Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Fritsche, Lars"
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Age-of-onset information helps identify 76 genetic variants associated with allergic disease
Ferreira, Manuel A R; Vonk, Judith M.; Baurecht, Hansjörg; Marenholz, Ingo; Tian, Chao; Hoffman, Joshua D.; Helmer, Quinta; Tillander, Annika; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Lu, Yi; Grosche, Sarah; Ruschendorf, Franz; Granell, Raquel; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Fritsche, Lars; Bhatta, Laxmi; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Zhou, Wei; Hveem, Kristian; Langhammer, Arnulf; Holmen, Oddgeir; Løset, Mari; Abecasis, Goncalo; Willer, Cristen J.; Emami, Nima C.; Cavazos, Taylor B.; Witte, John S.; Szwajda, Agnieszka; 23andMe Research Team, ,; collaborators of SHARE study, ,; Hinds, David A.; Hubner, Norbert; Weidinger, Stephan; Magnusson, Patrik KE; Jorgenson, Eric; Karlsson, Robert; Paternoster, Lavinia; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Almqvist, Catarina; Lee, Young-Ae; Koppelman, Gerard H.; Esparza-Gordillo, Jorge; Hummel, Oliver; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Willemsen, Gonneke; Rodríguez, Elke; Hotze, Melanie; Franke, Andre; Matheson, Melanie C.; Dharmage, Shyamali Chandrika; Arnold, Andreas; Homuth, Georg; Schmidt, Carsten O; Thompson, Philip J.; Martin, Nicholas G; Duffy, David L.; Novak, Natalija; Schulz, Holger; Karrasch, Stefan; Gieger, Christian; Strauch, Konstantin; Melles, Ronald B (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Risk factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in the age-of-onset of allergic diseases are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to identify genetic risk variants associated with the age at which ... -
Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use
Liu, Ming; Jiang, Yu; Wedow, Robbee; Li, Yue; Brazel, David M.; Chen, Fang; Datta, Gargi; Davila-Velderrain, Jose; Mitchell, Amy; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Sivertsen, Børge; Stordal, Eystein; Morken, Gunnar; Kallestad, Håvard; Heuch, Ingrid; Zwart, John-Anker; Fjukstad, Katrine Kveli; Pedersen, Linda Margareth; Johnsen, Marianne Bakke; Skrove, Marit Synnøve; Indredavik, Marit Sæbø; Drange, Ole Kristian; Bjerkeset, Ottar; Børte, Sigrid; Stensland, Synne; Choquet, Hélène; Docherty, Anna R.; Faul, Jessica D.; Foerster, Johanna R.; Fritsche, Lars; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Gordon, Scott D.; Haessler, Jeffrey; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huang, Hongyan; Jang, Seon-Kyeong; Jansen, Philip R.; Ling, Yueh; Mägi, Reedik; Matoba, Nana; McMahon, George; Mulas, Antonella; Orrú, Valeria; Palviainen, Teemu; Pandit, Anita; Reginsson, Gunnar W.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Taylor, Amy E.; Turman, Constance; Willemsen, Gonneke; Young, Hannah; Young, Kendra A.; Zajac, Gregory J.M.; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Wei; Björnsdóttir, Gyda Thora; Boardman, Jason D.; Boehnke, Michael; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Chen, Chu; Davies, Gareth E.; Eaton, Charles B.; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Hveem, Kristian; Vrieze, Scott (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders1. They are heritable2,3 and etiologically related4,5 behaviors that have been resistant to gene discovery ... -
Dissecting the shared genetic basis of migraine and mental disorders using novel statistical tools
