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Sulem P Gudbjartsson DF Stacey SN Helgason A Rafnar T Magnusson KP Manolescu A Karason A Palsson A Thorleifsson G Jakobsdottir M Steinberg S Pálsson S Jonasson F Sigurgeirsson B Thorisdottir K Ragnarsson R Benediktsdottir KR Aben KK Kiemeney LA Olafsson JH Gulcher J Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2007,39(12):1443-1452
Hair, skin and eye colors are highly heritable and visible traits in humans. We carried out a genome-wide association scan for variants associated with hair and eye pigmentation, skin sensitivity to sun and freckling among 2,986 Icelanders. We then tested the most closely associated SNPs from six regions--four not previously implicated in the normal variation of human pigmentation--and replicated their association in a second sample of 2,718 Icelanders and a sample of 1,214 Dutch. The SNPs from all six regions met the criteria for genome-wide significance. A variant in SLC24A4 is associated with eye and hair color, a variant near KITLG is associated with hair color, two coding variants in TYR are associated with eye color and freckles, and a variant on 6p25.3 is associated with freckles. The fifth region provided refinements to a previously reported association in OCA2, and the sixth encompasses previously described variants in MC1R. 相似文献
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Eeles RA Kote-Jarai Z Giles GG Olama AA Guy M Jugurnauth SK Mulholland S Leongamornlert DA Edwards SM Morrison J Field HI Southey MC Severi G Donovan JL Hamdy FC Dearnaley DP Muir KR Smith C Bagnato M Ardern-Jones AT Hall AL O'Brien LT Gehr-Swain BN Wilkinson RA Cox A Lewis S Brown PM Jhavar SG Tymrakiewicz M Lophatananon A Bryant SL;UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators;British Association of Urological Surgeons' Section of Oncology;UK ProtecT Study Collaborators Horwich A Huddart RA 《Nature genetics》2008,40(3):316-321
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting males in developed countries. It shows consistent evidence of familial aggregation, but the causes of this aggregation are mostly unknown. To identify common alleles associated with prostate cancer risk, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using blood DNA samples from 1,854 individuals with clinically detected prostate cancer diagnosed at =60 years or with a family history of disease, and 1,894 population-screened controls with a low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentration (<0.5 ng/ml). We analyzed these samples for 541,129 SNPs using the Illumina Infinium platform. Initial putative associations were confirmed using a further 3,268 cases and 3,366 controls. We identified seven loci associated with prostate cancer on chromosomes 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19 and X (P = 2.7 x 10(-8) to P = 8.7 x 10(-29)). We confirmed previous reports of common loci associated with prostate cancer at 8q24 and 17q. Moreover, we found that three of the newly identified loci contain candidate susceptibility genes: MSMB, LMTK2 and KLK3. 相似文献
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Large data sets on human genetic variation have been collected recently, but their usefulness for learning about history and natural selection has been limited by biases in the ways polymorphisms were chosen. We report large subsets of SNPs from the International HapMap Project that allow us to overcome these biases and to provide accurate measurement of a quantity of crucial importance for understanding genetic variation: the allele frequency spectrum. Our analysis shows that East Asian and northern European ancestors shared the same population bottleneck expanding out of Africa but that both also experienced more recent genetic drift, which was greater in East Asians. 相似文献
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Mutations in a newly identified GTPase gene cause autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia. 总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15
X Zhao D Alvarado S Rainier R Lemons P Hedera C H Weber T Tukel M Apak T Heiman-Patterson L Ming M Bui J K Fink 《Nature genetics》2001,29(3):326-331
The hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs; Strümpell-Lorrain syndrome, MIM number 18260) are a diverse class of disorders characterized by insidiously progressive lower-extremity spastic weakness (reviewed in refs. 1-3). Eight autosomal dominant HSP (ADHSP) loci have been identified, the most frequent of which is that linked to the SPG4 locus on chromosome 2p22 (found in approximately 42%), followed by that linked to the SPG3A locus on chromosome 14q11-q21 (in approximately 9%). Only SPG4 has been identified as a causative gene in ADHSP. Its protein (spastin) is predicted to participate in the assembly or function of nuclear protein complexes. Here we report the identification of mutations in a newly identified GTPase gene, SPG3A, in ADHSP affected individuals. 相似文献
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Deficiency of hyccin, a newly identified membrane protein, causes hypomyelination and congenital cataract 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Zara F Biancheri R Bruno C Bordo L Assereto S Gazzerro E Sotgia F Wang XB Gianotti S Stringara S Pedemonte M Uziel G Rossi A Schenone A Tortori-Donati P van der Knaap MS Lisanti MP Minetti C 《Nature genetics》2006,38(10):1111-1113
We describe a new autosomal recessive white matter disorder ('hypomyelination and congenital cataract') characterized by hypomyelination of the central and peripheral nervous system, progressive neurological impairment and congenital cataract. We identified mutations in five affected families, resulting in a deficiency of hyccin, a newly identified 521-amino acid membrane protein. Our study highlights the essential role of hyccin in central and peripheral myelination. 相似文献
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Stefansson H Helgason A Thorleifsson G Steinthorsdottir V Masson G Barnard J Baker A Jonasdottir A Ingason A Gudnadottir VG Desnica N Hicks A Gylfason A Gudbjartsson DF Jonsdottir GM Sainz J Agnarsson K Birgisdottir B Ghosh S Olafsdottir A Cazier JB Kristjansson K Frigge ML Thorgeirsson TE Gulcher JR Kong A Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2005,37(2):129-137
A refined physical map of chromosome 17q21.31 uncovered a 900-kb inversion polymorphism. Chromosomes with the inverted segment in different orientations represent two distinct lineages, H1 and H2, that have diverged for as much as 3 million years and show no evidence of having recombined. The H2 lineage is rare in Africans, almost absent in East Asians but found at a frequency of 20% in Europeans, in whom the haplotype structure is indicative of a history of positive selection. Here we show that the H2 lineage is undergoing positive selection in the Icelandic population, such that carrier females have more children and have higher recombination rates than noncarriers. 相似文献
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Tarpey P Thomas S Sarvananthan N Mallya U Lisgo S Talbot CJ Roberts EO Awan M Surendran M McLean RJ Reinecke RD Langmann A Lindner S Koch M Jain S Woodruff G Gale RP Bastawrous A Degg C Droutsas K Asproudis I Zubcov AA Pieh C Veal CD Machado RD Backhouse OC Baumber L Constantinescu CS Brodsky MC Hunter DG Hertle RW Read RJ Edkins S O'Meara S Parker A Stevens C Teague J Wooster R Futreal PA Trembath RC Stratton MR Raymond FL Gottlob I 《Nature genetics》2006,38(11):1242-1244
Idiopathic congenital nystagmus is characterized by involuntary, periodic, predominantly horizontal oscillations of both eyes. We identified 22 mutations in FRMD7 in 26 families with X-linked idiopathic congenital nystagmus. Screening of 42 singleton cases of idiopathic congenital nystagmus (28 male, 14 females) yielded three mutations (7%). We found restricted expression of FRMD7 in human embryonic brain and developing neural retina, suggesting a specific role in the control of eye movement and gaze stability. 相似文献
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Two new susceptibility loci for Kawasaki disease identified through genome-wide association analysis
Lee YC Kuo HC Chang JS Chang LY Huang LM Chen MR Liang CD Chi H Huang FY Lee ML Huang YC Hwang B Chiu NC Hwang KP Lee PC Chang LC Liu YM Chen YJ Chen CH;Taiwan Pediatric ID Alliance Chen YT Tsai FJ Wu JY 《Nature genetics》2012,44(5):522-525
To find new candidate loci predisposing individuals to Kawasaki disease, an acute vasculitis that affects children, we conducted a genome-wide association study in 622 individuals with Kawasaki disease (cases) and 1,107 controls in a Han Chinese population residing in Taiwan, with replication in an independent Han Chinese sample of 261 cases and 550 controls. We report two new loci, one at BLK (encoding B-lymphoid tyrosine kinase) and one at CD40, that are associated with Kawasaki disease at genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10(-8)). Our findings may lead to a better understanding of the role of immune activation and inflammation in Kawasaki disease pathogenesis. 相似文献
