Loss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease

by Jonas B. Nielsen, Oren Rom, Ida Surakka, Sarah E. Graham, Wei Zhou, Tanmoy Roychowdhury, Lars G. Fritsche, Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun, Carlo Sidore, Yuhao Liu, Maiken E. Gabrielsen, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Brooke Wolford, William Overton, Ying Zhao, Jin Chen, He Zhang, Whitney E. Hornsby, Akua Acheampong, Austen Grooms, Amanda Schaefer, Gregory J. M. Zajac, Luis Villacorta, Jifeng Zhang, Ben Brumpton, Mari Løset, Vivek Rai, Pia R. Lundegaard, Morten S. Olesen, Kent D. Taylor, Nicholette D. Palmer, Yii-Der Chen, Seung H. Choi, Steven A. Lubitz, Patrick T. Ellinor, Kathleen C. Barnes, Michelle Daya, Nicholas Rafaels, Scott T. Weiss, Jessica Lasky-Su, Russell P. Tracy, Ramachandran S. Vasan, L. Adrienne Cupples, Rasika A. Mathias, Lisa R. Yanek, Lewis C. Becker, Patricia A. Peyser, Lawrence F. Bielak, Jennifer A. Smith, Stella Aslibekyan, Bertha A. Hidalgo, Donna K. Arnett, Marguerite R. Irvin, James G. Wilson, Solomon K. Musani, Adolfo Correa, Stephen S. Rich, Xiuqing Guo, Jerome I. Rotter, Barbara A. Konkle, Jill M. Johnsen, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Marilyn J. Telen, Vivien A. Sheehan, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Juan M. Peralta, Courtney Montgomery, Wayne H-H Sheu, Ren-Hua Chung, Karen Schwander, Seyed M. Nouraie, Victor R. Gordeuk, Yingze Zhang, Charles Kooperberg, Alexander P. Reiner, Rebecca D. Jackson, Eugene R. Bleecker, Deborah A. Meyers, Xingnan Li, Sayantan Das, Ketian Yu, Jonathon LeFaive, Albert Smith, Tom Blackwell, Daniel Taliun, Sebastian Zollner, Lukas Forer, Sebastian Schoenherr, Christian Fuchsberger, Anita Pandit, Matthew Zawistowski, Sachin Kheterpal, Chad M. Brummett, Pradeep Natarajan, David Schlessinger, Seunggeun Lee, Hyun Min Kang, Francesco Cucca, Oddgeir L. Holmen, Bjørn O. Åsvold, Michael Boehnke, Sekar Kathiresan, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Y. Eugene Chen, Cristen J. Willer, Kristian Hveem
Published 2020-12-01

Insulin Resistance Exacerbates Genetic Predisposition to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Individuals Without Diabetes

by Llilda Barata, Mary F. Feitosa, Lawrence F. Bielak, Brian Halligan, Abigail S. Baldridge, Xiuqing Guo, Laura M. Yerges‐Armstrong, Albert V. Smith, Jie Yao, Nicholette D. Palmer, Lisa B. VanWagner, J. Jeffrey Carr, Yii‐Der I. Chen, Matthew Allison, Matthew J. Budoff, Samuel K. Handelman, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Thomas H. Mosley Jr., Kathleen Ryan, Tamara B. Harris, Lenore J. Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jerome I. Rotter, Myriam Fornage, Laura J. Rasmussen‐Torvik, Ingrid B. Borecki, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Patricia A. Peyser, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Michael A. Province
Published 2019-07-01

Trans-ethnic kidney function association study reveals putative causal genes and effects on kidney-specific disease aetiologies