Bahrami, Shahram; Hindley, Guy Frederick Lanyon; Winsvold, Bendik K S; O'Connell, Kevin S; Frei, Oleksandr; Shadrin, Alexey; Cheng, Weiqiu; Bettella, Francesco; Rødevand, Linn; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Fan, Chun C; Pirinen, Matti J; Hautakangas, Heidi M; Martinsen, Amy; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Willer, Cristen J; Tronvik, Erling Andreas; Kristoffersen, Espen Saxhaug; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Hagen, Knut; Nilsen, Kristian Bernhard; Hveem, Kristian; Stovner, Lars Jacob; Fritsche, Lars; Thomas, Laurent; Pedersen, Linda Margareth; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Johnsen, Marianne Bakke; Lie, Marie; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Børte, Sigrid; Stensland, Synne; Zhou, Wei; Dale, Anders; Djurovic, Srdjan; Smeland, Olav Bjerkehagen; Andreassen, Ole (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Migraine is three times more prevalent in people with bipolar disorder or depression. The relationship between schizophrenia and migraine is less certain although glutamatergic and serotonergic neurotransmission are ... -
Genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes
Gusarova, Viktoria; O'Dushlaine, Colm; Teslovich, Tanya M.; Benotti, Peter N.; Mirshahi, Tooraj; Gottesman, Omri; van Hout, Cristopher V.; Murray, Michael F.; Mahajan, Anubha; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Fritsche, Lars; Wulff, Anders Berg; Gudbjartsson, Daníel Fannar; Sjögren, Marketa; Emdin, Connor A.; Scott, Robert A.; Lee, Wen-Jane; Small, Aeron; Kwee, Lydia C.; Dwivedi, Om Prakash; Prasad, Rashmi B.; Bruse, Shannon; Lopez, Alexander E.; Penn, John; Marcketta, Anthony; Leader, Joseph B.; Still, Christopher D.; Kirchner, H. Lester; Mirshahi, Uyenlinh L.; Wardeh, Amr H.; Hartle, Cassandra M.; Habegger, Lukas; Fetterolf, Samantha N.; Tusie-Luna, Teresa; Morris, Andrew P.; Holm, Hilma; Steinthorsdóttir, Valgerdur; Sulem, Patrick; Thorsteinsdóttir, Unnur; Rotter, Jerome I.; Chuang, Lee-Ming; Damrauer, Scott; Birtwell, David; Brummett, Chad M.; Khera, Amit V.; Natarajan, Pradeep; Orho-Melander, Marju; Flannick, Jason; Lotta, Luca A.; Willer, Cristen J.; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Ledbetter, David H.; Murphy, Andrew J.; Borecki, Ingrid B.; Reid, Jeffrey G.; Overton, John D.; Hansson, Ola; Groop, Leif; Shah, Svati H.; Kraus, William E.; Rader, Daniel J.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Hveem, Kristian; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Melander, Olle; Stefansson, Kari; Nordestgaard, Børge G.; Tybjærg-Hansen, Anne; Abecasis, Goncalo; Altshuler, David; Florez, Jose C.; Boehnke, Michael; McCarthy, Mark I.; Yancopoulos, George D.; Carey, David J.; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Baras, Aris; Dewey, Frederick E.; Gromada, Jesper (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) is an endogenous inhibitor of lipoprotein lipase that modulates lipid levels, coronary atherosclerosis risk, and nutrient partitioning. We hypothesize that loss of ANGPTL4 function might improve ... -
Genome-wide analysis identifies impaired axonogenesis in chronic overlapping pain conditions
Khoury, Samar; Parisien, Marc; Thompson, Scott J.; Vachon-Presseau, Etienne; Roy, Mathieu; Mitchell, Amy; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Willer, Cristen J.; Fors, Egil Andreas; Heuch, Ingrid; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Storheim, Kjersti; Hagen, Knut; Nilsen, Kristian Bernhard; Hveem, Kristian; Fritsche, Lars; Thomas, Laurent; Pedersen, Linda Margareth; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Johnsen, Marianne Bakke; Lie, Marie; Holmen, Oddgeir; Børte, Sigrid; Stensland, Synne; Zhou, Wei; Mundal, Ingunn Pernille; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Kania, Artur; Mogil, Jeffrey S.; Diatchenko, Luda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Chronic pain is often present at more than one anatomical location, leading to chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPC). Whether COPC represents a distinct pathophysiology from the occurrence of pain at only one site is ... -