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Hunt KA Zhernakova A Turner G Heap GA Franke L Bruinenberg M Romanos J Dinesen LC Ryan AW Panesar D Gwilliam R Takeuchi F McLaren WM Holmes GK Howdle PD Walters JR Sanders DS Playford RJ Trynka G Mulder CJ Mearin ML Verbeek WH Trimble V Stevens FM O'Morain C Kennedy NP Kelleher D Pennington DJ Strachan DP McArdle WL Mein CA Wapenaar MC Deloukas P McGinnis R McManus R Wijmenga C van Heel DA 《Nature genetics》2008,40(4):395-402
Our genome-wide association study of celiac disease previously identified risk variants in the IL2-IL21 region. To identify additional risk variants, we genotyped 1,020 of the most strongly associated non-HLA markers in an additional 1,643 cases and 3,406 controls. Through joint analysis including the genome-wide association study data (767 cases, 1,422 controls), we identified seven previously unknown risk regions (P < 5 x 10(-7)). Six regions harbor genes controlling immune responses, including CCR3, IL12A, IL18RAP, RGS1, SH2B3 (nsSNP rs3184504) and TAGAP. Whole-blood IL18RAP mRNA expression correlated with IL18RAP genotype. Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease share HLA-DQ, IL2-IL21, CCR3 and SH2B3 risk regions. Thus, this extensive genome-wide association follow-up study has identified additional celiac disease risk variants in relevant biological pathways. 相似文献
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Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Delmaghani S del Castillo FJ Michel V Leibovici M Aghaie A Ron U Van Laer L Ben-Tal N Van Camp G Weil D Langa F Lathrop M Avan P Petit C 《Nature genetics》2006,38(7):770-778
Auditory neuropathy is a particular type of hearing impairment in which neural transmission of the auditory signal is impaired, while cochlear outer hair cells remain functional. Here we report on DFNB59, a newly identified gene on chromosome 2q31.1-q31.3 mutated in four families segregating autosomal recessive auditory neuropathy. DFNB59 encodes pejvakin, a 352-residue protein. Pejvakin is a paralog of DFNA5, a protein of unknown function also involved in deafness. By immunohistofluorescence, pejvakin is detected in the cell bodies of neurons of the afferent auditory pathway. Furthermore, Dfnb59 knock-in mice, homozygous for the R183W variant identified in one DFNB59 family, show abnormal auditory brainstem responses indicative of neuronal dysfunction along the auditory pathway. Unlike previously described sensorineural deafness genes, all of which underlie cochlear cell pathologies, DFNB59 is the first human gene implicated in nonsyndromic deafness due to a neuronal defect. 相似文献
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Boyden LM Lewis JM Barbee SD Bas A Girardi M Hayday AC Tigelaar RE Lifton RP 《Nature genetics》2008,40(5):656-662
B cells, alphabeta T cells and gammadelta T cells are conserved lymphocyte subtypes encoding their antigen receptors from somatically rearranged genes. alphabeta T cells undergo positive selection in the thymus by engagement of their T cell receptors (TCRs) with self-peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex molecules. The molecules that select gammadelta T cells are unknown. Vgamma5+Vdelta1+ cells comprise 90% of mouse epidermal gammadelta T cells. By mapping and genetic complementation using a strain showing loss of Vgamma5+Vdelta1+ cells due to a failure of thymic selection, we show that this defect is caused by mutation in Skint1, a newly identified gene expressed in thymus and skin that encodes a protein with immunoglobulin-like and transmembrane domains. Skint1 is the prototypic member of a rapidly evolving family of at least 11 genes in mouse, with greatest similarity to the butyrophilin genes. These findings define a new family of proteins mediating key epithelial-immune interactions. 相似文献
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Vitart V Rudan I Hayward C Gray NK Floyd J Palmer CN Knott SA Kolcic I Polasek O Graessler J Wilson JF Marinaki A Riches PL Shu X Janicijevic B Smolej-Narancic N Gorgoni B Morgan J Campbell S Biloglav Z Barac-Lauc L Pericic M Klaric IM Zgaga L Skaric-Juric T Wild SH Richardson WA Hohenstein P Kimber CH Tenesa A Donnelly LA Fairbanks LD Aringer M McKeigue PM Ralston SH Morris AD Rudan P Hastie ND Campbell H Wright AF 《Nature genetics》2008,40(4):437-442
Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism in humans and great apes, which have lost hepatic uricase activity, leading to uniquely high serum uric acid concentrations (200-500 microM) compared with other mammals (3-120 microM). About 70% of daily urate disposal occurs via the kidneys, and in 5-25% of the human population, impaired renal excretion leads to hyperuricemia. About 10% of people with hyperuricemia develop gout, an inflammatory arthritis that results from deposition of monosodium urate crystals in the joint. We have identified genetic variants within a transporter gene, SLC2A9, that explain 1.7-5.3% of the variance in serum uric acid concentrations, following a genome-wide association scan in a Croatian population sample. SLC2A9 variants were also associated with low fractional excretion of uric acid and/or gout in UK, Croatian and German population samples. SLC2A9 is a known fructose transporter, and we now show that it has strong uric acid transport activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes. 相似文献
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A genome-wide association study in Europeans and South Asians identifies five new loci for coronary artery disease 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Coronary Artery Disease 《Nature genetics》2011,43(4):339-344
Genome-wide association studies have identified 11 common variants convincingly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD)1??, a modest number considering the apparent heritability of CAD?. All of these variants have been discovered in European populations. We report a meta-analysis of four large genome-wide association studies of CAD, with ~575,000 genotyped SNPs in a discovery dataset comprising 15,420 individuals with CAD (cases) (8,424 Europeans and 6,996 South Asians) and 15,062 controls. There was little evidence for ancestry-specific associations, supporting the use of combined analyses. Replication in an independent sample of 21,408 cases and 19,185 controls identified five loci newly associated with CAD (P < 5 × 10?? in the combined discovery and replication analysis): LIPA on 10q23, PDGFD on 11q22, ADAMTS7-MORF4L1 on 15q25, a gene rich locus on 7q22 and KIAA1462 on 10p11. The CAD-associated SNP in the PDGFD locus showed tissue-specific cis expression quantitative trait locus effects. These findings implicate new pathways for CAD susceptibility. 相似文献
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New genes involved in cancer identified by retroviral tagging 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
Suzuki T Shen H Akagi K Morse HC Malley JD Naiman DQ Jenkins NA Copeland NG 《Nature genetics》2002,32(1):166-174
Retroviral insertional mutagenesis in BXH2 and AKXD mice induces a high incidence of myeloid leukemia and B- and T-cell lymphoma, respectively. The retroviral integration sites (RISs) in these tumors thus provide powerful genetic tags for the discovery of genes involved in cancer. Here we report the first large-scale use of retroviral tagging for cancer gene discovery in the post-genome era. Using high throughput inverse PCR, we cloned and analyzed the sequences of 884 RISs from a tumor panel composed primarily of B-cell lymphomas. We then compared these sequences, and another 415 RIS sequences previously cloned from BXH2 myeloid leukemias and from a few AKXD lymphomas, against the recently assembled mouse genome sequence. These studies identified 152 loci that are targets of retroviral integration in more than one tumor (common retroviral integration sites, CISs) and therefore likely to encode a cancer gene. Thirty-six CISs encode genes that are known or predicted to be genes involved in human cancer or their homologs, whereas others encode candidate genes that have not yet been examined for a role in human cancer. Our studies demonstrate the power of retroviral tagging for cancer gene discovery in the post-genome era and indicate a largely unrecognized complexity in mouse and presumably human cancer. 相似文献
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Wegmann D Kessner DE Veeramah KR Mathias RA Nicolae DL Yanek LR Sun YV Torgerson DG Rafaels N Mosley T Becker LC Ruczinski I Beaty TH Kardia SL Meyers DA Barnes KC Becker DM Freimer NB Novembre J 《Nature genetics》2011,43(9):847-853