by Andrew P. Morris, Thu H. Le, Haojia Wu, Artur Akbarov, Peter J. van der Most, Gibran Hemani, George Davey Smith, Anubha Mahajan, Kyle J. Gaulton, Girish N. Nadkarni, Adan Valladares-Salgado, Niels Wacher-Rodarte, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Nicole D. Dueker, Xiuqing Guo, Yang Hai, Jeffrey Haessler, Yoichiro Kamatani, Adrienne M. Stilp, Gu Zhu, James P. Cook, Johan Ärnlöv, Susan H. Blanton, Martin H. de Borst, Erwin P. Bottinger, Thomas A. Buchanan, Sylvia Cechova, Fadi J. Charchar, Pei-Lun Chu, Jeffrey Damman, James Eales, Ali G. Gharavi, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Andrew C. Heath, Eli Ipp, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Holly J. Kramer, Michiaki Kubo, Anders Larsson, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Yingchang Lu, Pamela A. F. Madden, Grant W. Montgomery, George J. Papanicolaou, Leslie J. Raffel, Ralph L. Sacco, Elena Sanchez, Holger Stark, Johan Sundstrom, Kent D. Taylor, Anny H. Xiang, Aleksandra Zivkovic, Lars Lind, Erik Ingelsson, Nicholas G. Martin, John B. Whitfield, Jianwen Cai, Cathy C. Laurie, Yukinori Okada, Koichi Matsuda, Charles Kooperberg, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Tatjana Rundek, Stephen S. Rich, Ruth J. F. Loos, Esteban J. Parra, Miguel Cruz, Jerome I. Rotter, Harold Snieder, Maciej Tomaszewski, Benjamin D. Humphreys, Nora Franceschini
Published 2019-01-01

Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy

by James P. Pirruccello, Alexander Bick, Minxian Wang, Mark Chaffin, Samuel Friedman, Jie Yao, Xiuqing Guo, Bharath Ambale Venkatesh, Kent D. Taylor, Wendy S. Post, Stephen Rich, Joao A. C. Lima, Jerome I. Rotter, Anthony Philippakis, Steven A. Lubitz, Patrick T. Ellinor, Amit V. Khera, Sekar Kathiresan, Krishna G. Aragam
Published 2020-05-01

A Pilot Genome‐Wide Analysis Study Identifies Loci Associated With Response to Obeticholic Acid in Patients With NASH

by Samer Gawrieh, Xiuqing Guo, Jingyi Tan, Marie Lauzon, Kent D. Taylor, Rohit Loomba, Oscar W. Cummings, Sreekumar Pillai, Pallav Bhatnagar, Kris V. Kowdley, Katherine Yates, Laura A. Wilson, Yii‐Der Ida Chen, Jerome I. Rotter, Naga Chalasani, NASH Clinical Research Network
Published 2019-12-01

Whole genome sequence analysis of pulmonary function and COPD in 19,996 multi-ethnic participants

by Xutong Zhao, Dandi Qiao, Chaojie Yang, Silva Kasela, Wonji Kim, Yanlin Ma, Nick Shrine, Chiara Batini, Tamar Sofer, Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun, Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, Pallavi P. Balte, Dmitry Prokopenko, Bing Yu, Leslie A. Lange, Josée Dupuis, Brian E. Cade, Jiwon Lee, Sina A. Gharib, Michelle Daya, Cecelia A. Laurie, Ingo Ruczinski, L. Adrienne Cupples, Laura R. Loehr, Traci M. Bartz, Alanna C. Morrison, Bruce M. Psaty, Ramachandran S. Vasan, James G. Wilson, Kent D. Taylor, Peter Durda, W. Craig Johnson, Elaine Cornell, Xiuqing Guo, Yongmei Liu, Russell P. Tracy, Kristin G. Ardlie, François Aguet, David J. VanDenBerg, George J. Papanicolaou, Jerome I. Rotter, Kathleen C. Barnes, Deepti Jain, Deborah A. Nickerson, Donna M. Muzny, Ginger A. Metcalf, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Shannon Dugan-Perez, Namrata Gupta, Stacey Gabriel, Stephen S. Rich, George T. O’Connor, Susan Redline, Robert M. Reed, Cathy C. Laurie, Martha L. Daviglus, Liana K. Preudhomme, Kristin M. Burkart, Robert C. Kaplan, Louise V. Wain, Martin D. Tobin, Stephanie J. London, Tuuli Lappalainen, Elizabeth C. Oelsner, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Edwin K. Silverman, R. Graham Barr, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, TOPMed Lung Working Group, Michael H. Cho, Ani Manichaikul
Published 2020-10-01