Genome-wide analysis yields new loci associating with aortic valve stenosis
Helgadottir, Anna; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Gretarsdottir, Solveig; Stefansson, Olafur A.; Tragante, Vinicius; Thorolfsdottir, Rosa B.; Jonsdottir, Ingileif; Bjornsson, Thorsteinn; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Verweij, Niek; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Zhou, Wei; Folkersen, Lasse; Martinsson, Andreas; Heydarpour, Mahyar; Prakash, Siddharth; Oskarsson, Gylfi; Gudbjartsson, Tomas; Geirsson, Arnar; Olafsson, Isleifur; Sigurdsson, Emil L.; Almgren, Peter; Melander, Olle; Franco-Cereceda, Anders; Hamsten, Anders; Fritsche, Lars; Lin, Maoxuan; Yang, Bo; Hornsby, Whitney; Guo, Dongchuan; Brummett, Chad M.; Abecasis, Goncalo; Mathis, Michael; Milewicz, Dianna; Body, Simon C.; Eriksson, Per; Willer, Cristen J.; Hveem, Kristian; Newton-Cheh, Christopher; Smith, J. Gustav; Danielsen, Ragnar; Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Holm, Hilma; Stefansson, Kari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular heart disease, and valve replacement is the only definitive treatment. Here we report a large genome-wide association (GWA) study of 2,457 Icelandic AS cases and 349,342 ... -
A genome-wide association study provides insights into the genetic etiology of 57 essential and non-essential trace elements in humans
Moksnes, Marta Riise; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Wolford, Brooke; Thomas, Laurent Francois; Rasheed, Humaira; Simic, Anica; Bhatta, Laxmi; Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Surakka, Ida; Zhou, Wei; Magnus, Per Minor; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Andreassen, Ole; Syversen, Tore; Zheng, Jie; Fritsche, Lars; Evans, David M.; Warrington, Nicole Maree; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Flaten, Trond Peder; Willer, Cristen J.; Hveem, Kristian; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Trace elements are important for human health but may exert toxic or adverse effects. Mechanisms of uptake, distribution, metabolism, and excretion are partly under genetic control but have not yet been extensively mapped. ... -
A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease
Wightman, Douglas P.; Jansen, Iris E.; Savage, Jeanne E.; Shadrin, Alexey; Bahrami, Shahram; Holland, Dominic; Rongve, Arvid; Børte, Sigrid; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Drange, Ole Kristian; Martinsen, Amy E.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Willer, Cristen; Bråthen, Geir; Bosnes, Ingunn; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Fritsche, Lars; Thomas, Laurent; Pedersen, Linda Margareth; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Johnsen, Marianne Bakke; Meisingset, Tore Wergeland; Zhou, Wei; Proitsi, Petroula; Hodges, Angela; Dobson, Richard; Velayudhan, Latha; Sealock, Julia; Davis, Lea K.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Reynolds, Chandra A.; Karlsson, Ida K.; Magnusson, Sigurdur; Stefansson, Hreinn; Thordardottir, Steinunn; Jónsson, Pálmi V.; Snædal, Jon; Zettergren, Anna; Skoog, Ingmar; Kern, Silke; Waern, Margda; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Stordal, Eystein; Hveem, Kristian; Zwart, John Anker Henrik; Athanasiu, Lavinia; Selnes, Per; Saltvedt, Ingvild; Sando, Sigrid Botne; Ulstein, Ingun; Djurovic, Srdjan; Fladby, Tormod; Aarsland, Dag; Selbæk, Geir; Ripke, Stephan; Stefánsson, Kári; Andreassen, Ole; Posthuma, Danielle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease is a prevalent age-related polygenic disease that accounts for 50–70% of dementia cases. Currently, only a fraction of the genetic variants underlying Alzheimer’s disease have been identified. ... -