Studies of recombination and how it varies depend crucially on accurate recombination maps. We propose a new approach for constructing high-resolution maps of relative recombination rates based on the observation of ancestry switch points among admixed individuals. We show the utility of this approach using simulations and by applying it to SNP genotype data from a sample of 2,565 African Americans and 299 African Caribbeans and detecting several hundred thousand recombination events. Comparison of the inferred map with high-resolution maps from non-admixed populations provides evidence of fine-scale differentiation in recombination rates between populations. Overall, the admixed map is well predicted by the average proportion of admixture and the recombination rate estimates from the source populations. The exceptions to this are in areas surrounding known large chromosomal structural variants, specifically inversions. These results suggest that outside of structurally variable regions, admixture does not substantially disrupt the factors controlling recombination rates in humans. 相似文献
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Thomas G Jacobs KB Yeager M Kraft P Wacholder S Orr N Yu K Chatterjee N Welch R Hutchinson A Crenshaw A Cancel-Tassin G Staats BJ Wang Z Gonzalez-Bosquet J Fang J Deng X Berndt SI Calle EE Feigelson HS Thun MJ Rodriguez C Albanes D Virtamo J Weinstein S Schumacher FR Giovannucci E Willett WC Cussenot O Valeri A Andriole GL Crawford ED Tucker M Gerhard DS Fraumeni JF Hoover R Hayes RB Hunter DJ Chanock SJ 《Nature genetics》2008,40(3):310-315
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The structure of a protein depends critically on the complex interactions among its amino acid residues. It has long been hypothesized that interacting residues might tend to coevolve, but it is not known whether such coevolution is a general phenomenon across the proteome. Here, we describe a novel methodology called phylogeny-aided structural analysis, which uncovers robust signals of interacting-residue coevolution in mammalian proteomes. Furthermore, this new method allows the magnitude of coevolution to be quantified. Finally, it facilitates a comprehensive evaluation of various factors that affect interacting-residue coevolution, such as the physicochemical properties of the interactions between residues, solvent accessibility of the residues and their secondary structure context. 相似文献
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Cryptic boundaries in roof plate and choroid plexus identified by intersectional gene activation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The hindbrain roof plate and choroid plexus are essential organizing centers for inducing dorsal neuron fates and sustaining neuron function. To map the formation of these structures, we developed a broadly applicable, high resolution, recombinase-based method for mapping the fate of cells originating from coordinates defined by intersecting combinations of expressed genes. Using this method, we show that distinct regions of hindbrain roof plate originate from discrete subdomains of rhombencephalic neuroectoderm expressing Wnt1; that choroid plexus, a secretory epithelium important for patterning later-formed hindbrain structures and maintaining neuron function, derives from the same embryonic primordium as the hindbrain roof plate; and that, unlike the floor plate, these dorsal organizing centers develop in a patterned, segmental manner, built from lineage-restricted compartments. Our data suggest that the roof plate and choroid plexus may be formed of functional units that are capable of differentially organizing the generation of distinct neuronal cell types at different axial levels. 相似文献
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We performed a whole-genome association analysis of lung tumor susceptibility using dense SNP maps ( approximately 1 SNP per 20 kb) in inbred mice. We reproduced the pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) locus identified in previous linkage studies and further narrowed this quantitative trait locus (QTL) to a region of less than 0.5 Mb in which at least two genes, Kras2 (Kirsten rat sarcoma oncogene 2) and Casc1 (cancer susceptibility candidate 1; also known as Las1), are strong candidates. Casc1 knockout mouse tumor bioassays showed that Casc1-deficient mice were susceptible to chemical induction of lung tumors. We also found three more genetic loci for lung adenoma development. Analysis of one of these candidate loci identified a previously uncharacterized gene Lasc1, bearing a nonsynonymous substitution (D102E). We found that the Lasc1 Glu102 allele preferentially promotes lung tumor cell growth. Our findings demonstrate the prospects for using dense SNP maps in laboratory mice to refine previous QTL regions and identify genetic determinants of complex traits. 相似文献