GWAS and colocalization analyses implicate carotid intima-media thickness and carotid plaque loci in cardiovascular outcomes

by Nora Franceschini, Claudia Giambartolomei, Paul S. de Vries, Chris Finan, Joshua C. Bis, Rachael P. Huntley, Ruth C. Lovering, Salman M. Tajuddin, Thomas W. Winkler, Misa Graff, Maryam Kavousi, Caroline Dale, Albert V. Smith, Edith Hofer, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Ilja M. Nolte, Lingyi Lu, Markus Scholz, Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Niina Pitkänen, Oscar Franzén, Peter K. Joshi, Raymond Noordam, Riccardo E. Marioni, Shih-Jen Hwang, Solomon K. Musani, Ulf Schminke, Walter Palmas, Aaron Isaacs, Adolfo Correa, Alan B. Zonderman, Albert Hofman, Alexander Teumer, Amanda J. Cox, André G. Uitterlinden, Andrew Wong, Andries J. Smit, Anne B. Newman, Annie Britton, Arno Ruusalepp, Bengt Sennblad, Bo Hedblad, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Brenda W. Penninx, Carl D. Langefeld, Christina L. Wassel, Christophe Tzourio, Cristiano Fava, Damiano Baldassarre, Daniel H. O’Leary, Daniel Teupser, Diana Kuh, Elena Tremoli, Elmo Mannarino, Enzo Grossi, Eric Boerwinkle, Eric E. Schadt, Erik Ingelsson, Fabrizio Veglia, Fernando Rivadeneira, Frank Beutner, Ganesh Chauhan, Gerardo Heiss, Harold Snieder, Harry Campbell, Henry Völzke, Hugh S. Markus, Ian J. Deary, J. Wouter Jukema, Jacqueline de Graaf, Jacqueline Price, Janne Pott, Jemma C. Hopewell, Jingjing Liang, Joachim Thiery, Jorgen Engmann, Karl Gertow, Kenneth Rice, Kent D. Taylor, Klodian Dhana, Lambertus A. L. M. Kiemeney, Lars Lind, Laura M. Raffield, Lenore J. Launer, Lesca M. Holdt, Marcus Dörr, Martin Dichgans, Matthew Traylor, Matthias Sitzer, Meena Kumari, Mika Kivimaki, Mike A. Nalls, Olle Melander, Olli Raitakari, Oscar H. Franco, Oscar L. Rueda-Ochoa, Panos Roussos, Peter H. Whincup, Philippe Amouyel, Philippe Giral, Pramod Anugu, Quenna Wong, Rainer Malik, Rainer Rauramaa, Ralph Burkhardt, Rebecca Hardy, Reinhold Schmidt, Renée de Mutsert, Richard W. Morris, Rona J. Strawbridge, S. Goya Wannamethee, Sara Hägg, Sonia Shah, Stela McLachlan, Stella Trompet, Sudha Seshadri, Sudhir Kurl, Susan R. Heckbert, Susan Ring, Tamara B. Harris, Terho Lehtimäki, Tessel E. Galesloot, Tina Shah, Ulf de Faire, Vincent Plagnol, Wayne D. Rosamond, Wendy Post, Xiaofeng Zhu, Xiaoling Zhang, Xiuqing Guo, Yasaman Saba, MEGASTROKE Consortium, Abbas Dehghan, Adrie Seldenrijk, Alanna C. Morrison, Anders Hamsten, Bruce M. Psaty, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Deborah A. Lawlor, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Donald W. Bowden, Helena Schmidt, James F. Wilson, James G. Wilson, Jerome I. Rotter, Joanna M. Wardlaw, John Deanfield, Julian Halcox, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Markus Loeffler, Michele K. Evans, Stéphanie Debette, Steve E. Humphries, Uwe Völker, Vilmundur Gudnason, Aroon D. Hingorani, Johan L. M. Björkegren, Juan P. Casas, Christopher J. O’Donnell
Published 2018-12-01

Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity

by Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Amy R. Bentley, Raymond Noordam, Yun Ju Sung, Karen Schwander, Thomas W. Winkler, Hermina Jakupović, Daniel I. Chasman, Alisa Manning, Ioanna Ntalla, Hugues Aschard, Michael R. Brown, Lisa de las Fuentes, Nora Franceschini, Xiuqing Guo, Dina Vojinovic, Stella Aslibekyan, Mary F. Feitosa, Minjung Kho, Solomon K. Musani, Melissa Richard, Heming Wang, Zhe Wang, Traci M. Bartz, Lawrence F. Bielak, Archie Campbell, Rajkumar Dorajoo, Virginia Fisher, Fernando P. Hartwig, Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto, Changwei Li, Kurt K. Lohman, Jonathan Marten, Xueling Sim, Albert V. Smith, Salman M. Tajuddin, Maris Alver, Marzyeh Amini, Mathilde Boissel, Jin Fang Chai, Xu Chen, Jasmin Divers, Evangelos Evangelou, Chuan Gao, Mariaelisa Graff, Sarah E. Harris, Meian He, Fang-Chi Hsu, Anne U. Jackson, Jing Hua Zhao, Aldi T. Kraja, Brigitte Kühnel, Federica Laguzzi, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Ilja M. Nolte, Rainer Rauramaa, Muhammad Riaz, Antonietta Robino, Rico Rueedi, Heather M. Stringham, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Peter J. van der Most, Tibor V. Varga, Niek Verweij, Erin B. Ware, Wanqing Wen, Xiaoyin Li, Lisa R. Yanek, Najaf Amin, Donna K. Arnett, Eric Boerwinkle, Marco Brumat, Brian Cade, Mickaël Canouil, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Maria Pina Concas, John Connell, Renée de Mutsert, H. Janaka de Silva, Paul S. de Vries, Ayşe Demirkan, Jingzhong Ding, Charles B. Eaton, Jessica D. Faul, Yechiel Friedlander, Kelley P. Gabriel, Mohsen Ghanbari, Franco Giulianini, Chi Charles Gu, Dongfeng Gu, Tamara B. Harris, Jiang He, Sami Heikkinen, Chew-Kiat Heng, Steven C. Hunt, M. Arfan Ikram, Jost B. Jonas, Woon-Puay Koh, Pirjo Komulainen, Jose E. Krieger, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Zoltán Kutalik, Johanna Kuusisto, Carl D. Langefeld, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Karin Leander, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Cora E. Lewis, Jingjing Liang, Lifelines Cohort Study, Jianjun Liu, Reedik Mägi, Ani Manichaikul, Thomas Meitinger, Andres Metspalu, Yuri Milaneschi, Karen L. Mohlke, Thomas H. Mosley, Alison D. Murray, Mike A. Nalls, Ei-Ei Khaing Nang, Christopher P. Nelson, Sotoodehnia Nona, Jill M. Norris, Chiamaka Vivian Nwuba, Jeff O’Connell, Nicholette D. Palmer, George J. Papanicolau, Raha Pazoki, Nancy L. Pedersen, Annette Peters, Patricia A. Peyser, Ozren Polasek, David J. Porteous, Alaitz Poveda, Olli T. Raitakari, Stephen S. Rich, Neil Risch, Jennifer G. Robinson, Lynda M. Rose, Igor Rudan, Pamela J. Schreiner, Robert A. Scott, Stephen S. Sidney, Mario Sims, Jennifer A. Smith, Harold Snieder, Tamar Sofer, John M. Starr, Barbara Sternfeld, Konstantin Strauch, Hua Tang, Kent D. Taylor, Michael Y. Tsai, Jaakko Tuomilehto, André G. Uitterlinden, M. Yldau van der Ende, Diana van Heemst, Trudy Voortman, Melanie Waldenberger, Patrik Wennberg, Gregory Wilson, Yong-Bing Xiang, Jie Yao, Caizheng Yu, Jian-Min Yuan, Wei Zhao, Alan B. Zonderman, Diane M. Becker, Michael Boehnke, Donald W. Bowden, Ulf de Faire, Ian J. Deary, Paul Elliott, Tõnu Esko, Barry I. Freedman, Philippe Froguel, Paolo Gasparini, Christian Gieger, Norihiro Kato, Markku Laakso, Timo A. Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Nilesh J. Samani, Xiao-Ou Shu, Pim van der Harst, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Peter Vollenweider, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Ya X. Wang, Nicholas J. Wareham, David R. Weir, Tangchun Wu, Wei Zheng, Xiaofeng Zhu, Michele K. Evans, Paul W. Franks, Vilmundur Gudnason, Caroline Hayward, Bernardo L. Horta, Tanika N. Kelly, Yongmei Liu, Kari E. North, Alexandre C. Pereira, Paul M. Ridker, E. Shyong Tai, Rob M. van Dam, Ervin R. Fox, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Ching-Ti Liu, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Michael A. Province, Susan Redline, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jerome I. Rotter, Charles B. Kooperberg, W. James Gauderman, Bruce M. Psaty, Kenneth Rice, Patricia B. Munroe, Myriam Fornage, L. Adrienne Cupples, Charles N. Rotimi, Alanna C. Morrison, Dabeeru C. Rao, Ruth J. F. Loos
Published 2019-01-01