Genome-wide meta-analysis of iron status biomarkers and the effect of iron on all-cause mortality in HUNT
Moksnes, Marta Riise; Graham, Sarah E.; Wu, Kuan-Han; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah A.; Zhou, Wei; Thorstensen, Ketil; Fritsche, Lars; Gill, Dipender; Mason, Amy; Cucca, Francesco; Schlessinger, David; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Burgess, Stephen; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Iron is essential for many biological processes, but iron levels must be tightly regulated to avoid harmful effects of both iron deficiency and overload. Here, we perform genome-wide association studies on four iron-related ... -
Geographic distribution of rare variants associated with age-related macular degeneration
Geerlings, Maartje J; Kersten, Eveline; Groenewoud, Joannes M M; Fritsche, Lars; Hoyng, Carel B; De Jong, Eiko; Den Hollander, Anneke I. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)PURPOSE: A recent genome-wide association study by the International Age-related Macular Degeneration Genomics Consortium (IAMDGC) identified seven rare variants that are individually associated with age-related macular ... -
Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease
Zhou, Wei; Kanai, Masahiro; Wu, Kuan-Han H.; Rasheed, Humaira; Tsuo, Kristin; Hirbo, Jibril B.; Wang, Ying; Bhattacharya, Arjun; Zhao, Huiling; Namba, Shinichi; Surakka, Ida; Wolford, Brooke; Lo Faro, Valeria; Lopera-Maya, Esteban A.; Läll, Kristi; Favé, Marie-Julie; Partanen, Juulia J.; Chapman, Sinéad B.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja; Maasha, Mutaamba; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Chavan, Sameer; Chen, Tzu-Ting; Daya, Michelle; Ding, Yi; Feng, Yen-Chen A.; Guare, Lindsay A.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Graham, Sarah E.; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Ingold, Nathan; Ismail, Said I.; Johnson, Ruth; Laisk, Triin; Lin, Kuang; Lv, Jun; Millwood, Iona Y.; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Nam, Kisung; Palta, Priit; Pandit, Anita; Preuss, Michael H.; Saad, Chadi; Setia-Verma, Shefali; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Verma, Anurag; Zawistowski, Matthew; Zhong, Xue; Afifi, Nahla; Al-Dabhani, Kawthar M.; Al Thani, Asma; Bradford, Yuki; Campbell, Archie; Crooks, Kristy; de Bock, Geertruida H.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Douville, Nicholas J.; Finer, Sarah; Fritsche, Lars; Fthenou, Eleni; Gonzalez-Arroyo, Gilberto; Griffiths, Christopher J.; Guo, Yu; Hunt, Karen A.; Ioannidis, Alexander; Jansonius, Nomdo M.; Konuma, Takahiro; Lee, Ming Ta Michael; Lopez-Pineda, Arturo; Matsuda, Yuta; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Moatamed, Babak; Nava-Aguilar, Marco A.; Numakura, Kensuke; Patil, Snehal; Rafaels, Nicholas; Richmond, Anne; Rojas-Muñoz, Agustin; Shortt, Jonathan A.; Straub, Peter; Tao, Ran; Vanderwerff, Brett; Vernekar, Manvi; Veturi, Yogasudha; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Boezen, Marike; Chen, Zhengming; Chen, Chia-Yen; Cho, Judy; Smith, George Davey; Finucane, Hilary K.; Franke, Lude; Gamazon, Eric R.; Ganna, Andrea; Gaunt, Tom R.; Ge, Tian; Huang, Hailiang; Huffman, Jennifer; Katsanis, Nicholas; Koskela, Jukka T.; Lajonchere, Clara; Law, Matthew H.; Li, Liming; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Loos, Ruth J.F.; MacGregor, Stuart; Matsuda, Koichi; Olsen, Catherine M.; Porteous, David J.; Shavit, Jordan A.; Snieder, Harold; Takano, Tomohiro; Trembath, Richard