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Allegro, a new computer program for multipoint linkage analysis 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
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Thorgeirsson TE Geller F Sulem P Rafnar T Wiste A Magnusson KP Manolescu A Thorleifsson G Stefansson H Ingason A Stacey SN Bergthorsson JT Thorlacius S Gudmundsson J Jonsson T Jakobsdottir M Saemundsdottir J Olafsdottir O Gudmundsson LJ Bjornsdottir G Kristjansson K Skuladottir H Isaksson HJ Gudbjartsson T Jones GT Mueller T Gottsäter A Flex A Aben KK de Vegt F Mulders PF Isla D Vidal MJ Asin L Saez B Murillo L Blondal T Kolbeinsson H Stefansson JG Hansdottir I Runarsdottir V Pola R Lindblad B 《Nature》2008,452(7187):638-642
Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death, causing about 5 million premature deaths worldwide each year. Evidence for genetic influence on smoking behaviour and nicotine dependence (ND) has prompted a search for susceptibility genes. Furthermore, assessing the impact of sequence variants on smoking-related diseases is important to public health. Smoking is the major risk factor for lung cancer (LC) and is one of the main risk factors for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Here we identify a common variant in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene cluster on chromosome 15q24 with an effect on smoking quantity, ND and the risk of two smoking-related diseases in populations of European descent. The variant has an effect on the number of cigarettes smoked per day in our sample of smokers. The same variant was associated with ND in a previous genome-wide association study that used low-quantity smokers as controls, and with a similar approach we observe a highly significant association with ND. A comparison of cases of LC and PAD with population controls each showed that the variant confers risk of LC and PAD. The findings provide a case study of a gene-environment interaction, highlighting the role of nicotine addiction in the pathology of other serious diseases. 相似文献
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Gudbjartsson DF Arnar DO Helgadottir A Gretarsdottir S Holm H Sigurdsson A Jonasdottir A Baker A Thorleifsson G Kristjansson K Palsson A Blondal T Sulem P Backman VM Hardarson GA Palsdottir E Helgason A Sigurjonsdottir R Sverrisson JT Kostulas K Ng MC Baum L So WY Wong KS Chan JC Furie KL Greenberg SM Sale M Kelly P MacRae CA Smith EE Rosand J Hillert J Ma RC Ellinor PT Thorgeirsson G Gulcher JR Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K 《Nature》2007,448(7151):353-357
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in humans and is characterized by chaotic electrical activity of the atria. It affects one in ten individuals over the age of 80 years, causes significant morbidity and is an independent predictor of mortality. Recent studies have provided evidence of a genetic contribution to AF. Mutations in potassium-channel genes have been associated with familial AF but account for only a small fraction of all cases of AF. We have performed a genome-wide association scan, followed by replication studies in three populations of European descent and a Chinese population from Hong Kong and find a strong association between two sequence variants on chromosome 4q25 and AF. Here we show that about 35% of individuals of European descent have at least one of the variants and that the risk of AF increases by 1.72 and 1.39 per copy. The association with the stronger variant is replicated in the Chinese population, where it is carried by 75% of individuals and the risk of AF is increased by 1.42 per copy. A stronger association was observed in individuals with typical atrial flutter. Both variants are adjacent to PITX2, which is known to have a critical function in left-right asymmetry of the heart. 相似文献
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A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
T Jonsson JK Atwal S Steinberg J Snaedal PV Jonsson S Bjornsson H Stefansson P Sulem D Gudbjartsson J Maloney K Hoyte A Gustafson Y Liu Y Lu T Bhangale RR Graham J Huttenlocher G Bjornsdottir OA Andreassen EG Jönsson A Palotie TW Behrens OT Magnusson A Kong U Thorsteinsdottir RJ Watts K Stefansson 《Nature》2012,488(7409):96-99
The prevalence of dementia in the Western world in people over the age of 60 has been estimated to be greater than 5%, about two-thirds of which are due to Alzheimer's disease. The age-specific prevalence of Alzheimer's disease nearly doubles every 5 years after age 65, leading to a prevalence of greater than 25% in those over the age of 90 (ref. 3). Here, to search for low-frequency variants in the amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) gene with a significant effect on the risk of Alzheimer's disease, we studied coding variants in APP in a set of whole-genome sequence data from 1,795 Icelanders. We found a coding mutation (A673T) in the APP gene that protects against Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline in the elderly without Alzheimer's disease. This substitution is adjacent to the aspartyl protease β-site in APP, and results in an approximately 40% reduction in the formation of amyloidogenic peptides in vitro. The strong protective effect of the A673T substitution against Alzheimer's disease provides proof of principle for the hypothesis that reducing the β-cleavage of APP may protect against the disease. Furthermore, as the A673T allele also protects against cognitive decline in the elderly without Alzheimer's disease, the two may be mediated through the same or similar mechanisms. 相似文献
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Emilsson V Thorleifsson G Zhang B Leonardson AS Zink F Zhu J Carlson S Helgason A Walters GB Gunnarsdottir S Mouy M Steinthorsdottir V Eiriksdottir GH Bjornsdottir G Reynisdottir I Gudbjartsson D Helgadottir A Jonasdottir A Jonasdottir A Styrkarsdottir U Gretarsdottir S Magnusson KP Stefansson H Fossdal R Kristjansson K Gislason HG Stefansson T Leifsson BG Thorsteinsdottir U Lamb JR Gulcher JR Reitman ML Kong A Schadt EE Stefansson K 《Nature》2008,452(7186):423-428