Multi-ancestry GWAS of the electrocardiographic PR interval identifies 202 loci underlying cardiac conduction

by Ioanna Ntalla, Lu-Chen Weng, James H. Cartwright, Amelia Weber Hall, Gardar Sveinbjornsson, Nathan R. Tucker, Seung Hoan Choi, Mark D. Chaffin, Carolina Roselli, Michael R. Barnes, Borbala Mifsud, Helen R. Warren, Caroline Hayward, Jonathan Marten, James J. Cranley, Maria Pina Concas, Paolo Gasparini, Thibaud Boutin, Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek, Igor Rudan, Nathalia M. Araujo, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Renan P. Souza, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Erik Ingelsson, Anubha Mahajan, Andrew P. Morris, Fabiola Del Greco M, Luisa Foco, Martin Gögele, Andrew A. Hicks, James P. Cook, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Johan Sundström, Christopher P. Nelson, Muhammad B. Riaz, Nilesh J. Samani, Gianfranco Sinagra, Sheila Ulivi, Mika Kähönen, Pashupati P. Mishra, Nina Mononen, Kjell Nikus, Mark J. Caulfield, Anna Dominiczak, Sandosh Padmanabhan, May E. Montasser, Jeff R. O’Connell, Kathleen Ryan, Alan R. Shuldiner, Stefanie Aeschbacher, David Conen, Lorenz Risch, Sébastien Thériault, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Terho Lehtimäki, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Olli T. Raitakari, Catriona L. K. Barnes, Harry Campbell, Peter K. Joshi, James F. Wilson, Aaron Isaacs, Jan A. Kors, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Paul L. Huang, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, Lenore J. Launer, Albert V. Smith, Erwin P. Bottinger, Ruth J. F. Loos, Girish N. Nadkarni, Michael H. Preuss, Adolfo Correa, Hao Mei, James Wilson, Thomas Meitinger, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Annette Peters, Melanie Waldenberger, Massimo Mangino, Timothy D. Spector, Michiel Rienstra, Yordi J. van de Vegte, Pim van der Harst, Niek Verweij, Stefan Kääb, Katharina Schramm, Moritz F. Sinner, Konstantin Strauch, Michael J. Cutler, Diane Fatkin, Barry London, Morten Olesen, Dan M. Roden, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, J. Gustav Smith, Mary L. Biggs, Joshua C. Bis, Jennifer A. Brody, Bruce M. Psaty, Kenneth Rice, Nona Sotoodehnia, Alessandro De Grandi, Christian Fuchsberger, Cristian Pattaro, Peter P. Pramstaller, Ian Ford, J. Wouter Jukema, Peter W. Macfarlane, Stella Trompet, Marcus Dörr, Stephan B. Felix, Uwe Völker, Stefan Weiss, Aki S. Havulinna, Antti Jula, Katri Sääksjärvi, Veikko Salomaa, Xiuqing Guo, Susan R. Heckbert, Henry J. Lin, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Jie Yao, Renée de Mutsert, Arie C. Maan, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Raymond Noordam, Francesco Cucca, Jun Ding, Edward G. Lakatta, Yong Qian, Kirill V. Tarasov, Daniel Levy, Honghuang Lin, Christopher H. Newton-Cheh, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Alison D. Murray, David J. Porteous, Blair H. Smith, Bruno H. Stricker, André Uitterlinden, Marten E. van den Berg, Jeffrey Haessler, Rebecca D. Jackson, Charles Kooperberg, Ulrike Peters, Alexander P. Reiner, Eric A. Whitsel, Alvaro Alonso, Dan E. Arking, Eric Boerwinkle, Georg B. Ehret, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Christy L. Avery, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Kathleen F. Kerr, Cathy C. Laurie, Amanda A. Seyerle, Adrienne Stilp, Solmaz Assa, M. Abdullah Said, M. Yldau van der Ende, Pier D. Lambiase, Michele Orini, Julia Ramirez, Stefan Van Duijvenboden, David O. Arnar, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Hilma Holm, Patrick Sulem, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Rosa B. Thorolfsdottir, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emelia J. Benjamin, Andrew Tinker, Kari Stefansson, Patrick T. Ellinor, Yalda Jamshidi, Steven A. Lubitz, Patricia B. Munroe
Published 2020-05-01