C.; Vonk, Judith M.; Whiteman, David C.; Wicks, Stephen J.; Wijmenga, Tjitske Nienke; Wright, John; Zheng, Jie; Zhou, Xiang; Awadalla, Philip; Boehnke, Michael; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Cox, Nancy J.; Fatumo, Segun; Geschwind, Daniel H.; Hayward, Caroline; Hveem, Kristian; Kenny, Eimear E.; Lee, Seunggeun; Lin, Yen-Feng; Mbarek, Hamdi; Mägi, Reedik; Martin, Hilary C.; Medland, Sarah E.; Okada, Yukinori; Palotie, Aarno V.; Pasaniuc, Bogdan; Rader, Daniel J.; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stefansson, Kari; van Heel, David A.; Walters, Robin G.; Zöllner, Sebastian; Martin, Alicia R.; Willer, Cristen J.; Daly, Mark J.; Neale, Benjamin M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022) -
GWAS of thyroid stimulating hormone highlights pleiotropic effects and inverse association with thyroid cancer
Zhou, Wei; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Kabil, Omer; Gudmundsson, Julius; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Weinstock, Joshua; Zawistowski, Matthew; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Chaker, Layal; Medici, Marco; Teumer, Alexander; Naitza, Silvia; Sanna, Serena; Schultheiss, Ulla T.; Cappola, Anne R.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja I.; Oneka, Morgan; Taylor, Peter; Fritsche, Lars; Graham, Sarah E.; Wolford, Brooke N.; Overton, William; Rasheed, Humaira; Bordal, Eirin Haug; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Surakka, Ida; Davey Smith, George; Pandit, Anita; Roychowdhury, Tanmoy; Hornsby, Whitney; Jonasson, Jon G.; Senter, Leigha; Liyanarachchi, Sandya; Ringel, Matthew D.; Xu, Li; Kiemeney, Lambertus A.; He, Huiling; Netea-Maier, Romana; Mayordomo, Jose; Plantinga, Theo S.; Hrafnkelsson, Jon; Hjartarson, Hannes; Sturgis, Erich M.; Palotie, Aarno; Daly, Mark J.; Citterio, Cintia E.; Arvan, Peter; Brummett, Chad M.; Boehnke, Michael; de la Chapelle, Albert; Stefansson, Kari; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is critical for normal development and metabolism. To better understand the genetic contribution to TSH levels, we conduct a GWAS meta-analysis at 22.4 million genetic markers in up to ... -
Loss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease
Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Rom, Oren; Surakka, Ida; Graham, Sarah E.; Zhou, Wei; Roychowdhury, Tanmoy; Fritsche, Lars; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah; Sidore, Carlo; Liu, Yuhao; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Wolford, Brooke; Overton, William; Zhao, Ying; Chen, Jin; Zhang, He; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Acheampong, Akua; Grooms, Austen; Schaefer, Amanda; Zajac, Gregory J.M.; Villacorta, Luis; Zhang, Jifeng; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Løset, Mari; Rai, Vivek; Lundegaard, Pia R.; Olesen, Morten S.; Taylor, Kent D.; Palmer, Nicholette D.; Chen, Yii-Der; Choi, Seung Hoan; Lubitz, Steven A.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Daya, Michelle; Rafaels, Nicholas; Weiss, Scott T.; Lasky-Su, Jessica; Tracy, Russell P.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Mathias, Rasika A.; Yanek, Lisa R.; Becker, Lewis; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Willer, Christen; Hveem, Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Pharmaceutical drugs targeting dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease (CVD) may increase the risk of fatty liver disease and other metabolic disorders. To identify potential novel CVD drug targets without these adverse ... -
MEPE loss-of-function variant associates with decreased bone mineral density and increased fracture risk