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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Lango Allen H Estrada K Lettre G Berndt SI Weedon MN Rivadeneira F Willer CJ Jackson AU Vedantam S Raychaudhuri S Ferreira T Wood AR Weyant RJ Segrè AV Speliotes EK Wheeler E Soranzo N Park JH Yang J Gudbjartsson D Heard-Costa NL Randall JC Qi L Vernon Smith A Mägi R Pastinen T Liang L Heid IM Luan J Thorleifsson G Winkler TW Goddard ME Sin Lo K Palmer C Workalemahu T Aulchenko YS Johansson A Zillikens MC Feitosa MF Esko T Johnson T Ketkar S Kraft P Mangino M Prokopenko I Absher D Albrecht E 《Nature》2010,467(7317):832-838
Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits, but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait. The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P?0.001). Second, the likely causal gene is often located near the most strongly associated variant: in 13 of 21 loci containing a known skeletal growth gene, that gene was closest to the associated variant. Third, at least 19 loci have multiple independently associated variants, suggesting that allelic heterogeneity is a frequent feature of polygenic traits, that comprehensive explorations of already-discovered loci should discover additional variants and that an appreciable fraction of associated loci may have been identified. Fourth, associated variants are enriched for likely functional effects on genes, being over-represented among variants that alter amino-acid structure of proteins and expression levels of nearby genes. Our data explain approximately 10% of the phenotypic variation in height, and we estimate that unidentified common variants of similar effect sizes would increase this figure to approximately 16% of phenotypic variation (approximately 20% of heritable variation). Although additional approaches are needed to dissect the genetic architecture of polygenic human traits fully, our findings indicate that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways. 相似文献
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Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Gudbjartsson DF Walters GB Thorleifsson G Stefansson H Halldorsson BV Zusmanovich P Sulem P Thorlacius S Gylfason A Steinberg S Helgadottir A Ingason A Steinthorsdottir V Olafsdottir EJ Olafsdottir GH Jonsson T Borch-Johnsen K Hansen T Andersen G Jorgensen T Pedersen O Aben KK Witjes JA Swinkels DW den Heijer M Franke B Verbeek AL Becker DM Yanek LR Becker LC Tryggvadottir L Rafnar T Gulcher J Kiemeney LA Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2008,40(5):609-615
Adult human height is one of the classical complex human traits. We searched for sequence variants that affect height by scanning the genomes of 25,174 Icelanders, 2,876 Dutch, 1,770 European Americans and 1,148 African Americans. We then combined these results with previously published results from the Diabetes Genetics Initiative on 3,024 Scandinavians and tested a selected subset of SNPs in 5,517 Danes. We identified 27 regions of the genome with one or more sequence variants showing significant association with height. The estimated effects per allele of these variants ranged between 0.3 and 0.6 cm and, taken together, they explain around 3.7% of the population variation in height. The genes neighboring the identified loci cluster in biological processes related to skeletal development and mitosis. Association to three previously reported loci are replicated in our analyses, and the strongest association was with SNPs in the ZBTB38 gene. 相似文献
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Sulem P Gudbjartsson DF Stacey SN Helgason A Rafnar T Jakobsdottir M Steinberg S Gudjonsson SA Palsson A Thorleifsson G Pálsson S Sigurgeirsson B Thorisdottir K Ragnarsson R Benediktsdottir KR Aben KK Vermeulen SH Goldstein AM Tucker MA Kiemeney LA Olafsson JH Gulcher J Kong A Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K 《Nature genetics》2008,40(7):835-837
We present results from a genome-wide association study for variants associated with human pigmentation characteristics among 5,130 Icelanders, with follow-up analyses in 2,116 Icelanders and 1,214 Dutch individuals. Two coding variants in TPCN2 are associated with hair color, and a variant at the ASIP locus shows strong association with skin sensitivity to sun, freckling and red hair, phenotypic characteristics similar to those affected by well-known mutations in MC1R. 相似文献
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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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Stacey SN Manolescu A Sulem P Rafnar T Gudmundsson J Gudjonsson SA Masson G Jakobsdottir M Thorlacius S Helgason A Aben KK Strobbe LJ Albers-Akkers MT Swinkels DW Henderson BE Kolonel LN Le Marchand L Millastre E Andres R Godino J Garcia-Prats MD Polo E Tres A Mouy M Saemundsdottir J Backman VM Gudmundsson L Kristjansson K Bergthorsson JT Kostic J Frigge ML Geller F Gudbjartsson D Sigurdsson H Jonsdottir T Hrafnkelsson J Johannsson J Sveinsson T Myrdal G Grimsson HN Jonsson T von Holst S 《Nature genetics》2007,39(7):865-869
Familial clustering studies indicate that breast cancer risk has a substantial genetic component. To identify new breast cancer risk variants, we genotyped approximately 300,000 SNPs in 1,600 Icelandic individuals with breast cancer and 11,563 controls using the Illumina Hap300 platform. We then tested selected SNPs in five replication sample sets. Overall, we studied 4,554 affected individuals and 17,577 controls. Two SNPs consistently associated with breast cancer: approximately 25% of individuals of European descent are homozygous for allele A of rs13387042 on chromosome 2q35 and have an estimated 1.44-fold greater risk than noncarriers, and for allele T of rs3803662 on 16q12, about 7% are homozygous and have a 1.64-fold greater risk. Risk from both alleles was confined to estrogen receptor-positive tumors. At present, no genes have been identified in the linkage disequilibrium block containing rs13387042. rs3803662 is near the 5' end of TNRC9 , a high mobility group chromatin-associated protein whose expression is implicated in breast cancer metastasis to bone. 相似文献