 815, Uppsala, SE-751 08, Sweden
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- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Department of Cardiology C5-P , Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, Tampere, 33521, Finland
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, EH4 2XU, Edinburgh, UK
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- Genomics and Molecular Medicine, CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Mathura Road, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development RCfIMS, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University Hospital, Uppsala, 75185, Sweden
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764 Germany
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- Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Rd, Herston, Brisbane, 4006, Australia
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- Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1200 Pressler St., Suite 453E, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA
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- HUCH Heart and Lung center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 340, Helsinki, FI-00029, Finland
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, New York, 10032, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1LA, UK
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- Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, UK
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- Department Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 3232 West Complex, Charlottesville, 22908, USA
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- Department of Health, Functional Capacity and Welfare, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo", via dell'Istria 65, Trieste, 34137, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 58, Milano, 20132, Italy
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- Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, Helsinki, FI-00271, Finland
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- Unit of Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 104, Helsinki, FI-00251, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 20, Helsinki, FI-00014, Finland
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- Center for Human Genetic Research , 55 Fruit Street, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2114, USA
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Medical University Graz, Harrachgasse 21, Graz, A-8010, Austria
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- Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK
- Department of Cardiology, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3HW, UK
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, CMM L8:03, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, 73 Mt. Wayte Ave, Framingham, 01702, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Boston, 02118, MA, USA
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- International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London, London, W2 1LA, UK
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- Genomic Research on Complex Diseases (GRC) Group, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Habshiguda, Uppal Road, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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- University of Dundee, Kirsty Semple Way, Dundee, DD2 4DB, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg, 85764, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, CMM L8:03, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, 171 76, Sweden
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol, BS8 2BN, UK
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- Department of Endocrinology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar East, New Delhi, 110029, India
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences , Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, 1124 W. Carson Street, Torrance, 90502, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK
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Wassel CL, Pankow JS, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Li N, Taylor KD, Guo X, Goodarzi MO, Palmas WR, Post WS. Associations of SNPs in ADIPOQ and subclinical cardiovascular disease in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). Obesity (Silver Spring) 2011; 19:840-7. [PMID: 20930713 PMCID: PMC3510267 DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Circulating adiponectin is associated with both clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD). Variants of the adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) are associated with clinical CVD, but little is known about associations with subclinical CVD. We studied the association of 11 ADIPOQ single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with common and internal carotid intima media thickness (cIMT), presence of coronary artery calcification (CAC), and CAC scores (in those with CAC) in 2,847 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Participants were white (n = 712), African American (n = 712), Chinese (n = 718), and Hispanic (n = 705). All models were adjusted for age, sex, and field site, and stratified by race/ethnic group. African Americans with genotypes AG/GG of rs2241767 had 36% greater (95% confidence interval (CI; 16%, 59%), P = 0.0001) CAC prevalence; they also had a larger common cIMT (P = 0.0043). Also in African Americans, genotypes AG/AA of rs1063537 were associated with a 35% (95% CI (14%, 59%), P = 0.0005) greater CAC prevalence. Hispanics with the AA genotype of rs11711353 had a 37% (95% CI (14%, 66%), P = 0.0011), greater CAC prevalence compared to those with the GG genotype. Additional adjustment for ancestry in African-American and Hispanic participants did not change the results. No single SNP was associated with subclinical CVD phenotypes in Chinese or white participants. There appears to be an association between ADIPOQ SNPs and subclinical CVD in African Americans and Hispanics. Replication as well as assessment of other ADIPOQ SNPs is warranted.
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- Christina L Wassel
- Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
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