Surakka, Ida; Fritsche, Lars; Zhou, Wei; Backman, Joshua; Kosmicki, Jack A.; Lu, Haocheng; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Wolford, Brooke N.; Graham, Sarah E.; Chen, Y. Eugene; Lee, Seunggeun; Kang, Hyun Min; Langhammer, Arnulf; Forsmo, Siri; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Holm, Hilma; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Stefansson, Kari; Baras, Aris; Bai, Xiaodong; Balasubramanian, Suganthi; Barnard, Leland; Blumenfeld, Andrew; Cantor, Michael; Coppola, Giovanni; Economides, Aris; Eom, Gisu; Habegger, Lukas; Hahn, Young; Hawes, Alicia; Jones, Marcus B.; Khalid, Shareef; Lotta, Luca A.; Maxwell, Evan K.; Mitnaul, Lyndon J.; Overton, John D.; Reid, Jeffrey G.; Ferreira, Manuel Allen Revez; Salerno, William; Sharma, Deepika; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Staples, Jeffrey C.; Yadav, Ashish; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A major challenge in genetic association studies is that most associated variants fall in the non-coding part of the human genome. We searched for variants associated with bone mineral density (BMD) after enriching the ... -
Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis
McGuire, Daniel; Jiang, Yu; Liu, Mengzhen; Weissenkampen, J. Dylan; Eckert, Scott; Yang, Lina; Chen, Fang; Liu, MengZhen; Wedow, Robbee; Li, Yue; Brazel, David M.; Datta, Gargi; Davila-Velderrain, Jose; Tian, Chao; Zhan, Xiaowei; Choquet, H. éléne; Docherty, Anna R.; Faul, Jessica D.; Foerster, Johanna R.; Fritsche, Lars; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Gordon, Scott D.; Haessler, Jeffrey; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huang, Hongyan; Jang, Seon-Kyeong; Jansen, Philip R.; Ling, Yueh; Ma ̈gi, Reedik; Matoba, Nana; McMahon, George; Mulas, Antonella; Orru, Valeria; Palviainen, Teemu; Pandit, Anita; Reginsson, Gunnar W.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Smith, Jennifer A.; Taylor, Amy E.; Turman, Constance; Willemsen, Gonneke; Young, Hannah; Young, Kendra A.; Zajac, Gregory J. M.; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Wei; Bjornsdottir, Gyda; Boardman, Jason D.; Boehnke, Michael; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Chen, Chu; Cucca, Francesco; Davies, Gareth E.; Eaton, Charles B.; Ehringer, Marissa A.; Esko, Tõnu; Fiorillo, Edoardo; Gillespie, Nathan A.; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Haller, Toomas; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Heath, Andrew C.; Hewitt, John K.; Hickie, Ian B.; Hokanson, John E.; Hopfer, Christian J.; Hunter, David J.; Iacono, William G.; Johnson, Eric O.; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Keller, Matthew C.; Kellis, Manolis; Kooperberg, Charles; Kraft, Peter; Krauter, Kenneth S.; Laakso, Markku; Lind, Penelope A.; Loukola, Anu; Lutz, Sharon M.; Madden, Pamela A. F.; Martin, Nicholas G.; McGue, Matt; McQueen, Matthew B.; Medland, Sarah E.; Metspalu, Andres; Mohlke, Karen L.; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Okada, Yukinori; Peters, Ulrike; Polderman, Tinca J. C.; Posthuma, Danielle; Reiner, Alexander P.; Rice, JP; Rimm, Eric; Rose, Richard J.; Runarsdottir, Valgerdur; Stallings, Michael C.; Stanˇca ́kova, Alena; Stefansson, Hreinn; Thai, Khanh K.; Tindle, Hilary A.; Tyrfingsson, Thorarinn; Wall, Tamara L.; Weir, David R.; Weisner, Constance M; Whitfield, John B.; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Yin, Jie; Zuccolo, Luisa; Bierut, Laura J.; Hveem, Kristian; Lee, James J.; Munafo, Marcus R.; Saccone, Nancy L.; Willer, Cristen J; Cornelis, Marilyn C.; David, Sean P.; Hinds, David; Jorgenson, Eric; Kaprio, Jaakko; Stitzel, Jerry A.; Stefansson, Kari; Thorgeirsson, Thorgeir E.; Abecasis, Goncalo; Liu, Dajiang J.; Vrieze, Scott; Berg, Arthur; Jiang, Bibo; Li, Qunhua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) is an effective approach to enlarge sample sizes and empower the discovery of novel associations between genotype and phenotype. Independent replication has been used as a ... -
