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Cristen J. Willer

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SNPs associated withHHIPexpression have differential effects on lung function in males and females

2019

AbstractAdult lung function is highly heritable and 279 genetic loci were recently reported as associated with spirometry-based measures of lung function. Though lung development and function differ between males and females throughout life, there has been no genome-wide study to identify genetic variants with differential effects on lung function in males and females. Here, we present the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on four lung function traits in 303,612 participants from the UK Biobank. We detected five SNPs showing genome-wide significant (P<5 × 10−8) interactions with sex on lung function, as well as 21 suggestively significant interactions (P<1 × 10−6). T…

Spirometry0303 health sciencesCOPDmedicine.medical_specialtyLungmedicine.diagnostic_testSingle-nucleotide polymorphismBiologymedicine.disease03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinemedicine.anatomical_structureEndocrinology030228 respiratory systemInternal medicinemedicineSNPAlleleBeta (finance)Lung function030304 developmental biology
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Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

2016

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the commonest cause of death. Here, we report an association analysis in 63,746 CAD cases and 130,681 controls identifying 15 loci reaching genome-wide significance, taking the number of susceptibility loci for CAD to 46, and a further 104 independent variants (r 2 < 0.2) strongly associated with CAD at a 5% false discovery rate (FDR). Together, these variants explain approximately 10.6% of CAD heritability. Of the 46 genome-wide significant lead SNPs, 12 show a significant association with a lipid trait, and 5 show a significant association with blood pressure, but none is significantly associated with diabetes. Network analysis with 233 candidate genes …

AdultAsian Continental Ancestry GroupMaleCandidate geneBIO/12 - BIOCHIMICA CLINICA E BIOLOGIA MOLECOLARE CLINICAPopulationEuropean Continental Ancestry GroupQuantitative Trait LociCADGenome-wide association studySingle-nucleotide polymorphismCoronary Artery Disease030204 cardiovascular system & hematologyBiologyQuantitative trait locusBioinformaticsPolymorphism Single NucleotideArticleWhite Peoplecoronary artery disease risk lociCell LineCoronary artery disease03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineAsian PeopleRisk FactorsmedicineHumansgeneticsGene Regulatory NetworksGenetic Predisposition to Diseasecardiovascular diseasesPolymorphismeducation030304 developmental biologyGenetic associationAgedGenetics0303 health scienceseducation.field_of_studyAdult Aged Asian Continental Ancestry Group Cell Line Coronary Artery Disease; genetics European Continental Ancestry Group; genetics Female Gene Regulatory Networks Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Humans Male Middle Aged Polymorphism; Single Nucleotide Quantitative Trait Loci Risk FactorsSingle NucleotideMiddle Agedmedicine.disease3. Good healthFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyNature Genetics
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Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study

2012

BACKGROUND: High plasma HDL cholesterol is associated with reduced risk of myocardial infarction, but whether this association is causal is unclear. Exploiting the fact that genotypes are randomly assigned at meiosis, are independent of non-genetic confounding, and are unmodified by disease processes, mendelian randomisation can be used to test the hypothesis that the association of a plasma biomarker with disease is causal. METHODS: We performed two mendelian randomisation analyses. First, we used as an instrument a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the endothelial lipase gene (LIPG Asn396Ser) and tested this SNP in 20 studies (20,913 myocardial infarction cases, 95,407 controls). Se…

LOCIMyocardial Infarction030204 cardiovascular system & hematologychemistry.chemical_compound0302 clinical medicineHigh-density lipoproteinGene Frequencyplasma HDL cholesterol ; mendelian randomisation ; MIHDL cholesterolsingle nucleotide polymorphismRisk FactorsGENETIC-VARIANTSARTERY-DISEASEProspective StudiesMyocardial infarction0303 health sciencesHDL cholesterol; myocardial infarction; single nucleotide polymorphismISCHEMIC CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASEGeneral Medicine3. Good healthCardiologylipids (amino acids peptides and proteins)medicine.medical_specialtyDalcetrapibSingle-nucleotide polymorphismPolymorphism Single Nucleotide03 medical and health sciencesInternal medicinemedicineHumansCORONARY-HEART-DISEASEGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseMETAANALYSIS030304 developmental biologyBLOOD CHOLESTEROLbusiness.industryCholesterolCholesterol HDLCase-control studyCholesterol LDLLipaseOdds ratioMendelian Randomization Analysismedicine.diseaseENDOTHELIAL LIPASEATHEROSCLEROSISchemistryCase-Control StudiesbusinessHIGH-DENSITY-LIPOPROTEINBiomarkersEvacetrapibThe Lancet
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Variants associated with HHIP expression have sex-differential effects on lung function

2021

Background: Lung function is highly heritable and differs between the sexes throughout life. However, little is known about sex-differential genetic effects on lung function. We aimed to conduct the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on lung function to identify genetic effects that differ between males and females. Methods: We tested for interactions between 7,745,864 variants and sex on spirometry-based measures of lung function in UK Biobank (N=303,612), and sought replication in 75,696 independent individuals from the SpiroMeta consortium. Results: Five independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) showed genome-wide significant (P<5x10-8) interactions with sex …

0301 basic medicineSpirometrymedicine.medical_specialtyHHIPMedicine (miscellaneous)Expression ; Genome-wide Interaction Study ; Hhip ; Lung Function ; SexSingle-nucleotide polymorphismBiology3121 Internal medicineGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineExpression ; Genome-wide interaction study ; HHIP ; Lung function ; SexInternal medicineexpressionmedicinesexAlleleEnhancerGeneLung functionLunggenome-wide interaction studymedicine.diagnostic_test1184 Genetics developmental biology physiologylung functionALSPAC/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/alspacDifferential effects030104 developmental biologyEndocrinologymedicine.anatomical_structure030228 respiratory system3121 General medicine internal medicine and other clinical medicine3111 Biomedicine
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