Prediction of Ankylosing Spondylitis in the HUNT Study by a Genetic Risk Score Combining 110 Single-nucleotide Polymorphisms of Genome-wide Significance
Rostami, Sina; Hoff, Mari; Brown, Matthew A.; Hveem, Kristian; Holmen, Oddgeir; Fritsche, Lars; Videm, Vibeke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective The genetic component of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) development is ~90%. Of the known heritability, ~20% is explained by HLA-B27, and 113 identified AS-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) account ... -
Protein-altering and regulatory genetic variants near GATA4 implicated in bicuspid aortic valve
Yang, Bo; Zhou, Wei; Jiao, Jiao; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Mathis, Michael R; Heydarpour, Mahyar; Lettre, Guillaume; Folkersen, Lasse; Prakash, Siddharth; Schurmann, Claudia; Fritsche, Lars; Farnum, Gregory A; Lin, Maoxuan; Othman, Mohamed; Hornsby, Whitney; Driscoll, Anisa; Levasseur, Alexandra; Thomas, Marc; Farhat, Linda; Dube, Marie-Pierre; Isselbacher, Eric M.; Franco-Cereceda, Anders; Guo, Dong-Chuan; Bottinger, Erwin P; Deeb, G Michael; Booher, Anna; Kheterpal, Sachin; Chen, Y. Eugene; Kang, Hyun Min; Kitzman, Jacob; Cordell, Heather J.; Keavney, Bernard D; Goodship, Judith A; Ganesh, Santhi K; Abecasis, Goncalo; Eagle, Kim A.; Boyle, Alan P; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Eriksson, Per; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Brummett, Chad M; Milewicz, Dianna M; Body, Simon C; Willer, Cristen J (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a heritable congenital heart defect and an important risk factor for valvulopathy and aortopathy. Here we report a genome-wide association scan of 466 BAV cases and 4,660 age, sex and ... -
Type 2 diabetes sex-specific effects associated with E167K coding variant in TM6SF2
Fan, Yanbo; Wolford, Brooke N.; Lu, Haocheng; Liang, Wenying; Sun, Jinjian; Zhou, Wei; Rom, Oren; Mahajan, Anubha; Surakka, Ida; Graham, Sarah E.; Liu, Zhipeng; Kim, Hyunbae; Ramdas, Shweta; Fritsche, Lars; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Hveem, Kristian; Yang, Dongshan; Song, Jun; Garcia-Barrio, Minerva T.; Zhang, Jifeng; Liu, Wanqing; Zhang, Kezhong; Willer, Cristen J.; Chen, Y. Eugene (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The rs58542926C >T (E167K) variant of the transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 gene (TM6SF2) is associated with increased risks for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Nevertheless, the role ... -
Variation in serum PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9), cardiovascular disease risk, and an investigation of potential unanticipated effects of PCSK9 inhibition
Brumpton, Ben Michael; Fritsche, Lars; Zheng, Jie; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Mannila, Maria Nastase; Surakka, Ida; Rasheed, Humaira; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge; Graham, Sarah E.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Aukrust, Pål; Vatten, Lars Johan; Damås, Jan Kristian; Ueland, Thor; Janszky, Imre; Zwart, John-Anker; van't Hooft, Ferdinand M.; Seidah, Nabil Georges; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen; Smith, George Davey; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibitors reduce serum LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol (LDL-C) by increasing uptake in the liver. Although some long-term trials have evaluated their safety, ...